UCI awarded grant for nuclear energy research
UC Irvine has been awarded up to $300,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy for nuclear energy research. Mikael Nilsson,…
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UCI chemists receive $25 million in Department of Energy funding
Researchers will explore new technologies for energy conversion, carbon capture and nuclear power
UCI to play key role in innovative nuclear nonproliferation initiative
US-UK consortium to test use of antineutrino detector in monitoring reactors
Nobel laureate and former Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to speak at UCI
EVENT: Steven Chu, Nobel laureate, former U.S. secretary of energy, and professor of physics and molecular & cellular physiology at Stanford University, will deliver the 2016 Reines Lecture, titled “Energy, Climate Change and the Transition to a Sustainable World.” WHEN/WHERE: 7:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, Irvine Barclay Theatre (bldg. 1, grid E9 on campus map) INFORMATION: Media planning […]
UCI nuclear fusion pioneer Norman Rostoker dies at 89
Clean-energy champion also co-founded Tri Alpha Energy
UCI nuclear fusion pioneer Norman Rostoker dies at 89
UC Irvine professor Norman Rostoker, the father of breakthrough clean nuclear fusion energy techniques via plasma-based accelerators, died on Christmas Day in Irvine, Calif. He was 89.
US Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to meet with UCI students
EVENT: Ernest Moniz, secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy and a nuclear physicist, will speak with UC Irvine students, faculty and staff about the clean energy revolution. WHEN/WHERE: 1:30-2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, in the UC Irvine Student Center’s Crystal Cove Auditorium (bldg. 113, grid E8 on campus map: http://communications.uci.edu//documents/pdf/UCI_12_map_campus_core.pdf) NOTE: Event may be cancelled […]
Taking the ‘waste’ out of nuclear waste
While spent nuclear fuel continues to pile up by the ton across the United States, engineering professor Mikael Nilsson says the solution is clear: recycle it at the commercial nuclear power plants that create it.
U.S., Iranian solar energy scientists convene at UCI
Meeting provides a collegial counterpoint to stormy political environment.
Wind + water = untapped energy
Wind energy over the planet’s oceans is a vastly underutilized renewable resource, according to UC Irvine researchers.