Location
2943 Cooley
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Website
Research Interests
- Thermal-hydraulics and reactor safety
- Two-phase flow experimentation and modeling
- Interfacial structure characterization
- Thermal-hydraulics in advanced high-temperature reactors (gas-cooled, fluoride salt cooled, or liquid metal cooled)
- High-temperature compact heat exchangers
News
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NERS partners with Hanyang University’s Innovative Research Center for Advanced Reactor Development
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NERS joins ARPA-E NEWTON project to transform nuclear waste disposal
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Xiaodong Sun receives ANS Thermal Hydraulics Division Technical Achievement Award
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$3.6M to advance nuclear energy awarded to NERS
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Xiaodong Sun named Fellow of the American Nuclear Society
Education
Purdue University
PhD ’01, Nuclear Engineering
MSME ’01, Mechanical Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
MSNE ’96, Nuclear Engineering
BS ’93, Thermal Engineering