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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 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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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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December 5, 2012
The AggiE-Challenge team led by NSSPI faculty member Dr. Sunil
Chirayath placed first in the AggiE-Challenge Showcase student
poster presentation competition held on Monday, December 3rd.
The showcase marked the end of the first semester of work for the
AggiE-Challenge teams. The AggiE-Challenge program is
sponsored by the Dwight Look College of Engineering at TAMU and
aims at actively engaging undergraduate students with
multidisciplinary team projects related to the major engineering
challenges facing our society as articulated by publications like
the National Academy...
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August 27, 2012
During the first two weeks of July, NSSPI hosted two students,
Mr. Manit Shah and Mr. Vijay Mehta, from the M. Tech. program in
Nuclear Energy at the Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU),
along with Profesor Shriram Paranjape, Chair of the Nuclear Energy
department at PDPU. The objective of their visit was to
receive hands-on laboratory experience in measurement techniques to
support the security of nuclear materials.
During their visit to NSSPI, the PDPU delegation attended
lectures and participated in lab experiences on various nuclear
security topics led by NSSPI ...
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March 9, 2012
The Gulf Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Institute (GNEII) is set
to begin the second year of courses at the Abu Dhabi campus of
Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates. The 2012
program will be divided into 4 month-long modules that will run
from March 4th until September with multi-week breaks in
between. Nineteen students from the Gulf region are currently
attending the courses, which cover the technical foundations of
nuclear energy, nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards, and
nuclear security and safety, followed by a capstone module in which
students research, prep...
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March 6, 2012
According to the World Nuclear Association, "Asia is the main
region in the world where electricity generating capacity and
specifically nuclear power is growing significantly." Among those
nations interested in adding nuclear power to their energy mix,
Malaysia is currently working toward 2021 as a target date for the
country to start generating its own nuclear power. As such,
the country needs to develop the required human resources in the
academic, industrial, and legal sectors very quickly. With
such an ambitious goal, Malaysian universities are actively
pursuing coo...
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June 21, 2011
The Gulf Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Institute (GNEII)
celebrated the completion of its pilot course with a ceremony at
the Khalifa University campus in Abu Dhabi on May 19, 2011. A
total of ten Emirati students participated in the "Fundamentals"
module, a 12-week educational program focused on nuclear power and
nuclear safety, safeguards, and security. These students are
employees of three major, nuclear energy-related organizations in
the UAE, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC), the
Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), and the Critical
National Infr...
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June 9, 2011
NSSPI has released a new version of its Nuclear Safeguards
Education Portal (NSEP), an application that
provides introductory educational resources for students
anywhere in the world with an interest in nuclear safeguards and
the security of nuclear materials. The new version of the
portal allows students to test their knowledge through online
assessments and includes support for iPhones and iPads.
Instructors using NSEP as part of a course will also be able
to have students email them results of their online
assessments.
NSEP was original...
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November 2, 2010
From August 23-27, 2010 NSSPI student Travis Gitau had the
opportunity to be a lecturer in an International Safeguards Seminar
held at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The purpose of the
seminar was to educate and engage young members of the Chinese
nuclear industry in international safeguards and nonproliferation
efforts. The seminar was organized under an agreement between the
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the State Development Planning
Commission of the People's Republic of China on Cooperation
Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technology (PUNT), the National
Nuclea...
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October 11, 2010
NSSPI associate director for international programs, Dr. Paul
Nelson, and Adam Hetzler, a graduate student in the Nuclear
Engineering department at TAMU, traveled to India the week of
August 20-September 4, 2010. The purpose of their visit was
to finalize arrangements for Hetzler to present lectures on nuclear
security engineering at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
(PDPU) and Magalore University (MU) and to explore the possibility
of developing education programs in the field at other Indian
universities. As part of these preparations, a letter of
cooperation was s...
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October 7, 2010
In September 2010, six TAMU students from the Nuclear
Engineering department, including two NSSPI students, travelled to
Moscow, Russia for a 2-week long internship at the National
Research Nuclear University's Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
(MEPhI). The internship was part of the Joint U.S.-Russia
Educational Program on Advanced Energy Technologies, a
three-year-long collaboration with the University of Maryland
funded by the U.S. Department of Education, which focuses on
increasing interaction between U.S. universities and MEPhI through
workshops, student exchanges and facul...
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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 15, 2009
This week marked the official launch of the Nuclear Safeguards
Education Portal, a group of Distance Education modules aimed at
providing education and outreach to those with an interest in
enhancing security of nuclear materials and facilities. NSEP is
maintained by the Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute
(NSSPI) at Texas A&M University and was developed through the
work of Dr. William Charlton, D. Grant Ford, Jr., Dr. Wen-Hsing
Hsu, Kelley Ragusa, and Dr. Daniel Reece. Funding for NSEP was
provided by the Office of Nonproliferation and International
Security (NA-24) ...
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