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Topics in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erich Schneider, University of Texas-Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas-Austin; Steven Biegalski, University of Texas-Austin

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Ph.D. graduate degrees to employees at PANTEX. Thus we initiated a two prongeffort to both recruit students in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program byattracting funding from national labs and to offer advanced degrees to employees at theselabs as well.RecruitmentIn 1997, there were only fifteen graduate students, almost all foreign students and a verysmall number of undergraduate students in the undergraduate nuclear technical optionwithin the Mechanical Engineering Department. Several strategic initiatives werefollowed that included: 1. Pursuing highly qualified US graduate students. 2. Advertising a new nuclear and radiation engineering technical option which included the following three mandatory courses. a

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Information Technology in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kendra Foltz Biegalski, University of Texas; Victoria Pratt, University of Texas-Austin; Tomer Pintel, University of Texas-Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas-Austin; Michael Whitaker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Nuclear and Radiological

Teach Students about NFC FacilitiesWhen using the NAT software package, the user is first required to enter pertinent dataon the NFC facilities of interest. The following facility types are included in thesoftware: 1. Mine/Mill 2. Conversion 3. Enrichment 4. Fuel Fabrication 5. Reactor 6. Reprocessing 7. Permanent StorageAll facilities require descriptive information such as the facility name, country, location,latitude, longitude, etc. The quantitative data required for each facility type differs Page 11.1399.3somewhat due to the nature of each, but many fields are synonymous for all facilities.Table 1 lists all the required

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Radiation and Radiological Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas-Austin; Erich Schneider; Derek Haas, University of Texas; Robert Matavosian, Los Alamos National Lab; Dustin Reinert, University of Texas; George Sayre, University of Texas; Mark Smith, Sterigenics; Christopher Weaver, University of Texas; Scott Whitney, University of Texas; Ian Whittaker, University of Texas

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Nuclear and Radiological

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Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erich Schneider, University of Texas at Austin

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Nuclear and Radiological

species – was obtained. Thestudents came away with self-authored, easily generalized SN algorithms and, more importantly,deeper confidence and understanding when using commercial SN codes in their own research.1. IntroductionWith the emergence of high-performance computing as an everyday, widely-used tool, MonteCarlo approaches to solving the neutron transport equation have become ascendant in both theclassroom and the research arena. Monte Carlo codes offer the advantage of direct, exactsolution of the transport equation with accuracy limited only by the fidelity of nuclear data andthe availability of computing power. Hence other methods for solving the transport equation –discrete ordinates (SN), collision probability and integral approaches

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Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitty Plummer, University of North Texas; Lee Peddicord, Texas A&M; Jerome Davis, University of North Texas; Charles Bittle, University of North Texas; John Poston, Texas A&M University

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of four years is needed to graduate an Engineering Technologist or Engineer, it is nottoo early to start the development of the academic programs required to produce required talent.The academic training alone is insufficient. All plant personnel must go through extensivetraining programs. In the United States, these training programs, which are accredited by theNational Academy of Nuclear Training (NANT) of the Institute for Nuclear Power Operations(INPO), can last up to three years. It is very helpful to the utility-employers if the perspectiveemployees can come into their positions with a background in nuclear energy and nuclear powerthat might shorten the onsite training required.Figure 1 shows an illustrative estimate of the manpower

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Curriculum Development and Delivery Modes in Nuclear Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Barsanti, The Citadel

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Engineering was offered as a three credit hourtechnical elective. The prerequisite courses were completion of both the physics and chemistrysequences required of engineering freshman and sophomores. Table 1 and Table 2 provide aquick overview of the course. Table 1 provides a list of the course objectives while Table 2depicts the plan for how the classroom hours would be allotted. ELEC 307 Nuclear Engineering Spring 2004 Course objectives 1. Introduction to nuclear engineering concepts including; ‚ Introduction to atomic and nuclear physics. ‚ Fission and fusion ‚ Nuclear fuels ‚ Operation & construction of

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Curriculum Development and Delivery Modes in Nuclear Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Holloway, University of Michigan

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AC 2007-3037: TEACHING FLUX IN THE AGE OF DESKTOP MONTE CARLOJames Holloway, University of Michigan James Paul Holloway is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan. He teaches classes in engineering, from first year computing through design and gradaute courses in nuclear engineering. His research interests are in mathematics and computation applied to radiation transport and nuclear reactor analysis. He is also the incoming Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education of the College of Engineering at Michigan, effective July 1 2007

