Researchers from the engineering department at the University of New Mexico are part of two university consortia that have been awarded grants totaling $50 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the grants with the overarching goal of bolstering nuclear security. The grants will support each consortium with $5 million per year for five years.
According to the University of New Mexico (UNM), UNM”s share of the five-year award is $1.5 million, as part of the Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification. Led by the University of Michigan, UNM will advance the U.S. capability to detect and characterize foreign nuclear weapons development programs and detect activities, not in compliance with current treaty obligations.
UNM is also partnering with the universities of Princeton, Columbia, California, and Berkeley, as well as NNSA’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, located in Los Alamos, New Mexico and NNSA’s Sandia National Laboratories, which are responsible for the production of nonnuclear components and quality assurance and systems engineering for all U.S. nuclear weapons.
A second consortium called the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation, and led by Georgia Institute of Technology includes 12 universities working to develop and refine technologies supporting the nonproliferation mission to detect and characterize the production of nuclear materials.
“These grants will foster the development of concepts and technologies that keep the United States at the forefront of nuclear monitoring and verification capabilities and allow us to nurture tomorrow’s nonproliferation experts,” Brent K. Park, NNSA deputy administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, said in a statement.
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