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Michigan Center for Materials Characterization joins University of Michigan NSUF partner facilities

The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization, also known as (MC)2, has been approved to become a University of Michigan Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) partner facility.

NSUF Welcomes New Industry Lead and Communications Liaison

Peng Xu will serve as the new NSUF Industry Lead and Tiera Cate is joining NSUF as the Communications Liaison. Learn more about the latest additions to the NSUF Program Office.

Users’ Q&A Webinar Slideshow Now Available

In place of the annual Users Organization Meeting, NSUF Director, Dr. Rory Kennedy, held a Q&A Webinar on March 18, 2021. This gave an overview of the program as well as answered questions from NSUF Users. The presentation from the Webinar is now available.

NSUF FY 2020 Annual Report

The Annual Report is now available. NSUF has continued to be productive despite 2020 being such an unusual year. View the report here.

Materials and fuels find new life in NFML

A New Tool: The RAD Calculator

RTE Schedule Update

NSUF Project Leads Postdoc to INL

Users Organization Meeting Presentations Now Available

Second FY 2020 RTE Call Opens

NSUF’s High Performance Computing Powers Innovation

DOE-NE Awards 19 RTE Projects

NSUF Research Helps Support Student Researchers

The opportunities for student-led research are nearly endless

Colin Judge Joins NSUF as Industry Lead

Judge joined NSUF in September leaving Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. With a background in materials science, Judge will also act as a technical lead, assisting experiment managers with NSUF projects.

New Users Organization Executive Committee Members Announced

The Users Organization Executive Committee will work to advance NSUF user concerns and priorities.

How to Be a Better Scientific Communicator

Once research is done, there is still an opportunity to communicate the impacts of your research to a broader audience.

NSUF Facility Highlight: University of Michigan

The University of Michigan's two NSUF partner facilities offers NSUF users access to extensive capabilities to study the effects of radiation as well as conduct high temperature mechanical property, corrosion, and stress corrosion cracking experiments on neutron irradiated materials in an aqueous environment to characterize the fracture surfaces after failure.

From the Users Group: Vote for Your New Executive Committee

The goal of the Users Group is to provide a formal and clear channel from the NSUF users to the NSUF program office as well as advocate for the experimental activities at NSUF, and the Executive Committee helps facilitate this.

NSUF Researcher Feature: Lingfeng He

The TEM group leader for INL, He manages the two TEMs in INL's Irradiated Materials and Characterization Laboratory, and it continually making sure that his group's expertise is cutting edge, but also that users have access to that expertise via NSUF.

Drawn to Nuclear

While both are chief scientists for NSUF, Brenden Heidrich and Simon Pimblott took different paths to get here.

How to Write Better Proposals: Awareness, Specificity and Brevity

NSUF has two main funding opportunities, Rapid Turnaround Experiments (RTEs) and work scopes in the Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research program.

NSUF Researcher Feature: Kumar Sridharan

Sridharan's research team put the NSUF's first material samples into the ATR, launching a new era of research into the behaviors of fuels and materials in a nuclear reactor environment.

From the Users Group: Nominations Open for Users Group Executive Committee

The goal of the Users Group is to provide a formal and clear channel from the NSUF users to the NSUF program office as well as advocate for the experimental activities at NSUF, and the Executive Committee helps facilitate this.

RTE Update: FY-20 First Call Expected to Open 10/1

The RTE award process offers an avenue for researchers to perform irradiation effects studies of limited scope on nuclear fuels and materials of interest utilizing NSUF facilities.

Infrastructure Funding Opportunity Announcement Released

This infrastructure program, a part of the Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research (CINR) program was established to continue to strengthen U.S. competitiveness in nuclear R&D and ensure that American universities have the best equipment and tools available to educate the next generation of industry leaders.

CINR Funding Opportunity Announcement Released

NSUF has eight work scopes open for proposals ranging from researching in-reactor instrumentation to high performance computing.