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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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IAEA’s nuclear security center offers hands-on training
In the past year and a half, the International Atomic Energy Agency has established the Nuclear Security Training and Demonstration Center (NSTDC) to help countries strengthen their nuclear security regimes. The center, located at the IAEA’s Seibersdorf laboratories outside Vienna, Austria, has been operational since October 2023.
Michael P. Short (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Miaomiao Jin (Idaho National Laboratory), Ittinop Dumnernchanvanit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Max Carlson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sean Robertson (Transatomic Power Corporation), Gilberto Mota (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Alexandra R. Delmore (University of Wisconsin Madison), Akshay Dave (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Bren A. Philips (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sidney Yip (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Benjamin S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Andrew T. Nelson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Dennis F. Hussey (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)), Daniel M. Wells (Electric Power Research Institute), Jeff Deshon (Electric Power Research Institute), Naiqiang Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Brian Kendrick (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Chris Stanek (Los Alamos National Laboratory), David Andersson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kenneth J. McClellan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Brian D. Wirth (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Derek R. Gaston (Idaho National Laboratory), Cody J. Permann (Idaho National Laboratory), Richard C. Martineau (Idaho National Laboratory)
Proceedings | The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting | November 16-19, 2020 | Pages 461-466