NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND SECURITY CONSORTIUM
Developing the next generation of nuclear professionals
On April 30th, at 11 am PST, a recruitment session will be held for graduate students interested in the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Graduate Fellowship Program (NGFP) for 2022. The fellowship seeks highly motivated graduate-level students to grow as the next generation of nuclear security leaders. The one-year, salaried (with benefits) fellowships offer: • … Read more
Steven Gardiner, former NSSC Fellow at UC Davis, now at FermiLab, recently published “Nuclear de-excitations in low-energy charged-current νe scattering on 40Ar” in Phys. Rev. C. Prof. Robert Svoboda, Gardiner’s former academic advisor, details this accomplishment, “For his thesis [Steven] developed a new nuclear model for neutrino interactions with argon nuclei. This was the first time anybody had … Read more
“Neutrino Detectors as Tools for Nuclear Security” written by Adam Bernstein, Nathaniel Bowden, Bethany L. Goldblum, Patrick Huber, Igor Jovanovic, and John Mattingly, has won the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate Award at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for Excellence in Publication. This article provides a wide reaching summary of the neutrino applications field and was lauded for … Read more