The Nuclear Engineering Division Major Programs span a wide range of diversified activities.
Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI)
Development and assessment of technologies for
improved management of spent nuclear fuel.
NE Departments involved:
• Engineering Analysis • Nuclear Systems Analysis
• Engineering Development & Applications
Generation IV (G-IV)
Development of next generation nuclear systems
featuring significant advances in sustainability,
economics, safety, reliability, proliferation
resistance and physical protection.
NE Departments involved:
• Engineering Analysis • Nuclear Systems Analysis
• Engineering Development & Applications
Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test
Reactors (RERTR)
Conversion of research reactors from high- to
low-enriched uranium fuel to reduce risk of nuclear
weapons proliferation.
NE Departments involved:
• Nuclear Systems Analysis • RERTR
International Nuclear Safety (INS)
Fostering open exchange of safety information and
improvements of nuclear plant safety worldwide.
NE Departments involved:
• Nuclear Systems Analysis • Engineering Development & Applications
International Nuclear Safety Center web site »
Materials Disposition (MD)
Safe disposition of excess weapons plutonium through
reactor irradiation and conversion to spent fuel.
NE Departments involved:
• Engineering Analysis • Nuclear Systems Analysis
Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D)
Development, demonstration and deployment of
technologies for safe and economical D&D of nuclear
facilities.
NE Departments involved:
• Engineering Development & Applications
D&D Training course
Our next training course "Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities" will be held
in Las Vegas, Nevada in late October 2004.
More details will be posted in a few weeks at
D&D; Training Course
National Security and Nonproliferation (NSNP)
Limiting risk of nuclear weapons proliferation
through export control policy support, safeguarding
of special nuclear materials in the Former Soviet
Union, development of information management
systems.
NE Departments involved:
• National Security and Non-proliferation
Nuclear Criticality and Decision Safety (NCDS)
Enhancing capability for assuring safe storage,
transport and the securing of radiological and
nuclear materials throughout the world.
NE Departments involved:
• Nuclear Systems Analysis
