WELCOME to the Department of Nuclear Engineering

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1 WELCOME to the Department of Nuclear Engineering Dr. Pavel Tsvetkov Honors Program Coordinator and Associate Professor Marna Stepan Undergraduate Program Coordinator

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3 Nuclear engineering application areas Electricity Water Security & Health (Energy) (Vital Supplies) (Support) Overview Preparation Experience Career Path

4 Innovative changes made in power Safer More economic More advanced Overview Preparation Experience Career Path

5 Modern uses of nuclear energy, radioactive and radiation tolerant materials Power Industrial Radiography Propulsion Research Materials Medical X rays Defense applications Nuclear Medicine Food and Medical Supply Sterilization Overview Preparation Experience Career Path

6 Who are we? Largest nuclear engineering department in U.S undergraduate students 150+ graduate students Nationally ranked programs (public institutions) Undergraduate, ranked 2 nd Graduate, ranked 2 nd Only department in U.S. with 2 nuclear reactors on campus Strong, exceptional facilities Zero Power teaching reactor 1 MW TRIGA research reactor Full-scope nuclear power plant simulator laboratory Overview Preparation Experience Career Path

7 Experience Robust academic program Early professional engagement through professional organizations (ANS, ASME, WIN, INMM, ) Research Internship and co-op programs International study opportunities (Europe, China, Japan, India, ) Mentoring by faculty (2 individual advisors for each student, mentor groups led by faculty research groups) Overview Preparation Experience Career Path

8 Computational Methods Development Setting the standard for multidisciplinary research Faculty Marvin Adams Ryan McClarren Research Themes Multiphysics coupling with application to reactors and highenergy density physics Transport discretization and solution schemes, parallelization Shock hydrodynamics methods Adaptive-mesh transport and diffusion Uncertainty quantification applied to transport and nuclear reliability Activities Accomplishments Demonstrated an exponentiallyconvergent Monte Carlo algorithm for a continuum transport system Developed and implemented a massively-parallel long-characteristic transport method Pioneered adaptive mesh refinement techniques for transport solvers Engineered a tightly coupled multiphysics software platform FACULTY/RESEARCH Jim Morel Adaptive Mesh Refinement Multiphysics Devised robust and accurate spherical harmonics methods for timedependent transport Jean Ragusa Novel Numerical Techniques Radiation Transport (neutrons, photons, and charged particles) Multiphysics Applications e.g., neutronics/thermal hydraulics; radiative transfer

9 Health & Medical Physics, Radiation Biology Faculty Gamal Akabani John Ford John Poston Leslie Braby Research Themes Diagnostic radiology physics Radiation detection Radiation therapy & radiobiology Proton and heavy ion therapy Nuclear nanotechnologies Effects of cosmic rays on electronics High-energy, heavy-ion microdosimetry Nuclear oncology & internal dosimetry Image reconstruction methods Activities Accomplishments Implementation of high-energy charged particle transport via FLUKA and PHITS Monte Carlo codes Tested miniaturized dosimeter for use in space suite during EVA Completed detector development for Space Station dosimeter Irradiated one cell nucleus in a living organism and found chromosome damage in many other cells Developed and tested new betaemitting injectable brachytherapy sources for prostate cancer Monte Carlo transport on GPUs Updated controls on microbeam FACULTY/RESEARCH

10 Nuclear Materials & Fuel Cycles Faculty Sean McDeavitt (Nuclear Sceince Center Director) Kenneth Peddicord Lin Shao Research Themes Radiation tolerant cladding materials Advanced fuel fabrication methods Advanced radiation detector Advanced neutron generator Nuclear waste behavior, monitoring, and processing Aerosol research Multi-scale modeling of materials degradation under extreme conditions Activities Accomplishments Developing fabrication methods and evaluating the performance of novel nuclear fuel forms Alloys: U-Zr and U-Mo Ceramic: UO 2 -BeO composite Dispersion: Metal matrix alloys and barrier coating methods Characterized the metallurgy of U-Zr and U-Mo alloy fuels Developed swelling resistant metallic and ceramic materials Developed multi-scale modeling codes to understand damage evolution caused by fission fragments Developed bendable neutron detection sheets FACULTY/RESEARCH Largest single university ion irradiation lab in US!

11 Nuclear Power Engineering Design, development and evaluations in response to critical national needs in power engineering. Faculty Yassin Hassan (Department Head) Karen Vierow Research Themes Nuclear reactor safety Nuclear reactor and system analysis and optimization Validation and uncertainty of CFD codes Sub-channel analysis of advanced fuel designs HTR Thermal hydraulics and reactor physics Small modular reactors Integration of PRA and best estimate codes Loading optimization for current and advanced reactors Flow visualization in complex reactor geometries (PIV) Data uncertainty validation and uncertainties Advanced reactor instrumentation 3-dim study of two-phase flows Core hot-spot prediction Studies in response to critical industry needs Activities Experimental validation of modern simulations is key to quantifying uncertainties! FACULTY/RESEARCH Pavel Tsvetkov Accomplishments Published results on gas/liquid flooding in large diameter tubes Published results on modeling condensation heat transfer Published integrated system evaluation results for HTRs Developing evaluation capabilities for HTR s (NRC) Integrated code system for advanced systems (SNL) First-of-a-kind 3-dim fuel management and instrumentation

12 Nuclear Security & Nonproliferation Members David Boyle Craig Marianno Research Themes Proliferation Risk Analysis Safeguards Systems & Instrument Development Combating Nuclear Terrorism Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Arms Control Ensuring the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy Accomplishments First university to mount and record radiation data from a crane used in port operations Developed SINRD detector with LANL for testing by IAEA Developed the SHIELD framework to interdict HEU at borders FACULTY/RESEARCH Sunil Chirayath (Interim NSSPI Director) Paul Nelson Activities Developed PRAETOR tool and latency method for proliferation risk analysis GNEII program cited by White House as the 5 th most important US science and technology activity in the Middle East Methodology for determining which states will go nuclear Int l. research and education: India, Russa, Switzerland, UAE, England

13 Employment Overview Preparation Experience Career Path

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