Congratulations to R&D awardees where principal investigators (PIs) are NC State Nuclear Engineering faculty —

• Maria N. Avramova (PI) – “Demonstration of Utilization of High-fidelity NEAMS Tools to Inform the Improved Use of Conventional Tools within the NEAMS Workbench on the NEA/OECD C5G7-TD Benchmark” for $800,000 with Jason Hou and Ralph Smith as Co-PIs from NCSU and in cooperation with ORNL, ANL and Framatome Inc.
• Ayman I. Hawari (PI) – “Evaluation of the Thermal Scattering Law for Advanced Reactor Neutron Moderators and Reflectors” for $400,000 in cooperation with X-Energy LLC.
• Ayman I. Hawari (PI) – “Establishing a Hot Cell Capability at the PULSTAR Reactor” for $500,000.
• Djamel Kaoumi (Co-PI) – “Understanding of degradation of SiC/SiC materials in nuclear systems and development of mitigation strategies” with Peter Hosemann (PI) from the University of California, Berkeley.

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) conducts crosscutting nuclear energy research and development (R&D) and associated infrastructure support activities to develop innovative technologies that offer the promise of dramatically improved performance for advanced reactors and fuel cycle concepts while maximizing the impact of DOE resources.