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Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences

Sustainable energy solutions, nuclear security and nonproliferation, plasmas for water treatment, the country’s most powerful laser, and more.

#1

The Nuclear Leaders
and Best

NERS is consistently ranked as the top Nuclear Engineering grad program in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.

Graduate Program

7:1

Undergraduate to Faculty Ratio

Most of our undergrads are actively involved in research and have co-authored papers in scientific journals.

Undergrad Program

$26.5m

2020 Research
Funding

Research opportunities abound for our undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.

Research Areas

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Aditi Verma featured in National Academies article on tackling inequities in emerging technologies webinar

The article, Tackling Inequities in Emerging Technologies, describes the webinar’s design to foster discussions across disciplines about the challenges to equity and the need to ensure community involvement in the face of new processes, technologies and strategies.

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U-M NERS team win Best Undergraduate Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Presentation at 2023 ANS Student Conference

Their paper is titled “pyMAISE: A Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking Software for Nuclear Reactor Applications”.

Unbreakable bonds

The properties of PFAS are so great that we have used these chemicals widely—so widely that now they contaminate our water, our air, our land and our bodies. What can we do about it? Engineers have some ideas, although it’s not going to be easy.

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NERS Alum Andrea Kritcher is on the 2023 TIME100 List 

Andrea Kritcher has been named to TIME100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.

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Kathryn Huff, US Department Of Energy Assistant Secretary, visits April 7

A national leader in nuclear energy speaks with students as part of the Osborn Lecture Series.

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NERS alum Dr. James Baciak and NERS professor Dr. Igor Jovanovic are among the founders of the new Consortium for Nuclear Forensics sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

The five-year, $25 million research award is one of the largest federal research grants ever received by the University of Florida.

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Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences go well beyond nuclear power.

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