From January 19-30, Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering Ph.d. student and NSSPI research staff member Claudio Gariazzo presented a series of 14 lectures on nuclear security to a group of eight first-year master’s degree students at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) in India. The course covered basic nuclear nonproliferation and security, radiation detection, threat identification, facility characterization, physical security science, and other relevant topics. The program is sponsored by the US Department of State’s Partnership for Nuclear Security, and Gariazzo is the fourth Ph.D. student NSSPI has sent to PDPU to present a lecture series on nuclear security.
During the course of the lecture series, Gariazzo also visited with PDPU Nuclear Engineering faculty to discuss the inclusion of nuclear security education curriculum at PDPU and presented a lecture on the International Safeguards System and the Nonproliferation Regime to the local PDPU Student chapter of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM).
Gariazzo with the PDPU Student Chapter of the INMM