At Texas A&M’s Innovation Forward conference, experts gathered to discuss the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and nuclear energy, highlighting the university’s role in developing advanced technologies. Venture capitalist Ray Rothrock, an A&M graduate, emphasized how AI is increasing energy demands, requiring a more reliable [Read more…]
Texas is advancing plans to integrate small modular reactors (SMRs) into the state’s energy grid to enhance reliability and reduce grid stress. Unlike traditional 1,200-megawatt nuclear reactors, SMRs range from 100-300 megawatts, allowing for faster production and deployment across remote areas, industrial sites, and [Read more…]
NuScale Power has installed a small modular reactor (SMR) simulation laboratory at Texas A&M University’s Center for Advanced Small Modular and Micro Reactors (CASMR), making it the third such facility in the United States. The simulator provides [Read more…]
Texas A&M University and Lightbridge Corporation, a leading nuclear fuel technology company, are collaborating on a groundbreaking study to evaluate the performance of Lightbridge Fuel in NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR). The study, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), aims to advance nuclear fuel technology and enhance the efficiency, safety, and commercialization of advanced [Read more…]
Texas A&M University is at the forefront of nuclear energy innovation through its Center for Advanced Small Modular and Micro Nuclear Reactors (CASMR). Established in 2021 in response to the Texas power grid failure, CASMR aims to develop safe, reliable, and sustainable small and micro modular nuclear [Read more…]
Researchers at the Thermal Hydraulics Research Laboratory have conducted experiments and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations investigating the dynamics of a human sneeze. Objectives Droplets and aerosols ejected during the human sneeze possibly contains infectious [Read more…]
Researchers at the Thermal Hydraulics Research Laboratory have conducted experiments studying the efficacy of homemade and mass-produced masks. Supplies of mass-produced masks have decreased as the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, necessitating the use of homemade masks. Objectives Face masks [Read more…]
The 2019 ANS Student Conference was held at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Students from the Thermal Hydraulic Research Laboratory presented research in the Thermal Hydraulics and Fluids Division. From the seven universities present within the division, our laboratory took home [Read more…]
Gerrit Botha, a PhD candidate of the Thermal-Hydraulic Research Laboratory, won the best student poster for the US award at the International Conference on Nuclear Engineering ICONE26 hosted in London, with the title, “The Influence of Pebble Placement on the Wake of Tandem Pebbles in a Free [Read more…]
Stephen King and Nolan Goth have been selected for the U.S Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Office of Nuclear Technology R&D 2018 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award. Stephen King, undergraduate student from the Nuclear Engineering Department is currently working [Read more…]
