Researchers in the Nuclear Engineering Program at the UF Department of Materials Science & Engineering have received Department of Energy University Program grants for conducting research to mitigate the Fuel Cladding Chemical Interactions (FCCI) in a sodium-cooled fast reactor and to develop BiI3 Gamma-Ray spectrometers for nuclear material safeguarding. UF is also a collaborator in a $1M, Argonne National Laboratory-led NEET research project to develop in-situ High Energy X-rays techniques for studying microstructure-property correlation in reactor materials.

Juan Nino, Ph.D., Yong Yang, Ph.D., Simon Phillpot, Ph.D., and James Baciak, Ph.D., lead the UF efforts.