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Spring 2022 Colloquium
Recent inertial confinement fusion experiments at NIF reaching 1.35 MJ and the Lawson criterion for ignition
Via ZoomDR. 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
Via ZoomDr. 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
3105 Etcheverry Hall 3105 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDr. 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…
Is Nuclear Clean?
Via ZoomDr. Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Reactor Administrator, and American Nuclear Society President Dr. Dunzik-Gougar received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 2003. Her research interests include the nuclear fuel cycle, systems modeling, spent fuel processing, and waste form development. Join Zoom Meeting ID: 924 8593 4875
Networked Radiation Detection in Urban Environments
3105 Etcheverry Hall 3105 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDr. Ren Cooper Staff Applied Physicist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The ability to detect, identify, and localize illicit radiological/nuclear sources in urban environments is a key component of nuclear security and nuclear non-proliferation efforts across the world. Recent advances in sensing, telecommunications, and edge and cloud computing have led to renewed interest in employing detector…
Fukushima Daiichi Reflection
3119 Etcheverry Hall Berkeley, CAPhoto Credit to Sarah Stevenson Eleven years have passed since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants has been progressing steadily. Professor Toru Obara's lecture will feature the current status of decommissioning. In addition, an introduction to the Nuclear Innovator Cultivation Program (NICP), an…
Exact Difference Schemes and Recent Advances in Coarse Mesh Methods for Thermal Hydraulics
Via ZoomRizwan-uddin Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Roots of coarse mesh, or advanced, nodal methods can be traced to “exact finite difference schemes.” After a brief overview of exact finite difference schemes, a nodal scheme will be developed for the scalar convection-diffusion PDE . To address some of the…
What are the scientific certainties and uncertainties in our climate future?
310 Sutardja DaiSociety's response to the changing climate expresses values and priorities in balancing factors like risk, development, and equity. These choices are best informed by scientific understanding. This seminar will be a dialog on the certainties and uncertainties of climate science and how they are portrayed to non-expert decision makers and the public. The event is…
IMAGING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT – RECONSTRUCTION-FREE RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING
3105 Etcheverry Hall 3105 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesSimon R. Cherry Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Radiology Positron emission tomography (PET) is a widely used medical imaging technique, and like many other tomographic imaging modalities, relies on…
What can nuclear engineering learn from design research? Integrating theory and evidence from contemporary nuclear reactor design into policy design
3105 Etcheverry Hall 3105 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesAditi Verma ASSISTANT RESEARCH SCIENTIST, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (FALL 2022) Abstract While nuclear reactor design is recognized as an essential skill and intellectual output of academic nuclear engineering, little attention has been paid within the discipline to the structure of the reactor design process and how factors beyond physical constraints influence design outcomes. In this talk,…