Nuclear Engineering and Science

McMaster University boasts a Nuclear Engineering program with a proud tradition.   Situated on campus is the university's very own research reactor, MNR, a 5 MW plate-type swimming pool reactor with irradiation, neutron activation analysis, hot cell, neutron radiography, and expansive beamtube facilities.  The reactor is currently undergoing a switch from highly-enriched uranium (HEU) to low-enrichment uranium (LEU) fuel and is conducting extensive safety analysis, providing many exciting and unique research opportunities.

Extensive research is being followed in the areas of reactor physics, nuclear instrumentation, fusion technologies, thermalhydraulics, pollutant analysis and control, computer simulation and computer networks.  The university's facilities are complemented by joint research with Atomic Energy of Canada, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Ontario Power Generation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ebara Co., etc.

Below is a linked list to the faculty involved in the nuclear area at McMaster:

Department of Engineering Physics
• Dr. J.S. Chang (Emeritus): Nuclear and Advanced Energy Systems, Pollution Control and Analyses.
• Dr. Wm. J. Garland:   Nuclear Engineering, System Simulation and Safety Analysis.
• Dr. A.A. Harms (Emeritus): Nuclear Engineering, Reactor Physics, Fusion Energy.
• Dr. D. Corr (Adjunct): Environmental Radiation Monitoring, Pollutant Analyses (NAA)
• G.D. Harvel (Adjunct): Thermalhydraulics, Nuclear Instrumentation, Advanced Energy Systems.
• Dr. D.P. Jackson: (Adjunct): Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Fusion, and Management of Technology.
• Dr. J. C. Luxat: Professor and NSERC/UNENE Industrial Research Chair in Nuclear Safety Analysis
• Dr. V.S. Krishnan (Adjunct): Nuclear Engineering and Reactor Safety.
• Dr. D. Novog: Associate Industrial Research Chair in Nuclear Safety Analysis
• N.K. Popov (Adjunct): Thermalydraulic Safety Analysis.
• Dr. Klaus F. Schoepf (Adjunct): Theoretical Physics.

Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Dr. C. Y. Ching: Multiphase Flow, Nuclear Instrumentation, Advanced Energy Systems.
• Dr. D. Ewing: Neutron Radiography, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Advanced Energy Systems.
• Dr. M. F. Lightstone: Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Nuclear Fuel Channel Analysis, Advanced Energy Systems.
• Dr. M. Shoukri: Thermalhydraulics.

Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Dr. D. R. Chettle: Nuclear and Atomic Physics Probes to study Human Body Composition
• Dr. T.J. Kennett (Emeritus): Computer Systems and Applied Nuclear Physics.
• Dr. F. E. McNeill: Accelerator-based In-vivo Measurements.
• Dr. W.V. Prestwich: Radiation Physics applied to Health and Medical Physics.

Department of Computing and Software
• W.F. Skip Poehlman: Distributed (Networked) Intelligent Performance Support Systems; Data Acquisition and Real-time Systems; Knowledge-based Control Systems.

For related information in the nuclear industry check the following links:

Dr. Garland's Nuclear Engineering Page (lots of links and detailed information)

McMaster Nuclear Reactor

The Canadian Nuclear Society (Golden Horseshoe Branch run through McMaster).