Planning Grant: I/UCRC-Center for Advanced Radioactive Materials Processing

先进放射性材料加工I/UCRC计划资助0856024Darryl P. Butt 0856480犹他州立大学；先进放射性材料加工中心（CARMaP）将专注于开发放射性元素及其同位素的独特制造解决方案，以及在功能优化结构中难以加工的材料，包括陶瓷，金属及其复合材料。博伊西州立大学（BSU）和犹他州立大学（USU）正在合作建立拟议的中心，博伊西州立大学是牵头机构。CARMaP的研究将支持商业规模的材料和制造进步，促进核技术的扩大使用，同时减少核扩散和长寿命核废料的风险。该中心将利用两所大学以及爱达荷国家实验室的研究和制造能力。作为潜在课题提出的研究将提高从事核燃料循环、核医学、航空航天以及可再生能源发电和储存各个阶段的行业的能力。BSU和USU计划与潜在的工业合作伙伴举行会议，并为CARMaP制定一个具有足够商业利益的初步研究议程，与会者将愿意投资并维持该中心。提出的成果包括新型的经过验证的材料，以及用于高温、腐蚀性和辐射等极端环境的材料连接和制造技术。当国家开始将对更多能源的需求从化石燃料发电转向核能发电时，这项研究将变得越来越重要。CARMaP将通过高级能源研究中心（CAES）利用现有的合作关系，让研究生参与工业研究，开发创新课程，举办工业/大学短期课程和研讨会，管理智力资本，并通过向代表性不足和就业不足的人群提供服务来发展区域技术劳动力。CARMaP的研究成果将通过包括美国能源部国家大学联盟在内的大学网络广泛传播。

Planning Grant for an I/UCRC for Advanced Radioactive Materials Processing 0856024 Boise State University; Darryl P. Butt 0856480 Utah State University; Brent Stucker The Center for Advanced Radioactive Materials Processing (CARMaP) will focus on the development of unique fabrication solutions for radioactive elements and their isotopes and for hard-to-process materials in functionally-optimized structures that include ceramics, metals, and their composites. Boise State University (BSU) and Utah State University (USU) are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with BSU as the lead institution. CARMaP research will support commercial-scale material and fabrication advances that promote the expanded use of nuclear technology while reducing risks from nuclear proliferation and long lived nuclear waste. The Center would draw upon the research and fabrication capabilities at both universities, as well as at Idaho National Lab. The research proposed as potential topics will advance the capabilities of industries engaged in all phases of the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear medicine, and aerospace, as well as renewable energy generation and storage. BSU and USU plan to hold a meeting with prospective industrial partners, and to develop an initial research agenda for CARMaP of sufficient commercial interest that attendees will be willing to invest in and sustain the Center. The outcomes proposed include new classes of validated materials and material joining and fabrication techniques for extreme environments characterized by high temperatures, corrosiveness and radiation. This research will become increasingly more important when the nation begins to shift more of its requirements for more energy from fossil fuel generation to nuclear generation. CARMaP will leverage existing collaborative relationships through the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) to engage graduate students in industrial research, to develop innovative curricula, to host industry/university short courses and seminars, to manage intellectual capital and to develop the regional technical workforce through outreach to the under-represented and underemployed. CARMaP research findings will be broadly disseminated through university networks that include the U. S. Department of Energy National University Consortium.