Design of the first fusion laboratory experiment to achieve target gain

SPEAKER: Dr. Andrea (Annie) Kritcher Team lead in the Inertial Confinement Fusion program and Group leader in Design Physics DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/24/2023 – 11:00AM TO 12:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2023 Colloquium Series The inertial fusion community have been working towards ignition for decades, since the idea of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) was first…

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Ab Astris ad Terram, ad Astra Iterum: Radiation Effects Engineering – An Overview

SPEAKER: Greg Allen Senior Radiation Effects Engineer, Center for Space Radiation Lead DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/17/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Abstract: Radiation effects engineering is a highly multidisciplinary, rapidly growing field within the aerospace industry. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Greg Allen will be discussing the fundamentals of the…

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Overview of INL RELAP5-3D system code and examples of application to reactor analysis.

SPEAKER: Dr. Paolo BALESTRA ART-GCR Methods Lead DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/10/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Abstract: RELAP5-3D is the latest in the RELAP5 code series developed at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for the analysis of transients and accidents in water-cooled nuclear power plants and related systems as well…

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Global Famine after Nuclear War

SPEAKER: Professor Alan Robock Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ, USA http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/nuclear/ E-mail: robock@envsci.rutgers.edu DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/03/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Abstract:  The world as we know it could end any day as a result of an accidental nuclear war between the United States…

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Managing Operational Risk in Nuclear Facilities with TensorFlow

SPEAKER: William Zywiec Staff Scientist and Group Leader in the Nuclear Criticality Safety Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/03/2018 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 Etcheverry Abstract: Since the discovery of fission and subsequent first criticality of Chicago Pile-1, more than 60 criticality accidents have occurred throughout the world. These accidents are…

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