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Partnerships in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitty Plummer, University of North Texas; Jerome Davis, University of North Texas; Charles Bittle, University of North Texas

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Nuclear and Radiological

. Table 1 Relative Risk From Various Threats to the Program Scale 1-10, 10 Being Greatest RiskOutsourcing 5 .3Low Turnover 7.3Retiring Champions 7Financial Wizard Attack 6.3 Page 12.1030.4New University Management 8.3Accreditation 4This rating indicates to the authors that the primary focus should remain on recruiting

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Curriculum Development and Delivery Modes in Nuclear Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erich Schneider

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‘buzzwords’ circulate in the literature and the media. The buzzwords serve a purpose, but by themselves they obfuscate the science. Go to www.gnep.energy.gov and you will find this menu of features that the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) promises to fulfill: Proliferation-Resistant Recycling Minimize Nuclear Waste Advanced Burner Reactors Reliable Fuel Services Small-Scale Reactors Nuclear SafeguardsThe objectives of the class are: to convey the science behind buzzwords like these, to give students the tools needed to understand, analyze and compare fuel cycles.To explain the structure of the course to the students, Figure 1 was used. The figureshows a

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Partnerships in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Marshall, North Carolina State University; Mohamed Bourham, North Carolina State University

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Nuclear and Radiological

on a nuclear engineering career. Strategies for implementation will be the focus ofthis paper.KeywordsNuclear engineering; K12 outreach; diversity programs; women in engineering; minorities inengineering; undergraduate programIntroduction Past issues of American Society of Engineering Education’s Prism and the AmericanNuclear Society’s Nuclear News highlight a concern about diversity within engineering andnuclear engineering.1 Referring to the Report of the Congressional Commission on theAdvancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Development,there is supporting evidence of a troubling trend: low diversity numbers in engineering andnuclear engineering.2 The number of Hispanic, Black, and Asian nuclear

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Curriculum Development & Assessment in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Long, Nuclear Stewardship, LLC; Altaf Memon, Excelsior College; Li-Fang Shih, Excelsior College; Byron Thinger, Diablo Canyon Power Plant

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Nuclear and Radiological

, and other life experiencescan result in an individual having full competence in pursuits normally associated with study in acollege setting. [1] Neither the United States nor the world can afford to overlook thesquandering of talent and potential among its citizens. This is especially true in technical fields,where society has a well documented need for more engineering science and technology Page 11.966.3graduates. [2] Recognizing that college-level knowledge can be obtained in many ways,Excelsior provides access to many different avenues for earning college credit, focusing on whatstudents know, rather on where and how they learned it

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Topics in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar, Idaho State University; Michael Lineberry, Idaho State University; Karen Leibert, Idaho State University; Anne Mollberg, Idaho National Laboratory

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Nuclear and Radiological

. Page 11.1249.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The 2005 World Nuclear University Summer Institute: A New Focus on International Issues in Nuclear Energy EducationThe why . . .The World Nuclear University (WNU) was created in 2003 in a ceremony celebrating the50th anniversary of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s famous “Atoms for Peace”speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Four organizations created the foundingsupport for WNU (See Figure 1.): the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), theNuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the OECD, the World Association of NuclearOperators (WANO), and the World Nuclear Association (WNA). The WNU mission is tostrengthen the international community of people and

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Curriculum Development & Assessment in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar, Idaho State University; Michael Lineberry, Idaho State University; Leonard Bond, Idaho National Laboratory

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Nuclear and Radiological

stipend of $350 per month during the academic year isawarded to junior and senior students. Table 1. Nominal schedule for the 2+2 Nuclear Engineering Scholars. Fall Spring Jr. year Jr. year Full-time course load, including: Full-time course load, including: Introduction to Nuclear Engineering Fluid Mechanics Numerical Methods Neutron Reactions and Transport Thermodynamics Eng Economics & Management Advanced Engineering Math Nuclear Instrumentation Lab

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Curriculum Development & Assessment in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Byron Thinger, Diablo Canyon Power Plant; Altaf Memon, Excelsior College; Li-Fang Shih, Excelsior College

