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Nuclear Engineering ETDs

Nuclear Engineering ETDs

Dissertations 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

Facility-Specific Radiation Exposure Risks and Their Implications for Radiation Workers at Department of Energy Laboratories, Adam Davis

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

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

A novel method for modeling the neutron Time of Flight (nTOF) detector response in current mode to inertial confinement fusion experiments, Alan Nelson

Reduced-Order Monte Carlo Modeling of Radiation Transport in Random Media, Aaron J. Olson

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

SIMULATIONS OF SPACE RADIATION INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS, WITH APPLICATION TO DOSE ESTIMATES FOR LUNAR SHELTER AND ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, Tai Pham

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

TIME AND ENERGY CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEUTRON TIME OF FLIGHT DETECTOR USING A NOVEL COINCIDENCE METHOD FOR CONSTRAINING NEUTRON YIELD, ION TEMPERATURE AND LINER DENSITY MEASUREMENTS FROM MAGLIF EXPERIMENTS, Jedediah Styron

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

MOBILE, HYBRID COMPTON/CODED APERTURE IMAGING FOR DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND LOCALIZATION OF GAMMA-RAY SOURCES AT STAND-OFF DISTANCES, Shawn Tornga

Thin film AlSb carrier transport properties and room temperature radiation response, Erin Vaughan

INNOVATIVE OPEN AIR BRAYTON COMBINED CYCLE SYSTEMS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, Bahman Zohuri

Theses 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

A TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING THE TIME RESPONSE AND THROUGH-PUT DELAY OF NEUTRON TIME-OF-FLIGHT (nTOF) SCINTILLATION DETECTORS USING COSMIC RADIATION IN A COINCIDENCE SYSTEM, Michael Bonura

DEVELOPMENT OF WIRELESS PEBBLE FOR PACKED BED HEAT TRANSFER MEASUREMENTS AND MACHINE LEARNING-AIDED ACCIDENT DIAGNOSIS FOR LOSS OF FLOW ACCIDENT (LOFA), Dongjune Chang

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

Validation Studies of Single-Phase Natural Circulation Response of the Fluoride salt-cooled High-temperature Reactor (FHR), Amy Drumm

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

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

IDENTIFICATION OF ELECTROREFINER AND CATHODE PROCESSING FAILURE MODES AND DETERMINATION OF SIGNATURE-SIGNIFICANCE FOR INTEGRATION INTO A SIGNATURE BASED SAFEGUARDS FRAMEWORK FOR PYROPROCESSING, Philip Lafreniere

Comparing water to DNA for simulation of Auger electron direct damage to DNA using Geant4, Elliott Leonard

A Novel Neutron Recoil Spectrometer Concept Utilizing Heavy-Ion Recoils and Time- and Spatially-Resolved Sensor, Joel Long

An ionization chamber for fission fragment analysis, Drew Mader

Nonlinear acceleration methods for even-parity neutron transport, William Martin

Use of Chemical and Isotopic Signatures to Distinguish Between Uranium Mill-Related and Naturally Occurring Groundwater Constituents at the Bluewater Disposal Site, Curtis McHaley

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

An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Flow Accelerated FLiBe Corrosion, David B. Weitzel