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On September 1, 2017,  Professor Rachel Slaybaugh of the Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California Berkeley, began a three-year, half-time assignment as a Program Director with ARPA-E, where she will develop, launch and manage high-impact programs in clean energy, building on her previous experience with the Agency: 

Professor Kai Vetter's group has been awarded a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) grant.  The proposal, "New Concepts for Mobile Radiation Detection and Mapping Systems", will receive three years of funding.  

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UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Graduate Student, Sandra Bogetic, received the Best Paper Award at the 25th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE 25), held July 2-6, 2017 in Shanghai, China. Sandra's paper, entitled “Uncertainty Analysis of the TRU-burning Thorium-fueled RBWR Using Generalized Perturbation Theory" was co-written with Drs. Phil Gorman and Manuele Aufiero and Professors Max Fratoni, Ehud Greenspan, and Jasmina Vujic. Congratulations Sandra!

NEUP 2017 R&D Award

Fuel Cycle Research and Development:

Methods for Process Monitoring to Accurately Detect and Quantify Material Holdup in Advanced Recycle Facilities- PI: Rachel Slaybaugh, University of California, Berkeley Co-PIs: Per Peterson, Kai Vetter, and Karl van Bibber Estimated funding: 800,000

Reactor Concepts Research Development and Demonstration (RCRD&D):

Nuclear Materials Graduate Student, David Frazer has been awarded 1st place in the DOE Innovations in Nuclear Techology R&D Competition.  He will present his paper, "Degradation of HT9 under simultaneous ion beam irradiation and liquid metal corrosion" at the ANS Winter Meeting this October is Washington, DC.