Archive for April 2022
What can nuclear engineering learn from design research? Integrating theory and evidence from contemporary nuclear reactor design into policy design
SPEAKER: Aditi Verma ASSISTANT RESEARCH SCIENTIST, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (FALL 2022) DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/29/2022 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 Etcheverry Hall Abstract While nuclear reactor design is recognized as an essential skill and intellectual output of academic nuclear engineering, little attention has been paid within the discipline to the structure of the reactor design process…
Read MoreImaging at the Speed of Light – Reconstruction-Free Radionuclide Imaging
SPEAKER: Simon R. Cherry Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Radiology DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/22/2022 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 Etcheverry Hall Positron emission tomography (PET) is a widely used medical imaging technique, and like many other tomographic imaging modalities, relies on an image reconstruction step to produce cross-sectional images. Detection and localization…
Read MoreKairos Power receives 2022 BloombergNEF Pioneer Award
Kairos Power receives 2022 BloombergNEF Pioneer Award April 14th, 2022 BloombergNEF has announced its twelve winners of the 2022 BNEF Pioneers program, including Department of Nuclear Engineering professor Per Peterson and alumni Mike Laufer and their team at Kairos Power. Kairos Power was recognized for its “novel advanced nuclear reactor technology to complement renewable energy…
Read MoreUCBNE CUORE Collaboration and the Search for Matter
UCBNE CUORE Collaboration and the Search for Matter April 6th, 2022 “Search for Majorana neutrinos exploiting millikelvin cryogenics with CUORE” has been published in Nature. The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE, Italian for “heart”) is one of several next generation neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) experiments. Affilated with the published article include those from…
Read MoreRaluca Scarlat Selected for U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Advisory Team
Raluca Scarlat Selected for U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Advisory Team February 9th, 2022 Raluca Scarlat is among eleven members named to the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee, which advises the secretary and the assistant secretary for nuclear energy on current priorities in the department’s programs. “A change in the structure and focus in…
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