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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory National & Homeland Security Overview
John D. Valentine National & Homeland Security Program Manager and LBNL POC for the CVT
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UC Berkeley
Berkeley Lab
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Thrust Area 2: Fundamental Data and Techniques
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Neutron-neutron correlations Neutron-light fragment correlations
Delayed-Gamma NDA of Spent Fuel
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Thrust Area 3: Advanced Safeguards Tools for Accessible Facilities
Handheld/Portable Room Temperature Semiconductor Gamma-Ray Imagers
Portable Radiation Imaging, Spectroscopy, and Mapping (PRISM) – early NA-22 funding, FY16
DTRA funding pending
DNDO-funded
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Thrust Area 5: Disarmament Verification Limited Knowledge Transmission Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence
HIGS
Laser plasma accelerator driven inverse Compton quasi-monoenergetic photon source
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Thrust Area 5: Disarmament Verification Limited Knowledge Transmission Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence
Assessing Impact of Monoenergetic Photon Sources on Nonproliferation Applications
(radiography, photofission, NRF)
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New Exclusive Topical Focus Radiation detection for homeland and national security: challenges, advances, and lessons learned throughout recent demonstrations
Mark Your Calendar! Abstract submittal open late fall 2015; deadline early January
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LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY Questions/Discussion
John D. Valentine Program Manager
National & Homeland Security