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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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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High-fidelity continuum kinetic simulations – a frontier in plasma modeling

SPEAKER: Genia Vogman Computational Scientist DATE/TIME: FRI, 01/27/2018 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Abstract: Plasma, the fourth state of matter, is an important medium in space physics and fusion energy applications. Its unique multi-scale properties give rise to complex behavior that is difficult to predict. In regimes where plasma particles collide infrequently,…

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UCBNE Alum Joey Kabel named on Forbes 30 under 30

UCBNE Alum Joey Kabel named on Forbes 30 under 30 December 1st, 2022 UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering alum Joey Kabel (MS ’17, PhD ’20) has been named on the 2022 Forbes 30 under 30 – Energy list for his work with startup Electrified Thermal. “At Electrified Thermal, Kabel is on a mission to decarbonize industry…

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Multi-scale modeling of Radiation Therapy – Bridging the gap from Physics to Biology

SPEAKER: Jan Schuemann, Ph.D. (he/him/his) Associate Professor Associate Director of Physics Research Head of the Multi-scale Monte-Carlo Modeling Lab DATE/TIME: FRI, 11/18/2022 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: Zoom Abstract: Modeling approaches offer a strong tool to understand mechanisms of complex processes, allowing us to probe correlations that are not accessible with experimental techniques. My lab…

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Peter Hosemann Lead PI of a New Fusion Energy Science Award 

Peter Hosemann Lead PI of a New Fusion Energy Science Award  September 21st, 2022 Professor Peter Hosemann is the lead PI of a new Fusion Energy Science award entitled “Measuring, Modeling and Managing Radiation Effects in High Helium Fusion Relevant Environments” in collaboration between UCB and UCSB. The team will investigate structural material for fusion…

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UCBNE Graduate Students Send Equipment and Expertise to Ransacked Chernobyl

UCBNE Graduate Students Send Equipment and Expertise to Ransacked Chernobyl September 14th, 2022 3D visualization of the residual radiation in the town of Pripyat. (Reconstruction by Kalie Knecht, UCBNE graduate student ) A recent article published in BerkeleyNews describes the contribution of UCBNE graduate students Jake Hecla, Michael Bondin, and others to the relief efforts…

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Graduate Student Sarah Stevenson Awarded ANS Congressional Fellowship

Graduate Student Sarah Stevenson Awarded ANS Congressional Fellowship September 8th, 2022 UCBNE Ph.D. candidate Sarah Stevenson has been selected for the 2023 ANS Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship. For the first time in the history of the fellowship, two members have been chosen, Stevenson alongside GE-Hitach Joseph Orellana. Harsh S. Desai, chair…

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Kairos Power Commissions Fluoride Salt Purification Plant 

Kairos Power Commissions Fluoride Salt Purification Plant  July 20th, 2022 Kairos Power in conjunction with Materion Corporation, designed a molten salt purification plant that has just been commissioned at Materion’s campus in Ohio because Kairos Power requires a source of high-purity fluoride salt for testing in its molten salt reactor design, as well as to…

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