Six Nuclear Engineering Faculty Members Receive U.S. Department of Energy NEUP Grants
June 18, 2020
NEUP funds nuclear energy research and equipment upgrades at U.S. colleges and universities and provides student educational support.
The following six faculty members were awarded NEUP grants to further their research to help the U.S. Department of Energy accomplish its mission of leading the nation’s investment in the development and exploration of advanced nuclear science and technology:
IRP: MIT & Raluca Scarlat: Molten Salt Reactor Test Bed with Neutron Irradiation UTK & Massimiliano Fratoni: Multi-physics fuel performance modeling of TRISO-bearing fuel in advanced reactor environments NEUP: Rebecca Abergel: Evaluating hydroxypyridinone-based ligands for actinide and fission products recovery in used fuels Peter Hosemann: Femtosecond Laser Ablation Machining & Examination – Center for Active Materials Processing (FLAME-CAMP) Lee Bernstein, Massimiliano Fratoni, Jon: Improved Molten Salt Reactor Design with New Nuclear Data for the 35Cl(n,x) and 56Fe(n,n’) reactions NCSU & Peter Hosemann: Corrosion Sensitivity of Stainless Steels in Pressurized Water Reactor Water Chemistry: Can KOH replace LiOH in PWRs? NEUP infrastructure: Peter Hosemann: Scanning Electron Microscope for nuclear materials investigation enabling in-situ techniques and novel characterization for the nuclear energy community