Spring 2020 Colloquium Archive
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Spring 2021 Colloquium
Spring 2021 Colloquium Archive
Individual Stories behind Fukushima Nuclear Tragedy
SPEAKER: Kazuma Obara Photojournalist DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/30/2021 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: via zoom Spring 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: Japanese photojournalist Obara will give a talk about individual stories of Fukushima …
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Fuel Cycle Needs to Support Advanced Reactors
SPEAKER: Christina J. Leggett, Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering Technical Consultant Booz Allen Hamilton DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/23/2021 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: zoom Spring 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: Now is an exciting …
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Thinking differently about radiation damage: New methods of measurement using nuclear magnetic resonance.
SPEAKER: Ian Farnan Professor of Earth and Nuclear Materials in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/23/2021 – 11:00AM TO 12:00PM LOCATION: zoom Spring 2021 Colloquium …
Protactinium Production in Leading Thorium Fuel Cycles
SPEAKER: Dr. Eva C. Uribe senior systems research analyst at Sandia National Laboratories DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/09/2021 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: zoom SPRING 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: Nuclear power from …
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University-National Lab Collaborations in Nuclear Engineering: From Research to Workforce
SPEAKER: Dr. Noël Bakhtian Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/19/2021 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: …
Electrification in Metals and Mining: One Path Forward?
SPEAKER: Antoine Allanore Associate Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/12/2021 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: Zoom Spring 2021 Colloquium Series …
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DESIGN AND MODELING CHALLENGES OF NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION SYSTEMS
SPEAKER: Kotlyar Dan, Assistant Professor Nuclear and Radiological Office: (404) 385-5372, dan.kotlyar@me.gatech.edu WEBSITE: https://sites.gatech.edu/core/ DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/5/2021 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: zoom Spring 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: Dr. Kotlyar …
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NuScale Power – A Scalable Clean Energy Solution
SPEAKER: José N. Reyes, Jr. Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/26/2021 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: VIA ZOOM SPRING 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: Recent studies show that the …
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Personalized Cancer Radiotherapy Through In Vivo Sensing
SPEAKER: Mekhail Anwar, MD PhD DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/19/2021 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: via zoom Spring 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: We will discuss how to personalize cancer therapy through the …
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Nuclear Landscapes: planning for nuclear waste disposal using cultural heritage thinking
SPEAKER: Rosemary Joyce Professor of Anthropology DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/12/2021 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: ZOOM Spring 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: The global nuclear industry has for decades used sites like …
Spring 2022 Colloquium
Spring 2022 Colloquium Archive
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 …
Imaging 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 …
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Exact Difference Schemes and Recent Advances in Coarse Mesh Methods for Thermal Hydraulics
SPEAKER: Rizwan-uddin Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/18/2022 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: Zoom Spring 2022 Colloquium Series Abstract: Roots of …
Networked Radiation Detection in Urban Environments
SPEAKER: Dr. Ren Cooper Staff Applied Physicist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory DATE/TIME: Fri, 03/04/2022 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2022 Colloquium Series Abstract: The ability to …
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Is Nuclear Clean?
