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University Of Michigan To Lead Nuclear Non-Proliferation Effort

University of Michigan's Cooley Memorial Laboratory
Andrew Cluley
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89.1 WEMU

A 5 year $25 million dollar federal grant will help the University of Michigan lead a team of other universities and national laboratories conduct research and develop new technologies to work towards nuclear non-proliferation.  The National Nuclear Security Administration is funding the effort.
 
Ronald Gilgenbach is chair of Michigan's Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. Gilgenbach says the grant should benefit the community by bringing more graduate students to campus.

Gilgenbach believes the university has long been a leader in nuclear measurements and the best gamma-ray camera for detecting nuclear materials was developed here. He thinks the effort is unique because it's bringing together both scientific leaders and policy experts.

In addition to U of M, the effort includes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, Columbia, North Carolina State, University of Hawaii, Pennsylvania State, Duke, University of Wisconsin, University of Florida, Oregon State, Yale, and the University of Illinois.  National laboratories include Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, Lawrence Berkely, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest, and Idaho.

 

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— Andrew Cluley is the Ann Arbor beat reporter, and anchor for 89.1 WEMU News. Contact him at 734.487.3363 or email him acluley@emich.edu.

 
 

Like many, I first came to this area when I started school at the University of Michigan, then fell in love with the community and haven’t left. After graduating from U of M in the mid 1990’s I interned at WDET for several years, while also working a variety of jobs in Ann Arbor. Then in 1999 I joined the WEMU news team.
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