​In the recent years, the group has participated in a number of international research projects, which are briefly described below.

The group has a long time experience and high level of expertise in the use of Thorium as nuclear fuel. One of the main advantages of using Thorium fuel is that it can significantly reduce Plutonium generation rate improving proliferation resistance of the civilian fuel cycle. In collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" in Russia, the group took part in an international multi-year research project in order to develop proliferation resistant Th fuel for LWRs. The project was partially sponsored by the US Department of Energy.

In 2010, the group, headed by Prof. Shwageraus, was awarded a research grant from the US-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF) for a 3-year project with an objective to address the issue of nuclear fuel resources sustainability. The project examined the possibility of achieving break-even breeding in Light Water Reactors operating on Th-233U fuel cycle. The US partner for this project is Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Additional projects completed in the last few years include:
- ​Sustainable Trans-Uranic (TRU) actinides recycling within the existing reactors. Basic feasibility of such "zero waste" producing reactor core was successfully demonstrated on the basis of the performed analysis.
- Completion of the alpha-version of BGCore system, addition of the thermal-hydraulic feedback module. The work on expansion of thermo-hydraulic module capabilities to model two-phase flow phenomena continues and ultimately aims at acquiring BWR analysis capability.

Currently, the Nuclear Energy Group is engaged in several projects, including:
- The development of innovative techniques for measurement of the kinetic parameters of the MINERVE Zero Power Reactor. This study is done in collaboration with CEA Cadarache Nuclear Research Centre.
- Participation in the MIT BEAVRS benchmark using the coupled codes system Serpent-DYN3D. BEAVRS is a detailed pressurized water reactor (PWR) benchmark containing real plant data for assessing the accuracy of reactor physics simulation tools. This study is done in collaboration with researchers from the Institute for Reactor Safety at Helmholz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in Germany.
- Burnup Evaluation of IRR-1 MTR-type Fuel Elements by Gamma Spectrometry. This project involves both gamma spectrometry measurements of spent fuel elements and depletion calculations using both BGCore and Serpent. In this study the irradiation history of a fuel element is estimated using the activity relations between several specific isotopes, e.g. 137Cs, 134Cs and 154Eu.
- In-Core Fuel Management optimization using evolutionary optimization algorithms such as genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization, ant colony algorithms, etc. This study is done in collaboration with researchers from the Department of Computer Science at BGU.
- The effect of missile impact on the safety of nuclear power plants (NPP) and the development of required protective technologies. The NPP designs considered in this work are a generation III+ PWR (e.g. AREVA EPR or Westinghouse AP100) and small modular reactor (SMR). This study is done in collaboration with researchers from the Department of Structural Engineering and the Protective Technologies Research and Development Center (PTRDC) at BGU and is funded by the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Water Resources.
- Continuous extension of BGCore system capabilities. The main effort is currently devoted to improving the neutronic-thermal hydraulic coupling of BGCore with THERMO module.
- Development of modelling capabilities of Research Reactors (IRR-1) using the code system Serpent-DYN3D. In this study we are planning to generate a comprehensive homogenized cross sections library for IRR-1 at NRC Soreq using Serpent code and then, create and benchmark the IRR-1 core model using DYN3D.​