NE Student Outreach
Activities in 2009
2009 NE Facilities Guided Tours for Summer Students
Target Audience: Summer Students at NE or other Argonne Divisions.
The Nuclear Engineering Division Student Outreach Committee is offering guided tours of some of the NE Division facilities for summer students. Each tour will last about 45 minutes to one hour. These tours offer the opportunity to see and hear about some unique experimental facilities which are part of the NE Division’s research in the nuclear energy field. You may sign up for as many of the tours as you wish.
How to sign up for a tour
To sign up for a tour, please send an e-mail to Laural Briggs ( ) by 5:00 PM of the day preceding the tour.
Scheduled Tours
The missing tours dates will be communicated here as soon as they are confirmed. Stay tuned.
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Nuclear Energy Exhibit in Bldg. 208 (A) Target Audience: for students with some nuclear energy/nuclear engineering background This exhibit presents the major milestones in the development of nuclear power in the U.S. and explains Argonne’s role in the design of nuclear reactors, beginning with the Manhattan project, to present-day commercial reactors, to advanced reactor designs currently under development. The exhibit includes reactor models and examples of components used in nuclear reactors.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 1:30 pm Meeting Point: |
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Target Audience: for students without nuclear energy/nuclear engineering background See Jun. 23 Tour for description
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 1:30 pm Meeting Point: |
Sodium plugging loop in Bldg. 370 This experimental setup is part of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) work being conducted at Argonne on sodium components testing for the Advanced Burner Reactor plant design. If you need transportation over to 370, please let Laural know ( ). If you have a car and would be able to drive some of the other students to 370, please indicate this when you sign up for the tour.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 10:00 am Meeting Point: |
Carbon dioxide experimental loop in Bldg. 206 This experimental loop is being used to test heat transfer and flow in an advanced design power conversion system which uses carbon dioxide instead of water to remove heat from the reactor sodium coolant. |
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Thermal Mixing Experiment in Bldg. 315 The Engineering Development Labs section is constructing a fluid dynamics experiment to be used in the validation of computational fluid dynamics tools. The experiment involves mixing hot and cold air streams within a large glass tank using a flow geometry patterned off that of a nuclear fast reactor outlet plenum. A particle image velocimetry (PIV) system maps local flow velocities using a pulsed laser light sheet and an intensified camera. Temperatures across the tank lid are measured with a high-speed infrared camera. Tour participants will visit the control room and the lab space where the tests are performed. |
July 28, 2009 Meeting Point: |
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Nuclear Energy Exhibit in Bldg. 208 (B)
Other Activities
Information about current and or upcoming activities can be found in the NE Student Outreach home page.
Contact the Student Outreach Committee
If you would like to contact the NE Student Outreach Committee for further information or to request a student activity, please email .
