Category Archives: Research
TVA Spearheads Nuclear Engineering Department Chair Endowment
TVA has invested $3 million in the University of Tennessee to advance academic excellence, workforce development and faculty recruitment.
UT Receives DOE Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Award
UT is the recipient of a $251,650 nuclear energy infrastructure award from U.S. Department of Energy that will be used to establish an in-situ scanning electron microscopy platform for irradiated materials.
UT Partners With Roane State and Tennessee College of Applied Technology To Develop a Nuclear Workforce Pipeline
UT is partnering with Roane State Communicty College and TCAT to provide students with nuclear technology training to create a skilled workforce.
Hattar Spearheads UT Involvement in Two ARPA-E Projects
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.
Popovs Elected to Latvian Academy of Sciences
Associate Professor and the Pietro F. Pasqua Faculty Fellow Ilja Popovs has been elected a foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
Brown Combines Nuclear Waste Disposal with Mobile Energy Generation
Partnering with Stony Brook University, Nick Brown found using reactor waste as microreactor fuel reduces long-term waste storage while reducing energy costs.
Casali’s Group Publishes New Modeling Framework to Assess Fusion Reactor Concepts
Scientists in Livia Casali’s group deliver a milestone in fusion plasma modeling with the publication of a new integrated simulation framework named SICAS.
Chelators for the ‘Mined’ and Body
Ilja Popovs will join the NE faculty this fall, using his expertise molecular engineering to isolate important radioisotopes for energy production and medicine.
Nuclear Engineering Poised to Benefit from New Y-12 Agreement
With the recent agreement between UT and Y-12, we may gain opportunities for students, faculty, and researchers to contribute to initiatives on national security.
Flexible Neutron Source Provides Unique Learning Tool
We’ve ran measurements with the Flexible Neutron Source, providing a much-needed experimental facility that supports future of Nuclear Integral Experiments.