Under sponsorship from the US Department of State, NSSPI has conducted a number of nuclear security training programs at Texas A&M and abroad for international students and professionals. These dynamic programs use Texas A&M resources to offer education and training through: courses, seminars, tours, experiments, hands-on activities, group projects, and cultural experiences. In the past, NSSPI has hosted groups from Japan, Brazil, Indonesia, Jordan, Nigeria, and India, as well as several multinational groups at Texas A&M.
Past Courses / Lectures
Nuclear Security
- Introduction to Nuclear Security Threats and Consequences
- Nuclear Terrorism Threat Assessment and Analysis
- Nuclear Security Case Studies
- Physical Protection Systems
- Comprehensive Nuclear Security System Approach
- Design Evaluation Process Overview (DEPO)
- Design Basis Threat and Threat Assessment
- Security Systems Objectives: Facility Characterization and Target Identification
- Design Characteristics of Security Systems: Detection
- Design Characteristics of Security Systems: Delay
- Design Characteristics of Security Systems: Response
- Security System Analysis: Adversary Sequence Diagrams
- Security System Analysis: Scenario Analysis
- Security System Analysis: Case Studies
- Security System Analysis Tabletop
- Human Element in Nuclear Security
- Insider Threat and Mitigation
- Human Reliability Programs in Nuclear Security
- Nuclear Security Culture
- Insider Threat Tabletop
- Radiation Detection
- Intrusion Detection Sensors
- Radiation Isotope Identification Device-RIID
- Counting Statistics and Error Propagation
- Gas-Filled Detectors
- Neutron Detection
- Deployable Radiation Detection Technologies in Nuclear Security
- Nuclear and Radiological Event Consequence Management
- Transportation Security
- Detection, Interdiction, and Response to Material Outside of Regulatory Control
- Best Practices of Nuclear Security in Nuclear Engineering Education
- Nuclear Security Human Resource and Capacity Development
Nonproliferation
- History of Nuclear Nonproliferation
- Arms Control
- Export Control
- Proliferation Resistance Analysis
- Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
Nuclear Materials Measurements
- Nuclear Materials Measurement Techniques and Equipment
- Bulk Measurements
- Irradiated Fuel Measurements
- Destructive Analysis: Chemical Assay
- Destructive Analysis: Mass Spectrometry, Calorimetry, Alpha Spectrometry
- Non-Destructive Analysis: Gamma Measurements
- Non-Destructive Assay: Neutron
Nuclear Safeguards
- Safeguards Treaties and Legal Issues
- IAEA Nuclear Material Safeguards
- Fuel Cycle and Applied Safeguards
- Containment and Surveillance
- Introduction to Nuclear Material Control & Accountancy (NMC&A)
- NMC&A Applications for Nuclear Power Reactors
- Environmental Sampling
- Remote / Unattended Monitoring Systems
- Uranium Enrichment Safeguards
- Spent Fuel Safeguards
3S – Nuclear Safety, Security, & Safeguards
- Interrelationship and Integration of Safety, Security, and Safeguards
- Roles and responsibilities of people/organizations for nuclear security, safeguards, and safety
- Peaceful uses of nuclear energy