SPEAKER: Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar Ph.D. – Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Reactor Administrator, and American Nuclear Society President DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/25/2022 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: zoom Spring 2022 Colloquium Series …
For a Safer Nuclear Outlook: Learning from Experience within an Adaptive & Generic Probabilistic Safety Assessment Framework
SPEAKER: Dr. Ali Ayoub Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) DATE/TIME: Fri, 02/18/2022 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2022 …
From Superheavy Elements to the Stockpile: The Journey of a Cal Grad
SPEAKER: Dr. Sarah Nelson DATE/TIME: Fri, 02/04/2022 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: zoom Spring 2022 Colloquium Series Abstract: TBD About the Speaker: Dr. Sarah Nelson, a nuclear and radiochemist, serves …
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Recent inertial confinement fusion experiments at NIF reaching 1.35 MJ and the Lawson criterion for ignition
SPEAKER: DR. ANDREA (ANNIE) L. KRITCHER DATE/TIME: FRI, 01/28/2022 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: via Zoom Spring 2022 Colloquium Series Abstract: The inertial fusion community have been working towards ignition …
Spring 2023 Colloquium
Spring 2023 Colloquium Archive
NASA Open Science: Space Radiation and Biological Effects
SPEAKER: Dr. Sylvain V. Costes Space Biosciences Research Branch Chief Project Manager for Open Science for Space Biology (GeneLab/ALSDA) Director of the Radiation Biophysics Laboratory NASA Ames Research Center DATE/TIME: …
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“Future Directions for Nuclear Energy”
SPEAKER: Per F. Peterson Distinguished Professor William and Jean McCallum Floyd Endowed Chair Department of Nuclear Engineering DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/14/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2023 …
Proton therapy: a perfect slice of physics, mathematics, and biology
SPEAKER: Ke Sheng, Ph.D., FAAPM, Professor and Vice Chair of Medical Physics Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/124/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: Zoom …
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Radiation damage studies in metals and metal/oxide heterostructures through in-situ TEM
SPEAKER: Djamel Kaoumi Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/10/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 Etcheverry Hall Abstract: When coupled to an ion …
A Youth Led Nuclear Victory at COP-27
SPEAKER: Ia Aanstoot, Stockholm DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/03/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: Zoom In what is undoubtedly a first for Berkeley Nuclear Engineering, this week’s colloquium will be given by …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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: …
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Safe Enough? The History of Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Nuclear Safety.
Abstract: Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor “safe enough” to adequately protect the public? And, for 70 years, they have pursued a deceptively simple answer that quantified the probability of a major reactor accident. In his presentation, Tom Wellock will discuss the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s decision to develop the controversial Reactor Safety Study, the world’s first Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), and its influence on safety regulation.
Biography: Thomas Wellock is the historian at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He is the author of Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk (University of California Press, 2021) and two other books on the history of nuclear power and environmentalism. He was also a professor of U.S. history, earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and, prior to his midlife crisis, worked as a reactor test engineer at the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, CT and a systems engineer at the Davis-Besse nuclear power station near Toledo, OH.
UCBNE 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 the UC Berkeley Department of Physics, the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Engineering Divison of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as the UC Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering.
The link to the article can be found here. And further coverage of the article can be found here.
UCBNE Graduate Student Jaewon Lee Wins 3rd Place at IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference
UCBNE Graduate Student Jaewon Lee Wins 3rd Place at IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference
November 3 , 2021
UCBNE graduate student Jaewon Lee won 3rd place in the student competition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference that took place on October 16th-23rd, 2021.
His submission, "Single Detector 3D Source Imaging Using a Kullback-Leibler Divergence Based Prior", improves the ability in the localization and mapping of radioactive materials in three dimensions in unconstrained environments overcoming challenges in conventional approaches.
In addition to Jaewon's presentation, eight other students of the Berkeley Applied Nuclear Physics program gave presentations: Kalie Knecht, Yifan Zheng, Ivan Cho, Jake Hecla, Robin Peter, Chris Lamb, Matt Marshall, and Michael Bondin.
Read more about the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference here.
Congratulations Jaewon!
Development of CD46 targeted theranostics for imaging and treatment of cancer
Abstract:
The development of novel molecular imaging and radionuclide treatments is changing the standard of care in patients with cancer. CD46 is an underexplored therapeutic target which is highly expressed in many cancers, in a lineage independent fashion. We have developed paired imaging and therapeutic agents, 89Zr-DFO-YS5, and 225Ac-DOTA-YS5, which are highly effective for detection and treatment of prostate cancer and multiple myeloma. These agents are highly effective in preclinical models and have strong promise for near-term clinical translation.
About the Speaker:
Robert Flavell, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Section of Molecular Imaging in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College, and his PhD from the Rockefeller University as part of the Tri-Institutional MD PhD program. He completed his one-year internship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Dr. Flavell completed a four-year diagnostic radiology residency at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also finished a Nuclear Medicine fellowship. In June 2016. he joined the faculty at UCSF as an Assistant Professor in Residence. Since 2019, he has been the Chief of the Division of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics (formerly nuclear medicine), in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging. Dr. Flavell’s laboratory focuses on the development of new molecular imaging and therapeutic tools for better detection and treatment of prostate and other cancers.
