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PAST EVENT

Nuclear Reactor Safety

Seminar
Series: Belfer Center Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - KSG / Room L-332
July 21, 2009
10:00-11:30 a.m.

Related Projects: Managing the Atom, International Security, Science, Technology, and Public Policy

Description:

Professor Richard Wilson will present a Managing the Atom 'Nuclear 101' seminar entitled "Nuclear Reactor Safety" on Tuesday July 21 at 10am in the Deland Seminar Room, Littauer 332.

Speaker Info:

Richard Wilson has worked on a variety of projects in his 50-year career in nuclear and particle physics and more recently in various topics in Risk assessment and Risk-Benefit Analysis. 

Starting with nucleon scattering, he has more recently worked on scattering of leptons, both electrons and muons, by nucleons.  Then on electron-positron colliding beams firstly at Harvard (CEA) from 1970-73, then at Cornell University, (CLEO project) until 2001.  He is still working on two smaller activities: experiment (HAPPEX) with scattering of polarized electrons by protons at the CEBAF (JLAB) in Virginia, to search for strange quark form factors, and on "little a" in neutron decay at Indiana and NIST in Maryland.  Richard Wilson presently works on Risk-Benefit Analysis, and on cancer incidence at old age (>80years).  Fuller and updated detail can be found on the website he personally maintains at http://physics.harvard.edu/~wilson.

Contact:

MTA Project Coordinator
Project on Managing the Atom 79 JFK St, Mailbox 134 Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Email: atom@harvard.edu
Phone: 617-495-4219
Fax: 617-495-0606
Url: http://www.managingtheatom.org