Rate My Professor Nick Brown

Brown's research interests include nuclear reactor safety and simulation of reactor and system transients, advanced nuclear fuel and cladding materials with a focus on nuclear fuel safety, assessment and simulation of sustainable nuclear fuel cycles, and advanced nuclear reactor design. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 refereed publications, including over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and two book chapters. Key publications are 'A review of in-pile fuel safety tests of TRISO fuel forms and future testing opportunities in non-HTGR applications' (2020), 'Neutronic performance of uranium nitride composite fuels in a PWR' (2014), 'Screening of advanced cladding materials and UN–U3Si5 fuel' (2015), 'Reactor and fuel cycle performance of light water reactor fuel with 235U enrichments above 5%' (2020), and 'Full core LOCA safety analysis for a PWR containing high burnup fuel' (2021). As principal or co-principal investigator, he has received more than 25 awards totaling over $20 million in funding. Major honors include the American Nuclear Society David Okrent Award for Nuclear Safety (2023), Landis Technical Achievement Award (2021), Tickle College of Engineering Professional Promise in Research Award (2022), and Stanford University's top 2% most cited researchers list for 2021 and 2022. Brown has served as Co-Technical Program Chair of the ANS Annual Meeting (2023), Chair of the ANS Nuclear Installations Safety Division (2021-2022), and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nuclear Engineering. He has been interviewed by WIRED magazine, MIT News, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.