Nuclear


Jeff King, professor of nuclear engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been awarded $800,000 by the U.S. Department of Energy for research that will aid in the development of nuclear microreactors.
Jenifer C. Shafer, professor of chemistry at Colorado School of Mines, has been named a fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Jeff King, professor of metallurgical and materials engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been named to the Colorado Radiation Advisory Committee. The nine-member committee, appointed by Gov
Rebekah Moline, a master's student in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Program, is one of 100 graduate students worldwide to win the competitive scholarship from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
"A critical challenge facing the practical implementation of fusion power is the effective and safe management of tritium," said Mines' Colin Wolden, lead investigator on the new $1.4 million ARPA-E project with Idaho National Laboratory.
Spencer Fretwell will be working with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Dr. Stephan Friedrich, deputy leader of the laboratory’s Rare Event Detection group.
Assistant Professor Kyle Leach is among 76 scientists at universities and national labs across the country to win the prestigious award this year
Could 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, solve the difficulty of finding replacement parts for nation's aging nuclear plants?
A dozen Colorado School of Mines graduate students visited state legislators to advocate for nuclear energy as a continued option for the state.Jarrod Gogolski, a PhD student in the nuclear science
Colorado School of Mines is combining its strengths in nuclear engineering and additive manufacturing in a research project to determine how 3D-printed metals perform in a reactor.Metallurgical and