Congratulations to our PhD candidate Thao Do who is the recipient of a 2021 Roy G. Post Foundation Scholarship. The Roy G. Post Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides scholarships to students to develop careers in the safe management of nuclear materials and to participate in the WM Conference.
Thao’s research project involves the removal of oxides from reactor metals and alloys using laser ablation. The removal of these radioactive surface materials from metallic wastes will allow the volumes of metallic wastes kept in interim and long-term storage to be minimized. As part of this project he also carries out studies to better understand the corrosion process of alloys under reactor conditions, and produce inactive surface oxides with various film thickness, morphologies and compositions, for testing of the laser ablation system under development.