During the week of June 21-25, students and staff from NSSPI (TAMU), the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (MEPhI), and the Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering (IATE) took part in a Foreign Field Experience in the UK as part of the Russian Academic Program in Nonproliferation and International Security (RAP-NIS). The goal of the Foreign Field Experience is to foster interaction between American and Russian students while they visit nuclear sites and participate in discussions of nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards.
The participants gave presentations on their respective institutes and discussed potential future collaborations with faculty/staff at the University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute (DNI) and the Center for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) at King’s College, London. The experience also included visits to the the URENCO Gas Centrifuge Enrichment plant in Capenhurst, the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant and the Vitrification Plant at the Sellafield Ltd. site in Seascale, and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s Pelham House Employee Training Center in Calder Bridge.