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[Seminar] Into the Nuclear Future – 70th Anniversary Address
November 5, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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“Into the Nuclear Future”
NC State Nuclear Engineering
Platinum Anniversary Virtual
Keynote Address
Thursday, November 5.2020
4:00 – 5:30 pm EDT
Speakers –
Dr. Rita Baranwal, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Mr. William Magwood IV, Director-General, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
In 1950, Clifford Beck, then of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, obtained support from NC State’s Dean of Engineering, Harold Lampe, for the idea of building the nation’s first university nuclear reactor and establishing the first university nuclear engineering educational curriculum.