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RSS Nuclear Engineering News

  • Professor Raluca Scarlat wins the Society of Hellman Fellows Fund
    Professor Raluca Scarlat wins the Society of Hellman Fellows Fund May 28th, 2021 Professor Raluca Scarlat wins the Society of Hellman Fellows Fund with her proposal: "The Relationship between Acidity of Molten Salts and Their Properties," Congratulations Professor Scarlat! More info on the fund and past recipients: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/support-uc/donate/society-of-hellman-fellows
  • Dan Kammen to hold James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Chair in Sustainability
    Professor Dan Kammen to hold the James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Chair in Sustainability May 14th, 2021 Professor Dan Kammen was announced as the James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Chair in Sustainability, effective July 1, 2021. This chair is campus-held and was originally approved as an administrative chair providing support for the Berkeley Energy and […]
  • Professor Per Peterson selected to join the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board
    Professor Per Peterson Selected to Join the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board April 30th, 2021 Professor Per Peterson was invited to be a member of the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board (NASEM). The board oversees the National Academy’s studies in nuclear technologies and radiation health effects and has the responsibility to organize NASEM studies on safety, […]
  • Individual Stories behind Fukushima Nuclear Tragedy
    SPEAKER: Kazuma Obara Photojournalist DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/30/2021 - 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: via zoom  Spring 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: Japanese photojournalist Obara will give a talk about individual stories of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear workers in Fukushima. Many aspects of the accident and working conditions forced nuclear workers to be silent after the accident. Workers became invisible from […]
  • Christopher Reis’ poster wins 2nd Place at the US-Japan Hawaii Symposium
    Christopher Reis' poster wins 2nd Place at the US-Japan Hawaii Symposium April 27, 2021 First-year graduate student Christopher Reis has won second place for his poster entitled Investigating the limits of high-temperature superconductors for high radiation environments with the US-Japan HEP collaboration, at the US-Japan Hawaii Symposium of the US-Japan Science and Technology Cooperation Program […]
  • Fuel Cycle Needs to Support Advanced Reactors
    SPEAKER: Christina J. Leggett, Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering Technical Consultant Booz Allen Hamilton DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/23/2021 - 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: zoom Spring 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: Now is an exciting time for the nuclear industry. Several advanced reactor designers are vying to enter the reactor market with a range of reactor designs, including molten salt […]
  • Thinking differently about radiation damage: New methods of measurement using nuclear magnetic resonance.
    SPEAKER: Ian Farnan Professor of Earth and Nuclear Materials in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/23/2021 - 11:00AM TO 12:00PM LOCATION: zoom Spring 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: The effects of radiation damage are a constant source of concern in nuclear engineering.  The need the need to achieve greater tolerance over […]
  • Protactinium Production in Leading Thorium Fuel Cycles
    SPEAKER: Dr. Eva C. Uribe senior systems research analyst at Sandia National Laboratories DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/09/2021 - 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: zoom SPRING 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: Nuclear power from thorium fuel cycles is being explored around the world to extend uranium resource and to reduce the quantity of long-lived nuclear waste generated by civilian […]
  • University-National Lab Collaborations in Nuclear Engineering: From Research to Workforce
    SPEAKER: Dr. Noël Bakhtian Executive Director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/19/2021 - 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: zoom SPRING 2021 Colloquium Series Abstract: The Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) is a consortium bringing together the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory […]
  • SHERMAN: A UCBNE MEng Capstone Project Now Developed at LANL
    SHERMAN: A UCBNE MEng Capstone Project Now Developed at LANL March 12, 2021 A former MEng Capstone project by Jay Lin was published as a paper last year, and now developed as a product at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It was renamed from RANHAM to SHERMAN (Sample Handling Environment for Radioactive Materials Analysis with Neutrons) […]
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