December 13, 2012
From October 1 to December, NSSPI hosted two student interns
from the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Tomsk, Russia.
Denis Tatarnikov and Dmitry Prokopyev spent their internship at
NSSPI conducting research in nuclear security and nuclear forensics
under a project sponsored by the National Nuclear Security
Administration's Office of Material Protection, Control, and
Accounting and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The
Tomsk students not only conducted substantive research projects
during their time at NSSPI, producing a detailed report and
presentation, bu...
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April 23, 2012
NSSPI student Alison Goodsell was awarded the Isotopes and
Radiation Session Award at the 2012 American Nuclear Society (ANS)
Student Conference, which was held April 12-15 in Las Vegas,
Nevada. Goodsell presented research on the use of a quartz-crystal
x-ray spectrometer to improve the detection of the Pu and U x-ray
peaks in spent fuel by reducing the Compton background. The
overall scope of the presentation was on the design process for the
quartz crystal and the customized tungsten collimator system.
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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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