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Nov 1, 2018

Dr. Hawari Appointed to the US Department of Energy Nuclear Criticality Safety Program Nuclear Data Advisory Group

Dr. Hawari has been appointed to the “US Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP) Nuclear Data Advisory Group (NDAG)”. NDAG, through making recommendations to the NCSP Manager, enhances the coordination of the NCSP Nuclear Data Element work program with current and future DOE needs and promotes the integration of this work program with…

Nov 1, 2018

Dr. Hawari Named Distinguished Professor of Engineering at NC State University

Dr. Ayman Hawari has been appointed distinguished university professor by Chancellor Woodson.  To qualify for this honor, the distinguished candidate “must be an outstanding faculty member or potential faculty member who has achieved recognition well above the criteria for full professor and be considered one of the best scholars in the discipline. Named distinguished faculty chairs…

Jun 1, 2018

NE Faculty Proposal Selected to Utilize the PULSTAR Reactor

Dr. Ge Yang’s proposal, Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy investigation of vacancy-related defects in room-temperature radiation detector material CdZnTe, has been selected for award using instruments located in the Nuclear Reactor Program / PULSTAR Reactor at the department of Nuclear Engineering in North Carolina State University.

May 1, 2018

Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Visits NC State and PULSTAR Reactor Facility

Mr. William D. Magwood IV, Director-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), visited NC State last week. Magwood along with Dr. Tatiana Ivanova, Nuclear Science Division Head and Mrs. Aleshia Duncan, Senior Advisor for Multilateral Coordination and Steering Committee Secretary, met with senior university officials, CNEC and CASL…

Apr 1, 2018

NRP Hosted IAEA Scholars

Two Vietnamese IAEA Scholars, Dr. Pham Nhu Viet Ha  and Dr. Pham Ngoc Son, participated in customized one-month training programs at the NRP facilities.  Their training programs encompassed computational methods utilized for reactor calculations and safety analyses, and applications of the positron annihilation lifetime spectrometer systems and the neutron powder diffractometer facility.

Mar 30, 2018

Japanese Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) Meeting

Four officials from the JAEA participated in a site visit to review the mission, facilities, regulation, and utilization of the PULSTAR Nuclear Reactor Laboratory.

Jan 1, 2017

IAEA’s Internet Reactor Laboratory expands access to training

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) established its Internet Reactor Laboratory (IRL), with the help of Dr. Hawari’s Nuclear Reactor program (NRP), as a means to provide practical reactor operating experience to member states that do not have a research reactor. The IRL project is a cost-effective way to educate groups of students in research…

May 1, 2016

Invited by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to be the US facility providing nuclear reactor education to international partners.

White House release regarding nuclear cooperation with Vietnam. The United States and Vietnam intend to deepen our clean energy cooperation in the civil nuclear field in recognition that the safe and secure use of nuclear power is an important low-carbon energy source for reducing emissions from the global power sector as we address climate change…