The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA) was selected as a 2016 R&D100 Award Winner last night at the R&D100 Awards Ceremony. The Nuclear Engineering Department at NCSU is a founding member of CASL. This award is recognition of the leadership and efforts of Dr. Paul Turinsky as previous Chief-Scientist of CASL and Dr. David Kropachek as current Chief-Scientist of CASL as well as of the hard work and contributions of our faculty (Scott Palmtag, Maria Avramova, Nam Dinh, Igor Bolotnov and Mike Doster) and graduate students involved in the development, verification and validation, and applications of VERA for solving LWR industry challenge problems.

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