Ensuring the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy

Faculty Adviser(s):

• Sunil Chirayath
• Paul Nelson

NSSPI Projects in this Area:

• Group Hexavalent Actinide Separations: A New Approach to Used Nuclear Fuel Recycling
• Improved Safety Margin Characterization of Risk from Loss of Offsite Power
• Motivating Factors of States Seeking to Acquire Civil Nuclear Programs
• Motivations of Proliferation
• Next Generation Nonproliferation Regime
• Parametric Study of molybdenum-99 Production using a Sub-critical Low Enriched Uranium Assembly Design Proposed by Niowave, Inc.
• Safety, Proliferation, and Economics Assessment of Small Modular Reactors
• Technical Analyses of the U.S.-India Nuclear Accord
• The Nonproliferation Regime as a Legal Framework