Archive for July 2022
Kairos Power Commissions Fluoride Salt Purification Plant
Kairos Power Commissions Fluoride Salt Purification Plant July 20th, 2022 Kairos Power in conjunction with Materion Corporation, designed a molten salt purification plant that has just been commissioned at Materion’s campus in Ohio because Kairos Power requires a source of high-purity fluoride salt for testing in its molten salt reactor design, as well as to…
Read MoreProfessors Abergel, Fratoni, Hosemann Receive U.S. Department of Energy NEUP Grants
Professors Abergel, Fratoni, Hosemann Received U.S. Department of Energy NEUP Grants June 17th, 2022 The Nuclear Engineering department received DOE Nuclear Energy related research awards of 4.7M$ as a lead institution and further funding as a collaborating institution. These funds will support several different research programs. The Integrated Research Program lead by Professor Fratoni entitled “Bridging the gap between experiments and modeling…
Read MorePer Peterson Awarded the ANS Walter Zinn Medal
Per Peterson Awarded the ANS Walter Zinn Medal June 9th, 2022 Professor Per Peterson has been awarded the 2022 American Nuclear Society’s Walter H. Zinn Medal in recognition of “his contributions to the development of technologies for passive safety in nuclear reactors, and his leadership to develop and commercialize fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactors”. The Walter…
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