Texas A&M’s Department of Nuclear Engineering is recognized as one of the best-equipped programs in the nation. We’re one of only three U.S. universities with access to two nuclear reactors for teaching and research—including a 1-megawatt reactor operated by the Nuclear Engineering and Science Center. Our state-of-the-art laboratories and facilities support advanced research across a wide range of nuclear engineering topics.
Our affiliated centers and institutes, both those managed by the department and those that work in conjunction with our researchers, boast a wide variety of scientific applications and progressive research that impacts a variety of fields. Some of these areas include computational modeling and scientific simulations, nuclear physics and chemistry, national security initiatives, foodborne illness prevention, the nuclear industry and workforce development, nuclear security and safety research and nuclear reactor research.
Department Labs, Centers and Facilities
- Accelerator Laboratory
- Center for Large-Scale Scientific Simulations (CLASS)
- Computing Facilities
- The Cyclotron Institute
- Fuel Cycle and Materials Laboratory (FCML)
- LEIP Laboratories - The Thermal Scattering Law Project
- Modeling, Engineering, Design and Analysis Laboratory (MEDAL)
- National Center for Electron Beam Food Research
- Nuclear Engineering & Science Center (NESC), 1-megawatt TRIGA reactor
- Nuclear Heat Transfer Systems Laboratory
- Nuclear Power Plant Simulator Engineering Lab
- Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute (NSSPI)
- Radiation Detection Measurement Laboratory
- Scientific Machine Learning for Advanced Reactor Technologies (SMART) Lab
- Systems Radiobiology Laboratory (TIPS Joint-Facility)
- Thermal-Hydraulic Research Laboratory