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NC State celebrates 70 years of nuclear engineering education
An early picture of the research reactor building on the North Carolina State University campus. The Department of Nuclear Engineering is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its nuclear engineering curriculum in 2020–2021. Photo: North Carolina State University
The Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University has spent the 2020–2021 academic year celebrating the 70th anniversary of its becoming the first U.S. university to establish a nuclear engineering curriculum. It started in 1950, when Clifford Beck, then of Oak Ridge, Tenn., obtained support from NC State’s dean of engineering, Harold Lampe, to build the nation’s first university nuclear reactor and, in conjunction, establish an educational curriculum dedicated to nuclear engineering.
The department, host to the 2021 ANS Virtual Student Conference, scheduled for April 8–10, now features 23 tenure/tenure-track faculty and three research faculty members. “What a journey for the first nuclear engineering curriculum in the nation,” said Kostadin Ivanov, professor and department head.
Zaixin Li, T. Tanaka, T. Muroga, S. Sato, T. Nishitani
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 4 | November 2007 | Pages 817-820
Technical Paper | Nuclear Analysis and Experiments | dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1592
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A series of irradiation experiments were performed using Fusion Neutronics Source (FNS) at JAEA for the investigation of activation of materials relevant to Lithium/vanadium-alloy and Flibe/vanadium-alloy blankets. The specimens of V-4Cr-4Ti, Er and Teflon in 10 mm×10 mm×0.03-0.1 mm were prepared for studying the activation of V-alloy structure, MHD coating of Er2O3, and F in molten salt Flibe, respectively. Be, Li and Li/Be mock-ups were assembled with Be and solid Li blocks in addition to the assembly for direct D-T neutron irradiation to examine the dependence of the activation on neutron spectrum. The neutron spectra in all irradiation locations were calculated using MCNP code and JENDL-3.3 file. The activities of the specimens induced in various neutron fields were measured with a high purity Ge detector (HP-Ge). Experimental analyses were carried out using FISPACT-2001 codes with both EAF-2001 file and FENDL/A-2.0 & FENDL/D-2.0 libraries. The typical calculation/experiment (C/E) values lay in the range of 0.8-1.2. Coarse group treat for (n,) reactions, especially in resonance range, could result in overestimation. Use of continuous cross section improves consistency of the calculation with the experiment. However, accurate estimate of spectra is necessary when the flux changes largely with energy around the threshold or the resonance peak.