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Nuclear and Radiological

has longbeen acknowledged that in many areas, ‘on the job’ training, self learning, and other lifeexperiences can result in an individual having full competence in pursuits normallyassociated with student in a college setting.[1] Few educational institutions, however,have the capabilities or motivation to fully assess these individual’s knowledge andreward them with the appropriate credit.Neither the United States nor the world can afford to overlook the loss of talent becauseindividuals do not possess a four year degree. This is especially true in technical fields,where society has a well documented need for more engineering science and technologygraduates. [2] In order to mobilize this resource, one must identify the roadblocks

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Radiation and Radiological Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Jonassen, University of Missouri; Matthew Schmidt, University of Missouri; Matthew Easter, University of Missouri; Rose Marra, University of Missouri; William Miller, University of Missouri

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Nuclear and Radiological

that, of all learning objectives, 60% focused on memorization, 18% oncomprehension of ideas, 18% on application, 3% on analysis, and less then 1% on evaluation ofknowledge. Our analysis of the kind of knowledge required by these objectives showed that 52%focused on factual knowledge, 21% on conceptual knowledge, 27% on procedural knowledge, and lessthan 1% on meta-cognitive knowledge. Our needs analysis also showed that the nuclear industry isprobably the most highly regulated in the world, with extensive rules and guidelines provided by theDepartment of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and numerous other task-specific agencies.Given the highly regulated nature of the industry, accountability is essential to these organizations, aswell

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Information Technology in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Altaf Memon, Excelsior College; Li-Fang Shih, Excelsior College; Byron Thinger, Diablo Canyon Power Plant

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Nuclear and Radiological

Technology program could only earn their creditsby demonstrating their college-level knowledge and competencies in the academic fields throughthe submission of transcripts from regionally accredited colleges/universities or throughwritten/performance examinations.Anticipating the growing demand for online instruction in higher education and to provide thestudents with an additional avenue for degree completion, B&T launched the online courses inSeptember 2004 starting with the capstone course NUC 495.In Spring 06, a total of 4 upper divison online Nuclear Engineering Technology core coursesincluding the capstone course were launched; they are: 1. NUC 320 Materials ( 3 credit hours) 2. NUC 330 Reactor Core Fundamentals ( 3 credit hours

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Topics in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Marshall, North Carolina State University; Mohamed Bourham, North Carolina State University

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Nuclear and Radiological

Dr. Mohamed Bourham and Mrs. Lisa Marshall Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityAbstractEnrollment increases in nuclear engineering programs prompts the need to revisit retentionmechanisms to ensure students successfully graduate and learning institutions satisfy the demandfor nuclear engineering graduates. How do we improve declaration of major prior to thecompletion of first year and how do we improve matriculation into the discipline? There needs tobe a warm hand over from the recruitment-admission process to departmental retentioninitiatives.1 This paper will highlight best practices from NC State’s Nuclear EngineeringDepartment. It is a combination of

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Topics in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leonard Bond, Idaho National Laboratory; Robert Wharton, Idaho State University; Andrew Kadak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kevin Kostelnik, Idaho National Laboratory

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Nuclear and Radiological

workforce education and training. Part of the U.S. energy strategyincludes the formation of the new Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The INL, which has a keynuclear energy mission, was officially established February 1, 2005. The Battelle EnergyAlliance (BEA), in responding to the request for proposals3 for the new INL, developed apartnership with the State of Idaho, an Idaho University Consortium (IUC), a NationalUniversity Consortium (NUC) and various industrial organizations to establish a joint institute,the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES). Page 11.1314.2CAES is defined by the U.S. Department of Energy3 as being: "… an

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Information Technology in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prashant Jain, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; James Stubbins, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Rizwan Uddin, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Nuclear and Radiological

. Page 11.290.32. MethodologyFigure 1 shows a schematic diagram of the system. It has four components: local lab; LabVIEW;network camera; and remote client. “Local lab” includes experimental setup at the local facilityand personnel carrying out the experiment. “LabVIEW” is National Instrument (NI) softwarepackage that is capable of signal acquisition, analysis, and data presentation. It also has built-incapability for web-broadcasting. “Network camera” is a digital network camera installed in thelab that can capture the video and audio of the experiment and transmit them live over theinternet. “Remote client” may be any computer connected to the internet. io n LabVIEW Int

