Research Programs

Advanced Nuclear Power Program

A Very Long Cycle Boiling Water Reactor Evaluation of Solid Hydride Fuel for Long-Lived LWR Core Design Investigation of Nanofluids for Nuclear Applications Supercritical Water Reactors Advanced Gas Cooled Modular Pebble Bed Reactors Fission Product Barrier Integrity Fuel Performance Modeling High Performance Alloy Development for Liquid Metal Service Supercritical CO2 Power Conversion System Methods for Risk-Informing Future Reactor Regulation Gas Cooled Fast Reactor Evaluation

Nuclear Systems Enhanced Performance

High Cycle Thermal Fatigue Due to Thermal Striping Risk-Informed Decision Making Risk Analysis in Infrastructure Protection Quantification of Safety Margins Incident Management Using Probabilistic Safety Assessment Organizational Factors in Nuclear Power Plants Outage Performance Evaluation of Operating US Light Water Reactor

Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Actinide Management in LWRs High Burnup LWR Fuel Modeling and Optimization High Performance Fuel Design for Next Generation PWRs Nuclear Fuel Cycles for Mid-century Deployment Risk-Informing Decisions about High-Level Nuclear Waste Repositories

Nuclear Energy and Sustainability

Hydrogen Production Using Nuclear Energy Transition from Prescriptive to Risk-Informed Regulations in U.S.

Nuclear Reactors for Space Applications

Nuclear Reactors for Space Applications