Seminar: Radiation Sensor Research for National Security Applications

Abstract

Los Alamos National Laboratory has a long and diverse history of applying radiation detection and analysis to problems of national security interest. Research activities range from basic sensor development, associated processing electronics, analysis, and modeling and simulation. In this talk I will highlight some of the ongoing radiation sensor research and development activities at the lab at the intersection of global security and civilian nuclear power.

About the Speaker

Michael Miller is the Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems Program Manager at LANL and the National Technical Director of the Materials Protection, Accounting and Control Technologies Campaign within the DOE-NE Fuel Cycle Technologies program. In previous roles he has served as Group Leader of the Safeguards Science and Technology Group at LANL, as National Chair the NIF Radiation Science Users Group, and senior advisor to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency on assignment in Washington DC. Mike's research has focused on x-ray, gamma-ray, and neutron instrumentation used in process monitoring, waste management, materials accountancy & control, international safeguards, planetary exploration, and diagnosing high-temperature plasmas. Mike holds a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of New Mexico.

Hosted by Professor Lei Cao