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Genève Magnan gives insight into the SMART Energy Conference
Trevor Johannes Smith receives Best Poster Award at SSAP Symposium
Jordan Noey receives Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
Isaac Sarbacker honored by Michigan Engineering
Advancing Nuclear Reactor Control and Digital Twins with Idaho National Laboratory
Roxanne Walker honored with Towner Prize from Michigan Engineering
Mackenzie Warwick honored with Distinguished Leadership Award from Michigan Engineering
Emeline Hanna receives award from Michigan Engineering
Engineering Physics Abroad: A Conversation with Vaibhav Ramaseshadri
Carolyn Kuranz honored with NERS Departmental Faculty Award from Michigan Engineering
Remembering Dr. Juliusz Kruszelnicki: A Brilliant Mind, Mentor, and Friend
Yue-Ying Lau retires after 30 years at NERS
NERS and AERO discussion series wins MLK Spirit Award
Three NERS staff members honored by Michigan Engineering
Carolyn Kuranz assumes role of Vice Chair, Karl Krushelnick as Past Chair in the Division of Plasma Physics Executive Committee
Brian Kiedrowski honored with Michigan Engineering Education Excellence Award
Fastest Path to Zero Initiative mentee wins local Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
Sara Pozzi elected International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
Oskar Searfus pioneers neutron signatures to safeguard thorium reactors
Ronald Gilgenbach: A Legacy of Innovation and Dedication in Nuclear Engineering
Todd Allen reappointed as chair of the Department of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences
NERS alum Crystal A. Green played key role in designing online fluoroscopy course
$3.4M for advancement of 3D CdZnTe gamma-ray detector technology
Graduate students Carolina Vazquez and Sebastian Lecha explore community engagement in fusion and fission spaces
NERS hosts William D. Magwood and Jeff Harper
Meet the professors with dry appointments at NERS
John Lee teaches course at Seoul National University
Mackenzie Warwick shines at the NEA Global Forum Rising Stars Workshop
Carolyn Kuranz honored with Rackham Faculty Achievement Award
Exploring Cutting-Edge Research and Emerging Technologies in the World of Gaseous Electronics and Plasma Physics
Todd Allen will support Midwest hydrogen hub
Exploring the World and Expanding Horizons
NERS to Support NSF-Funded EP-OPAL Laser Facility
Hidden variables and neural networks for complex plasma physics
Michigan Engineering honors NERS alumnus Eric Esarey with Department Merit Award
NERS collaborates with INL and industry partners to advance innovative heat exchanger technology for harsh environments
$1.2 million for laser target research laboratory
Rebecca Lindsey receives Young Investigator Award
Stephen Raiman given NRC Distinguished Faculty Development Award
NERS celebrates 65 years
PhD student Peter Hotvedt co-authored paper published in Frontiers in Physiology
Y.Y. Lau co-authors IEEE TPS Best Paper
IAEA using tech developed by NERS professor and alum
Kevin Field and Stephen Raiman named new directors of NERS materials labs
$7.5M to advance nuclear energy awarded to U-M
NERS presents Decommissioning Workshop with Tohoku University
Majdi Radaideh wins DOE Distinguished Early Career Award
NERS faculty receive $6.5M in DOE funding awards
NERS Students Geneve Magnan, Julia Marshall, Roxanne Walker, and Isabella Wood win ANS Scholarships
Annalisa Manera named ANS Fellow
NERS graduate students awarded UNLP Fellowships
Photos: Ron Gilgenbach and Y.Y. Lau Retirement Party
Aditi Verma featured in National Academies article on tackling inequities in emerging technologies webinar
NERS students win a Best Presentation Award at ANS Student Conference
Unbreakable bonds
NERS Alum Andrea Kritcher is on the 2023 TIME100 List
Kathryn Huff, US Department Of Energy Assistant Secretary, visits April 7
NERS alum Dr. James Baciak and NERS professor Dr. Igor Jovanovic are among the founders of the new Consortium for Nuclear Forensics sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
NERS Student O Hwang Kwon talks about the possible successors of fossil fuels at the 2023 Rackham King Talks
NERS Professor Atzmon retires after 35 years with the department
Case Study: Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulation for a Fuel Element of an Experimental Nuclear Reactor
NERS students win a student-led competition, acquire seed funding to develop proposal for pulsed-power and nuclear fusion facility
Young Carla
New Conceptual Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Simulation and Design
Imaging of gamma rays and fast neutrons using a dual-particle imaging system
NERS Professor Brendan Kochunas honored with faculty development professorship
Use of ultrashort-pulsed lasers to excite fluorescence of chlorophyll in plants as an optical biosensor for nuclear activity
Smaller, Robust Heat Exchangers
Land use matters as communities cut carbon emissions
First light at the most powerful laser in the US
Majdi Radaideh, Stephen Raiman, and Yang Zhang join NERS faculty
New display honors George Summerfield’s legacy
Q&A with River Bennett
U-M students given DOE Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards
New partnership between U-M/ZEUS and ELI-Beamlines will study antimatter creation with lasers
Lauren Finney supported Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory experiments
Brendan Kochunas wins DOE Distinguished Early Career Award
Sara Pozzi appointed University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
Three NERS grad students awarded INL fellowships
Tingshiuan Wu given Best Student Poster Presentation Award at MARC XII Conference
$5.1M to advance nuclear energy awarded to U-M
NERS faculty receive $5.1M in DOE funding awards
MTV hosts University Program Review
NERS alumni Steven Brown and David Goodman developing quantitative gamma imager
Solar Powered, Point-of-Use Plasma Disinfection Tool for Clean Water on Demand
Todd Allen, John Lee, and Kristine Svinicki supporting National Academies Studies
PhD Student Lonnie Garrett given NNIS fellowship
Imre Pázsit named “Doctor Honoris Causa” of Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Undergraduate Andrew Panter awarded INL UNLP Scholarship
PhD Student Meredith Eaheart awarded UNLP fellowship
Christopher C. Davis, Carly Evans, and Colin J. Stewart win Health Physics Society awards
Abbas Jinia given IEEE-NPSS Graduate Scholarship Award
Honoring the past and sizing up nuclear’s future at the Phoenix rededication
Mark Perreault retires after 23 years
NEA Appoints Aditi Verma to Global Forum Working Groups
Ionizing radiation induces a negative nonlinear absorption coefficient in quartz glass
NERS and Engineering Physics Students Receive Awards from Rackham and College of Engineering
NERS Professor Alex Bielajew retires after 25 years with the department
Aditi Verma receives Catalyst Grant from Graham Sustainability Institute
Nuclear “shadow corrosion” reproduced in the lab, paving way to longer fuel life
In The Media
Michigan Engineering
December 5, 2023
Once derided as “forever 30 years away,” fusion energy has a new swagger. Will it last?
