Applications
of Nuclear Science for Stewardship Science Jolie
Cizewski; Rutgers
University, USA
Nuclear
science has a long tradition of impacts beyond basic research,
ranging from medicine to national security and energy.More recently, the
national security applications include stockpile stewardship
science, homeland security, nuclear forensics, and
non-proliferation, activities that can be broadly categorized as
stewardship science. The Stewardship Science Academic Alliance
(SSAA) was inaugurated 10 years ago by the National Nuclear
Security Administration of the US Department of Energy to enhance
connections between NNSA laboratories and the activities of
university scientists and their students in research areas
important to NNSA, including low-energy nuclear science.The SSAA supports a
large number of individual investigator projects, as well as one
Center of Excellence. SSAA research directions in low-energy
nuclear science include: neutron, gamma, and ion-induced reactions
with stable and unstable nuclei; advanced simulations and
measurement techniques that improve radiation and particle
detection in terms of energy, temporal and spatial resolution; and
physics of the fission process and properties of prompt fission
products.The present
talk would present an overview of recent research in low energy
nuclear science supported by the Stewardship Science Academic
Alliance and the applications of this research to stewardship
science. This
work is supported in part by the National Nuclear Security
Administration under the Stewardship Science Academic Alliances
program through DOE Cooperative Agreement No. DE-FG52-08NA28552.