Nuclear Science and Engineering Center
Colorado School of Mines
Overview
NuSEC also manages the research and educational relationship with the U.S. Geological Survey TRIGA Reactor (GSTR) on the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, CO and maintains the Mines research space and infrastructure adjacent to the GSTR. NuSEC includes faculty from Chemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, and Physics. Through its research, the center supports undergraduate and graduate students in the programs of the mentioned departments as well as in the interdisciplinary graduate programs in nuclear engineering and material science.
For for information about NuSEC please contact:
Thomas Albrecht-Schoenzart
Director, Nuclear Science and Engineering Center
University Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry
303-384-2101
For questions related to interdisciplinary graduate degrees in nuclear engineering please contact:
Mark Jensen
Jerry and Tina Grandey University Chair in Nuclear Science and Engineering
Program Director, Nuclear Science and Engineering
Professor, Department of Chemistry
303-273-3785
News
- Mines team creating hydrogen membranes for use in nuclear fusion power plants
By Jasmine Leonas, Special to Mines Research Magazine Fusion, the process that powers the sun and the stars, has long been a part of the conversation about low-carbon sources of electricity. Unlike nu … - Mines researchers isolate first molecule of californium 2+
“It proved to be a seven-year journey to isolate the first molecule containing californium(2+), but we were rewarded with chemical and physical properties that had not been anticipated,” Thomas Albrec … - Nuclear ‘microreactor’ project receives funding from Department of Energy
Jeff King, professor of nuclear engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been awarded $800,000 by the U.S. Department of Energy for research that will aid in the development of nuclear microreacto …