Eades Receives NASA STRF Grant

For the second consecutive year, three Ohio State students have been granted NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships. This year, Micheal Eades, who will begin his graduate studies in Nuclear Engineering in August, is among those whose research will be funded by NASA's Office of Chief Technologist. Eades' research is titled Space Molten Salt Reactors for More Capable and Sustainable Exploration. According to Eades, molten salt reactors are a subtype of reactor that uses nuclear fuel dissolved in a molten salt liquid medium. His research investigates how molten salt reactor technology can be used for unmanned science missions. Eades, who graduated from Ohio State on June 10 with a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the College of Engineering, has been a student research assistant for Professor Tom Blue for the past two years.

The other two Ohio State students receiving the NASA fellowships are Matthew LaRue and Andrew Kintz. LaRue will be a graduate student within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering this August and Kintz is presently a graduate research assistant in the Electroscience Lab. LaRue's research is focused on high power transmitter technologies for ultra wideband multi-function RF operation and Kintz will study the calibration of satellite antenna arrays using signals of opportunity.

The NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships are managed by the Glenn Research Center, located in Cleveland.