Job Opportunities in Nuclear Facilities Criticality Safety Engineering
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is looking for recent graduates with a background in
Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, or Engineering (e.g., nuclear, mechanical, structural, electrical, chemical, or related) for positions in nuclear facilities criticality safety engineering.
Must be a current student or recently graduated undergraduate to be eligible.
Successful candidates will learn about nuclear facility safety analysis, including providing technical support in the area of criticality safety, and assist experienced staff develop and maintain criticality safety basis documentation. Formal training and on-the-job learning experiences will be provided to develop experience in the employees as appropriate. They will also assist in research and development activities in support of the US DOE Nuclear Criticality Safety Program. Both full time and internship (summer or academic year) positions are available.
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CRS Report: Iran's Nuclear Program: Tehran's Compliance with International Obligations
Paul Kerr, Congressional Research Service
April 7, 2016
This report provides a brief overview of Iran's nuclear program and describes the legal basis for the actions taken by the IAEA board and the Security Council. It will be updated as events warrant.
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John Kerry on Iran: 'No Path to the Nuclear Weapon'
Jeryl Bier, The Weekly Standard
Responding to a journalist's inquiry at a press availability in Bahrain with Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, Secretary of State John Kerry said that, based on the nuclear deal struck with Iran, "now there is no path to the nuclear weapon."
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The Panama Papers Underscore the Futility of North Korea Sanctions
The leaks show how the elites can circumvent sanctions, even as ordinary North Korean suffer.
The Panama Papers illuminate well the futility of UN sanctions on achieving its stated aims of restricting North Korea's weapons program.
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Wanted: Enduring US Leadership on Nuclear Security
Lori Esposito, Atlantic Council
We stand at a historic crossroad with the end of US President Barack Obama's fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit this past weekend. While it is clear that the progress to date of the global effort to keep nuclear weapons out of terrorists' hands has been dependent on Obama's determined leadership, it is not clear what the future holds after he leaves office.
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Nuclear Security Summit 2016
Rachel Bronson, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
March 31 - April 1, Washington D.C.
Last week's Nuclear Security Summit brought together more than 50 countries and international organizations in Washington, D.C. It was the last in a series of four summits that began in 2010, a year after President Obama laid out his intent to ensure that "terrorists never acquire a nuclear weapon."
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ARMS CONTROL AND DETERRENCE
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New NNSA Stockpile Plan Same as the Old Plan: Problematic
Stephen Young, Union of Concerned Scientists
Last week the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released its Fiscal Year 2017 Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan, the agency's annual update on its 25-year plan for the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. It is the most comprehensive, long-term plan related to nuclear weapons available from any government.
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Michael Krepon, Arms Control Wonk
Secretary of State John Kerry joins other foreign ministers placing flowers at the cenotaph of the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Monday. Visits by high-level U.S. officials to Hiroshima are heavily freighted, unlike those to Tokyo, where over 100,000 civilians were killed in firebombing raids in March 1945. Hiroshima is different, of course. Tokyo is remembered for the horror of a world war that was waged against cities and civilians as well as on battlefields. Hiroshima is remembered for the weapon used to destroy the city and the people living in it.
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What Does "Nuclear Terrorism" Really Mean?
Elisabeth Eaves, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
What is nuclear terrorism, and just how big a threat does it pose? Since European authorities revealed that the group behind the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks was also spying on a senior nuclear official in Belgium, the phrase "nuclear terrorism" has burst back on the public scene. But as Bulletin contributing editor Elisabeth Eaves explains, media stories sometimes fail to distinguish among events that would look completely different from one another, if they ever did come to pass.
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USA Sets Out Nuclear Security Strategy
The US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has outlined its strategic plans for reducing the threat of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, including changes to the USA's program to dispose of surplus military plutonium.
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A Little-Known Nuclear Race Taking Place in East Asia Is Dangerous and Pointless
Frank von Hippel and Fumihiko Yoshida, The World Post
Plutonium was first produced and separated during America's World War II nuclear weapons project. Its destructive power became apparent at the end of the war when, in one-millionth of a second, one kilogram of plutonium in the Nagasaki bomb fissioned and destroyed the city below.
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