About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Irradiation Testing: Facilities, Capabilities, and Experimental Designs
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Presentation Title |
The Role of Nuclear Science User Facilities in Nuclear Energy Materials Research and Development |
Author(s) |
Brenden Heidrich |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Brenden Heidrich |
Abstract Scope |
The Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) is one of a diverse number of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) user facilities established to provide researchers with the most advanced tools of modern science. The NSUF was established to provide access to unique capabilities to a broad range of researchers to address the important issues relevant to irradiation effects in nuclear fuels and materials. The NSUF represents a consortium of capabilities distributed across the U.S. at twenty institutions. The NSUF is centered at the Idaho National Laboratory, but it coordinates activities at nineteen “partner” institutions. These institutions have capabilities that include neutron, ion, and gamma irradiation, hot cells, advanced material characterization, and high-performance computing. The NSUF goal is to provide access these capabilities at no cost to nuclear energy researchers to produce the highest quality research results to increase understanding of advanced nuclear energy technologies important to DOE-NE. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Characterization, Nuclear Materials, Additive Manufacturing |