Nuclear Reactions and Radiation

Jack Hare says running a science lab is rather like spelunking. In graduate school for plasma physics, at Imperial College London, he was part of the caving club. Each summer, he’d spend three weeks on an expedition to Slovenia, where they’d camp...

NSE graduate student Abhilash Mathews is testing a simplified turbulence theory’s ability to model complex plasma phenomena using a novel machine-learning technique.

Mathematical simulations show the new approach may offer faster, cheaper, and more accurate detection, including identifying new variants.

Mingda Li received a 2021 Early Career Research Award given by the DoE Basic Energy Sciences Program for his work in machine learning augmented multimodal neutron scattering for emergent topological materials.

Experimental setup showing the shielded detector (left) and the DT neutron source showing three disks of 6Li doped glass scintillator mounted on a photomultiplier tube (right).

One of India’s largest commercial and research nuclear reactor facilities lies just south of Arunkumar Seshadri’s hometown of Chennai, India. It was there, during a high school field trip, that the seeds of his interest in nuclear power were planted. “We learned...

On the path to writing his PhD dissertation Lucio Milanese made a discovery – one that refocused his research and will now likely dominate his thesis. Milanese studies plasma, a gas-like flow of ions and electrons that comprises 99 percent of the...

Separation of 85Kr from Spent Nuclear Fuel by a Highly Selective Metal Organic Framework. Nuclear energy provides about 20 percent of the US electricity supply, and over half of its carbon-free generating capacity. Operations of commercial nuclear reactors produce small quantities of...

Researchers have devised a practical solution for preventing corrosive buildup in nuclear systems. Image shows specimens of a standard reactor zirconium alloy with and without our crud-resistant coating. The uncoated specimens at left are covered with crud in our flowing reactor experiment,...

Exotic states called Kohn anomalies could offer clues to why some materials have the electronic properties they do.