环境工程哲学博士-核环境工程

环境和安全方面的考虑对核能的未来至关重要，并应对生产国防用核材料的遗产所带来的巨大挑战。我们的重点是改善技术基础并了解核燃料循环，先进反应堆，废物管理和环境修复所必需的整个过程的生命周期。
Environmental and safety considerations are central to the future of nuclear energy and addressing the enormous challenges posed by the legacy of producing defense nuclear materials. Our focus is on improving the technical basis and understanding of the full life-cycle of processes necessary for nuclear fuel cycles, advanced reactors, waste management and environmental remediation.<br><br>Graduate students work alongside faculty researchers who are pursuing topics such as:<br><br> Evaluate the life-cycle environmental impacts and implementation scenarios for potential new nuclear fuel cycles.<br> Develop and demonstrate safety and environmental risk assessment paradigms for early stage evaluation of proposed reactor and process designs.<br> Create laboratory methods for predicting the long-term environmental performance of nuclear waste storage and disposal systems.<br> Optimize the treatment of wasted from production of defense nuclear materials.<br> Understand the long-term evolution of interfaces between materials used in nuclear waste repository design and geologic strata.