Archive for August 2020
The Transformational Challenge Reactor
SPEAKER: KURT TERRANI, Ph.D. DATE/TIME: MON, 08/31/2020 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: Zoom Fall 2020 Colloquium Series Abstract: This talk provides and overview of motivation behind and ongoing activities towards development and deployment of the Transformational Challenge Reactor (TCR) About the Speaker: Kurt Terrani is a Senior Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Director…
Read MoreTHE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY: Interview with Peter Hosemann
The Future of Nuclear Energy: Interview with Peter Hosemann If you get cancer treatment today, it’s very likely you will get injected with a radioactive substance. That technology is born out of the nuclear enterprise. Without reactors, you wouldn’t have it. There are numerous examples of the benefits of nuclear engineering beyond just nuclear power.…
Read MoreMRS Graduate Student Awards
MRS Graduate Student Awards Yujun Xie, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Prof. Peter Hosemann’s group at the University of California at Berkeley and National Center for Electron Microscopy in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has won the prestigious gold graduate student award from the 2020 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting for his Ph.D. work…
Read MoreDOE- Sponsored Research Addressing Protective Equipment During The Pandemic UCB-NE/LBNL Collaboration
DOE- Sponsored Research Addressing Protective Equipment During The Pandemic UCB-NE/LBNL Collaboration August 19, 2020 Since March 2020 it became obvious that Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE) is essential to maintain core functions during a pandemic. Essential workers are in need to receive reliable and convenient PPE, especially masks that are easy to breathe in. To address…
Read MoreIs Nuclear Power the Solution to Climate Change?
Is Nuclear Power the Solution to Climate Change? August 14th, 2020 Paul Dorfman and Staffan Qvist both want to save the climate. But one of them wants to rid the world of nuclear reactors while the other wants to build more of them. We brought them together for a debate. Dorfman, 64, of University College…
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