The Center for Energy Studies and the LSU Economics & Policy Research Group will present Energy Summit™ 2016: "Managing through Energy Challenges," on Wednesday, October 26, at the Energy, Coast & Environment Building.

This year's summit will address recent challenges to the energy industry affecting unconventional activities and offshore development, state fiscal concerns related to changing energy markets, global geo-political impacts, and power generation issues with baseload generation. The conference will also feature a Louisiana economic roundtable that will address local economic challenges.

The annual energy conference, open to the public, attracts representatives from major petrochemical and refining companies, state agencies, state legislators' offices, regional investor-owned, municipal, and cooperative utilities, environmental groups, and university faculty.

For program and registration information, click here.  

Wei-Hsung Wang, professor, LSU Center for Energy Studies, and director, LSU Radiation Safety Office, attended the 2016 Technical Tour of French Nuclear Facilities July 3-9. The objectives of the tour were (1) to promote and develop exchanges about the status and knowledge of nuclear development and achievements in France and in the U.S. in different technical fields and (2) to continuously enhance the relationship between France and the U.S. in the field of nuclear education and training. 

The biennial event is organized by the French Section of the American Nuclear Society (Section Française de l'American Nuclear Society) and the French Nuclear Energy Society (Société Française d'Energie Nucléaire) and sponsored by ANDRA (French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management), AREVA, Electricity of France (Électricité de France), and the French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique).

Wang and eleven other U.S. university professors of nuclear energy from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of California Irvine, University of Florida, University of Idaho, University of Tennessee, and University of Wisconsin Madison were invited to participate in the tour. They travelled 2,000 miles throughout France and visited Cadarache Technological Research and Development Center for Energy, the MELOX facility for MOX fuel fabrication, Atalante facility for fuel cycle studies, a large LWR components fabrication plant, a deep underground radioactive waste research laboratory, a fuel reprocessing plant, and the EPR construction site.

Charles A. Wilson IV, radiation safety officer for the Bennett Johnston Sr. Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), was honored with the Elda E. Anderson Award, bestowed upon a young member (younger than 40 years of age) of the Health Physics Society (HPS) to recognize excellence in research or development, discovery or invention, devotion to health physics, and/or significant contributions to the profession of health physics.  Wilson was recognized for his accomplishments at the 61st HPS Annual Meeting Awards Banquet in Spokane, Washington, on July 19, 2016.

Wilson received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics (2009) and Master of Science Degree in Medical and Health Physics (2012), both from LSU.  He is currently a doctoral candidate in environmental sciences, environmental health physics concentration, at LSU. His research interests center on the development of feasible solutions to practical radiation protection and radiation detection issues on radioactive waste management, NORM measurement methodology, and gamma-ray spectrometry.

Wilson has authored or co-authored two peer-reviewed publications and eleven conference proceedings, abstracts and presentations. He is the recipient of the HPS J. Newell Stannard Fellowship (2010) and Scott and Susan Brodie Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Physics and Astronomy at LSU (2013).  He is also an associate member of the American Academy of Health Physics.

Wilson served as vice president of LSU's student branch of the HPS, vice president and president of the Deep South Chapter of the HPS, and chair of the Student Support Committee of the HPS.  He was an adviser to the HPS Board of Directors and currently chairs the Society Support Committee of the HPS and is a member of the International Radiation Protection Association Task Force.  

 

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