Next Generation Fukushima Workshop

April 12-13, 2016 Participants

Justin Ellin is a first year Nuclear Engineering graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. He is developing (under the mentorship of Kai Vetter and thanks to the financial support the NSSC) a high-energy gamma ray imaging system. This system has possible applications in both characterizing spent fuel pools in reactor systems such as at Fukushima as well as validating dose distributions in proton beam therapy. He is interested in becoming a medical physicist with an interest in image guided radiotherapy. His interests include science education for under-represented high school students as well as music, especially the guitar. Poster title: High Energy Gamma Ray Imaging System for Nuclear Fuel and Fuel Debris Diagnostics

Daniel Hellfeld is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley and a graduate research fellow with the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium. I hold a B.S. degree in physics from UC Santa Barbara and a M.S. degree in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University. My current research is focused on coded aperture imaging of low energy gamma rays with cadmium zinc telluride detectors. The work is being done in collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Applied Nuclear Physics research group headed by Prof. Kai Vetter. Poster title: Towards 3D Gamma Ray Vision with HEMI and Looking Forward with PRISM

Jinney Kil is currently a second year undergraduate majoring in Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley with intended minors in Public Policy and Environmental Economics and Policy. She is currently working on the dosimeter project with other members of the RadWatch team. Poster title: RadWatch & DoseNet

Erik Nelson is a robotics Ph.D. student in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. He received an M.S. from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.S. from the department of Materials Engineering at Cal Poly, SLO. His research brings together robotic perception, exploration, and 3D mapping to enable ground, underwater, and aerial robots to autonomously learn their surrounding environments. Poster title: 3D Mapping and Sensor Fusion for Contamination Visualization

Ryan Pavlovsky is a Nuclear Engineering PhD Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include lightweight/handheld multisensor radiation detectors for 2/3D proximity mapping, GEANT4 dose estimation for internal/external radionuclide exposure, and silicon CCD-strip detectors for improved time resolution in electron track Compton imaging. Ryan has made significant contributions to the RadWatch outreach effort by communicating with the public and public offices about naturally occurring radiation in the environment, assisting the development of the RadWatch Realtime Airmonitor, and in the development of a touchscreen, interactive and cheap dosimeter that allows students to learn about radiation, code and external sensors. Together these projects span a wide range of educational content promoting radiation literacy, computer literacy and modern science. For the past 4 years, Ryan has lead or taught the lab section for NE104, a class that provides students with the basics of Radiation Detection. Poster title: Localization and Mapping Platform: 3D Gamma ray Proximity Imager

Anders Priest is a fourth year graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, working on the advancement of radiation detection systems. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, and assessment of a novel, position sensitive, high purity germanium detection system, which can be utilized for imaging of distributed radiation sources, such as the environmental contamination in the Fukushima Prefecture. Poster title: Proximity Charge Sensing Readout of HPGe Detectors

Radley Rigonan is an undergraduate studying Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering in UC Berkeley. Previously, Radley conducted weekly gamma measurements as part of Berkeley RadWatch. He is currently working alongside RadWatch's DoseNet team, assembling and troubleshooting the dosimeters that are to be stationed in local high schools. Poster title: RadWatch & DoseNet

My name is Caleb Roecker. I am a PhD candidate in the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University California Berkeley. My research is focused on measuring cosmogenic neutron fluxes at a variety of locations above and below ground. The results from these measurements will be used to predict secondary backgrounds in other detectors initiated by these cosmogenic neutrons. I intend on pursuing a career at the US national labs post graduation. Outside of research, I enjoy hiking and photography. Poster title: High Energy Neutron Backgrounds: Characterizing the World Around Us

My name is Da-in Choi. I also go by Rebecca. I am an undergraduate in KAIST. For now, I am interested in radiation damage in crystals and metals. I lived in the Philippines for 8 years before coming back to Korea. I love travelling and do Kendo. Poster title: Challenges and Courses of Action for the Revitalization of the Fukushima prefecture

My name is Young Jip Kim, currently in my fourth semester as a student in KAIST’s Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering. I have declared my major at the beginning of sophomore year, having taken various courses covering basic computer programming, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, quantum mechanics, and radiation and their interactions with matter. I enjoy following the news and have always had genuine interest in what is happening in KAIST, the scientific community, Korea, and even around the globe. So, I have been actively writing for The KAIST Herald, our school’s official English newspaper, for two years now as the current Assistant Editor-in-Chief and the next Editor-in-Chief. Furthermore, I am planning to minor in KAIST’s Science and Technology Policy Program. I also am looking to get some hands-on experience with measuring radiation exposure and publicizing data so as to build a better bridge of communication with nuclear engineers and the public. Poster title: Challenges and Courses of Action for the Revitalization of the Fukushima prefecture

