Sarah Donaher has been named to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement PAC 5 group, helping position UT as a hub in the field.

Khalid Hattar is part of two Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy awards of more than $2M that focus on plasma-facing surface relationships for fusion energy systems.

Associate Professor and the Pietro F. Pasqua Faculty Fellow Ilja Popovs has been elected a foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.

Vald Sobes, Amanda Bachmann, Lane Carasik, Tyler Steiner, and Fan Zhang have been named to the second annual Nuclear News “40 Under 40” list.

Partnering with Stony Brook University, Nick Brown found using reactor waste as microreactor fuel reduces long-term waste storage while reducing energy costs.

Livia Casali was been honored by the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP) with the Katherine E. Weimer Award.

Vladimir Sobes has been working on finding ways to use (AI/ML) capabilities to produce faster, more reproducible, and more reliable evaluation of nuclear data.

UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor of Computational Nuclear Engineering and Department Head Brian Wirth was named a 2025 Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Three women from our department recently participated in a 208-mile relay running race, finishing second in the all-women’s team category and 59th overall.

Scientists in Livia Casali’s group deliver a milestone in fusion plasma modeling with the publication of a new integrated simulation framework named SICAS.