Nuclear Chemical and Isotopic Science and Technology

Project Highlights

 
FY2021

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Project Type Project Status
Understanding Angular Momentum in Nuclear Fission 20-LW-045 Aaron Gallant Lab-Wide Continuing
Earth’s Leaky Core: Identifying Signatures of Core Materials in the Lithosphere 21-LW-046 Jan Render Lab-Wide Continuing
How Rapid is the Rapid Neutron Capture Process? 21-LW-032 Richard Hughes Lab-Wide Continuing
The Incredible Shrinking Proton 21-LW-034 Ramona Vogt Lab-Wide Continuing
Cosmogenic Tracers to Reveal the Sensitivity of Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems to Changing Climate 21-LW-071 Amanda Deinhart Lab-Wide Continuing
Addressing Unresolved Questions About the Solar System with New Lunar Samples from the Apollo Missions 20-ERD-001 Gregory Brennecka Exploratory Research Continuing
Deciphering Fingerprints of Stellar Nucleosynthesis Through Nuclear Reaction Rate Measurements and Isotopic Analyses of Stardust 20-ERD-030 Brett Isselhardt Exploratory Research Continuing
The Nuclear Science of Asteroid 16 Psyche 20-ERD-039 Morgan Burks Exploratory Research Continuing
Probing the Structure of a Perfect Liquid Using Jets and Machine Learning 20-ERD-041 Aaron Angerami Exploratory Research Continuing
Nuclear Analytics: Enabling New Multimodal Approaches to Nuclear Threat Detection 20-ERD-045 Jonathan Dreyer Exploratory Research Continuing
Fission with Exotic Nuclei 21-ERD-001 Nicolas Schunck Exploratory Research Continuing
Reverse-Engineering the Neutron-Nucleus Interaction 21-ERD-006 Gregorio Potel Aguilar Exploratory Research Continuing