Sara Hauptman recognized for outstanding research presentation
NSE graduate student Sara Hauptman, won the Best Student Presentation Award at the European Research Reactor Conference (RRFM) this year. She received the award for her poster, entitled “Exploring MITR-III Alternative Reactivity Control Systems to Eliminate Axial Flux Skewing”.
The poster focused on a subset of Hauptman's work investigating the suitability of different reactor control geometries as part of the overall design effort for MITR-III. She assessed mechanisms proposed by space reactors, microreactors, as well as completely novel designs. The goal of this body of work is to improve the performance of future in-core experiment facilities.
Each year the award recognizes outstanding research nuclear technology innovation.
April 2025
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