Five members of the research group recently attended The American Nuclear Society Student Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is a student led, professional development opportunity for students all around the nation to present their work …
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The Autoclave has Arrived!
The laboratory is now equipped with a state of the art high pressure, high temperature autoclave! The autoclave is equipped of four electrochemical feedtroughs, one high temperature reference electrode and three sapphire windows protected by …
Advance Photon Source
The research group went to the Advanced Photon Source (APS) synchrotron at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to perform experiments at one of their beamlines. They use a beamline with high photon flux and nanometer beam …
New Undergraduate Students
Two undergraduates student in the Engineering Physics Department have joined the research group. Calvin Parkin is a Senior in the Engineering Physics Department. His project deals with radiation resistant high entropy alloys. …
New Students!
Four new graduate students have joined the research group!Michael Moorehead is a new PhD Student and NRC fellow in the Engineering Physics Department, coming from Arizona State University. His research focuses on performing X-ray Absorption …
Madison Teaching and Learning Excellence
Prof. Couet has been selected to be part of the Theta cohort of the “Madison Teaching and Learning Excellence” program.
New Student!
Nans Lacombe has joined the research group over the summer to work on the corrosion of steels in supercritical CO2 environment in partnership with “Électricité de France” (EDF) and “Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux …
Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry
Prof. Couet gave a presentation at the 18th International Symposium on Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry at Hilton Head (SC) on Hydrogen Pickup Mechanism in Zirconium Alloys.
New Students!
Aaron Huxford and Alexander Glittenberg, two undergraduate students at the Engineering Physics department have joined the research group. Their work will focus on designing electrochemical feedthroughs for in-situ electrochemistry impedance spectroscopy experiments in relevant nuclear …
Zirconium Corrosion and Hydriding Mechanism
Prof. Couet gave two seminars at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) on zirconium corrosion and hydriding mechanism under normal and accidental conditions. Part of the tour covered the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR), the Materials and …