NE Postdoctoral Projects

Category: National Security and Nonproliferation Technologies

REDUCED ENRICHMENT FOR RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS (RERTR)

The DOE / National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Global Threat Reduction supports the activities of the Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR) program. The RERTR program mission supports the minimization and, to the extent possible, elimination of the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in civil nuclear applications by working to convert research reactors and radioisotope production processes to the use of low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel and targets throughout the world. The program develops the technology necessary to enable the conversion of civilian facilities using HEU to LEU fuels and radioisotope-production targets. Over 43 research and test reactors have already been converted using advanced LEU fuel and designs developed by the Program. Current activities focus on development of more advanced LEU fuels, collaboration with the Russian RERTR effort and other international participants in fuel development, continued development of an LEU-based process to produce Mo-99, and technical assistance to research reactors in LEU conversion analysis and efforts.
Contact: Jordi Roglans-Ribas
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NE-NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION SYSTEMS

The focus of this research area is the development of web based database applications for national security programs in the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration. The program has successfully resulted in providing the DOE with a nationwide facility clearance system. This system has resulted in the conversion of a highly paper intensive facility clearance process into an efficient, web based electronic system used by federal contractors and federal workers throughout the United States. Web based analytical tools are also under development and training systems will be developed in the future.
Contact: Judith Gross Chiarelli
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RADIATION DETECTION TECHNOLOGY

Advanced radiation detectors are required for both basic science missions and for applied research in such areas as national security. These activities entail the development of advanced gamma ray and neutron detectors and require physics, nuclear engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or computer programming support in the following areas:
· fast and thermal neutron detectors for detection of nuclear materials,
· development of algorithms for gamma spectroscopy,
· electronics design for small detector packages,
· computer modeling of neutron and gamma radiation transport,
· computer simulations of radiation detector response, and
· development and assessment of advanced signal processing algorithms.
Contact: Raymond Klann
| Fax: +1 630-252-5287