Funding
Current Funding
NNSS Grant
Date: 10/01/2023
The Nevada Nuclear Security Site (NNSS) has funded Phase III of the project titled "Temperature Prediction for Nuclear Material Staging at the Nevada National Security Site" at $234,723.
PI: Miles Greiner, Co-PI: Mustafa Hadj-Nacer
U.S. DOE Grant
Date: 10/01/2022
The U.S. DOE has recently funded the project titled "Operation, Development, and Continuous Improvement of the University of Nevada, Reno Nuclear Packaging Graduate Program" at $1.000.000
PI: Miles Greiner, Co-PI: Mustafa Hadj-Nacer
DOE/NEUP Grant
Date: 10/01/2021
The DOE Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) has recently funded the project titled "A Self-Powered Platform to Measure and Report Spent Nuclear Fuel Package Temperatures during Transport without Containment Boundary Penetrations" at $799,992
PI: Mustafa Hadj-Nacer, Co-PIs: Xiaoshan Zhu, Jihwan Yoon, and Miles Greiner – University of Nevada Reno.
Collaborators: Mark Nutt, Praveen Thallapally, Michael Foxe, and Brady Hanson – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Jane He, Prakash Narayanan, Sven Bader, and Brad Crotts – Orano TN
NRC Grant
Date: 11/30/2020
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently funded the project titled "A Self-Powered Platform to Measure and Report Spent Nuclear Fuel Package Temperatures during Transport without Containment Boundary Penetrations" at $499,912
PI: Miles Greiner, Co-PIs: Mustafa Hadj-Nacer, Yan Wang, and Jihwan Yoon – University of Nevada Reno.
Collaborators: Jane He and Sven Bader – Orano TN.
NNSS Grant
Date: 09/01/2020
The Nevada Nuclear Security Site (NNSS) has funded Phase II of the project titled "Temperature Prediction for Nuclear Material Staging at the Nevada National Security Site" at $165,483.
Co-PIs: Miles Greiner and Mustafa Hadj-Nacer
DOE EPSCoR Grant
Date: 08/31/2020
The DoE Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) has funded the project titled “Optimizing Aerodynamic Focusing Lenses for Nano- to Supermicron-Particles,” at $749,952.
Co-PIs: Xiaoliang Wang (DRI) Mustafa Hadj-Nacer (UNR), and Par Arnot (UNR)
Past Funding
Mission Support and Test Services, LLC, $111,543 (2019), “Thermal Response Prediction for Nuclear Material Staging at the Nevada National Security Site (Period 1),” Co-PIs: Miles Greiner and Mustafa Hadj-Nacer
DoE/Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP), $399,754 (2017) "Development and Experimental Benchmark of Computational Models to Predict Cladding Temperature and Vapor Removal from UNF Canisters during Drying Operations." Co-PIs: Miles Greiner and Mustafa Hadj-Nacer
Nevada NASA EPSCoR, $6,370 (2017) "NASA EPSCoR Travel and Workshop Opportunity", PI: Mustafa Hadj Nacer
Nevada NASA EPSCoR, $3,806 (2016)"Summer 2016 travel to NASA JPL", PI: Mustafa Hadj Nacer