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Category Archives: Research


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


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


Ilja Popovs will join the NE faculty this fall, using his expertise molecular engineering to isolate important radioisotopes for energy production and medicine.


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.


We’ve ran measurements with the Flexible Neutron Source, providing a much-needed experimental facility that supports future of Nuclear Integral Experiments.


Our department is involved in four of the six Fusion Innovation Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. 


PhD student Alexis Sanwick’s work to improve neuroendocrine tumor (NET) treatment with a new radiopharmaceutical has been published in an international journal.


The University of Tennessee’s Tickle College of Engineering unveiled a new Operator Training Simulator Laboratory in partnership with Kairos Power.


Vladimir Sobes has been working on ways to use artificial intelligence/machine learning to produce faster and more reliable evaluation of nuclear data.


It’s been one year since the UT received a prestigious MRSEC and the collaborations have led to breakthroughs in the lab.