Radiochemistry efforts at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO were reinvigorated in 2012 courtesy a collaboration between the Chemistry Department and the interdisciplinary Nuclear Science & Engineering Program.  The Radiochemistry Program at Mines is supported by Professors Mark Jensen and Jenifer Shafer and has active research in areas related to the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, fundamental actinide science and nuclear forensics.  Infrastructure at Mines enables the consistent work with a variety of radiotracers, including transuranics, and periodic operations with macroscopic amounts of neptunium and plutonium.  Two labs are available for wet chemistry work with radioactive materials: the on-campus facilities and off-campus facilities housed at Building 15 in the Denver Federal Center (DFC, fifteen minutes from Mines campus). Building 15 houses a low-enriched uranium-fueled 1 MW TRIGA reactor operated by the US Geological Survey. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) exists between the USGS and the Colorado School of Mines, and the collaborative research benefits both organizations in academic and basic research efforts. This presentation will focus on the trajectory and current research capabilities of the radiochemistry program.

Radiochemistry at the Colorado School of Mines: Golden opportunities

256th National Meeting (2018)

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