UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Chair Per Peterson named to DOE panel on nuclear future

Washington, D.C. – As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to restarting America’s nuclear industry, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the Nation’s used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. The Commission is being co-chaired by former Congressman Lee Hamilton and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft.

http://www.energy.gov/news/8584.htm

Berkeley Nuclear Research  Center invites you to a colloquium:

Monday, February 8, 2010

3105 Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley, 4-5pm

Cross section and tensor analyzing power

of the d+d ->4He+eta reaction near

threshold

Mariola Lesiak-Bzdak, PhD

Physics researcher

The eta meson interaction with nucleons and nuclei has attracted much attention in recent years. The reason for that is the possibility of the formation of eta-nucleus bound states. While no such a state has been directly observed, studies of the eta-nucleus interaction near threshold can be used to determine the eta-nucleus scattering length, and then, in principle, would permit conclusions on the existence of such eta-nucleus bound system. Some estimations suggest that the eta-4He system is the lightest possible candidate.

Wishing you the best in 2010!

Berkeley Nuclear Research  Center

Round table discussion: Energy in Serbia, where are we and where are we going

Held on October 29, 2009, 6pm, School of Electrical Engineering, amphitheater 56.

Round table discussion was organized by ETF BAFA and the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia (AINS), with logistical support from ETF (School of Electrical Engineering).