To enhance the current lab capabilities, the lab has acquired a chemistry controlled recirculation loop (stainless steel 316, max. temperature 360ºC, max. pressure of 200 bar and volume flow rate 15 l/h), which will be …
Year: 2018
Grainger Institute for Engineering Faculty Scholar Award
Professor Adrien Couet received the Grainger Institute for Engineering Faculty Scholar Award. Its proposal was dealing with Accelerated and Innovative Alloy Development for Molten Salt Reactor Technologies using High-Throughput Experimental Methods. The Grainger Institute for …
2018 Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp
Valentin Pauly and Jake Quincey, two UW-Madison students performing research in nuclear materials, have recently completed the 2018 Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp!! Prof. Couet is co-organizing that event, held during two weeks at UC-Berkeley, which seeks …
MSR NEUP Grant
With renewed interest in nuclear energy technology over the last few years, generation IV reactor concepts like the fluoride salt-cooled molten salt reactor (MSR) has gained a lot of attention from nuclear energy startup companies …
Rapid Turnout Experiments Grants from DOE National Science User Facilities
The group has been awarded three Rapid Turnout Experiments (RTE) grants from the U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) out of the 33 offered this year. The three projects awarded are: Irradiation …
UW-Madison’s Molten Salt and Next-Gen Reactors Meeting
In April of 2018 UW-Madison hosted a nationwide meeting centered around molten salts and next-gen nuclear reactors featuring collaborators from UC-Berkley, Texas-A&M, industry partners, and the Department of Energy (DOE). The meeting functioned as a …
ANS 2018 Annual Meeting
The lab took part in the 2018 ANS Annual Meeting from June 17th to the June 21st in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jake Quincey attended the Materials Science and Technology Division executive meeting to begin his term …
Spring 2018 Graduation
Congratulation to Aaron Huxford and Léo Borrel for graduating in Spring 2018 ! Aaron obtained his Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering, and Léo obtained his Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics. …
TMS 2018 Annual Meeting
The lab took part in the 2018 147th Annual Meeting and Exibition TMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona from March 11th through March 15th. Leo Borrel presented his work on the Implementation and Validation of …
EPRI Fuel Reliability Program Workshop
Prof. Adrien Couet gave a presentation at the EPRI Fuel Reliability Program Workshop on Hydrogen Pickup and migration in Zirconium at EPRI Charlotte Office on November 15-16, 2017.