DOE - Office of Nuclear Energy

Nuclear Engineering Education Research (NEER) Grants

This highly competitive peer-reviewed program provides grants to nuclear engineering faculty and students for innovative research in nuclear engineering and related areas. The awards run from one to three years and are granted in nine separate technical areas related to nuclear engineering: reactor physics, reactor engineering, reactor materials research, radiological engineering, radioactive waste management, applied radiation science, nuclear safety and risk analysis, innovative technologies, and health physics. The FY 2006 NEER funding was used to cover the remaining balances on all prior year NEER awards. The NEER grants announced for FY 2006 were awarded and fully funded using FY 2007 appropriated funds with all grants issued by
May 1, 2007.

FY 2006 Nuclear Engineering Education Research (NEER) Grants
Proposal Title	Principal Investigator	University/ Campus
Supercritical CO2 Studies: Micro-channel Heat Transfer for Reactor Heat Exchangers and Cycle Design	Michael L. Corradini/Pavel Hejzlar	University of Wisconsin-Madison/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Study of Spent Fuel Dissolution Rates in Geological Storage Using Dosimetry Modeling and Experimental Verification	William H. Miller	University of Missouri - Columbia
Interfacial Area Transport and Regime Transition of Two-Phase Flow in Combinatorial Flow Channels	Seungjin Kim	University of Missouri - Rolla
Experimental Investigation of Alpha Convection	Shoaid Usman	University of Missouri - Rolla
Improved Growth Methods for LaBr3 Scintillation Radiation Detectors	Dougas S. McGregor	Kansas State University
Two-phase Heat Transfer in Water-Based Nanofluids for Nuclear Applications	Jacopo Buongiorno	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Intelligent Component Monitoring for Nuclear Power Plants	Lefteri H. Tsoukalas	Purdue University
Bioassay Phantoms Using Medical Images and Computer Aided Manufacturing	Xie George Xu	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
3-D Deep Penetration Neutron Imaging of Thick Absorbing and Diffusive Objects Using Transport Theory	Jean C. Ragusa	Texas A&M University
Nanopore/Nanotube Isotope Battery (NPIB/NTIB)	George H. Miley	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Lattice Boltzmann Method to Address Fundamental Boiling and Two-phase Problems	Rizwan Uddin	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Thermal Cooling Limits of Sabotaged Spent Fuel Pools	Thomas G. Hughes/Richard Lahey	Pennsylvania State University/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
A Generalized Bolzmann Fokker-Planck (GBFP) Method for Coupled Charged Paticle Transport	Anil K. Prinja	University of New Mexico
Multi-Scale Control and Enhancement of Reactor Boiling Heat Flux by Reagents and Nanoparticles	Raj M. Manglik	University of Cincinnati
MicroCT-Based Skeletal Models for Use in Tomographic Voxel Phantoms for Radiological Protection	Wesley E. Bolch	University of Florida
Advanced TRISO Fuels with Zirconium Carbide for Very Hight Temperature Reactors	Travis W. Knight	University of South Carolina
Development of Silicon Carbide Inert Matrix Fuel Pellet for Improved Plutonium Recycle	Hans J. Seifert	University of Florida

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