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  • Kairos Power receives 2022 BloombergNEF Pioneer Award
    Kairos Power receives 2022 BloombergNEF Pioneer Award April 14th, 2022 BloombergNEF has announced its twelve winners of the 2022 BNEF Pioneers program, including Department of Nuclear Engineering professor Per Peterson and alumni Mike Laufer and their team at Kairos Power. Kairos Power was recognized for its "novel advanced nuclear reactor technology to complement renewable energy […]
  • UCBNE CURORE Collaboration and the Search for Matter
    UCBNE CURORE Collaboration and the Search for Matter April 6th, 2022 "Search for Majorana neutrinos exploiting millikelvin cryogenics with CUORE" has been published in Nature. The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE, Italian for “heart”) is one of several next generation neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) experiments. Affilated with the published article include those from […]
  • Raluca Scarlat Selected for U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Advisory Team
    Raluca Scarlat Selected for U.S. Department of Energy's Nuclear Advisory Team February 9th, 2022 Raluca Scarlat is among eleven members named to the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee, which advises the secretary and the assistant secretary for nuclear energy on current priorities in the department's programs. "A change in the structure and focus in […]
  • Exact Difference Schemes and Recent Advances in Coarse Mesh Methods for Thermal Hydraulics
    SPEAKER: Rizwan-uddin Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/18/2022 - 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: Zoom Spring 2022 Colloquium Series Abstract: Roots of coarse mesh, or advanced, nodal methods [1] can be traced to “exact finite difference schemes.” After a brief overview of exact finite difference schemes, a […]
  • Networked Radiation Detection in Urban Environments
    SPEAKER: Dr. Ren Cooper Staff Applied Physicist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory DATE/TIME: Fri, 03/04/2022 - 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2022 Colloquium Series Abstract: 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 […]
  • Is Nuclear Clean?
    SPEAKER: Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Reactor Administrator, and American Nuclear Society President DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/25/2022 - 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: zoom Spring 2022 Colloquium Series Abstract:   About the Speaker: Dunzik-Gougar has a B.S. in chemistry from Cedar Crest College and received an M.S. in environmental engineering along with her […]
  • For a Safer Nuclear Outlook: Learning from Experience within an Adaptive & Generic Probabilistic Safety Assessment Framework
    SPEAKER: Dr. Ali Ayoub Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, ​Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) DATE/TIME: Fri, 02/18/2022 - 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2022 Colloquium Series Abstract: The worldwide civil nuclear operations have accumulated more than 19’000 reactor-years of experience providing substantial amounts of data and knowledge. With the […]
  • Hi Vo, our former grad student and NSSC fellow awarded a LANL directors funded post doc.
    Hi Vo, our former grad student and NSSC fellow awarded a LANL directors funded post doc. February 11th, 2022 Across all divisions, the LANL postdocs went through a competitive process in order to be selected for the fellowship based on previous research merit and the strength of the postdoc research proposal. Director Postdoc fellowship provides […]
  • Peter Hosemann, Professor and Chair chosen as 2022 TMS Brimacombe Medalist Award Winner
    Peter Hosemann, Professor and Chair chosen as 2022 TMS Brimacombe Medalist Award Winner February 10th, 2022 The Brimacomb award award recognizes Professor Hosemann for his sustained excellence and achievements in materials science and engineering, and his record of continuing service to the profession. He received this award specifically for his contribution to micro and macroscale […]
  • From Superheavy Elements to the Stockpile: The Journey of a Cal Grad
    SPEAKER: Dr. Sarah Nelson DATE/TIME: Fri, 02/04/2022 - 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: zoom Spring 2022 Colloquium Series 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), […]
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