Ryan Dailey

Position title: Graduate Student | Reactor Design & Analysis

Email: rdailey@wisc.edu

I’m a 4th year PhD Candidate working on the intersection of fission reactor design optimization and district energy systems. My undergraduate was completed here at UW-Madison and I worked with Emeritus Professor Michael Corradini on MELCOR analysis of BWRs. During 2020 I completed my MS thesis work on microreactor-microgrid modeling and optimization, with more details available below.

Master’s Thesis:

  • “Modeling Methods for Low Carbon Power at Federal Installations using Nuclear Microreactors”, Completed Jan. 2021
  • Available at Request
  • Committee Members: Paul Wilson, Michael Corradini, Ben Lindley