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The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future has released a draft report that recommends significant changes to the U.S. strategy for managing the country’s growing stockpile of high-level nuclear waste. Per Peterson, UC Berkeley professor and chair of nuclear engineering, is one of 15 members of the commission, which was formed in 2010 after plans to store nuclear waste at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain were halted.
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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.
NNSA awards $25 million for nuclear science and security consortium
June 9, 2011:
The National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded UC Berkeley a five-year, $25 million grant to lead a multi-institution consortium that will support the nation’s nonproliferation mission through the training and education of experts in the nuclear security field.
