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"Nuclear Weapon Reductions after START"The United States and Russia plan to pursue additional reductions to their strategic and tactical nuclear arsenals after completing a deal to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the Wall Street Journal reported today...
"Exelon Delays Texas Plant"Power generator Exelon Corp. said Tuesday it has called off plans for now to build a new nuclear plant in Texas because of worries over the economy and the limited availability of federal loan guarantees...
"Laser Enrichment Plant"Global Laser Enrichment, a business venture of General Electric Co., Hitachi Ltd. and Cameco Corp., said Tuesday it completed its license application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build the world's first commercial uranium enrichment facility to use laser technology...
"Nuclear Part of Climate Bill"Duke Energy Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jim Rogers said Congress is likely to send the president in the first quarter of next year a climate bill that encourages the construction of nuclear plants...
"Global Zero Proposes Arms Cuts"Proponents of a plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons proposed yesterday that Russia and the United States agree to an interim step in which they each cut their arsenals to 1,000 strategic warheads by 2018...
"UK To Consider Deterrent Alternatives"Faced with a looming budget cut, the British Defense Ministry is considering alternatives to the $33 billion plan to replace the nation's nuclear deterrent within 15 years, the London Telegraph reported Saturday...
"Senate to Consider Climate Bill"President Barack Obama, fresh from his first legislative victory on climate policy, expressed confidence on Monday that new greenhouse gas emission limits would become law with help from the U.S. Senate...
"Nulcear Facility Dead"The U.S. Energy Department made official Monday its plan to scrap a Bush administration initiative that could have brought a major nuclear fuel reprocessing facility to South Carolina...
"New Nuclear Units at STP"After three years of study, CPS Energy has recommended the expansion of the South Texas Project (STP) nuclear power plant as part of a diversified plan to meet San Antonio’s long-term electricity needs...
"GNEP Gets Another Fatal Blow"The US Department of Energy is cancelling the wide-ranging environmental analysis of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) project. Its decision follows a change in government policy on commercial reprocessing...
"Carbon Cap-and-Trade Passes House"The American Clean Energy and Security Act was passed by Congress on 26 June and now goes to the Senate after which President Barack Obama could sign it into law. The bill contains a slew of incentives and targets concerning carbon capture and storage, electric cars and the smart grid. The most significant however is the specification of a series of milestone emission caps...
"Reactor Vessel Head Traveling to Texas"The massive component, five metres across, ten metres high and weighing 100 tonnes, was manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) at its Kobe shipyard for use at the first reactor at the South Texas Project nuclear power plant...
"Anti-Nukes in Texas"When NRG Energy submitted its application to the federal government to build two new nuclear power plants in this coastal town, it didn't account for the possibility the plant could be rammed by a large passenger jet...
"US Nuclear Appeal to Iran"The Obama administration last month addressed the continued nuclear standoff with Iran in a letter to that nation's supreme leader, the Washington Times reported today...
"Replacement Warhead as Life Extension"The United States should consider a three-pronged strategy -- including warhead replacement -- to successfully maintain its aging nuclear arsenal, a senior U.S. nuclear complex official last week...
"Iranian Protests to Influence Nuclear Policy?"U.S. officials and experts disagreed on whether the large-scale protests ripping through Iran could encourage the nation to negotiate a halt to its disputed nuclear activities, the Washington Times reported today...
"Third Round of START Talks"U.S. and Russian diplomats this week launched a third round of talks aimed at negotiating a replacement for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, Agence France-Presse reported...
"NRG Lawsuit Dismissed"A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by NRG Energy Inc. against Exelon Corp., saying NRG failed to prove Exelon made false statements in its continuing offer for the merchant power generator...
"100 Reactors?"Sen. Bob Bennett says the path to a clean energy future isn't by capping and trading carbon emissions, but by building, building, building...
"GE-Hitachi Nuclear Fuel Center"Research that GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is conducting here offers a timely solution to growing stocks of used nuclear fuel stored at nuclear power plants, a company executive told Congress this week...
"Major Exelon Upgrades"Exelon Corp. plans to add the generating capacity of a new nuclear reactor without building a nuclear reactor...
"Al-Qaeda With Nukes?"A senior Al-Qaeda operative said the terrorist organization would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons to strike the United States if it had the chance to do so, Reuters reported today...
"New U.S. Nuclear Detectors Show Same Weakness as Older Technology"U.S. congressional auditors today said the Homeland Security Department's new nuclear-detection technology does not improve much upon its predecessor in at least one critical fashion, the Associated Press reported...
"IAEA Intelligence Capabilities?"A former U.S. official's concept for expanding intelligence functions at the International Atomic Energy Agency is garnering some interest but appears unlikely to be implemented anytime soon, according to several nonproliferation experts...
"Duke to Build Nuclear Plant in Ohio"Duke Energy Corp is considering the construction of a new nuclear power reactor in Ohio to generate carbon free electricity and meet the region's growing energy needs, said Jim Rogers, Duke chief executive officer, at a conference in Piketon, Ohio on Thursday...
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The Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering Department is currently the largest in the USA, with 257 undergraduate and 94 graduate students. But even more importantly, our academic program educates and prepares nuclear professionals for careers that span the full gamut of this extraordinary technical discipline. Accordingly, the Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering Department faculty has a wide spectrum of expertise and research interest, and we support an impressive list of research facilities. We are currently ranked second nationally in both undergraduate and graduate studies among public universities. Our students maintain one of the highest cumulative grade point averages on campus, and we boast a very significant number of National Merit Scholars. Yet, with all this, we are a relatively small department in which students have easy access to the faculty. We are committed to maintaining a "family environment."
Over the last year, the College of Engineering has been engaged in a strategic planning process which has resulted, most recently, in publication of a College of Engineering 10-Year Strategic Research Plan. Prior to this, however, the Steering Committee spent some time revisiting and reflecting on our common "values," in part as a means for establishing a strong foundation for the strategic initiatives that the Dean has chartered us to develop for the College.
