May 2, 2013
From 11-18 April, recent NSSPI Ph.D. graduate Braden Goddard
traveled to northern India to teach classes in the Nuclear
Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
(IITK). Goddard gave a series of six 75 minute lectures, covering
such topics as nuclear safeguards, Monte Carlo methods, and nuclear
security science. These lectures were attended by two professors,
two Ph.D. students, and eight Masters of Technology (M.Tech.)
students from IITK. This series of lectures was considered to be
part of the class requirements for the M. Tech. students, and, as
such, the M.Tech. ...
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April 29, 2013
The AggiE-Challenge team, led by faculty advisor, NSSPI faculty
member Dr. Sunil Chirayath, and graduate student advisor Evans
Kitcher, was one of over 100 teams to participate in the 2013 TAMU
Engineering Project Showcase on April 19. The team consists
of eleven junior and senior level undergraduate students from the
departments of Nuclear Engineering and Industrial and Systems
Engineering.
The project, titled "Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Effectively
Interdict Highly Enriched Uranium Smuggling," addresses one of the
grand challenges articulated by the National Academy of
Engi...
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April 18, 2013
The Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute (NSSPI) at
Texas A&M University recently conducted the 2013 Nuclear
Facilities Experience (NFE) in Japan. The event was co-coordinated
with the Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and
Nuclear Security (ISCN) of the Japan Atomic Energy Authority.
Participants in the NFE included students and professors from
Texas A&M, the Tomsk Polytechnic University of Russia, and the
Hanoi University of Science of the Vietnamese National University.
Dr. William Charlton, director of NSSPI and an associate
professor in Texas A...
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April 11, 2013
NSSPI senior Ph.D. student James Miller is currently visiting
the Nuclear Energy program at Pandit Deendayahl Petroleum
University (PDPU) in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. He is there
to give a series of lectures on nuclear security to students in the
PDPU Nuclear Energy Masters of Technology (M.Tech.) program.
The five-week course runs from March 18 - April 20 and covers
topics including the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear security, physical
protection, and nuclear materials accounting. The five PDPU
student participants are all first-year students with backgrounds
in mechanical ...
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April 9, 2013
NSSPI faculty member Dr. Sunil S. Chirayath has been selected by
the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at South
Africa's North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) to be the
Co-Supervisor for two of their Nuclear Engineering graduate
students. Dr. Chirayath will advising Ph.D. student Marina du
Toit and M.Sc. student Sinenhlanhla Sihlangu in their research
along with North-West faculty members Dr. Anthonie Cilliers and Dr.
Vishnu Naicker, respectively. Ms. Toit will be conducting research
on the "Development of Gen III+ PWR Thorium based Fuels" and Ms.
Sihlang...
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