Fall 2023 Colloquium

Alexandre Bayen Liao-Cho Professor, EECS; Associate Provost for the Berkeley Space Center This talk will describe the latest development of the Berkeley Space Center, a project in which UC Berkeley is developing a 36 acres parcel at NASA Ames (Moffett Field, near Mountain View), to build a new 1.4M sqft research hub, which will host research…

  Jennifer Shusterman Staff Scientist, LLNL Abstract The Nuclear and Radiochemistry group at LLNL works on a wide variety of projects ranging from nuclear forensics to stockpile stewardship to fundamental studies in super heavy element production and chemistry. An overview of some of the work in the NRC group will be provided as well as…

L Vergari Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign vergari@illinois.edu   Abstract Graphite is a ubiquitous material in nuclear engineering. Within Generation IV designs, graphite serves as a reflector or fuel element material in Fluoride-Salt-Cooled-High-Temperature Reactors (FHRs), Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs), and High-Temperature-Gas-Reactor (HTGRs). In fusion research, graphite was originally proposed…