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This Science Night series will consider Environmental
Concerns that directly impact
Long Island and Metropolitan New York.
Link here to be placed on the mail or e-mail list to receive
announcements.
Directions to
ESS Building at Stony Brook University
Teachers and Professional Geologists can receive
in-service credit
Link to previous offerings Fall
2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008
What is Nuclear Energy?
Dr. David Diamond
Director of
Nuclear Energy & Infrastructure Systems Division
Brookhaven National Laboratory
This presentation will be an overview of the technology to generate
electricity using uranium fuel. The speaker will talk about the nuclear
power plants in operation in the U.S. and around the world and will
highlight various systems that work together to produce the final
product—electricity. The different types of science and technology needed
to design those systems will be discussed as will the unique engineering
challenges when using nuclear fuel. The fuel cycle, i.e., the production of
fuel for the reactor and the disposal of the spent fuel after use in the
reactor, will also be discussed.
Dr. David Diamond has spent his career at Brookhaven National Laboratory
(BNL) as a nuclear engineer, primarily providing support to the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission on the safety of research and power reactors. His
technical expertise is the modeling of reactor behavior with deterministic
computer codes. He has also worked outside BNL as a consultant to
regulatory bodies in many countries with recent assignments in Argentina and
Canada. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society.
7:00 p.m. Sunday February 15, 2009
ESS 001
PowerPoint presented at
this lecture.
Why Nuclear Energy
Should
be an option
Dr. Robert Bari
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Dr. Bari will explain the
reasons that U.S. utilities are now selecting nuclear power plants as one of
their options for producing electricity and the reasons that the government
finds it advantageous to promote nuclear energy. Topics such as cost,
effect on climate change, and energy security will be addressed, as well as
the issue of non-proliferation.
Dr. Bari has spent his career at Brookhaven National
Laboratory, first as a solid-state physicist and then as a nuclear engineer.
His expertise is in probabilistic analysis of the safety of nuclear power
plants (NPPs) and in designing NPPs so that they do not become a risk for
the proliferation of nuclear weapon material. He is a Fellow of the American
Nuclear Society and the recipient of the Tommy Thompson Award for Nuclear
Safety.
7:00 p.m.
Sunday March 15, 2009
ESS 001
PowerPoint presented at
this lecture.
Why Nuclear Energy
Should Not be an option
Michael Mariotte
Nuclear
Information and Resource Service
7:00 p.m.
Sunday April 19, 2009
ESS 001
Michael Mariotte will take stock of the so-called "nuclear
renaissance," which is much more tenuous than advertised and could occur
only with massive taxpayer subsidies. Nuclear power remains dangerous,
dirty and expensive, and its use on a scale large enough to be meaningful
at addressing the climate crisis would actually be counterproductive at
reducing carbon emissions. Instead, we need to—and can--institute a
nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future.
Mr. Mariotte is executive director of Nuclear Information and Resource
Service, an organization based in Takoma Park, Maryland, with affiliated
offices in 13 countries. He has spoken widely on nuclear power issues over
the past 24 years, including testimony in the U.S. Senate and House of
Representatives, Maryland State Senate, Hungarian Parliament, Bulgarian
Nuclear Safety Agency, and numerous international and national conferences
and events, from Kyiv, Ukraine; to Rhodes, Greece; to Bioneers in northern
California.
PowerPoint presented at
his lecture
If your school requires that you have a
sequence of educational opportunities in order to receive in-service credit,
please advise them that during the Spring Semester we will be offering one-hour
of in-service credit for each of the:
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