Howard Hall, professor of nuclear engineering, believes the University has an important role in meeting the challenges of global nuclear security. In one of his many roles at UT, Hall directs the University’s Institute for Nuclear Security, where he helps promote collaboration to conduct multi-organizational, multidisciplinary work critical to national and global needs in nuclear […]
Research Highlight: Howard Hall
Research Highlight: Ivan Maldonado, Brian Wirth, and Jamie Coble
Ivan Maldonado (at top right), associate professor, and Brian Wirth (at middle left), Governor’s Chair Professor, both of the Department of Nuclear Engineering, are leading a team that is looking at nuclear reaction safety and performance. Maldonado’s team will try to analyze and evaluate fuels that are more tolerant to accidents, helping with overall safety […]
Research Highlight: Jason Hayward
Working with Oregon State University, Jason Hayward is working to improve the accuracy and reduce the cost of monitoring the massive amounts of plutonium that are housed in nuclear facilities. Hayward’s team hopes to use cosmic ray muons, a type of particle, to do this. “Cosmic ray muons are so highly penetrating that they have […]
Research Highlights: Materials Science & Engineering and Nuclear Engineering
Materials science and engineering and nuclear engineering faculty team up as part of a $30 million consortium sponsored by DOE. Howard Hall, Governor’s Chair for Global Nuclear Security and Professor, nuclear engineering (NE); Research Professor in materials science and engineering (MSE) and Director of the Scintillation Materials Research Center, Chuck Melcher; Jason Hayward, NE Associate […]
Research Highlight: Steven Skutnik
A proposal by Steven Skutnik, assistant professor in nuclear engineering, was awarded $755,000 to develop new capabilities for a fuel-cycle simulator called CYCLUS by building on an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) software package for nuclear fuel modeling called ORIGEN.