Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Department "Nuclear Engineering"
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(2014-09-18)With Pu-238 in short supply, it is necessary to investigate other potential fuel sources that may be suitable for powering radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). This report has investigated several candidate ...
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(2011-04-26)The process of comprehensive study about the small nuclear reactors on developing analysis metrics and its method of evaluation was conducted. General methods of analysis of nuclear reactors and techniques and tools required ...
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(2011-04-27)Recently, researchers have investigated the implementation of accurate high order time discretization techniques in large-scale nonlinear multiphysics simulations using Implicit Runge-Kutta (IRK) methods. For a given time ...
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(2012-05-03)The nuclear energy industry is experiencing a renaissance of new reactor design and construction in Asia, North America, and Europe. The new Generation III designs are some of the largest ever built, featuring improved ...
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(2013-02-01)Following a large-scale radioactive release, transfer factors (TF) are used to estimate the amount of radioactive material retained by an organism. These values are based on the concentration of the consumed radionuclide ...
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(2012-05-04)Decay heat is an important parameter in reactor design. Fission products generate heat in the reactor core even when the reactor has shut down. This heat has potential to melt the core if heat removal is not sufficient, ...
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(2013-12-10)The United States consumes almost half of all medical isotopes produced worldwide, and relies on foreign sources for nearly its entire supply. These isotopes are produced in nuclear reactors which are very costly to ...
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(2013-02-01)This project investigates several methods of electrochemical insertion of hydrogen into Zircaloy nuclear fuel cladding. These systems are being assembled at Texas A & M to form zirconium hydride in cladding to model crack ...
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(2013-01-31)The electric spark discharge has been studied for hundreds of years, yet many details of the phenomenon remain elusive. One particular area in the field of spark discharges that has yet to be explored in depth is the ...
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Environmental Aspects of Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles: Parametric Modeling and Preliminary Analysis (2010-07-14)Nuclear power has the potential to help reduce rising carbon emissions, but to be considered sustainable, it must also demonstrate the availability of an indefinite fuel supply as well as not produce any significant negative ...
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(2021-04-28)This project investigates the use of low enriched uranium tristructural-isoptropic (TRISO) fuels in a potential lunar and martian nuclear reactor with the primary objective of minimizing overall reactor mass. Extraterrestrial ...
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Generalized Intelligent Behavior and Event Recognition Method for Nuclear Engineering Applications In many fields of engineering it is desirable, and often required, to identify certain characteristics of processes, properties, and systems. This effort focuses on the development and demonstration of an intelligent ...
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(2012-05-01)We looked at the potential performance increases available through OpenCL and its parallel computing capabilities, including GPU computing as it applies to time inte- gration of nuclear reaction networks. The particular ...
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(2013-10-01)Among the many applications that require solutions of the particle transport equation are nuclear reactors, medical imaging, medical therapy, photon interaction in the atmosphere and oceans, industrial systems, and radiative ...
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(2013-02-28)This project idea is proposed in order to develop the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for Nano-crystal phase formation when metallic glasses (amorphous) is exposed under the high energy ion irradiation and is ...
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(1995)Current estimates state that approximately 60,000 tons of spent fuel (with burn-ups of 33,000 MW-days/MTU) currently await shipment to the repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. This amount is likely to double before the ...
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(2017-05-09)This research project proposes to develop, integrate and characterize a nebulizer system for the nasal pulmonary delivery of radiopharmaceuticals in the form of aerosols containing nanoparticles for dynamic imaging studies ...
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(1978)Neutron transmutation doped gallium arsenide samples were produced at the Nuclear Science Center at Texas A&M University. The samples were then annealed in an argon gas atmosphere for 20 minutes at temperatures between ...
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New and improved thermal hydraulic data is essential for ensuring safe operation for Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR). Excessive fission product buildup on fuel rods produces uneven subcooling during operation which poses ...
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Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is a type of radiation therapy that tries to minimize the radiation dose to healthy tissue through the use of various types of collimators that shapes the radiation beam to the ...