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Fuels Campaign 
Task                                                                                  
01.  Design and Analysis for Melt Casting Metallic Fuel Pins Incorporating Volatile    Actinides
09.  Design and Evaluation of Processes for Fuel Fabrication
17.   Interaction between metal fission products TRISO coating materials: A study of chemical bonding and interdiffusion
19.  Dissolution, Reactor, and Environmental Behavior of ZrO2-MgO Inert Fuel Matrix
22.  Design Concepts and Process Analysis for Transmuter Fuel Manufacturing
28.  Impact of the Synthesis Process on Structure Properties for AFCI Fuel Candidates
34.  Solution-based Synthesis of Nitride Fuels

Separations Campaign 
Task  
08.  Development of a Systems Engineering Model of the Chemical Seps Process     
15.  Immobilization of Fission Iodine by Reaction with a Fullerene Containing Carbon  
16.  Evaluation of Fluorapatite as a Waste-Form Material   
24.  Development of Integrated Process Simulation System Model for Spent Fuel
Treatment Facility (SFTF) Design     
26.  Fundamental Chemistry of U and Pu in the TBP-Dodecane-Nitric Acid System        
35. Criticality Studies for UREX Processes    
38.  f-Element Electrochemistry in RTIL Solutions: Electrochemical Separtion of Lanthanides and Actinides       
40.  Evaluation of Fundamental Radionuclide Extraction Data for UREX

Waste Forms Campaign
Task  
33.  Synthesis and Properties of Metallic Tc and Tc-Zr Alloys as a Radioactive Storage
36.  Evaluation of CS / SR Waste Forms for Long Term Storage and Disposal

Safeguards Campaign
Task 
29.  Investigation of Optical Spectroscopy Techniques for On-Line Materials  
30.  Combined Radiation Detection Methods for Assay of Higher Actinides in Separation Processes (AFCI)

Reactor Campaign
Task  
18.  Fundamental and applied experimental investigations of corrosion of steel by LBE under controlled conditions: kinetics, chemistry morphology, and surface preparation
21.  Theoretical Modeling of Protective Oxide Layer Growth in Non-isothermal Lead-
Alloys Coolant Systems
32.  Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of Electromagnetic Pump in TC-1
39.  Knowledge-based Information Resource Management System for Materials of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor
41.  Implementation of Uncertainty Propagation in TRITON / KENO (to support the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership)
42.  Monaco / MAVRIC Evaluation for Facility Shielding and Dose Rate Analysis (to support the Global Nuclear Partnership)

UNLV TRP Transmutation Sciences - Materials (Supports work under GNEP Reactors and Grid Appropriate Reactors Campaigns)
Task  
02.  Modeling, Fabrication, and Optimization of Niobium Cavities
04.  Hydrogen-Induced Embrittlement of Candidate Target Materials for Applications in Spallation-Neutron-Target Systems
05.  Modeling Corrosion in O-Controlled LBE Systems with Coupling of Chemical Kinetics and Hydodyn
07.  Development of Dose Conversion Coefficients for Radionuclides Produced in Spallation Neutron Sources
10.  Dev. of a Mechanistic Understanding of High-Temp Deformation of EP-823 for Trasmutation Apps
13.  Developing a Sensing System for the Measurement of Oxygen Concentration Liquid Pb-Bi Eutectic
14.  Use of Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy for Stress-Strain Measurements
18.  Fundamental and applied experimental investigations of corrosion of steel by LBE
20.  Effect of Silicon Content on the Corrosion Resistance and Radiation-Induced
Embrittlement of Materials for Advanced Heavy Liquid Metal Nuclear Systems
21.  Theoretical Modeling of Protective Oxide Layer Growth in Non-isothermal Lead-
Alloys Coolant Systems
23.  Development of Nanostructure based Corrosion-Barrier Coatings on Steel for
Transmutation Applications
 
UNLV TRP Transmutation Sciences - Physics (Supports work under GNEP Reactors Campaign)
Task
06. Neutron Multiplicity Measurements of AAA Target/Blanket Materials 07.
Development of Dose Conversion Coefficients for Radionuclides Produced
in Spallation Neutron Sources

 


Questions Contact:
Anthony E. Hechanova, PhD
Research Scientist, Nuclear Engineering
Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(702) 895-1457

hechanova@unlv.nevada.edu

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