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Post Announcements Fundamental Earth Sciences Fundamental Geosciences Program Geophysics Department Hydrogeology Department Nuclear Energy & Waste Program

Enhancing Seismic Safety of Nuclear Facilities

June 9, 2015

Berkeley Lab, U.C. Davis, and the U.N. Reno will collaborate to develop advanced computational tools for modeling and simulating the earthquake response of nuclear facilities, including the effects of soil-structure-interaction.

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Faybishenko Book on Chernobyl Published

December 2, 2014

ESD’s Boris Faybishenko recently received word that Groundwater Vulnerability: The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, for which he was a writer and lead editor, has been published and distributed worldwide by Wiley.

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LBNL, ESD at National Lab Day

September 22, 2014

National Lab Day, explaining the role of U.S. National Labs to Congress, was held on September 16 in Washington. ESD contributed to a strong Berkeley Lab presence at this event, particularly with respect to climate and environmental issues.

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Modeling How Fractures Develop

June 16, 2014

Daisuke Asahina led development of a modeling approach for studying hydromechanical coupled processes within geological formations. Model simulations showed good agreement with two independent studies of hydromechanical coupling.

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Calming Words on Fukushima Radiation

April 9, 2014

ESD’s Phil Long and UC Berkeley professor Kai Vetter both offered reassuring words to those who are worried about local beaches accruing radioactive material as a result of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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LBNL and JAEA Reach Nuclear-Energy-Related Agreement

March 18, 2014

LBNL and JAEA reached an agreement to collaborate on developing “a methodology to evaluate the impact of geological disposal on the living environment (surface environment) and environmental safety science”

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Fracking To Dispose of Nuclear Waste?

December 16, 2013

Scientists have recently proposed a method by which nuclear waste could in the future be contained by injecting it into fracking boreholes. ESD hydrologist Jens Birkholzer comments on this possibility.

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Modeling Transport: Fracture-Matrix

November 21, 2013

Using an analytical approach to study solute transport through a fracture in a permeable rock matrix, Jim Houseworth, Daisuke Asahina, and Jens Birkholzer generated a closed-form model that accounts for elusive fracture-matrix transport.

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Funding Opportunity Announcements to Support Nuclear Energy Research and Infrastructure

November 5, 2013

The Nuclear Energy University Program has just issued it's annual call for proposals; Funding Opportunity Announcement:DE-FOA-0000998

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Honoring Women @ the Lab!

October 24, 2013

ESD Director Susan Hubbard was among 15 women scientists honored at Berkeley Lab, as part of a celebration of women science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workers researching ways to change the world for the better.

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