INL National University Consortium – Annual Report 11 NUC Research Teams Start Work on Five New CINR Projects Five research teams with members from INL and NUC universities began work on over $6 million in new funding from the Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research (CINR) program. Of the five research teams, an NUC university is leading three, including the research and development project, “Combined modeling and experiments to predict corrosion and embrittlement in dual-phase stainless steels within the MARMOT framework,” led by Julie Tucker at Oregon State University. million in external funding External Funding Organization Title Lead Institution Additional NUC Collaborators Start Year Total Funding Amount National Science Foundation An open source multiphysics platform to advance fundamental understanding of plasma physics and enable impactful application of plasma systems North Carolina State University FY 2017 $200,000 Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies Combined modeling and experiments to predict corrosion and embrittlement in dual-phase stainless steels within the MARMOT framework Oregon State University FY 2017 $800,000 Nuclear Energy University Program An Experimental and Analytical Investigation into Critical Heat Flux (CHF) Implications for Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) Concepts University of New Mexico Oregon State University FY 2017 $800,000 Nuclear Energy University Program Benchmark Evaluation of TREAT Reactor M2 and M3 Transient Experiments North Carolina State University FY 2015 $400,000 Nuclear Energy University Program Computational and Experimental Benchmarking for Transient Fuel Testing Oregon State University Massachusetts Institute of Technology FY 2015 $4,000,000 Nuclear Energy University Program Development and Application of a Data-Driven Methodology for Validation of Risk Informed Safety Margin Characterization Models North Carolina State University FY 2016 $4,000,000 Nuclear Energy University Program Development of Accident Tolerant Fuel Options for Near Term Applications Massachusetts Institute of Technology FY 2015 $3,000,000 Nuclear Energy University Program Integrating Static PRA Information with RISMC Simulation Methods The Ohio State University FY 2017 $800,000 Nuclear Energy University Program Microstructure Experiments-Enabled MARMOT Simulations of SiC/SiC-based Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuel System North Carolina State University FY 2016 $800,000 Nuclear Energy University Program Modeling of Spent Fuel Cladding in Storage and Transportation Environments Pennsylvania State University North Carolina State University FY 2018 $3,000,000 Nuclear Energy University Program Monitoring of actinide concentrations in molten LiCl- KCl salt using alpha spectroscopy The Ohio State University FY 2015 $799,969 Nuclear Energy University Program Multigroup Transport Cross Section and Diffusion Coefficient Generation for Deterministic Reactor Models Using Monte Carlo Calculations Massachusetts Institute of Technology FY 2016 $800,000 $50 Externally Funded Awards