Archived Colloquiums

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Fall 2011

Date Title Webcast
Nov 28, 2011 EM2 and Spinoff Technologies Webcast
Nov 21, 2011 Neutron Generators for Active Interrogation Applications in Nuclear Safeguards and Homeland Security Webcast
Nov 14, 2011 Origins, Visions, Plans & Wave Reactors Webcast
Nov 7, 2011 The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Webcast
Oct 31, 2011 The Attractiveness of Materials in Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles for Various Proliferation and Theft Scenarios Webcast
Oct 24, 2011 From Nuclear Medicine to Molecular Imaging: A Spectrum of Isotopes and New Molecular Probes Webcast
Oct 17, 2011 Nuclear Energy and Health Webcast
Oct 3, 2011 Precision Beta-Delayed Neutron Spectroscopy Using Trapped Radioactive Ions Webcast
Sept 26, 2011 Gathering the Tools for a Renewed UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology: From Dose to Image to Dose Webcast
Sept 19, 2011 The Materials Test Station: A Fast Spectrum Irradiation Facility Webcast
Sept 12, 2011 Research Opportunities at LBNL in Accelerator-Based Future Light Sources and Ion Beam Cancer Therapy Webcast

Spring 2011

Date Title Webcast
May 2, 2011 The Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility Overview Webcast
Apr 25, 2011 Atomic-force microscopy based characterization of ion-bombardment induced nanostructures Webcast
Apr 18, 2011 Treatment of Epistemic Uncertainty in Risk Analysis: Implications for Risk-Informed Decision-Making  
Apr 4, 2011 The Spent Nuclear Fuel and Non-Proliferation  
Mar 31, 2011 Nuclear Nonproliferation Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory Webcast
Mar 28, 2011 Discussion about situation in Japan  
Mar 14, 2011 Chemical separation processes for advanced nuclear fuel cycles: Challenges and possibilities Webcast
Mar 9, 2011 Trivalent Actinide and Lanthanide Interactions with Phosphate Materials Webcast
Mar 7, 2011 Delayed gamma assay for nuclear safeguards Webcast
Feb 28, 2011 An Innovative Neutron Transport Method for Whole Reactor Core Criticality Analysis  
Feb 14, 2011 Reduced-Order Physics Models For Computationally Efficient Charged Particle Transport Webcast
Feb 7, 2011 Increased usage of Nuclear Power – advantages and challenges - worldwide Webcast
Jan 31, 2011 Interactions of Colloids with Radionuclides in Geosphere Webcast
Jan 24, 2011 Economics and Nuclear Power Plants Webcast

Fall 2010

Date Title Webcast
Dec 6, 2010 Nuclear Fuel Cycle Options Study Webcast
Dec 1, 2010 Multi-scale Analysis on Cavitation Damage and its Mitigation for the Spallation Neutron Source Webcast
Nov 29, 2010 Nuclear Central Asia Webcast
Nov 22, 2010 China Nuclear Power Industry – A Comparative Study Webcast
Nov 15, 2010 An Ode to Oxides & The Role of Crystal Structure and Chemistry on Radiation Damage Effects in Oxides Webcast
Nov 8, 2010 The MC21 Monte Carlo Code for Reactor Design Calculations Webcast
Nov 2, 2010 Past, Present, and Future of Monte Carlo  
Nov 1, 2010 Implementing Nuclear Ambitions: The Political Foundations of Technical Achievement Webcast
Oct 25, 2010 Advanced CANDU Reactors Webcast
Oct 18, 2010 Applied Nuclear Engineering at the INL Advanced Test Reactor Webcast
Oct 11, 2010 Assisting Countries in Africa with Radioactive Source Control  
Oct 4, 2010 Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence for Pu Measurement in Spent Nuclear Fuel Webcast
Sept 27, 2010 Advanced Construction Methods and Application of IT systems to Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
Webcast
Sept 20, 2010 Electron-track Compton Imaging: Chasing the Holy Grail Webcast
Sept 13, 2010 Soft computing approach to evaluation and selection of energy development strategies Webcast
Aug 30, 2010 Pyrochemical Process for Nuclear Spent Fuel Reprocessing Webcast
Aug 24, 2010 The promise, peril and puzzle of plutonium Webcast

