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Organized to promote the advancement of knowledge in the use of nuclear science and technologies in the aerospace application. Specialized nuclear-based technologies and applications are needed to advance the state-of-the-art in aerospace design, engineering and operations to explore planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond, plus enhance the safety of air travel, especially high speed air travel. Areas of interest will include but are not limited to the creation of nuclear-based power and propulsion systems, multifunctional materials to protect humans and electronic components from atmospheric, space, and nuclear power system radiation, human factor strategies for the safety and reliable operation of nuclear power and propulsion plants by non-specialized personnel and more.
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Glass strategy: Hanford’s enhanced waste glass program
The mission of the Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection (ORP) is to complete the safe cleanup of waste resulting from decades of nuclear weapons development. One of the most technologically challenging responsibilities is the safe disposition of approximately 56 million gallons of radioactive waste historically stored in 177 tanks at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
ORP has a clear incentive to reduce the overall mission duration and cost. One pathway is to develop and deploy innovative technical solutions that can advance baseline flow sheets toward higher efficiency operations while reducing identified risks without compromising safety. Vitrification is the baseline process that will convert both high-level and low-level radioactive waste at Hanford into a stable glass waste form for long-term storage and disposal.
Although vitrification is a mature technology, there are key areas where technology can further reduce operational risks, advance baseline processes to maximize waste throughput, and provide the underpinning to enhance operational flexibility; all steps in reducing mission duration and cost.
The ANS Thermal Hydraulics Division established the Lawrence E. Hochreiter Graduate Scholarship in November 2018 for graduate students enrolled in a U.S. institution pursuing a Master's or a Ph.D. with the main focus on thermal-hydraulics as applied to nuclear energy.
One scholarship will be awarded to a graduate nuclear science/engineering major, with the desired emphasis on areas supporting thermal-hydraulics as applied to nuclear energy. These areas include, but are not limited to computational thermal-hydraulics, experimental thermal-hydraulics, two-phase flow and heat transfer, thermal-hydraulics of severe accidents, thermal-hydraulics of operating light water reactors, and thermal-hydraulics of advanced reactors.
Lawrence E. Hochreiter
Dr. Lawrence E. Hochreiter was employed at Westinghouse during the formative years of nuclear safety and later as a professor and mentor at Penn State University. At Westinghouse, he led the evaluation of safety issues for both Pressurized and Boiling Water Reactors and consulted with the Westinghouse Savannah River Company and the Westinghouse Naval Division. His collaboration partners included the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Electric Power Research Institute, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory and many companies in the industry. He served in a direct role in nuclear industry’s more significant events, including the nuclear industry’s response to the 1972-1973 Emergency Core Cooling System Hearing, the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and the 1986 Chernobyl accident. In 1986, as an adjunct professor, Hochreiter began teaching graduate courses in the Penn State/Westinghouse mechanical engineering program. He joined Penn State's nuclear engineering department in 1997 as a professor of nuclear and mechanical engineering, teaching undergraduate and graduate students.
His research at the university focused on thermal-hydraulic modeling of nuclear power plants, reactor safety analysis, and experimental studies of two-phase flow and heat transfer. He created a state-of-the-art reflood heat transfer facility where Penn State graduate students carry out a variety of experiments in heat transfer, convective steam cooling, and steam cooling with droplet injection. Hochreiter received posthumously the Technical achievement award, the highest honor of THD, in 2008. Always a passionate teacher and mentor, he inspired a generation of THD leaders. As THD chair he spearheaded efforts that ultimately led to the establishment of this scholarship.
Thermal Hydraulics Division (THD)
A selection committee will be established by the Thermal Hydraulics Division
Graduate (Masters or Ph.D.)
1 awarded annually @ $3,500/each
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