Browsing Nuclear Engineering - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Fabrication and characterization of multilayers for focusing hard x-ray optics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This study investigated the growth of multilayers with depth-graded thicknesses and their performance as x- ray mirrors for the next generation of focusing telescopes. Different material combinations were studied for the ... -
Fast neutron resonance radiography for element imaging : theory and applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Fast Neutron Resonance Radiography (NRR) has been devised as an elemental imaging method, with immediate applications to detecting explosives and drugs in passenger suitcases. In the NRR method, the 2-D elemental mapping ... -
Fast-ion spectrometry of ICF implosions and laser-foil experiments at the omega and MTW laser facilities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Fast ions generated from laser-plasma interactions (LPI) have been used to study inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions and laser-foil interactions. LPI, which vary in nature depending on the wavelength and intensity ... -
Fatigue, fracture, and life prediction criteria for composite materials in magnets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
Feasibility of breeding in hard spectrum boiling water reactors with oxide and nitride fuels
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This study assesses the neutronic, thermal-hydraulic, and fuel performance aspects of using nitride fuel in place of oxides in Pu-based high conversion light water reactor designs. Using the higher density nitride fuel ... -
Fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature test reactor thermal-hydraulic licensing and uncertainty propagation analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)An important Fluoride-salt-cooled High-temperature Reactor (FHR) development step is to design, build, and operate a test reactor. Through a literature review, liquid-salt coolant thermophysical properties have been ... -
A framework for analyzing nuclear power multiunit accident scenarios and providing accident mitigation and site improvement suggestions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)During the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini accidents, the interactions of multiple units at the same site made accident mitigation more difficult compared to single unit sites. The accidents revealed important multiunit risk ... -
A framework for comparing nuclear warhead authentication protocols
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Even with the end of the Cold War, nuclear arms control continues to be a cornerstone of strategic stability and international non-proliferation efforts. New treaties are necessary to build upon, or at least maintain, the ... -
Fuel performance modeling of high burnup mixed oxide fuel for hard spectrum LWRs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)According to the future of the nuclear fuel cycle study at MIT, a reactor with a conversion ratio around one can achieve desired objectives in the long-term sustainability of uranium and reduction of transuranic wastes. ... -
Full core 3D neutron transport simulation using the method of characteristics with linear sources
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)The development of high fidelity multi-group neutron transport-based simulation tools for full core Light Water Reactor (LWR) analysis has been a long-standing goal of the reactor physics community. While direct transport ... -
Full value estimation of electric utility options
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Full-wave modeling of lower hybrid waves on Alcator C-Mod
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis focuses on several aspects of the Lower Hybrid (LH) wave physics, the common theme being the development of full-wave simulation codes based on Finite Element Methods (FEM) used in support of experiments carried ... -
Further development of the miniaturized disk bend test approach for post-irradiation mechanical property testing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984) -
Gas heat transfer in a heated vertical channel under deteriorated turbulent heat transfer regime
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Passive cooling via natural circulation of gas after a loss of coolant (LOCA) accident is one of the major goals of the Gas-cooled Fast Reactor (GFR). Due to its high surface heat flux and low coolant velocities under ... -
General analysis of breed-and-burn reactors and limited-separations fuel cycles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)A new theoretical framework is introduced, the "neutron excess" concept, which is useful for analyzing breed-and-burn (B&B) reactors and their fuel cycles. Based on this concept, a set of methods has been developed which ... -
The general evaluation of the nodal synthesis method in nuclear reactor transient analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
Generation of acoustic-gravity waves in ionospheric HF heating experiments : simulating large-scale natural heat sources
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In this thesis, we investigate the potential role played by large-scale anomalous heat sources (e.g. prolonged heat wave events) in generating acoustic-gravity waves (AGWs) that might trigger widespread plasma turbulence ... -
Global modeling of non-axisymmetric disruptions and halos currents in tokamaks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
The gridded electromagnet probe
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)We attempted to measure the anisotropy in the electron distribution function in magnetized plasma by exploiting the adiabatic invariance of the electron's magnetic moment with a probe comprising a grid, a collector, and ... -
Heat transfer and fluid flow aspects of fuel-coolant interactions.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
