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UT receives DOE funds, ORNL help for spent nuclear fuel studies

Posted at 10:05 am September 26, 2013
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KNOXVILLE—The question of what to do with spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. has never been definitively answered. A University of Tennessee in Knoxville professor has received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop new capabilities for evaluating potential alternatives to directly disposing of used fuel.

The award is part of the DOE’s 2013 Nuclear Energy University Programs which is awarding $42 million to 38 American universities and colleges for nuclear energy research and development projects focused on developing innovative solutions.

A proposal by Steven Skutnik, assistant professor in nuclear engineering, was awarded $755,000 to develop new capabilities for a fuel cycle simulator called CYCLUS by building on an Oak Ridge National Laboratory software package for nuclear fuel modeling called ORIGEN. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Science, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: CYCLUS, flexible reactor analysis module, National Nuclear Laboratory, NEUP, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Energy University Programs, nuclear engineering, nuclear fuel, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORIGEN, ORNL, reactor, research and development, software, spent nuclear fuel, Steven Skutnik, University of Tennessee, used fuel, UT, waste, Yucca Mountain

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