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NE Students Give Presentations at TOFE Meeting

Fourteen students from the Department of Nuclear Engineering presented their work at the 26th Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) Meeting that took place July 21–25 in Madison, Wisconsin.

faculty and students at the TOFE Meeting in Madison, Wisconson

NE faculty represented in the conference included: Department Head and Professor Brian Wirth, Professor Ivan Maldonado, Professor Nicholas Brown, Associate Professor David Donovan, Assistant Professor Livia Casali, and Research Assistant Professor Jun Ren.

The UT student and faculty contingent provided a collective total of 13 presentations and posters at the meeting.

  1. OpenMC Simulations of the FNG-ITER Dose Rate Experiments – Yogendra S. Panchal (UT), Marina Rizk (UT), Son N. Quang (UT), Brown (UT), Maldonado (UT)
  2. Implications of Cavity Geometry in a Modular Retarding-Field Energy Analyzer and Characterization of a Kaufman eH-400 Ion Source – Mason Phillips (UT), Bingzhe Zhao (UT), Ren (UT), Donovan (UT)
  3. Shutdown Dose-Rate Analysis of Various Breeder Blanket Concepts – Nikolas Nelson (UT), Son Quang (UT), Brown (UT), G. Ivan Maldonado (UT)
  4. OEDGE Modeling of Boron Transport in DIII-D from a Poloidally Localized Divertor Source – Brian Putra (UT), J. Mateja (UT), Donovan (UT), J. Nichols (ORNL), A. Bortolon (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), F. Effenberg (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
  5. Design and Implementation of Surface Eroding Thermocouples for Stage One Modular Divertor Integration – Ren (UT), T. Elsey (General Atomics), C. Murphy (General Atomics), B.Z. Zhao (UT), D. Pierce (General Atomics), M. Shafer (ORNL), R. Wilcox (ORNL), S. Hong (General Atomics), Donovan (UT)
  6. Filterscope Techniques for Parasitic Signal Screening – Katie Butler (UT), J.B.O. Caughman (ORNL), C.A. Johnson (ORNL), Davis Easley (UT), U.A. Unterberg (ORNL), Donovan (UT)
  7. Neutronics and Activation Analysis of Aluminized RAFM Steel– Marina Rizk (UT), Brown (UT), Maldonado (UT)
  8. Thermal Hydraulic Modeling of the Lobo Lead Loop with MOOSE– Quang (UT), Brown (UT), Maldonado (UT)
  9. Developing an Experimental and Computational Process to Characterize Boron Transport in WEST– Sean Kosslow (UT), Alex Grosjean (UT), Donovan (UT), C. Johnson (ORNL), A. Diaw (ORNL), R. Lunsford (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), A. Gallo (CEA), E. Bernard (CEA), J. D. Duran (ORNL), K. Woller (MIT), N. Fedorczak (CEA), J. P. Gunn (CEA), E. A. Unterberg (ORNL)
  10. Physics Informed Plasma Profile Input for OpenMC Fusion Neutronics– Benjamin Taczak (UT), Casali (UT)
  11. The Role of Composition on Radiation Tolerance of Multicomponent Alloys for Plasma-Facing Materials– Mary Alice Cusentino (Sandia), Megan J. McCarthy (Sandia), Karl (UT), Eric Lang (University of New Mexico), Rico Treadwell (Sandia), Jonathan Coburn (Sandia)
  12. Introduction and Status of the Fusion Prototypic Neutron Source Risk Reduction Activity– Brian Grierson (General Atomics), Sara Ferry (MIT), Phil Ferguson (ORNL), Jaime Marian (University of California, Los Angeles), Eric Pitcher (Boston Government Services), Wirth (UT), Jim White (StrataG)
  13. High Heat Flux Components – Paul P. Wilson, Minami Yoda (Michigan State University), Ren (UT)

faculty and students posing for a photo at the TOFE conference in Madison, Wisconson

Contact

Rhiannon Potkey (865-974-0683, rpotkey@utk.edu

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