Nuclear Engineering Core Faculty Name Title Dept Contact Info Research Areas Travis W. Knight Acting Program Director Asst. Prof. Nuclear Eng 300 Main St., Rm. A120 e-mail Ph: 803.777.1465 Fax: 803.777.0106 Advanced nuclear fuels and materials, reactor design, advanced fuel cycles, space nuclear power and propulsion, and application of nuclear power in future energy economies for sustainability including the production of hydrogen from nuclear energy Jamil Khan Chair Prof. Mech Eng 300 Main St., Rm. A224 e-mail Ph: 803.777.1578 Fax: 803.777.0106 Nuclear reactor, thermal hydraulics, enhanced heat transfer, heat transfer and fluid flow with phase change, computational and experimental fluid dynamics related to contaminants transport in rooms, heat transfer in porous media, micro-channel heat transfer Abdel Bayoumi Prof. Mech Eng 300 Main St, Rm. A223 e-mail Ph: 803.777.1845 Fax: 803.777.0106 Product Design and Development; Design for Manufacture and Assembly; Application of nuclear power in future energy including the use of hydrogen as fuel in internal combustion engines Jeff Morehouse Assoc. Prof. Mech Eng 300 Main St., Rm. A125 e-mail Ph: 803.777.3017 Fax: 803.777.0106 Simulations of thermodynamic heat engine applications involving space-based fuel cell power systems, ground-coupled heat pumps, solar thermal systems; and other advanced energy power systems Nuclear Engineering Adjunct Professors Name University/ Company Contact Info Research Areas Thad Adams Savannah River National Laboratory Savannah River Site Aiken, SC 29808 e-mail Nuclear fuels, advanced materials for nuclear systems, spent nuclear fuel storage, disposal technologies for special nuclear materials, high temperature materials for thermochemical hydrogen production Mel Buckner e-mail Ph: 803.442.6373 Plutonium disposition, advanced fuel cycle initiatives, and nuclear hydrogen production Marc Garland Oak Ridge National Laboratory P. O. Box 2008 MS6243 Oak Ridge, TN 37831 e-mail Ph: 865.574.3251 Fax: 865.574.6872 Production of radioisotopes in nuclear reactors and particle accelerators, medical applications of radioisotopes Maximilian Gorensek Savannah River National Laboratory Savannah River Site Aiken, SC 29808 e-mail Nuclear hydrogen production, Nuclear hydrogen production, Thermochemical and hybrid hydrogen production process development, steady-state and dynamic flow sheet simulation and optimization, and high level waste treatment Valmore Loiselle Mech Eng 300 Main S. e-mail Fax: 803.777.0106 Nuclear engineering; environmental remediation, emphasis on radioactive waste management and disposal; transportation and disposal of EPA pond closures, and radioactive metal recycle manufacturing Elwyn Roberts Mech Eng 300 Main St., Rm. A216 e-mail Ph: 803.777.2252 Fax: 803.777.0106 Materials performance in nuclear reactors, product design, manufacturing and concurrent engineering Bill Summers Savannah River National Laboratory Savannah River Site Aiken, SC 29808 e-mail Energy policy, supply and demand; advanced energy systems analysis and design; fuel cells and the hydrogen economy; nuclear hydrogen production process design and economic analysis Balendra Sutharshan Westinghouse e-mail Nuclear fuel performance, reactor engineering, Thermal hydraulics, two-phase flows, application of Six Sigma and Lean James S. Tulenko Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, University of Florida 202 Nuclear Sci. Bldg. P. O. Box 118300 Gainesville, FL 32611 e-mail Ph: 352.392.1401 Fax: 352.392.3380 Nuclear fuel cycle, radioactive wastes, reactor analysis, engineering application of radioisotopes, robotics, intelligent databases, system analysis