16th Annual Modeling, Experimentation, and Validation (MeV) Summer School
Date:
Location:
Oak Ridge, TN
Description:
Deadline for applications: March 28, 2025
The Modeling, Experimentation, and Validation (MeV) Summer School is an intensive two-week on-site program for early career researchers and scientists. This year’s topic will
focus on “Tackling Materials Challenges for the Next Generation of Nuclear.”
Physical Sciences Symposia: P01 - Advanced
Characterization of Nuclear Fuels and Materials
Recent developments in advanced microstructure characterization, micro-scale
testing, and in-situ techniques are increasingly being applied to the
evaluation of nuclear fuels and structural materials. These modern techniques
now enable us to attain greater insights into the atomic and subatomic
structure of irradiation-induced defects, chemical segregation, mass and
thermal transport, and other structure-property phenomena at conditions closely
representative of in-service nuclear reactor environments. This symposium
highlights these state-of-the-art characterization, imaging, and testing
techniques (including but not limited to STEM, 4D-STEM, FIB, SEM, APT,
nano/pico-indentation, tomography, in-situ testing, etc.) and their application
to nuclear fuels and materials.