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 More

Professors 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 More

Per 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…

Read More