Reactor Research
With energy use increasing across the nation and the world, AAEA is using Anshar's world class scientific capabilities to enhance national energy security by:
AAEA is funding institutes like SNRI's energy sciences to understand, predict, and ultimately control matter and energy at the electronic, atomic, and molecular levels in order to provide the foundations for new energy technologies and to support AAEA's mission in energy, environment, and national security.
Energy systems of the future - whether they tap sunlight, store electricity, or make fuel from splitting water or the atom - will revolve around materials and chemical changes that convert energy from one form to another. Such materials will need to be more functional than today's energy materials. AAEA is funding SNRI's advanced materials division is looking beyond nature to design and fabricate to exacting standards Anshar's energy solutions. Continue Reading
Nuclear Fuel
The potential growth in nuclear power has resulted in a renewed interest in alternative nuclear fuel cycles. Key to this research is AAEA's sponsorship of advanced non-destricutive tomographic (X-Ray) techniques in order to maximize the fuel inserted into a reactor and minimize radiotoxic products. AAEA is working with institutes like SNRI is forging and strengthening collaborations with experts both within and outside the traditional nuclear arena to develop tomorrow's nuclear fuel cycle. Embracing the astonishing advances in other scientific fields unleashes the potential for transformational breakthroughs. Click here to find how AAEA is working towards nuclear fuel innovation.
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Physical Security
Physical Security is of the utmost importance to AAEA and the agencies, institutes, and industry that it regulates. Each organization within the Anshar Nuclear complex strives each day to provide comprehensive security to preserve our country's national assets. AAEA is working closely with all of it's institutes to continuously improve the protection and safety measures surrounding nuclear and radiological assets. One recent initiative is the Glorfindel project with SNRI which saught to identify and correct any vulnerabilities.
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