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Recent inertial confinement fusion experiments at NIF reaching 1.35 MJ and the Lawson criterion for ignition

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DR. ANDREA (ANNIE) L. KRITCHER Design lead for HYBRID-E, Integrated hohlraum modeling team lead, Line Group leader in Design Physics Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory B.S. Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan (2005) M.S. Nuclear Engineering, University of California Berkeley (2007) Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering, University of California Berkeley (2009) The inertial fusion community have been working towards…

From Superheavy Elements to the Stockpile: The Journey of a Cal Grad

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Dr. Sarah L. Nelson Office of Defense Programs National Nuclear Security Administration Abstract: TBD About the Speaker: Dr. Sarah Nelson, a nuclear and radiochemist, serves as the Director (Acting) for the Office of Experimental Sciences for the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Office of Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (NA-11), including Academic Programs. Sarah joined…

For a Safer Nuclear Outlook: Learning from Experience within an Adaptive & Generic Probabilistic Safety Assessment Framework

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Dr. Ali Ayoub - Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, ​Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The worldwide civil nuclear operations have accumulated more than 19'000 reactor-years of experience providing substantial amounts of data and knowledge. With the goal of more intensively learn from this experience to verify and improve the level of nuclear safety, this…