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The SALT Research Group

UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department

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    • Raluca Scarlat
    • Sara Mastromarino
    • Niv Moran
    • Lorenzo Vergari
    • Haley Williams
    • Sasha Kennedy
    • Ryan Hayes
    • Christian M. Sclafani, MEng., B.S.E.
    • Michael Borrello
    • Nathanael Gardner
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    • ThorCon Corrosion Project
    • NEUP – High Temperature Molten Salt Reactor Pump Development
    • NEUP – IRP Molten Salt Reactor Test Bed with Neutron Irradiation
    • Speciation of Light Elements in Molten Salts
    • MS Round Robin 1.0
    • FUTURE EFRC
    • Graphite and Tritium Studies in Molten Fluoride Salts
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  • | Beryllium Safety
  • | News & Events
    • | Open House Nov. 5, 2021
    • | Chemical Sensors Workshop 2020
    • | Molten Salt Bootcamp 2019

SALT Group Virtual Open House for Prospective Graduate Students

 Register to attend the SALT Group Virtual Open House for Prospective Graduate Students: https://forms.gle/RPFZHJFJjMyq3udP7

When: Friday, Nov. 5th, 2021. 12pm – 1pm California Time

Where: Virtual: Registration Link & Zoom Link

Audience: Undergraduate students, masters students, and professionals in engineering or science fields with interest in learning about:

  • graduate studies in nuclear engineering in the areas of chemistry, materials, and safety.
  • molten salt research and the future generation of nuclear energy (fusion and fission).

Agenda

10 minutes:  Introduction

Raluca Scarlat

 

3 minutes overview of nuclear engineering

5 minutes overview of the SALT Research group

2 minutes overview of grad school & finding the right program/the right group

30 minutes: Panel discussion with graduate students in the SALT group

Haley Williams, Lorenzo Vergari, Ryan Hayes, Sasha Kennedy, Nathanael Gardner, Michael Borrello, Christian Sclafani,

Why did you decide to apply to nuclear engineering programs?

Why did you choose to work in the SALT group?

Advice for how to approach preparing graduate school applications.

What one thing you wish you knew when you were applying to grad school that you know now?

What career paths are you considering after your Ph.D.?

Favorite group team-building activity? / Favorite group meeting joke?

 

10 minutes: One-on-one discussions with members of the SALT group Break-out sessions with each of the SALT-group members.
10 minutes: wrap-up & respond to additional questions Whole group Q&A.

Feedback survey.

 

 

Prof. Raluca O. Scarlat

Department of Nuclear Engineering

University of California Berkeley

scarlat@berkeley.edu

 

SALT Group Website

SALT.nuc.berkeley.edu

UCB Nuclear Engineering

nuc.berkeley.edu

UCB Grad Application: Due 15 Dec. 2021

nuc.berkeley.edu/graduate-admissions

 

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