Nuclear Engineering ETDs
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Dissertations
ThermalHydraulics Analysis of the Unit-Cell Nuclear Light Bulb Rocket Engine, Vojislav Banjac
Coupled Radiation Transport / Thermal Analysis of the Radiation Shield for a Space Nuclear Retractor, William John Barattino
Development of The University of New Mexico Spectrometer for High-Resolution Fission Product Yield Data, Richard Emery Blakeley
Space-Time Kinetics of the AGN-201M Research Reactor at the University of New Mexico, Douglas Bowen
Development of a Positron-Emitting Surrogate Microsphere for Image-Based Dosimetry in Yttrium-90 Radioembolization Therapy, Gregory D. Chambers
Radiation Effects in Metal Oxides and Carbides, Benjamin Jackson Cowen
A Computationally Efficient Moment-Preserving Monte Carlo Electron Transport Method with Implementation in Geant4, David Dixon
Modeling and Analysis of Actinide Diffusion Behavior in Irradiated Metal Fuel, Paul Edelmann
An arbitrary curvilinear coordinate particle in cell method, Christopher Fichtl
Stochastic methods for uncertainty quantification in radiation transport, Erin D. Fichtl
Doppler Temperature Coefficient Calculations Using Adjoint-Weighted Tallies and Continuous-Energy Cross Sections in MCNP6, Matthew A. Gonzales
Time dependent non-extinction probability for fast burst reactors, Michael Gregson
Asymptotic Neutronic Solutions for Fast Burst Reactor Design, Edward L. Hobbs
Experimental and Computational Investigations of Heat Transfer Systems in Fluoride Salt-cooled High-temperature Reactors, Joel T. Hughes
Dual Neutral Particle Beam Interrogation of Intermodal Shipping Containers for Special Nuclear Material, Rodney Keith
Development of a Novel Framework for the Application of Signature Based Safeguards (SBS) to Pyroprocessing, Philip Leo Lafreniere
Impact of Nuclear Rocket Engine Design on Control Strategies, John A. Lambright
Experimental Investigation of Steady-state and Transient Flow Boiling Critical Heat Flux, Soon Kyu Lee
From the lab to the real world : sources of error in UF6 gas enrichment monitoring, Marcie Lombardi
Dual neutral particle induced transmutation, William Martin
High Precision Refractive Index Measurement Techniques Applied to the Analysis of Neutron Damage and Effects in CaF2 Crystals, Joseph P. Morris Ph.D.
Investigating the Electrodeposition of Plutonium and Curium for Safeguarding the Electrorefiner, Chantell L. Murphy
An Sn Application of Homotopy Continuation in Neutral Particle Transport, Nicholas Myers
Reduced-Order Monte Carlo Modeling of Radiation Transport in Random Media, Aaron J. Olson
Modeling and Simulation of Stochastic Neutron and Cumulative Deposited Fission Energy Distributions, Patrick O'Rourke
NEUTRONIC AND CFD-THERMAL HYDRAULIC ANALYSES OF VERY-SMALL, LONG-LIFE, MODULAR (VSLLIM) REACTOR, Luis M. Palomino
Explosive Electron Emission and the Characteristics of High-current Electron Flow, Robert Kelley Parker
Fokker-Planck-Based Acceleration for SN Equations with Highly Forward Peaked Scattering in Slab Geometry, Japan K. Patel
ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF COSMIC-RAY MUON RADIOGRAPHY, John Perry
INTERROGATION OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL CASKS USING COSMIC-RAY MUON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, Daniel C. Poulson
Prompt Neutron Decay Constants in a Reflected Fast Burst Reactor, Charles Clayton Price
Effective Equation of State Measurements on Uranium Dioxide, Kenneth Orvis Reil
Quantification and propagation of nuclear data uncertainties, Michael Rising
Swirling jets for the mitigation of hot spots and thermal Sstratification in the VHTR lower plenum, salvador rodriguez
Sonomechanical Enhanced Sparging Techniques for Advanced Reactor Applications, Floren V. Rubio
Techniques for Active 3He Activation Analysis for Carbon and Oxygen, William Mort Sanders
Patient Specific Radiation Doses From Projection Radiography Images: Improving the Accuracy of Low Dose Radiation Calculations, Daniel J. Sandoval
The Effect of Volatile Fission Products on Fuel Motion in Nuclear Fuel Elements, Paul Sasa
MULTI-PHYSICS DESIGN AND ANALYSES OF LONG LIFE REACTORS FOR LUNAR OUTPOSTS, Timothy M. Schriener
Transport Calculations in Particle-Loaded Media, Gary J. Scrivner
ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION DOSE ASSESSMENT AND VALIDATION FOR URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE STORAGE MANAGEMENT, Shiaw-Der Su
Moment-Based Accelerators for Kinetic Problems with Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion, William Taitano
Advanced Stochastic Collocation Methods for Polynomial Chaos in RAVEN, Paul W. Talbot
Thin film AlSb carrier transport properties and room temperature radiation response, Erin Vaughan
A Two-Dimensional Spherical-Polar Multigroup Discrete Ordinates Code for Atmospheric Particle Transport, Daniel T. Wakeford
