Nuclear Measurement Laboratory
Nuclear Measurements and Neutron Metrology
At the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., one of our grad students Jacob Fritchie won the J.D. Williams Best Student Paper Award.
At this meeting, he presented his recent research on characterizing thermal noise in silicon photomultipliers for nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards applications.
Congrats Jacob!
One of our graduate students Jacob Fritchie just completed a short course on the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards at Pacific Northwest National Lab. Topics covered included everything from the theory behind safeguards to how they’re implemented in the field, with sessions led by former IAEA inspectors and analysts.
The instructors were generous with their time, experience, and their openness, especially in sharing real stories from the field. Jacob says that the course incredibly insightful, and that it was a valuable look at the intersection of technical work and international policy, and that he was thankful to have had the opportunity to take part.
Last week, Jacob Fritchie and John Leland each presented their work at the NNSA University Program Review, attended by NNSA-funded university consortia.
Jacob’s oral presentation “Temperature Dependence of Noise in Silicon Photomultipliers” won the Best Oral Presentation award in the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium
John’s poster presentation “PSD and Image Reconstruction for a High-density Channel System-on-Chip Digitizer for Nonproliferation Applications” won the Best Poster Presentation award in the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium
Congratulations to these two! See their presentations under our Publications tab.