Tag: James Baciak

The Consortium for Nuclear Forensics (CNF) recently held its first workshop, bringing together more than 100 attendees via livestream and in-person. The two-day event saw participants from 16 universities, seven national laboratories, and multiple government agencies and international collaborators, including the United Kingdom’s Atomic Weapons Establishment.  The workshop’s dynamic agenda featured presentations, networking opportunities, and […]

A visibly nervous man is stopped at a border crossing in eastern Europe. Authorities find a glass tube filled with black powder inside a heavy lead container in his trunk. Geiger counters go crazy. The powder is radioactive. North Korea conducts a nuclear test, and within hours, U.S. “sniffer” planes scramble to gather air samples […]

Hannah Gardiner, a third-year Ph.D. student in Nuclear Engineering at UF, was invited to speak on the role of scientists and engineers in global security at the Science and Security Summit 2017, hosted by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). The FAS is a Washington, DC-based nonpartisan think tank focusing primarily on nuclear policy and […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding over $82 million in nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development, and infrastructure awards in 28 states. In total, 93 projects were selected to receive funding that will help push innovative nuclear technologies toward commercialization and into the market. These awards provide funding for nuclear energy-related […]

James Baciak, Ph.D., Jiangeng Xue, Ph.D., and Juan Nino, Ph.D., received a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) award for $1.6 Million to develop organic photodiodes as low-cost, radiation-resistant alternatives to traditional photomultiplier tubes for next-generation gamma-ray spectrometers.

Researchers in the Nuclear Engineering Program at the UF Department of Materials Science & Engineering have received Department of Energy University Program grants for conducting research to mitigate the Fuel Cladding Chemical Interactions (FCCI) in a sodium-cooled fast reactor and to develop BiI3 Gamma-Ray spectrometers for nuclear material safeguarding. UF is also a collaborator in […]