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

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… Read More

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).

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

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

Best wishes to you in your future career at AFTAC!