Our nuclear science and engineering project areas are the following:

• Nuclear reactor physics:
  • Computational methods of nuclear reactor analysis
  • Physics of complex reactor systems consisting of coupled fast and thermal cores
  • Analysis of subcritical reactors driven by external neutron source
  • Physics of hybrid reactors (electronuclear, fission-fusion)
  • Physics of pulsed reactors
• Radiation shielding design:
  • Computational methods of photon transport in complex geometries
  • Particle accelerator radiation shielding studies
  • Radiation dose analysis
• Large area detector arrays for neutron scattering applications:
  • Computational analysis of gaseous neutron detectors
  • Analysis of neutron detector gas mixtures
  • Optimization of large area detection arrays
• Scintillation x-ray, gamma-ray and neutron detectors:
  • Scintillation gamma-ray detectors
  • Special photo-multiplier tubes
  • Crystal temperature stabilization systems
  • Veto detector systems