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The Public Policy and Nuclear Threats (PPNT) Boot Camp is a multi-day workshop hosted by the Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) at the University of California, San Diego. The program is designed to provide students with the necessary tools to contribute to the debate on nuclear security policy, addressing technical, legal, and policy aspects of nonproliferation. The boot camp features lectures, discussions, debates and policy simulations. Seminars are delivered by distinguished researchers; academics; policy officials; and specialists from the University of California system and other leading universities; the National Security Council; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories; the International Atomic Energy Agency; and federal government agencies such as DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office), and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, dealing with nuclear policy, nuclear threats, detection, and safeguard issues.

Next year’s program will run from June 19 – June 29, 2016, and will be held at UC San Diego.

The University of Texas at El Paso, an NSSC MSI Research Institution, was awarded a $1.4 million grant to establish new courses in nuclear engineering and to conduct research on next-generation materials for nuclear reactors. The four-year grant will fund multiple internships for UTEP students to participate in nuclear energy research at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Davis; or the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). More information is available here.

The Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a non-tenure or tenure faculty position targeting nuclear instrumentation. More information is available here.