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2016 Nuclear Security Summer Schools
American Chemical Society
Curious and highly motivated undergraduate students with strong science backgrounds are sought for the 2016 Nuclear Chemistry Summer Schools organized by the American Chemical Society and funded by the US Department of Energy. Students receive a stipend and chemistry course credit. Deadline is February 1, 2016.
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Nuclear Nonproliferation International Safeguards Graduate Fellowship Program in Nuclear Engineering
US Department of Energy
The 2016-17 award cycle is open for NNIS graduate fellowships. The primary emphasis is to produce doctoral graduates who are familiar with both the technical and policy aspects of nonproliferation and international safeguards. The fellowship is open to all individuals who will be starting graduate studies or graduate students who are currently enrolled in a qualified course of study (see technical areas) and have at least one full year of graduate work remaining at the beginning of September 2016. US citizenship required. Deadline is February 1, 2016.
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Iran Nuclear Deal's Next Test: Getting Through the IAEA
Mark Hibbs, The National Interest
December 2, 2015
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its member countries will take critically important decisions in the coming days about allegations that Iran has worked on making nuclear weapons. Their actions will determine whether and how the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)--the agreement which Iran and six other countries including the United States concluded this summer to end the Iran nuclear crisis--will be implemented.
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IAEA Report Reveals Iran Obeys Letter of Deal, Not Spirit
Blaise Misztal, Bipartisan Policy Institute
December 4, 2015
Little is new in the IAEA report, but by highlighting that Iran has continued its years-long pattern of resisting an honest accounting of its nuclear program, it reveals much more about how Iran might regard compliance with the nuclear deal.
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UN Watchdog: Iran Pursued a Nuclear Bomb
Elias Groll, Foreign Policy
December 2, 2015
The IAEA report aims to settle controversial, unanswered questions about Iran's past weapons research.
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Analysis: IAEA Report Exposes How Nuclear Deal Allows Iran to Hide Past and Future Cheating
thetower.org
December 7, 2015
The recently released International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran's illicit nuclear activities raises concerns about the extent of the regime's covert nuclear research, and suggests that future enforcement of the nuclear deal will be impossible.
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Civil Nuclear Cooperation with Pakistan: Prospects and Consequences
George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
December 8, 2015
Nuclear policy expert George Perkovich testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the implications of cooperation with Pakistan and wider regional considerations, given nuclear neighbors India and China.
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Nuclear Reactors Developed in Oregon Can Be 'Game-Changer'
Bloomberg News
December 7, 2015
Modular reactors being developed by NuScale Power can be a "game-changer" by making nuclear power plants more affordable to build, US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said at the Paris climate talks.
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Initiative Launched to Slash Costs, Improve Economic Viability of Nuclear Power Plants
Sonal Patel, Power Magazine
December 9, 2015
Shaken financially by low natural gas prices and subsidized renewables, the nuclear industry has launched a three-year initiative to reduce nuclear power plant operating costs to make them more economically viable.
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China to Become Global Nuclear Energy Player with 110 Reactors
China Daily
December 4, 2015
China will have 110 operational nuclear reactors by 2030, making it one of the largest nuclear energy users in the world, a leading power plant builder said last week. Power Construction Corp. of China said that the total scale of nuclear power generation from reactors both under construction and in operation in the country will reach 88 gigawatts by the end of 2020, according to estimates in the draft 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) for the power industry.
Related China Aims to Build 40 Nuclear Power Plants in Upcoming 5 Years
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ARMS CONTROL AND NONPROLIFERATION
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Huban Gowadia: New Technology Within the United States to Aid Nuclear Forensics
Department of Homeland Security
December 2, 2015
Last month, the Idaho National Laboratory hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a newly operational radioisotope mass separator, a device that will improve the accuracy and precision of nuclear forensics analysis.
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