Ep. 135 - Sara Pozzi, University of Michigan

Published: March 7, 2019, 11 a.m.

In this episode we discuss...

  • How Sara Pozzi helped design international nuclear disarmament verification technologies at Oak Ridge
  • The difference between active and passive interrogation in detecting nuclear materials
  • Challenges of detecting nuclear materials smuggled in on container ships
  • What the IAEA is doing to help promote non-proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world
  • Why spent nuclear fuel is still a proliferation threat to the world
  • How the Department of Energy’s Consortium initiatives are training nuclear engineers for the workforce
  • Why Sara believes we need to be focusing on detecting and characterizing special nuclear materials to keep us safe