INL National University Consortium – Annual Report 10 NUC University Project Title INL PI University Collaborator(s) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (16-058) Predicting Radiation-Induced Microstructural Change via Implementation and Validation of Multiscale Cluster Dynamics in Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment Cody Permann (NS&T) Miaomiao Jin (Ph.D. student) Michael Short (co-investigator) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (17A1-105FP) Safety Margin Evaluation for Experiment Irradiation in Advanced Test Reactor Joseph Nielsen (NS&T) Kaichao Sun (co-investigator) Lin-Wen Hu (co-investigator) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (18A12-206FP) Development of an Advanced Method for TREAT Modeling and Simulation with Thermal Graphite Model Validation Derek Gaston (NS&T) Nicholas Anthony (undergraduate student) Travis Labossiere-Hickman (undergraduate student) Ben Forget (co-investigator) North Carolina State University (17A1-124FP) Systematic Error Control in Cross- Section Library Generation for Novel Reactors: Coarse Energy Groups Considerations Abderrafi Ougouag (NS&T) Maria Avramova (co-investigator) North Carolina State University (18A12-080FP) Suitability Assessment of Charm++ Automatic Load Balancing for Mesh-Based Simulations of Flow and Transport in Mesoscale Porous Media Yidong Xia (NS&T) Hong Luo Ohio State University (17A1-201FP) Human Reliability Analysis for Advanced Reactor Technologies and Systems Ron Boring (NS&T) Carol Smidts (co-investigator) Ohio State University (17P11-001FP) Enabling Material Discovery for Waste Heat Recovery Systems using a Multimode Optical Sensor Dave Hurley (NS&T) Marat Khafizov (co-investigator) Oregon State University (17A1-024FP) Design to Enable Narrow Pulse Width in Transient Tests Nicolas Woolstenhulme (NS&T) Todd Palmer (co-investigator) Oregon State University (17A1-227FP) MultiPhysics, MultiScale Coupled Simulation of Power Impulse Experiments Warren Jones (NS&T) Griffen Latimer (master’s student) Wade Marcum (co-investigator) University of New Mexico (16-040) Integration of Prognostic Techniques and Probabilistic Safety Assessment for Online Risk Monitoring Vivek Agarwal (NS&T) Brittany Umbrage (undergraduate student) University of New Mexico (18A12-020FP) Real Time Transient Heating Measurements for Advanced Experiment Design and Model Validation Nicolas Woolstenhulme (NS&T) Nima Fathi (co-investigator) Pat McDaniel (co-investigator) Youho Lee (co-investigator) University of New Mexico (18A12-212FP) Probabilistic Analysis of the Electric Grid Resilience Mayank Panwar (EES&T) Svetlana Poroseva Laboratory-directed Research and Development Projects