Archive for January 2017

SPEAKER: FLORENT HEIDET DATE/TIME: MON, 01/30/2017 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2017 Colloquium Series Abstract: Over the past couple years Argonne National Laboratory has been developing a FASt TEst Reactor as part of the DOE-NE Advanced Reactor Campaign in order to address the growing needs for fast neutron irradiation capabilities. FASTER is a 300…

SPEAKER: RAMONA VOGT NUCLEAR AND CHEMICAL SCIENCES DIVISION, LLNL PHYSICS DEPARTMENT, UC DAVIS DATE/TIME: MON, 01/23/2017 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2017 Colloquium Series Abstract: For many years, the state of the art for treating fission in radiation transport codes has involved sampling from average distributions. In these average fission models energy is not…