NAMRG Director Kumar Sridharan has been named Grainger Professor by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering. Sridharan’s expertise focuses on nuclear reactor materials, corrosion in reactor-relevant environments, radiation effects in materials, surface modification and …
Year: 2022
Hwasung Yeom Gives an Invited Talk at the Materials Science & Technology Annual Conference
Associate Scientist Dr. Hwasung (Sung) Yeom gave an Invited Talk at the Materials Science & Technology Annual Conference held in Pittsburgh, PA from October 10th to 14th, 2022. The talk entitled “Environmental Degradation of Ceramic …
Ryan Gordon Attends the Molten Salt Workshop and the Advanced Research Program Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) Program Kick-off Meeting
Graduate student Ryan Gordon attended the Molten Salt Workshop and the Advanced Research Program Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) Program Kick-off Meeting held at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN) from October 12th to 14th, …
John Lacy Completes 10-week Internship at Electric Power Research Institute
Graduate student John (JP) Lacy completed a 10-week internship at Electric Power Research Institute in Charlotte, NC as a part of his DOE-Nuclear Energy University Program Fellowship. As a part of this internship, JP performed …
Sridharan gives keynote address the IMAT 2022 Conference
Cutting edge: How an internship led one student from the factory floor to a national lab
Kyle Quillin Completes 10-week Internship at Idaho National Laboratory
Graduate student Kyle Quillin completed a 10-week internship at Idaho National Laboratory (Idaho Falls, ID) as a part of his DOE-Nuclear Energy University Program Fellowship. As a part of this internship, Kyle performed in situ …
Group awarded NEUP grant for control rod materials research
PI Dr. Kumar Sridharan and Associate Scientist Dr. Hwasung Yeom have been awarded an $800,000 Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) grant to research new materials for control rod assemblies. Materials systems for both control rod …
Making new metals with machine learning means molten salt can’t corrode
Congratulations to Nick Pocquette!
Congratulations to graduate student Nick Pocquette who successfully defended his Master’s thesis entitled ““Investigation of Cold Spray Process for Mitigation and Repair of Chloride-Induced Stress Corrosion Cracking in Stainless Steel Containments for Spent Nuclear Fuel …