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The Department of Nuclear Engineering has launched a "magazine" on the article website Medium.  The new magazine aims to educate the public on a variety of issues in the nuclear sphere and to address the many misonceptions surrounding nuclear research and energy.  

On Friday, September 15, Congressman Jerry McNerney (CA, 9th District) visited the Department of Nuclear at the University of California, Berkeley and toured our research laboratories.  Representative McNerney is a co-sponsor of the Advanced Nuclear Technologies Development Act of 2017.

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!