Tag: nuclear energy
SubscribeDOE grant to fund research into new nuclear reactor
September 22, 2011:
Nuclear engineering professors Per Peterson and Ehud Greenspan are part of a $7.5 million project funded by the Department of Energy to research salt-cooled high-temperature reactor technology. They will be collaborating with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on the project, which is part of a larger initiative by the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Projects to maintain U.S. leadership in nuclear energy research.
Nuclear science meets social science in novel summer program
July 28, 2011:
A summer school program designed to improve the social scientific literacy of nuclear engineers will use Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis as a case study. The six-day program, to be held in Berkeley from July 31 to Aug. 5, is being organized by faculty at UC Berkeley and the University of Tokyo.
