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Posts by Keith Joseph McAleer

The Development of SHINE Technology’s Used Nuclear Fuel (UNF) Recycling Program

By Keith Joseph McAleer | October 28, 2024
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SPEAKER: Ross Radel, PhD, PE DATE/TIME: MON, 10/28/2024 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Abstract: SHINE Technologies, LLC (SHINE) is leading a venture to address the nation’s UNF…

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A Brief History of Kinetics Methods and the Relationship with Molten Salt Reactor Development

By Keith Joseph McAleer | October 21, 2024
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SPEAKER: Zander Mausolff Manager, Nuclear Safety & Deputy Project Engineer on MCRE DATE/TIME: MON, 10/21/2024 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Abstract: The understanding of the time-dependent behavior…

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Google and Kairos Power Partner to Deploy 500 MW of Clean Electricity Generation

By Keith Joseph McAleer | October 14, 2024
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Google and Kairos Power have entered into an partnership to deploy 500 MWe of KP-FHR reactors by 2035. This deal represents the first corporate agreement for multiple deployments of a…

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American Physical Society Leo Szilard Award Lecture: Why we have confidence that the design of nuclear power plants against earthquakes is adequate

By Keith Joseph McAleer | October 14, 2024
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SPEAKER: Robert J. Budnitz Staff Scientist (retired), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory DATE/TIME: MON, 10/14/2024 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Abstract: Concerning seismic safety, the nuclear-engineering community has…

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Kai Vetter Receives LBNL Director’s Award for Lifetime Achievement

By Keith Joseph McAleer | October 9, 2024
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Professor Kai Vetter has been named a recipient of the LBNL Director’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his “career-spanning achievements in radiation detection and imaging, his impact on…

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Peter Hosemann Delivers 2024 Naval Nuclear Laboratory Annual Distinguished Lecture at University of Pittsburgh

By Keith Joseph McAleer | October 8, 2024
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Professor Peter Hosemann gave the 2024 Naval Nuclear Laboratory annual distinguished lecture at the University of Pittsburgh. His talk “Materials Design in Nuclear Systems and Additive Manufacturing to Overcome Design…

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Peter Hosemann Featured in NEUP Newsletter

By Keith Joseph McAleer | October 1, 2024
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A photo of UCBNE professor Peter Hosemann at the controls of the Focused Ion Beam microscope supported by a NEUP Infrastructure award was featured in the October 2024 edition of…

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Ground-Satellite Communications Interferences from Nuclear Detonations

By Keith Joseph McAleer | September 30, 2024
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SPEAKER: David Hooper Senior R&D Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Group Leader of the Incident Modeling and Computational Sciences Group of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Division DATE/TIME:…

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From Berkeley to Trinity via Manhattan: Lecture and Q&A with Eric B. Norman

By Keith Joseph McAleer | September 25, 2024
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UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering professor Eric B. Norman will give a talk titled “Oppenheimer – From Berkeley to Trinity via Manhattan” as part of the College of Engineering’s On the…

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Let’s be an Awesome Future’s Past

By Keith Joseph McAleer | September 23, 2024
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SPEAKER: Ross Koningstein Engineer, Director Emeritus, Google Research DATE/TIME: MON, 09/23/2024 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Abstract: When it comes to climate change and human development, what…

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