Sana Ullah is a doctoral student in Nuclear Energy Environment and Nuclear Security Laboratory (NENS) of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). His current areas of interest are nuclear safety, source term, and severe accident management of nuclear power plants. His current research is focused on exploring new ideas for preventing radioactivity releases in the event of a nuclear power plant severe accident. It includes design & development of such innovative systems, feasibility studies, modes of implementation, and operation. By development of such systems, consequences of Fukushima like accidents on human health, environment, agriculture, and economy can be minimized. He wants to develop a career in nuclear science and technology. He likes to play sports like cricket, badminton, and football. He is happily married since 2008, and is the father of two beautiful souls. He likes to cook, eat, sleep, and follow current affairs. Poster title: Technological Approaches to Improve Resilience and Adaptability of Nuclear Power Plants in Handling Severe Accident Scenarios

Mari Ishimori was born in Hiroshima, Japan. She attended Waseda University School of Law and earned a Bachelor of Law. She also received a J.D. degree from Chuo Law School. Mari is currently a Ph.D. student at Hiroshima University as part of the Phoenix Leader Education Program (Hiroshima Initiative) For Renaissance from Radiation Disaster, in the Social Recovery Course and Social Psychology Laboratory. Her research focus is on the well-being of evacuees and residents in Fukushima and other contaminated areas. Her hobby is cycling. Poster title: Effects of contamination by radiation on families and human relationships

Nobuaki Moriyama, PT, MHSc, received a Bachelor of Health Sciences from Kanazawa University, Japan in 2007. Following 4 years of clinical work, he enrolled in the Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedicine and Health Sciences in 2011. After enrollment, he had an opportunity to work as a physical therapist at Minamisoma municipal general hospital after the Great East Japan Earthquake as a member of a support team. He was awarded the Hiroshima University Student Award in 2012 for his radiation disaster recovery activity in Fukushima Prefecture. He received a Master of Health Sciences (MHSc) degree from Hiroshima University in 2014. Currently he is a doctoral student at Hiroshima University and belongs to radioactivity social recovery course of Phoenix Leader Education Program (Hiroshima Initiative) for Renaissance from Radiation Disaster. Regarding his future career, he hope to conduct some researches on health status of evacuees after a disaster in order to provide effective measure to those who suffer physical and mental deterioration. Poster title: A one-year follow-up measurement of physical fitness of evacuees living in temporary housing

Wim Ikbal Nursal was born in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia on August 18th, 1976. In 1995, he moved to West Java for pursuing Bachelor degree in Forestry at Bogor Agricultural University. He obtained master degree majoring on Information Technology for Natural Resources Management from the same university in 2007. In 2012, he had interest to a new developed program called Phoenix Leader Education Program under Hiroshima University Japan and decided to join it. His research interest is on remotely and crowdsourced radiation monitoring. By focusing on this research, he is hoping that he could further develop his skill and interest in spatial analysis. He would love to work in international organization for its dynamic and diversity of culture and knowledge, but also has a wish to work independently and work with people directly. Wim is living with his family in Saijo, Higashi-hiroshima city of Hiroshima Prefecture. Other than research, he spends his time with his family, reading (learning how to read) books, and futsal sometimes. Poster title: Integrating Crowdsourced Data on Radiation and Aerial Radiation Monitoring Data on Radioactive Contamination Area in Fukushima

Yuta Murayama is a Masters student, studying medical engineering in Nihon University College of Engineering. He is performing a clinical application study of a system measuring a brain function using light as medical equipment development. He examines the fixed-quantity rating system of the stress and cognitive function, which is a challenge for the Japanese aging society. Poster title: Relation between prefrontal cortex activity and respiratory rate during mental stress tasks: near infrared spectroscopy study

Akiho Nishi is a student in the College of Engineering at Nihon University. Poster title: Solar dyed cells

Yusuke Kawauchi is a 4th year undergraduate student in the Takahashi lab in the Department of System Innovation at the University of Tokyo. Poster title: Effect of muography with two Gas Electron Multipliers

Yuri Yoshihara is a graduate student at the University of Tokyo in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management. She is part of the Takahashi Laboratory, and recently completed a Masters in Engineering on the study of gamma-ray imaging methods using silicon semiconductor detectors for decommissioning. Poster title: No poster

Dahlia An is a senior research associate in the BioActinide Chemistry Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in molecular and cell biology and a Master of Public Health at UC Berkeley, she worked on projects ranging from elucidating the efficacy of actinide chelators in animal models to examining the toxicity pathways of lanthanides in yeast. Let her know if you'd like to join her for a hike or food adventure!

Erika Suzuki is a Program Officer with the Institute for Resilient Communities and the Applied Nuclear Physics Program in the Nuclear Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She previously served as the Program Manager of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium, and as the Deputy Director of the Nuclear Policy Working Group. In her free time, she enjoys photography, reading, hiking, and bouldering.