April 1, 2013
From March 12-14, NSSPI hosted the semi-annual meeting of the
Material Protection Accounting and Control Technologies (MPACT)
campaign working group. MPACT is a campaign, sponsored by the
US Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE), whose
mission is to develop innovative technologies and analysis tools to
enable next-generation nuclear materials management for existing
and future U.S. nuclear fuel cycles, focusing on minimizing
proliferation and terrorism risk.
Thirty-seven participants from the DOE, NNSA, US national labs,
academia, and industry attended the...
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March 26, 2013
From March 18-20 NSSPI Director Dr. William Charlton
participated in the CTBTO Academic Forum in Vienna, Austria.
Focused on education related to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
(CTBT), the forum was organized by the Preparatory Commission for
the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) as
part of their Capacity Development Initiative and intended for
academics engaged and interested in CTBT education as well as
broader disarmament and non-proliferation topics. The purpose
of the forum was to build upon the dialogue of a previous seminar
held last su...
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March 20, 2013
NSSPI Director, Dr. William Charlton traveled to Seoul, Korea
February 19-20, 2013 to participate in the 1st Asan
Nuclear Forum hosted by the Asan Institute for Policy
Studies. At this forum, 200 leading nuclear experts from over
30 countries and international organization gathered to discuss
major issues in nuclear nonproliferation, peaceful use of nuclear
energy and nuclear security. Dr. Charlton chaired a session
at the forum on Nuclear Safety and Terrorism and moderated a
luncheon on nuclear security.
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March 14, 2013
NSSPI Research Engineer, Claudio Gariazzo, was invited to
lecture at the 11th European Safeguards Research and
Development Association (ESARDA) Course on Nuclear Safeguards and
Nonproliferation in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia. Held from
February 25th to March 1st, the course was
aimed for only ASEAN countries (with Australian observers).
The course had 36 participants from around Southeast Asia and
Australia and also included lecturers from the Joint Research
Centre of Ispra, Italy, the Japanese Atomic Energy Authority's
Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonprolifer...
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February 15, 2013
NSSPI student Jennifer Erchinger has been selected to attend The
2nd International Seminar on Global Nuclear Human Resource
Development for Safety, Security and Safeguards, on February 18-26,
2013 in Tokyo.
Erchinger is currently working with NSSPI faculty member Dr. Craig
Marianno and will be earning her Master's degree in Health Physics
in the spring of 2013. Her primary research focus has been in the
development of a specialized radiation portal that will be used to
scan livestock following a radiological incident such as a nuclear
power plant accident or terrorist...
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