Idaho National Laboratory
November 9, 2023
INL, along with Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, will support MachH2 by providing the technoeconomic and life cycle analyses of the hydrogen hub.
Michigan ENgineering
October 16, 2023
The NSF-supported facility at U-M is about to begin welcoming researchers to study extreme physics that could advance medicine, microelectronics and more.
The Detroit News
October 13, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy is giving a Michigan-backed clean hydrogen hub project up to $1 billion to develop regional supply chains for the production, distribution and use of hydrogen in trucks and heavy-duty vehicles, officials said Friday.Chair Todd Allen is quoted.
WWJ
August 28, 2023
Michigan is home to three of the world’s 400-some nuclear power stations. When all three are up and running, Michigan gets about 30% of its energy from nuclear sources. Chair Todd Allen discusses.
KCBS Radio
August 24, 2023
Japan has started a controversial practice of releasing treated wastewater from the Fukishima nuclear plant today to get rid of the hundreds of millions of gallons being stored on site. Prof. John Lee discusses.
Detroit News
August 14, 2023
Reopening a modernized Palisades would revitalize the state’s grid with reliable clean energy for decades to come.
Detroit News
July 24, 2023
U-M received $7.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, which in June funded 68 nuclear energy projects with grants totaling more than $56 million. The projects support the development of nuclear technology, early career faculty research and student research at universities and a national laboratory.
Washington Post
July 24, 2023
In a chilling, existential, bizarrely comic moment, the new movie “Oppenheimer” revives an old question: Did Manhattan Project scientists think there was even a minute possibility that detonating the first atomic bomb on the remote plains of New Mexico could destroy the world? NERS Prof. Aditi Verma is quoted.
University Record
July 20, 2023
Kushner was named the William P. Allis Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
CNA
July 5, 2023
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said that a two-year review showed Japan’s plans to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea were consistent with global safety standards. The amount of risk involved is very minimal and inconsequential, said some observers. Prof. John Lee shares more.
UNIVERSITY RECORD
June 20, 2023
Two Centers of Excellence for studying basic science surrounding how hot plasmas behave, funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration, have been awarded to NERS professors Carolyn Kuranz and Ryan McBride.
Newsweek
March 23, 2023
The United States is returning the favor regarding the sharing of nuclear data after Russia suspended its participation in the New START Treaty last month. NERS prof. Sara Pozzi is quoted.
The Washington Post
February 19, 2023
The Biden administration envisions dozens of ‘modular’ nuclear plants sprouting across the country. Why coal communities are so eager to be the staging ground for the risky endeavor. Fastest Path to Zero Lead Data Analyst Gabrielle Hoelzle is quoted.
The Conversation
December 13, 2022
American scientists have announced what they have called a major breakthrough in a long-elusive goal of creating energy from nuclear fusion. NERS prof. Carolyn Kuranz is quoted.
Forbes
December 13, 2022
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have managed to get more energy out of a nuclear fusion reaction than they put in to trigger it. NERS Chair Todd Allen is quoted.
NPR
December 13, 2022
Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy have reached a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. NERS prof. Ryan McBride is quoted.
StateImpact Oklahoma
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
More than 2,000 feet underground in Carlsbad, New Mexico, sits the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). NERS prof. Aditi Verma is quoted.
Protocol
August 1, 2022
In the race to decarbonize the world’s energy mix, solar panels, wind turbines and batteries have taken center stage. NERS Chair Todd Allen is quoted.
Michigan Engineering News
JUNE 3, 2022
John Foster’s group is developing a plasma-device for disinfecting water on-demand that will be solar- or human-powered.
ScienceNews
JUNE 2, 2022
Nuclear submarines might provide rogue nations with a path to nuclear weapons. But neutrinos could help reveal attempts to go from boats to bombs. NERS prof. Igor Jovanovic is quoted.