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There is a need for high-efficiency, radiation hard, high-temperature neutron detectors at nuclear reactor and nuclear physics facilities. Nuclear physic experiments require neutron detectors that are robust, compact, low-power, and have high-sensitivity, while stably operating in harsh environments, e.g., high-temperature and high radiation-dose. Wide-bandgap semiconductors will tolerate such env ...

Supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) based power cycles is a promising technological venue that can potentially increase the power cycle efficiency in power plant operations. In addition to higher efficiency, the direct-fired sCO2 cycle, in particular, offers other benefits including the facilitation of CO2 capture and sequestration, and potentially simpler designs. In order to develop the next-gen ...

Interference of unburned and activated carbon in fly ash with air-entraining admixtures (AEA’s) in fresh concrete mixtures is a major concern in the concrete industry. Therefore, a rapid and accurate measurement of adsorption capacity of fly ash is of great interest to this industry. In this project, a new method is suggested, which can qualitatively and quantitatively measure different surfact ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to help system administrators, security managers, Security and Risk analysts and CISO’ professional and institutions to improve the security of High Performance Computing systems by providing enhancement to the Flower Cyber tool to ensure continuous monitoring, situation awareness, endpoi ...

A need exists for advanced instrumentation neutron-flux mapping with in the reactor-core for the Transient REActor Test (TREAT) facility and Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) experiments supporting advanced nuclear material testing. In addition, many U.S. research reactors and industrial power nuclear-reactors would benefit from in-core neutron-flux monitoring. Here it is proposed to research advanced M ...

BLENDS OF BIOBASED FIBER SOURCES ARE MANUFACTURED AND CHARACTERIZED BY ASPECT RATIO FOR OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE IN A BIOBASED GRAFT POLYMER AS MEASURED BY MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND SURFACE MORPHOLOGY IN COMPRESSION MOLDED TEST SPECIMENS. FROM 18 FORMULATIONS OF BIOBASED GRAFT POLYMER, THREE ARE SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF BEST OVERALL PERFORMANCE AND USED IN A BIOBASED GRAFT POLYMER COMPOSITE STUDY IN CO ...