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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

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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

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Dr. 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

Networked Radiation Detection in Urban Environments

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Dr. 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

Fukushima Daiichi Reflection

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Photo 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

IMAGING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT – RECONSTRUCTION-FREE RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING

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Simon 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

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Aditi 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,

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