Researchers Win Funding for Nuclear Project

A proposal by researchers at the University of Illinois was recently selected as one of 71 university research projects to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). All told, the 71 projects selected will receive approximately $44 million over three years to advance new nuclear technologies in support of the nation's energy goals.

The NEUP award will provide the Illinois researchers (MechSE professors Petros Sofronis and Huseyin Sehitoglu, together with James Stubbins, a professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, and Andrew Gewirth, a professor in the Department of Chemistry) with three years of support to explore fundamental material processes in high temperature aggressive chemomechanical environments.