NSSPI faculty member Dr. Sunil S. Chirayath has been selected by the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at South Africa’s North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) to be the Co-Supervisor for two of their Nuclear Engineering graduate students. Dr. Chirayath will advising Ph.D. student Marina du Toit and M.Sc. student Sinenhlanhla Sihlangu in their research along with North-West faculty members Dr. Anthonie Cilliers and Dr. Vishnu Naicker, respectively. Ms. Toit will be conducting research on the “Development of Gen III+ PWR Thorium based Fuels” and Ms. Sihlangu on the “Neutronic Study of a Block Type HTR using MCNP5 and SCALE6.”