Tag: nuclear engineering
SubscribeFour faculty members named fellows of AAAS
November 29, 2012:
Four UC Berkeley faculty members – plant biologist Sheng Luan, cell biologist Kunxin Luo, nuclear engineer Eric Norman and chemist Evan Williams – are among 702 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, bringing the campus total to 227.
Nuclear Engineering honored for Fukushima communications
June 28, 2012:
UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering has been awarded an American Nuclear Society’s Presidential Citation for its leadership in communications after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
DOE 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.
UC Berkeley scientists to work with DOE labs to produce more nuclear security experts
June 10, 2011:
Officials from DOE’s National Nuclear Nonproliferation Agency joined UC Berkeley nuclear experts to kick off a multiuniversity effort to fill the need for nuclear science and security experts at the national laboratories.
Thomas Pigford, influential voice in nuclear policy, dies at 87
March 5, 2010:
Thomas Pigford, professor emeritus and founding chair of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley, and an influential voice in nuclear policy, has died Feb. 28 at the age of 87. Pigford was recognized internationally for helping nuclear science evolve into a discipline that incorporated principles of chemical engineering, and he was respected among scientists and environmentalists alike for his technical expertise and objectivity.
