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Ground broken at ORNL for Advanced Testbed and Operations Learning Laboratory
On June 3, Brandon Williams, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, was at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to break ground on the Advanced Testbed and Operations Learning Laboratory (ATOLL).
The planned 21,000-square-foot facility, which is scheduled to be completed in mid-2028, will play an important role in the development of workforce expertise and capabilities aimed at monitoring foreign weapons-grade uranium production activities.
2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting Plenary Session Speaker
Professor
Associate Department Head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benoit Forget is a Professor and Associate Department Head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering department at MIT. He joined MIT in 2008 and was involved with the CASL project throughout its lifetime. He specializes in the area of computational reactor physics and radiation transport. He obtained his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his MS and BS degrees from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.
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