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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Christopher Reis – Space Talk
Via Teams Christopher Reis is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley majoring in nuclear engineering. He will share on the biggest mysteries in the cutting edge of…
Making Sense of Nuclear Infrastructure Risks in Ukraine
3105 Etcheverry Hall 3105 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJake Hecla PhD candidate in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley Abstract: The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the first war in which nuclear powerplants and…
Applying chemical biology to expand the range of actionable targets for nuclear medicine applications
Via ZoomDr. Michael Evans Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF Bio: Michael Evans, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Residence in the UCSF Department…
APT study of radiation-induced segregation ferritic/martensitic steels after irradiation with high-energy protons and spallation neutrons
3105 Etcheverry Hall 3105 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesYong Dai Laboratory for Nuclear Materials, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland Abstract: Ferritic/martensitic (FM) and ODS steels have been extensively studied in various fission and fusion material R&D projects around the…