Research
Fission

Research interests in this area include:

• Commercial power plant design and analysis
• Computational methods in nuclear power system design and safety analysis
• Nuclear system automation, control and instrumentation
• Information technologies and artificial intelligence research in power engineering
• Heat, mass and momentum transport
• Space nuclear power and propulsion systems
• Computational methods for particle transport

Research Reactor Activities

The 1 MW TRIGA reactor is a flexible facility used by a variety of organizations for education and research. Students and faculty have designed a low-enriched uranium core to replace the current highly enriched uranium core. The new core will provide pulse capability and will have a steady-state power of at least 2 MW.

New experimental facilities are under development to study the following areas:

• Neutron-radiography imaging using digital techniques
• Cyclic neutron activation analysis
• Prompt capture-gamma neutron activation analysis
• Neutron scattering experiments for material property evaluations of metallic and plastic materials
• Digital control research and development