Research

Improve efficiencies in predictive capabilities for post-denotation signatures by evaluating innovative modeling and simulation approaches for large strong shock and radiation transport in detonation environments.

Sponsors: Consortium for Nuclear Forensics (CNF) and Sandia National Lab

Analyze historical uranium samples, including unirradiated N-Reactor Fuel (Hanford), and WWII era German Uranium Cubes (aka Heisenberg Cubes).

Collaborators: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 

AGN-201 physics models are being generated to representing activities at the physical testbed at INL.  The model of the digital twin (DT) using INL's MOOSE framework, will be used for algorithm development, virtual replay of operations, and potential prospective inspector training.

Collaborator: Idaho National Laboratory and OSU's Shuette Fellowship 

Modeling (unclassified) passive radiation measurements for arms control verification scenarios. Synthetic attribute measurements will inform machine learning approaches in creating information barriers needed to protect sensitive information. 

Collaborator: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Arms Control Venture

Conducting nuclear physics experiments to improve the gamma-ray emission data for fission products that are of importance to stockpile stewardship, nuclear energy, and nuclear astrophysics.

Collaborator: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NNIS Fellowship

Explore performance and scaling using reduced order methods, variance reduction and compressed sensing of complex, time-dependent Monte-carlo radiation transport problems executed on advanced architectures (GPUs).

Sponsor: NNSA PSAAP - Center for Exascale Monte-Carlo Neutron Transport 

Collaborators: Lawrence Livermore & Los Alamos National Laboratories