Dr. Paul Nelson, NSSPI Associate Director for International Programs, was awarded over $1.1 million in research grants from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Engineering University Program (NEUP). The projects chosen for award were “Improved Safety Margin Characterization of Risk from Loss of Offsite Power” and “Correlates of Sensitive Technologies.” For the first project, Dr. Nelson […]
NSF-DNDO Academic Research Initiative to Fund NSSPI Research on Plutonium Signatures
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen a project proposed by NSSPI faculty member, Dr. Sunil Chirayath, along with Dr. David Boyle, NSSPI Deputy Director, and Dr. Charles M. Folden, III, of the TAMU Cyclotron Institute, to receive an award under the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) Academic Research Initiative. The award in the amount […]
SHIELD Researchers Take Measurements at the Port of Tacoma
From August 26 -30, NSSPI faculty member Dr. Craig Marianno and Dr. Sunil Khatri from the TAMU Department of Electrical Engineering, along with NSSPI graduate students Matthew Grypp and Gentry Hearn, traveled to the Port of Tacoma to conduct gamma measurement experiments at the port’s Rail Test Center. This work is part of the multi-disciplinary […]
RAP-NIS Student Research Symposium Brings Together Students from the US and Russia
NSSPI students and staff traveled to the Labor Spiez in Switzerland from July 25-27 for the Russian Academic Program in Nonproliferation and International Security (RAP-NIS) Student Research Symposium. The Student Research Symposium allows students from the US and Russia to share their graduate research and build professional relationships. NSSPI students Roushan Ghanbari and Travis Gitau joined students […]
Goddard and Ryan Perform Neutron Measurements at the Joint Research Center
Nuclear Security Science and Policy (NSSPI) Graduate Assistant Researchers, Braden Goddard and Chris Ryan, traveled to the European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC) in Ispra, Italy from December 4 through December 11, 2010, to perform neutron measurements in support of Goddard’s Ph.D. research. The objective of the measurements was to detect neutrons in coincidence using […]