INNOVATIVE OPEN AIR BRAYTON COMBINED CYCLE SYSTEMS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, Bahman Zohuri
Theses
Novel techniques for the detection and localization of attenuated gamma-ray sources, Tyler Alecksen
Elastic-Plastic Poisson's Ratio of Borsic-Reinforced Aluminium Composites, Ronald Edward Allred
Design and Characterization of Systems for Direct Spatial Imaging of Low-Energy Gamma-Radiation Sources, Phoenix Baldez
The Inverse Kinetics Method and Its Application to the Annular Core Research Reactor, Thomas A. Ball
Conceptual Design of the Modular Transuranic Shipping Cask MTS-54, Vojislav Banjac
Development of sensitivity analysis with the use of TSUNAMI-3D sensitivity coefficients for benchmark uncertainty analysis, Allison Barber
A time-of-flight spectrometer for fission fragment identification, Richard Blakeley
Diagnostics of source distribution and particle population in Monte Carlo source iteration methods, Bryan Scott Chapman
An Ionization Chamber for High Resolution Fission Product Spectroscopy, James Cole
Radiation Damage in Permanent Magnet Lenses, Christopher Danly
CHARACTERIZATION OF PARTIAL CHARGE COLLECTION INDUCED BY NEUTRON DAMAGE IN HIGH-PURITY GERMANIUM DETECTORS, James W. Evans
TIME-OF-FLIGHT AND ENERGY LOSS ANALYSIS ON THE UNM FISSION FRAGMENT SPECTROMETER, Shelby Fellows
An exploration of the optical detection of ionizing radiation utilizing modern optics technology, Sean D. Fournier, Adam Hecht, Cassiano de Oliveira, Jeffrey B. Martin, Richard K. Harrison, and Charles Potter
Characterization of the Neutron Irradiation System for use in the Low-Dose-Rate Irradiation Facility at Sandia National Laboratories, Jr. Manuel Franco
A moment-preserving single-event Monte Carlo model of electron and positron energy-loss straggling, Matthew Gonzales
PREDICTING ACTIVATION OF EXPERIMENTS INSIDE THE ANNULAR CORE RESEARCH REACTOR, Joseph Greenberg
Criticality alarm system design guide with accompanying alarm system development for the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory in Richland, Washington, Bryce Greenfield
Ionization Chamber Design, Development, and Testing for the UNM Fission Fragment Spectrometer, Lena Heffern
APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING TO CHF MODELLING, Mingfu He Mr
Characterization of Uranium Foil Irradiations at the WSU TRIGA Reactor Using a New Reactor Model in SCALE, Kimberly A. Hinrichs
A Transient Thermal Analog of Nuclear Reactors, James R. Hume
Developing a simulation tool for evaluating in-motion detector systems (LA-UR-18-29139), Brian Jennings
Eigenfunction expansion of the time and space-dependent neutron survival probability equation, Ryan J. Kamm
Comparing water to DNA for simulation of Auger electron direct damage to DNA using Geant4, Elliott Leonard
An ionization chamber for fission fragment analysis, Drew Mader
Utilizing Sensitivity and Correlation Coefficients from MCNP and Whisper to Guide Microreactor Experiment Design, Alexis Maldonado
Nonlinear acceleration methods for even-parity neutron transport, William Martin
Behavior and measurement of distributed sources in a shielding matrix using gamma spectroscopy, Jacob Miller
Characterizations of plutonium nitrate solutions for criticality calculations, John Anthony Miller
Fission Multiplicity Distribution Sampling in MCNP6 Criticality Calculations, Mario Ivan Ortega
Efficient Multiphysics Coupling for Fast Burst Reactors in Slab Geometry, Japan Patel
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF THE CHEMICAL EFFECTS OF ZINC-BEARING MATERIALS FOLLOWING A LOSS-OF-COOLANT ACCIDENT IN A PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR, David Allan Pease
Examination of color center formation in CaF2 crystals when exposed to gamma and mixed neutron/gamma fields, Sara M. Pelka
INVESTIGATION OF THE FORMATION OF γꞌꞌ PRECIPITATES UNDER ION IRRADIATION AND ELEVATED TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENTS, James R. Pike
Evaluation of Energy Released from Nuclear Criticality Excursions in Process Solutions, Corey Michael Skinner
Analysis of moment-preserving methods for charged particle transport, Paul Smith
PREDICTING THE SENSITIVITY OF A BERYLLIUM/SCINTILLATOR FUSION NEUTRON DETECTOR COMBINING EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND MONTE CARLO MODELS, Jedediah Styron
SERPENT Modeling of the Transient Reactor Test Facility and Comparison with Measured Experimental Data, Joseph Templeton
Remote Handled Disposal Enhancement at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Philip Theisen
A prototype Compton imager : simulations, measurements and algorithm development, Shawn Tornga
An Effective Methodology for Thermal-Hydraulics Analysis of a VHTR Core and Fuel Elements, Boyce Travis
Examining Thin Film AlSb for Room Temperature Gamma Detectors, Erin Vaughan
Analysis of Double-Wall and Twisted-Tube Heat Exchanger Concepts for use in Fluoride Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactors, Bryan M. Wallace