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Partnerships in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Tulenko, University of Florida

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organizer and director.The program has three subtasks with task leaders from both Universities and NationalLaboratories. The subtasks are: (1) Unit mechanisms in the thermo-mechanical responsein nuclear materials, which is led by Los Alamos National Laboratory; (2) Coupledirradiation and thermo-mechanical behavior of nuclear materials with atomic-levelresolution, which is led by the University of Florida and Pacific Northwest National Page 12.136.2Laboratory and (3) Atomistically-informed mesoscale modeling of coupled irradiationand thermo-mechanical behavior of nuclear materials, which is lead by Idaho NationalLaboratory.. The CMSN team involves six DOE

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Partnerships in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Rezak

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Nuclear and Radiological

).Operating Success Traditionally, the evaluation of electric power generation facility performance has focused onthe ability of plants to produce at design capacity for high percentages of the time. Successfuloperation of nuclear facilities is determined by examining capacity or load factors. Load factoris the percentage of design generating capacity that a power plant actually produces over thecourse of a year. Table 1 indicates cumulative load factors for nuclear power producing nations through 2005(International Atomic Energy Agency Power Reactor Information System database). Thenumbers in parenthesis indicate the number of nuclear power plants operating in the country.This information is corroborated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ye Li, Univ of Illinois; Rizwan Uddin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Xuefeng Zhu; Imran Haddish

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Nuclear and Radiological

experience [1-3]. Though virtuallab experience may never completely replace an actual physical lab experience in educationalinstitutions, in some ways virtual labs may provide a better experience than limited cookbook styleexecutions in a physical lab or reactor operator training course.We have earlier reported our initial efforts toward the development of a generic virtual and interactivelaboratory environment [3]. This virtual lab presents a fully immersive learning experience. We herereport the specifics of a radiation lab in which half-life and shielding experiments can be conducted, andsimulation-based real-physics data can be gathered.Virtual LabThe primary resource for the development of a virtual lab is a game engine. Built-in features in

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Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark A. Prelas, University of Missouri, Columbia; Matthew L. Watermann, NSEI - University of Missouri; Denis Alexander Wisniewski; Janese Annetta Neher, Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute-University of Missouri Columbia; Charles Lyndell Weaver III, University of Missouri - Columbia

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2014.Nuclear-Pumped Laser (NPL) technology was a part of the strategic defense initiative (SDI)program in the 1980’s. NPLs have since faded from the United States research agenda but theyremain an active part of the research agenda in other countries, notably in Russia and othernations in the former Soviet Union as well as China [1] which has a cooperative agreement withRussia [2]. The reason for this broad interest in the technology is that a NPL can scale to highpower/energy levels (potentially up to 100 MW Continuous Wave (CW) beam power). Militaryapplications have historically dominated the NPL research agenda. However, there aresignificant humanitarian applications for high power/energy lasers. For example a high powerCW NPL would have

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Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bryndol A. Sones, U.S. Military Academy

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Nuclear and Radiological

with a solution for a peer. This paper discusses an example for executing these MCNP demonstrations and provides preliminary assessment plan in improving student gains in understanding these topics. Key words: modeling & simulation, education research, nuclearIntroduction In 1996, The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) began holding newfaculty workshops to help new faculty “understand how to become more effective educators andsupport their quest to gain tenure.”1 The next year, Harvard University physicist Eric Mazur Page 24.1040.2published his manual on peer instruction and began a campaign to question

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Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yoonjo Jo Jo Lee, University of Missouri; Matthew Paul Simones, Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute, University of Missouri; John C. Kennedy, University of Missouri; Hakan Us; Philip F. Makarewicz, University of Missouri; Janese Annetta Neher, Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute-University of Missouri Columbia; Mark A. Prelas, University of Missouri, Columbia

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understood. Chiefamong these technological hurdles is the use of continuous processing of spent fuel to removefission products while the reactor is online [1]. The voluminous literature on molten salt reactors mostly dates to the 1960s era. Notably,in the U.S. the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was an 8MW(th) reactor that was designed primarily to study the technical feasibility and safety of usinga molten salt based fuel and coolant. In addition to demonstrating the practicality of a moltensalt reactor, the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment also addressed issues of on-line refueling, fuelmakeup, and salt chemistry. Towards the end of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, andcontinuing after its shutdown, research