News update (6/29/2012)
6/29/2012 (2:05pm): We are pleased to announce that our Department has been awarded a Presidential Citation from the American Nuclear Society:
For serving at the leading edge of communication to educate California and the nation about radiological impact to the U.S. from the Fukushima incident. By collecting atmospheric-transported radiation samples from Japan, explaining the significance to the public via public forums and the UC-Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Air Monitoring Station website, the UC-Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department gained national recognition as a trusted source for rational, accurate and authoritative information about radioactivity and its potential impacts on the U.S. population.
Here is a link to the full press release.
Mark [BRAWM Team Member]
Congratulations
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Kῦδος to the University of California-Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department. This is a well deserved honor for your applied engineering ethics. It was the right, proper and moral thing to do, and BRAWM did it. You were a beacon of light upon a dark night, and the world was guided well. May your future engineering endeavors bring further credit upon your team and Alma Mater.
Bill Duff
Houston, Texas
Congratulations!
An honor well deserved, Mark, Dr. Chivers, and the rest of the BRAWM Team!
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
How Ironically Appropriate...
... coming from our very own, Nobel Peace Prize winning, drone-loving Warmonger-in-Chief.
Professor Farnsworth
WRONG!!!! WRONG!!! WRONG!!!
The citation is NOT from President Obama.
The citation is from the President of the American Nuclear Society.
Touche!
My apologies! I am seriously thinking about buying this neat book I see on the ANS web site online store:
Transport and Removal of Aerosols in Nuclear Power Plants Following Severe Accidents"
"Sher and Hobbins present the current state of knowledge of the chemical and thermodynamic phenomena taking place in reactor cores during the progression of accidents; the formation and physical and chemical properties of the aerosols; the timing and duration of the aerosol release from the core to the coolant and containment; and the physical, chemical, and thermal-hydraulic phenomena that govern the removal of aerosols from the containment atmosphere, which often result in only a small fraction of the aerosol being released to other parts of the plant or to the outside environment. "
I gather that INFREQUENTLY, a LARGE fraction of the aerosol is released to other parts of the plant or to the outside environment. This will make a great present to send to everyone I know!
Professor Farnsworth
Congratulations - Well Deserved
Congratulations - Well Deserved.
Someone needs to inform the public on these issues.
There's so much bad information being hyped.