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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July 20, 2012
On June 18, 2012, NSSPI faculty members Dr. Craig Marianno and
Dr. Alexander Solodov took part in a luncheon at the US Embassy in
the Czech Republic. Ambassador Norman L. Eisen hosted the
luncheon in honor of the CVUT Nuclear Engineering Conference, a
week-long graduate and post-graduate workshop that was held in the
Mechanical Engineering Department at the nearby Czech Technical
University in Prague. The workshop was organized by the Czech
Nuclear Education Network (CENEN) using European Union program
funds and was endorsed by the US Embassy as part of its initiative
to...
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August 17, 2011
NSSPI students and staff traveled to the Labor Spiez in
Switzerland from July 25-27 for the Russian Academic Program in
Nonproliferation and International Security (RAP-NIS) Student
Research Symposium. The Student Research Symposium allows
students from the US and Russia to share their graduate
research and build professional relationships. NSSPI students
Roushan Ghanbari and Travis Gitau joined students from Moscow
Engineering and Physics Institute (MEPhI) and the Obninsk Institute
for Nuclear Power Engineering (IATE), both institutes of the
Russian National Researc...
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December 21, 2010
Nuclear Security Science and Policy (NSSPI) Graduate Assistant
Researchers, Braden Goddard and Chris Ryan, traveled to the
European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC) in Ispra, Italy
from December 4 through December 11, 2010, to perform neutron
measurements in support of Goddard's Ph.D. research.
The objective of the measurements was to detect neutrons in
coincidence using an International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA)
approved Active Well Coincidence Counter (AWCC). The material
measured consisted of uranium, plutonium, and mixed-oxide in
different isotopic con...
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July 14, 2010
During the week of June 21-25, students and staff from NSSPI
(TAMU), the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (MEPhI), and
the Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering (IATE) took
part in a Foreign Field Experience in the UK as part of the Russian
Academic Program in Nonproliferation and International Security
(RAP-NIS). The goal of the Foreign Field Experience is to foster
interaction between American and Russian students while they visit
nuclear sites and participate in discussions of nuclear
nonproliferation and safeguards.
The participants gave presentations on thei...
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June 21, 2010
NSSPI organized a meeting of the participants in the Russian
Academic Program in Nonproliferation and International Security
(RAP-NIS) at the Labor Spiez in Switzerland during the week of May
31, 2010 to discuss the past successes and future direction of the
program. RAP-NIS is a collaboration various international partners
to develop nuclear nonproliferation education programs in the U.S.
and Russia.
Representatives of NSSPI-TAMU included NSSPI director Dr. William
Charlton, NSSPI associate research engineer Claudio Gariazzo, and
Dr. Lee Peddicord, director of the Nuclear Power I...
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June 17, 2009
The 31st Annual Meeting of European Safeguards Research and
Development Association (ESARDA) took place from the 26th to the
28th of May, 2009 in Vilnius, Lithuania. NSSPI was represented by
Dr. William Charlton, Adrienne LaFleur, Dr. Paul Nelson, and Daniel
Strohmeyer. According to Adrienne Lafleur, the international
community expressed great interest in the research NSSPI presented
at the meeting, and it was a "very interesting and a great
experience." To see photos and papers from the conference, go to
the NSSPI
photo album.
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