Fuel Cycle Analysis
Understanding the fusion fuel cycle critically affects worker and public safety, commercial performance, and environmental impacts. Ensuring the reliable, continuous operation of fusion energy plants requires thorough fuel cycle analysis — especially fuel handling technologies and waste disposal for radioactive tritium.
Research Faculty & Staff
Ben Lindley
RESEARCH LEAD
Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics and Argonne National Laboratory
Co-founder, Realta Fusion
Research focus areas: Reactor physics, fission reactor and fusion energy system design, integrated energy systems, materials management in the fusion energy ecosystem, materials lifecycle analysis
Mohammad Amer Allaf
Research Associate, Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics
Research focus areas: Small- and microreactor concepts & safety systems, computational modeling, fusion fuel cycle facilities, critical material management
Taesuk Oh
Postdoctoral Researcher, Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics
Research focus areas: Reactor physics, modeling fusion power plants, analysis of critical material supply-chain constraints and bottlenecks, Monte Carlo methods
Fusion Impacts Collaborative
A cross-disciplinary research initiative at the University of Wisconsin–Madison focused on the responsible development and deployment of fusion energy.