Dr. Andreas Enqvist

NEWS & STORIES

Operation Desert Heat

Friday November 22, 2024

Cat and Emily traveled to Las Vegas, NV to conduct measurements for Operation Desert Heat at the Device Assembly Facility. This follow-on measurement campaign expanded on the measurements from 2023 and utilized two additional scintillation detectors capable of gamma/neutron discrimination. The results of this campaign will be prepared for future publication and incorporated […]

The Enqvist Research Group (LOKE) Induces Fusion*

Thursday August 29, 2024

We are super excited to welcome new members Sai, Jaylen, Nuo, and Joseph to the group! They bring lots of skill and enthusiasm into the research team. We look forward to watching their growth as students and researchers! See People page for more information about their individual research interests. *No actual fusion has occurred. Our […]

Summer 2023 update 2: NCERC experiments

Thursday August 17, 2023

In July 2023, Cat and Brice spent a week 2 hours northwest of Las Vegas, NV, at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC) conducting measurements on various nuclear material assemblies along with two other NNSA NA-22 consortium University teams (UIUC, UM). IMAGES APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE IAW LA-UR-23-29446; DISTRIBUTION IS UNLIMITED.

Summer 2023 update 1: conferences & seeing the whole crew

Thursday August 17, 2023

In May, Cat gave a presentation “Optimal Detector Configuration for Nondestructive Assay of Fresh Nuclear Fuel” at SORMA 2023 in Ann Arbor, MI. A few weeks later, Cat and Brice both presented posters at the NNSA 2023 University Program Review in Berkeley, CA, where the group was able to catch up with some of its […]

Cat Barker, Andreas Enqvist, and Brice Turner at the 2023 MTV conference

2023 MTV Workshop

Wednesday March 29, 2023

Last week, the group attended the NNSA NA-22 Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification’s 2023 Workshop. Cat gave an oral presentation (link) and Brice presented a poster (link).

Container irradiation test at the UFTR

Thursday March 16, 2023

Over the past few weeks, the team has been preparing to conduct neutron irradiation of bacteria samples in the University of Florida Training Reactor in support of research for the NASA Planetary Protection Research program. After pressure and vacuum testing, a container identical to the one in which bacteria will be contained for fielding was […]

Congrats, Noah!

Friday November 18, 2022

Long overdue but you killed your Ph.D. Proposal this semester! Way to go!

Congratulations, Dr. Stadnikia!