Spring 2010

Date Title Webcast
May 3, 2010 EM2: Pushing Nuclear Technology into the 21st Century Webcast
Apr 26, 2010 Gen-IV R&D: A Cornerstone of International Nuclear Cooperation Webcast
Apr 19, 2010 Multi-component Plasma Interactions with Elemental and Mixed-material Surfaces
Webcast
Apr 12, 2010 Nuclear R&D for Future Nuclear Energy Systems in Korea Webcast
Apr 5, 2010 Simulated Experiments of Particle and Plasma-Surface Interactions at the Nanoscale Webcast
Mar 15, 2010 Careers in Nonproliferation and International Safeguards  
Mar 15, 2010 Nuclear Nonproliferation Verification and Compliance: The Role of International Safeguards  
Mar 8, 2010 Dynamic Chamber Systems for Laser Internal Fusion-Based Energy (LIFE) Webcast
Mar 1, 2010 Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence and the Prevention of Nuclear Terror Webcast
Feb 22, 2010 Development of a RF-Driven Compact Neutron Generator to be Used For Associated Particle Imaging
 
Feb 22, 2010 K-alpha x-ray Thomson scattering from warm dense matter Webcast
Feb 8, 2010 Cross section and tensor analyzing power of the d+d ->4He+eta reaction near threshold Webcast
Feb 1, 2010 Is 'proliferation-proof technology' a double oxymoron? Webcast

Fall 2009

Date Title Webcast
Dec 7, 2009 Modern Reactor Safety Software Webcast
Nov 30, 2009 Analysis of Massively Parallel Discrete-Ordinates Transport Sweep Algorithms with Collisions
Webcast
Nov 23, 2009 DOE Nuclear Energy Programs: The Long and the Short/the Far and the Near
Nov 16, 2009 Current Activities and Projects at the AREVA San Jose Office Webcast
Nov 9, 2009 Deliberately Small Reactors and the Second Nuclear Era Webcast
Nov 2, 2009 Over 50 years of electricity production from light water reactors - What material sciences have brought to these reactors Webcast
Oct 26, 2009 Characterization of structural materials for nuclear applications and small scale materials testing on irradiated materials Webcast
Oct 23, 2009 Nuclear Challenges in North Korea, Iran and India Webcast
Oct 19, 2009 Safety Analysis at Non-reactor Nuclear Facilities Webcast
Oct 12, 2009 Submarine Operations and Navy Nuclear Power  
Sept 28, 2009 Requirements for future nuclear reactors and CANDLE reactor Webcast
Sept 21, 2009 Nuclear Nonproliferation: How to do Science in a Policy World Webcast
Sept 14, 2009 First-principles calculations for lanthanides and actinides: applications to nuclear separations and new nuclear detection mate  
Sept 3, 2009 Thermo-mechanical lifetime modeling of fuel particle and neutron multiplier Be pebble designs for the LIFE engine Webcast

Spring 2009

Date Title Webcast
May 22, 2009 The Impact of 238U Resonance Elastic Scattering Approximations on Thermal Reactor Doppler Reactivity  
May 11, 2009 Taiwan's Interest in Molten Salt Reactors and the Thorium Cycle  
May 8, 2009 Material Issues in a Heavy Liquid Metal Cooling Environment and Irradiations and Testing of Advanced Materials for Fission Webcast
May 4, 2009 The Rudiments of IAEA Safeguards with a Focus on the Key Safeguards Challenges Webcast
Apr 27, 2009 Understanding the Risk of Space Radiation: Why it Matters for Ground-based Health Webcast
Apr 20, 2009 The TerraPower Initiative  
Apr 13, 2009 The Surrogate Method: An Indirect Approach to Nuclear Reactions Data to the Benefit of Future Nuclear Energy Systems Webcast
Apr 10, 2009 Fuel Challenges for High Performance Nuclear Systems: Research on Nuclear Fuel at High Burnup Webcast
Apr 6, 2009 Safeguards Considerations of Thorium Utilization in Nuclear Reactor Fuel Cycles Webcast
Mar 30, 2009 Fusion Neutron Sources for Energy and National Security Applications Webcast
Mar 16, 2009 Bridging the Gaps: Improving Reactor Neutronics at Domain Interfaces Webcast
Mar 9, 2009 Risk Assessment, Operating Experience, and Public Safety Webcast
Mar 9, 2009 The Metamorphosis of Nonlinear Plasma Waves: Periodic Waves to Solitary Waves to Shock Waves to Solitary Waves
 
