The U.S. Department of Energy awarded more than $44 million through its Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) in 2024 to support university-led nuclear energy research and development projects, including a total of $4.6 million for projects led by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers.
Juliana Pacheco Duarte (PI), an assistant professor of nuclear engineering and engineering physics, received $1.1 million for a project that will demonstrate that power uprates higher than the current state of operation can be reached using accident tolerant fuels in light water reactors while not exceeding reactor safety margins during normal operation and accidents. UW-Madison NEEP Assistant Professor Ben Lindleyand assistant scientist WooHyun Jung are co-PIs, along with researchers from North Carolina State University, Idaho National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Constellation, Framatome and GNF. Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus Michael Corradini and Al Csontos from NEI are collaborators.
Assistant scientist WooHyun Jung (PI) received $1 million for a project that will focus on investigating the impact of Cr-coating on the SiC-SiCf composite cladding of various architectures under normal operating and accident conditions in light water reactors and advanced reactors for the safe and economic deployment of SiC cladding. Kumar Sridharan, Grainger Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics (NEEP) and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is a collaborator on the project, along with researchers from General Atomics, Argonne National Laboratory and Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea.
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