Assistant Professor and Zinkle Fellow Livia Casali presented research she conducted at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at the 5th Asian Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics.

NE Associate Professor Nicholas Brown’s research group published findings that contribute to the understanding the impacts of critical heat flux (CHF) events.

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation published an inventor spotlight on Southern Company Faculty Fellow Jamie Coble.

Associate Professor Nick Brown and Professor Ivan Maldonado were awarded a grant for research aimed at supporting optimization and design of fusion engineering.

Professor Jason Hayward and Assistant Research Professor Xianfei Wen lead a $2.5M study to develop advanced methods to detect contraband that contains special nuclear materials.

Associate Professor Nicholas Brown published a review of past engineering demonstration reactors, which could be important for future advanced reactors, in Energy.

Research Assistant Professor Deborah Penchoff spoke at the Howard Baker Center about rare earth elements and their growing demand, which has lead to the need for innovation and alternatives.

A team of faculty and graduate students applied a multi-objective genetic algorithm to the design of the Fast Neutron Source for spectrum matching and flux maximization.

Professor Emeritus Belle R. Upadhyaya is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM).

Assistant Professor and Zinkle Faculty Fellow Livia Casali joins the Department of Nuclear Engineering’s fusion program.