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Operation Desert Heat

    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… Read More

Summer 2023 update 2: NCERC experiments

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… Read More

2023 MTV Workshop

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

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

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,… Read More

Congrats, Noah!

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