Mar 2, 2009 Status and Progress for the Pebble-Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor Webcast
Feb 27, 2009 Fast Neutron Reactors and Sustainable Development Webcast
Feb 23, 2009 The Domestic Nuclear Threat Security (DoNuTS) Project Webcast
Feb 9, 2009 The GeoPolitics of Energy: Achieving a Just and Sustainable Energy Distribution by 2040
 
Jan 29, 2009 Collapsing Criteria for Vapor film around solid Spheres as a Fundamental Stage leading to Vapor Explosion  
Jan 26, 2009 Laser Enrichment of Uranium Webcast
     

Fall 2008

Date Title Webcast
Dec 8, 2008 Our Greatest Challenge Yet Webcast
Dec 1, 2008 Physics of Advanced High-Gain Targets for Inertial Fusion Energy
Webcast
Nov 17, 2008 The Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP): Project Overview and Current Research Directions Webcast
Nov 12, 2008 A Domain Decomposition Approach for Large-scale Multiphase Flow Simulation ---An Introduction to TOUGH2-MP Webcast
Nov 3 , 2008 Computational Study of Defects Behavior in Ceramics Fuels Webcast
Oct 27, 2008 The role of 5f electrons and nonlinear atomic vibrations in nuclear fuel stability and thermal transport Webcast
Oct 20, 2008 Characteristics of Organobentonite and Study of Iodine Adsorption on Organobentonite Using X-Ray Adsorption Spectroscopy
Webcast
Oct 13, 2008 Modeling radiation effects: some answers to the NASA and DOE challenges Webcast
Oct 6, 2008 Nonproliferation Graduate Program  
Sep 29, 2008 Polaris: High-Resolution Room-Temperature 3-D Semiconductor g-Ray Imaging Spectrometers Webcast
Sep 22, 2008 The Role of Systems Analysis in Advanced Fuel Cycle Development Webcast
Sept 15, 2008 Radiation Detection for National Security Applications  
Sept 8, 2008 Experience at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria Webcast

Spring 2008

Date Title Webcast
May 12, 2008 Semiconductor Detectors for Compton Gamma Ray Imaging: Current Technology and Future Research Thrusts  
Apr 28, 2008 Cost Structure and Market Sustainability of the International Light Water Reactor Fuel Fabrication Industry Webcast
Apr 21, 2008 Nanofluids and Nuclear Power Webcast
Apr 14, 2008 Long-term Performance Estimates for the Proposed Yucca Mountain Repository: Current Status
 
Apr 7 , 2008 The Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor: Concepts for Small and Medium Sized Reactors for International Deployment Webcast
Mar 31, 2008 Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Nuclear Science and Engineering Program Webcast
Mar 17, 2008 The US PRISM and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Webcast
Mar 10, 2008 A Century of Reactor Kinetics and Reactor Dynamics Webcast
Mar 3, 2008 When you need answers The role of the consulting engineer in solving complex problems Webcast
Feb 25, 2008 UPDATE on CLIMATE CHANGE and NUCLEAR ENERGY  
Feb 11, 2008 The (im)possibilities of nuclear fuel transmutation Webcast
Feb 4, 2008 AREVA Plans for the Nuclear Power Renaissance Webcast
Jan 28, 2008 Probing Structure and Dynamics of Molecules in Solids by NMR spectroscopy: A Spin I = 1 Journey Webcast