Over the last three years, Energy Impact Center (EIC) have met with leading experts across climate and energy, mapping out challenges and opportunities to form the foundation for future work. This work features a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities within the field of nuclear energy and explores how the fundamentals of utilizing atomic energy yield orders of magnitude better performance and less waste over all alternatives. At Ep. 423, EIC conducted one-on-one interview with ETI graduate student Natalie Cannon from Georgia Institute of Technology, discussing:

• Natalie’s last minute switch from film to STEM – How she settled on nuclear engineering.
• An exploration of manufacturing techniques, finding mentors, and invaluable pieces of advice.
• Natalie’s research and a dive into neutron noise, criticality, and robots.
• Celebrating past accomplishments and looking toward what younger generations can help achieve in the future.

ETI hosted a How to Apply to Graduate School Workshop event that presents opportunities in non-proliferation R&D on November 18-19 (Friday and Saturday), 2022, at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center, 800 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, GA. Our aim is to host this event for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) engineering students, and the goal is to draw more diversity into our partner institutions.

The workshop includes:

• Best practices in applying to graduate school
• Tips on getting funding while a graduate student
• Tours of GA Tech laboratory facilities
• Graduate research opportunities at consortium partners
• Networking with faculty and students from leading research universities
• Diverse career opportunities in non-proliferation R&D

ETI headquarter welcomed and had a in-person meeting with eight visitors from Europe who visited Atlanta in the week of July 11, 2022, under the auspices of the US Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program with the theme of “Deterrence Today, Disarmament Tomorrow.”

During their visit, the State Department has requested a meeting with Georgia Tech’s Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation, which was coordinated by the Georgia Council for International Visitors (GCIV). Professor Steven Biegalski gave an introductory presentation to the visitors to discuss the ETI Consortium’s mission, research works, and partnerships on July 15, 2022.