RadWatch & DoseNet: building scientific literacy through a network of radiation and environmental sensors
Abstract:
The 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident serves as an example of the risks associated with energy technologies and the need to minimize physical as well as psychological effects on local and global communities. We have established the RadWatch and DoseNet community outreach programs to enhance the public understanding of risks associated with radiation exposure. The RadWatch program works to provide transparent, relevant measurements of radioactivity in our environment through measurements of locally sourced fish and produce. The ongoing monitoring of radiation in our environment provides the public with a clear baseline for what is “normal”. This work has since been expanded to include the use of neutron activation analyses to determine the concentrations of heavy metals in such samples, further contextualizing previous radiological measurements and our environmental impact. Similarly, the DoseNet project was developed to bring radiation and environmental data into classrooms and connect directly with students. DoseNet is a network of radiation and environmental sensors connecting schools in the Bay Area, Japan, and around the world. The DoseNet program has used this network to recruit a handful of high school students each summer as interns. These programs represent parts of a multidisciplinary undertaking to educate the next generation about radiation science, improve scientific literacy, and improve our communication of technical concepts to our communities.
About the Speaker:
Ali Hanks is a Lecturer and Project Scientist in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is focused on advancements in radiation detection and imaging technologies. As head of the RadWatch and DoseNet outreach programs, a large part of her work focused on the applications of advanced radiation detection technologies towards public education and outreach. Dr. Hanks received her Ph.D. in High Energy Nuclear Physics from Columbia University as part of the PHENIX collaboration. She spent 4 years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stony Brook University, and then at UC Berkeley where she had a joint Postdoctoral position in the Physics and Nuclear Engineering departments. She has been an Assistant Project Scientist in the Department of Nuclear Engineering since 2017, and has worked as a Lecturer the last three years teaching a new course she designed based on her work with students in the DoseNet program.
Tennessee Governor Lee and Commissioner Rolfe Announce Kairos Power to Establish Low-Power Demonstration Reactor ‘HERMES’ in Oak Ridge
Tennessee Governor Lee and Commissioner Rolfe Announce Kairos Power to Establish Low-Power Demonstration Reactor 'HERMES' in Oak Ridge
July 17th, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – July 16, 2021 – Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe and Kairos Power officials announced today that the privately funded, advanced nuclear engineering company will establish a low-power demonstration reactor in Oak Ridge.
- Tennessee's Department of Economic & Community Development Newspiece
This completes the acquisition of the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) site, initially selected for the project back in December 2020. At the same time, Kairos also received $303 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and Office of Nuclear Energy’s program for Risk Reduction projects to support the design, licensing, and construction of the reactor.
Kairos Power will invest $100 million and create 55 jobs to deploy a low-power demonstration reactor, called HERMES, at the site in Tennessee.
“Oak Ridge continues to lead the nation in groundbreaking technology, and we recognize Kairos Power for joining this effort. I’m proud of the energy development happening in Tennessee that will positively impact the U.S. and the world. We thank Kairos Power for choosing to develop their test reactor here in Tennessee to support their mission of developing innovative nuclear technology that will move the U.S. forward.” – Gov. Bill Lee
HERMES, expected to be operational in 2026, will demonstrate the company’s capability to deliver low-cost nuclear heat. It is a scaled version of Kairos Power’s Fluoride Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor (KP-FHR), an advanced reactor technology that aims to be cost-competitive with natural gas in the U.S. electricity market in order to provide carbon-free, affordable, and safe energy. The project will be a redevelopment of a site at the Heritage Center, a former U.S. Department of Energy site complex.
“The Oak Ridge Corridor is at the forefront of science and technology in the U.S. and this partnership with Kairos Power is a huge accomplishment for Tennessee and the nuclear energy world. The combination of resources working to deliver innovative nuclear energy is fueled by our strong science and energy sector and the excellent work being done daily at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, led by Dr. Zacharia. I congratulate Kairos Power on this groundbreaking project.” – TNECD Commissioner Bob Rolfe
"The City of Oak Ridge has a long and distinguished history of nuclear innovation. The citizens of Oak Ridge look forward to welcoming Kairos Power into to our community and working with this exciting innovative project to ensure their long-term success." – Oak Ridge City Manager Mark Watson
