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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March 12, 2012
The Winter 2012 edition of the Journal of Nuclear Materials
Management is a special issue featuring the work of students
involved in the Russian Academic Program on Nonproliferation and
International Security (RAP-NIS), a technical safeguards education
collaboration between NSSPI, TAMU, and two premier Russian
universities: the Russian National Research Nuclear University
Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (NRNU-MEPhI) and the
Obninsk State Technical University's Institute of Nuclear Power
Engineering (NRNU-IATE).
According to NSSPI research engineer Claudio Gariazzo in the
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January 17, 2012
From December 11-16, 2011, NSSPI staff and students presented
their work at the GLOBAL 2011 conference held at Makuhari Messe in
the Chiba province of Japan. The first day of the conference was
focused on the affects of the Fukushima-Daiichi accident on the
nuclear futures of nations such as France, Russia, the U.S.,
Kazakhstan, India, and, of course, Japan. The second day was
devoted to in-depth discussions on advances in technology related
to the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle.
NSSPI students Braden Goddard, Julia Eigenbrodt, and Alison
Goodsell were able to present their wo...
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January 12, 2012
This fall, NSSPI hosted two student interns, Vladimir Marchenko
and Alexey Nikienko, from the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic
University (TPU) of Russia through a project coordinated by NSSPI
staff members Claudio Gariazzo and Dr. Alexander Solodov. The
objective of their tenure at TAMU was to fulfill a practical work
experience requirement as part of their respective engineering
degree plans and to enhance their proficiency of the English
language. Both students are enrolled in the TPU nuclear material
protection, control and accounting engineering degree program.
Working und...
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November 1, 2011
During the week of October 24-28, a group of TAMU Nuclear
Engineering students visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
in Oak Ridge, TN, to participate in the "Non-Destructive Assay
(NDA) Applications for International Safeguards" practical short
course at ORNL's Safeguards Laboratory as part of the
"Radiation Detection and Nuclear Material Measurements" class at
TAMU (NUEN-605).
The class consisted of both lectures and valuable hands-on
experience with safeguards instrumentation and software, providing
the students with practical understanding of a number of NDA
techn...
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September 4, 2009
Adrienne LaFleur reflects on her experience at the 2009 31st
Annual ESARDA meeting held in Lithuania in the Student Corner
section of the September 2009 issue of the INMM Communicator.
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