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Sunming Qin, NERS PhD student, studies buoyant jets in a stratified environment.
Michael Hamel, NERS PhD Student, uses a Microsoft Hololens headset to demonstrate use of augmented reality to detect the presence of nuclear weapons in the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory on June 21, 2017. The technology is designed by the Consortium for Verification Technology (CVT) led by Sara Pozzi, NERS Professor. The CVT consists of twelve leading universities and nine national laboratories, working together to provide research and development needed to address technology and policy issues in treaty-compliance monitoring of nuclear weapons.

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Marc Paff, Steven Czyz, and Marc Ruch work in the Detection for Nuclear Nonproliferation Group Lab in the Cooley Building on March 26, 2014.

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Cassarah Brown, NERS Graduate student, works on the high voltage generation board that is part of the detector technology built under the guidance of NERS Professor Zhong He. The detectors are built to detect gamma rays (high energy units of light), which allow for both monitoring and detection in various circumstances, from leaks in radiation in power plants to surreptitious shiptments of dangerous radioactive material over borders.

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U-M is strong across all four traditional disciplines.

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