Energy Frontier Research Center, Center for Materials Science of Nuclear Fuels.

摘要

The mission of the Center for Material Science of Nuclear Fuels (CMSNF) is to develop a first principles-based understanding of how complex defects affect thermal transport in irradiated nuclear fuel (specifically UO2), and to develop an experimentally validated multiscale modeling capability for the predictive understanding of the microstructure dynamics and its impact on thermal transport in nuclear fuel. This mission is accomplished by integrating the physics of thermal transport in crystalline solids with microstructure science under irradiation. The center brings together a multi-institutional team of experimentalists (from Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Colorado School of Mines, University of Florida, and the University of Wisconsin) and computational materials theorists (from Idaho National Laboratory, University of Florida, and Purdue University). Led by Director Todd Allen, the center is organized around the two closely related research thrust areas: thermal transport and microstructure science under irradiation.