Spring 2014 Colloquium

SPEAKER: DR. BHASKAR SUR DATE/TIME: MON, 05/05/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: Radioactive materials and sources have been used worldwide for the last 100 years …

Continue reading “Identifying the Origin and Composition of Found Radioactive Objects: Nuclear Forensics in Action at Chalk River Laboratories”

SPEAKER: DR. OMAR HURRICANE DATE/TIME: WED, 04/23/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: Ignition has been a long sought-after goal needed to make fusion energy a …

Continue reading “The High-foot Implosion Campaign on the National Ignition Facility”

SPEAKER: PROF.DR. SABINE ROESER DATE/TIME: MON, 04/21/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: Technological risks raise important ethical issues. Although technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, ICT, …

Continue reading “Nuclear Energy, Risks, and Moral Emotions”

SPEAKER: DR. DIMITRI KUSNEZOV DATE/TIME: MON, 04/14/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 277 CORY HALL Spring 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: To provide insight on how science is drawn into time-urgent policy decisions through …

Continue reading “The Interface of Science and Policy”

SPEAKER: SUSANA REYES, PH.D. DATE/TIME: MON, 04/07/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: Recent efforts on fusion energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have been …

Continue reading “Closing the Fusion Fuel Cycle: Tritium Recovery and Processing”

SPEAKER: MARK S. DERZON DATE/TIME: MON, 03/31/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: Microfabrication offers some unique opportunities to build radiation sources as well as sensors. …

Continue reading “A Brief Overview of Radiation Related Research in the Microfabrication Program at Sandia National Laboratories”

SPEAKER: MICHAELE (MIKEY) BRADY RAAP, PH.D. DATE/TIME: MON, 03/17/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 102 MOFFITT Spring 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: The US is heavily invested in the detection and interdiction of nuclear …

Continue reading “The Great Unknownium Debate”

SPEAKER: CAMERON G.R. GEDDES, PH.D. DATE/TIME: MON, 03/10/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) produce GeV electron beams in centimeters, using the plasma …

Continue reading “Laser Plasma Accelerators and MeV Photon Sources for Nuclear Physics”

SPEAKER: KIRSTY GOGAN, MSC DATE/TIME: MON, 03/03/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: For the last ten years, government policy in Britain has sought to re-invigorate …

Continue reading “Delivering Britain’s Low-Carbon Nuclear Renaissance”

SPEAKER: PER F. PETERSON DATE/TIME: MON, 02/24/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: With its investment in small modular reactors (SMRs) based upon light water reactor …

Continue reading “UC Berkeley Contributions to High Temperature Reactor Technology: Recent Advances”