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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January 4, 2010
From November 30th through December 4th, 2009, NSSPI and the
Department of Nuclear Engineering at TAMU hosted a group of
students from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) and
the Tomsk Polytechnic Univerisity (TPU) currently working in the
United States as interns at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The students,
Dmitry Gerasimov, Andrey Zhukov, Leonid Khodalev, Olga Mikhaylova,
and Petr Mansurov, were able to tour the campus and sit in on
several graduate-level nuclear engineering classes and labs as part
of their e...
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November 16, 2009
The Texas A&M Department of Nuclear Engineering, in
conjunction with the Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute
(NSSPI), the Nuclear Power Institute (NPI), the Nuclear Science
Center (NSC), and the College of Engineering, hosted two visitors
from the National University of Malaysia the week of November 7,
2009. The visitors were Prof. Emeritus Dato' Dr. Noramly bin
Muslim, Professor and Chairman of Atomic Energy Licensing Board
(AELB), and Prof. Dr. Shahidan bin Radiman, Chairman of the School
of Applied Physics. The official purpose for the visit was to
discuss possible ...
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