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Travis W. Knight
Acting Director, NE
Associate Professor, ME
300 Main Street, Room A120
Mechanical Engineering
University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208
Phone 803.777.1465
Fax 803.777.0106
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The University of South Carolina
Nuclear Engineering
300 Main Street, A120
Columbia, SC 29208
Ph 803.777.1465
Fax 803.777.0106
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USC campus
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Travis W. Knight
Acting Director, Nuclear Engineering Graduate Program
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Knight's research and interests are in the areas of advanced nuclear fuels and
materials,
Nuclear
safeguards,
Nuclear fuel
cycle,
Alternative
uses of
nuclear
power
including
hydrogen, space
nuclear power and propulsion.
Dr. Knight is the acting director of the Nuclear Engineering Graduate Program.
Education
- Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering Science, University of Florida, 2000
- M.S., Nuclear Engineering Science, University of Florida, 1995
- B.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Florida, 1994
Selected Publications
-
Allen,
K.S.;
T. W.
Knight,
C. M.
Read
Jr.,
“Design
of an
Equilibrium
Core
1000
MWt
Sodium-Cooled
Heterogeneous
Innovative
Burner
Reactor,”
Nuclear
Engineering
and
Design,
242,
January
2012,
pp.
108–114
-
Hawkins,
B. and
T. W.
Knight,
“Characterization
of
Radiation
Fields
and Dose
Assessment
from
Fuels
Manufacturing
for
Advanced
Fuel
Cycles”,
Nuclear
Engineering
and
Design,
241, 9,
September
2011,
pp.
3736-3747
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Tincher,
D. and
T. W.
Knight,
“Feasibility
Study of
Minor
Actinide
Transmutation
in Light
Water
Reactors
with
Various
Am/Cm
Separation
Efficiencies,”
Nuclear
Engineering
and
Design,
241, 12,
December
2011,
Pages
5295-5307
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Read,
Jr., C.
M., T.
W.
Knight,
K. S.
Allen,
“Using a
Modified
CINDER90
Routine
in MCNPX
2.6.0
for the
Prediction
of
Helium
Production
in Minor
Actinide
Targets,”
Nuclear
Engineering
and
Design,
241, 12,
December
2011,
pp.
5033-5038
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Allen,
K. S.
and T.
W.
Knight,
S. E.
Bays,
Actinide
Destruction
and
Power
Peaking
Analysis
in a
1000
MWt
Advanced
Burner
Reactor
Using
Moderated
Heterogeneous
Target
Assemblies,
Progress
in
Nuclear
Energy,
53, 4,
May
2011,
pp.
375-394
-
Allen,
K. S.
and
T. W.
Knight,
S. E.
Bays,
Benchmark
of
Advanced
Burner
Test
Reactor
Using
MCNPX
and
ERANOS
2.1,
Progress
in
Nuclear
Energy,
53, 6,
August
2011,
pp.
633-644
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Vasudevamurthy,
G.,
T. W.
Knight,
T. M.
Adams,
and E.
Roberts,
“Production
and
Characterization
of
ZrC-UC
Inert
Matrix
Composite
Fuel for
Gas Fast
Reactors”,
Nuclear
Technology,
173,
2,
February
2011
- Coleman, J. R.
and T.
W.
Knight,
“Evaluation
of
multiple,
self-recycling
of
reprocessed
uranium
in LWR",
Nuclear
Engineering
and
Design,
240
(2010),
pp.
1028-1032
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Allen,
K. S.
and T.
W.
Knight,
"Destruction
Rate
Analysis
of
Transuranic
Targets
in SFR
Assemblies
Using
MCNPX
and
SCALE
6.0, Progress
in
Nuclear
Energy,
52, 4,
May
2010,
pp.
387-394
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Khan, J.
A., T.
W.
Knight, S.
B.
Pakala,
W.
Jiang,
and J.
S. Tulenko,
"Enhanced
Thermal
Conductivity
for LWR
Fuel",
Nuclear
Technology,
169, 1,
January
2010,
pp.
61-72
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T. W.
Knight,
“Innovations
in
Distance
Learning
at
University
of South
Carolina
Nuclear
Engineering
Program”
Conference
on
Nuclear
Training
and
Education
(CONTE09),
Jacksonville,
FL,
February
2009
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Foley,
T. Q.
and T.
W.
Knight,
"Fuel
Cycle
Analysis
of
GFR
Using
Advanced
Fuels",
Progress
in
Nuclear
Energy,
51
(2009),
pp.
109-123
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Vasudevamurthy,
G., T.
W.
Knight,
“Production
of High
Density
Uranium
Carbide
compacts
for use
in
Composite
Nuclear
Fuels”,
Nuclear
Technology,
163,
2,
August
2008,
pp.
321-327
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Vasudevamurthy,
G., T.
W.
Knight,
E.
Roberts,
and T.
Adams,
“Laboratory
Production
of
Zirconium
Carbide
Compacts
for Use
in
Composite
Nuclear
Fuels”,
Journal
of
Nuclear
Materials,
347,
1-2,
2008,
pp.
241-247
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Vasudevamurthy,
G. and
T. W.
Knight,
“Effect
of
system
parameters
on size
distribution
of 304
Stainless
Steel
particles
produced
by
Electrical
Discharge
Mechanism”,
Materials
Letters,
61, 27,
November
2007
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Lobach,
S. Y.,
T. W.
Knight,
N.
Jacob,
and E.
Athon,
Advanced
TRISO
Fuels
with
Zirconium
Carbide
for High
Temperature
Reactors”,
Proceedings
of
Global
2007
Advanced
Nuclear
Fuel
Cycles
and
Systems,
September
9-13,
2007
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Lovett,
H. A.,
T. W.
Knight,
M. A.
Garland,
and S.
Mirzadeh,
"Evaluation
of
Tellurium-125
Metastable
Production
Pathways",
Transactions
Of the
American
Nuclear
Society
2007
Winter
Meeting,
Boston,
MA, June
24-28,
2007
- Eargle, J., M. Gorensek, and T. W. Knight, "HyS Thermochemical-Hybrid Cycle Using Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis and Pinch Technology,"
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 2005 Winter Meeting, November 13-17, 2005
- Knight, T. W., M. Garland, and A. Bayoumi, “The Nuclear Sun Shines Bright on South Carolina,”
Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, June 2005
- Anghaie, S., T. W. Knight, R. Norring, and B. M. Smith, "Optimum Utilization of Nuclear Fuel with Gas and Vapor Core Reactors,"
Progress in Nuclear Energy, Vol. 47, No. 1-4, pp. 74-90, 2005
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Knight,
T. W.
and S.
Anghaie,
“Processing
and
Fabrication
of Mixed
Uranium/Refractory
Metal
Carbide
Fuels
with
Liquid-Phase
Sintering”
Journal
of
Nuclear
Materials,
306,
November
2002,
pp.
54-60
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Knight,
T. W.,
G. R.
Dalton,
and J.
S.
Tulenko,
"Virtual
Radiation
Fields--A
Virtual
Environment
Tool for
Radiological
Analysis
and
Simulation,"
Nuclear
Technology,
117, 2,
February
1997
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