CMSNF
![Center for Materials Science of Nuclear Fuel](/-/media/bes/efrc/images/centers/cmsnf-header.jpg?w=500&h=167&as=1&hash=C7614B3D0689F61140FC3EB9D427D6E9589CB5DE58F6DDCA4E98B1ABDD9AA5D2)
Director(s):
Dieter Wolf (9/2009 - 5/2010); Todd Allen (6/2010 - 7/2014)
Lead Institution:
Idaho National Laboratory
Years:
2009-2014
Mission:
To develop an experimentally validated multi-scale computational capability for the predictive understanding of the impact of microstructure on thermal transport in nuclear fuel under irradiation, with ultimate application to UO2 as a model system.
Research Topics:
phonons, thermal conductivity, nuclear (including radiation effects), defects, materials and chemistry by design
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: actinide
INTERFACES: solid/solid
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 3D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray diffraction and scattering, neutron diffraction and scattering, laser diagnostics, molecular dynamics (MD), quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, continuum modeling, mesoscale modeling, finite element method, multiscale modeling, extreme scale computing
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Partner Institutions:
- University of Florida
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Purdue University
- University of Wisconsin at Madison