Five NUC Teams Win CINR Awards

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​Congratulations to the National University Consortium (NUC) research teams who won Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research awards beginning in FY 2018.

  • An Experimental and Analytical Investigation into Critical Heat Flux (CHF) Implications for Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) Concepts: Researchers will develop a holistic best estimate assessment of the potential impact of different ATF cladding materials with regards to heat transfer characteristics, the boiling curve, critical heat flux, fuel mass/volume/specific power density, and neutronics effects due to changes in the lattice design or parasitic neutron absorption during design basis accident conditions in light water reactors.
    • Collaborators:
      • PI: Youho Lee (University of New Mexico)
      • Edward Blandford (University of New Mexico)
      • Nicholas R. Brown (Pennsylvania State University)
      • Wade Marcum (Oregon State University)
      • Simon Walker, Geoffrey Hewitt, Radd Issa (Imperial College London)
      • Colby Jensen (Idaho National Laboratory)
      • John Strumpell (Areva)
      • Raul Rebak (General Electric Global Research)
  • Combined modeling and experiments to predict corrosion and embrittlement in dual-phase stainless steels within the MARMOT framework: Researchers will enhance MARMOT to predict mechanical and corrosion properties of dual-phase stainless steels as a function of composition, aging time and temperature by using combined experimental data and lower length scale models.
    • Collaborators:
      • PI: Julie Tucker (Oregon State University)
      • Dr. Liney Arnadottir, Dr. Burkan Isgor (Oregon State University)
      • Dr. Yongfeng Zhang (Idaho National Laboratory)
  • Integrating Static PRA Information with RISMC Simulation Methods: Researchers will develop a computationally feasible and user friendly process to augment the traditional probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) results with improved representation of epistemic uncertainties and process/hardware/software/human interactions at plant level applications.
    • Collaborators
      • PI: Tunc Aldemir (The Ohio State University)
      • Dr. Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M University)
      • Dr. Andrea Alfonsi (Idaho National Laboratory)
      • Dr. Askin Yigitoglu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

NUC faculty members and Idaho National Laboratory scientists will also be collaborating on the following projects.

  • Development of Information Trustworthiness and Integrity Algorithms for Cybersecurity Defenses of Nuclear Power Plants: Researchers will develop a first-of-a-kind physics-based defense-in-depth strategy to defend against false data injection attacks which attempt to change the information used by the I/C network to set reactor state. The approach employs a new design philosophy to check for information trustworthiness/integrity in order to determine whether the information is genuinely generated during the actual operation of the nuclear unit under either normal or off-normal conditions
    • Collaborators:
      • PI: Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue University)
      • Dr. Elisa Bertino (Purdue University)
      • Dr. Ayman Hawari (North Carolina State University)
      • Dr. Katrina Groth (Sandia National Laboratory)
      • Dr. Virginia Wright (Idaho National Laboratory)
  • Modeling of Spent Fuel Cladding in Storage and Transportation Environments: Researchers will advance the technical state of compact heat exchangers and lay the foundation to get these types of heat exchangers certified for use in nuclear service. The team will advance the understanding of the performance, integrity and lifetime of the CHXs for use in any industrial application. This will be done by developing qualification and inspection procedures that utilize non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and advanced in-service inspection techniques, with insight from EPRI.
    • Collaborators:
      • PI: Arthur Motta
      • Nicholas Brown, Long Quing Chen, Daniel Koss, Robert Kuz, Michael Tonk (Pennsylvania State University)
      • Mohammed Zikry (North Carolina State University)
      • Thomas Downar, Annalisa Manera, Victor Petrov, Volkan Seker (University of Michigan)
      • Brian Wirth (University of Tennessee)
      • Giovanni Pastore (Idaho National Laboratory)
      • Kurt Terrani, Mahmut Nedim, Cinbiz (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
      • Carlos Tome (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
      • Zeses Karoutas, David Mitchell, Javier Romero (Westinghouse Electric Corporation)
      • Mark Kaymond (Queens University)

Date Published: 2017-10-09T06:00:00Z

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