INL 50 STATES IMPACT 2018 | 53 27% 30% 43% BACHELOR’S MASTER’S DOCTORATE • • Dickinson College • • Drexel University (3) • • Jensen Hughes (2) • • Pennsylvania State University (13) • • Temple University • • University of Pittsburgh (5) • • Westinghouse (2) • • BechtelMarinePropulsionCorporation • • Pennsylvania State University (3) • • Westinghouse (9) 63 HighPerformanceComputingUsers Publications ResearchersfromINLandPennsylvaniaStateUniversitycollaboratedonaNuclearEnergyUniversityProgram(NEUP)ResearchandDevelopmentproject studyingtriuraniumdisilicide’sviabilityasanaccidenttolerantfuel.Specifically,thegroupusedanintegratedexperimentalandsimulatedapproachto examinethegraingrowth,ortheexpansionofthecrystalsthatmakeupamaterial(themoreexpansion,theweakerthematerial),grainsubdivision,or whendamagedcrystalsarereplacedbydefect-freecrystals,andgrainamorphization,orthesolidstateacrystallinesolidbecomesnoncrystallinesolid. Thisproject,whichbeganin2016,willcompleteitsworkin2019. Collegiate DEGREES