2026 ETI2.0 Workshop — registration is open!
The upcoming 2026 ETI 2.0 Workshop will be held at The Ohio State University – Ohio Union in Columbus, OH, on March 19 – 20. Please register here now!
Participants from university partners, national laboratories, and government will come together to review the research projects funded by NNSA’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (DNN R&D). This workshop is a great opportunity to strengthen the research collaboration between the national labs and the universities in support of innovative technologies across three thrust areas for nuclear nonproliferation. It also fosters and cultivates a research and educational environment where students can interact with peers from universities and scientists from the national labs. In addition to the welcome remarks and plenary presentations, the workshop will feature technical talks, poster presentations, a recruitment session, and lab tour. All presenters will attend in-person. More info are coming at the workshop website soon, stay tuned!
2025 ETI Summer School — what a productive week!
The 2025 ETI Summer School on Advanced Reactor Design, Nonproliferation, and Fuel Cycle Monitoring was successfully held in-person at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, August 4 – 8, 2025. Students and researchers of all academic levels were invited to apply. About 15 applicants from U.S. universities and national labs, including undergraduate, graduate students and scientist researchers, were approved to participate this summer school.
In this summer school, cross-cutting technologies across core disciplines were explored to train the next-generation of nuclear innovators, including safeguards, global security, new reactors and new challenges, 3D printing to rapid prototyping, and machine learning for nonproliferation. Comprehensive lab demonstrations, hands-on activities, and tours were also conducted, including travel to ORNL. Check here for more details!
The core mission of the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation 2.0 (ETI 2.0) is to direct the multidisciplinary research and innovation that enable the technologies that support the NNSA DNN R&D, to train and educate the next-generation of researchers, and to bridge the gap between the university basic research and NNSA national laboratories’ mission-specific applications.
To address the evolving needs in nuclear nonproliferation, the ETI 2.0 team includes a combination of the core experts from the ETI Consortium (ETI 1.0) funded in 2019 as well as new members with additional capabilities. The ETI 2.0 Consortium is composed of twelve institutions of higher education (IHE) and twelve national laboratories, committed to the spirit of collaborative intelligence.
Technical Mission
The technical mission of the ETI 2.0 team is to advance technologies across three core disciplines: (TA1) data science and digital technologies in nuclear security and nonproliferation; (TA2) precision environmental analysis for enhanced nuclear nonproliferation vigilance and emergency response; and (TA3) emerging technologies. The primary thrust areas will be advanced by cross-cutting research projects in (CC1) novel radiation detectors and algorithms and (CC2) testbeds and digital twins. The unique aspect of this team is the universal leverage of collective expertise across all thrust areas. The three ETI 2.0 thrust areas form an interconnected triple-stranded DNA in their spirit: the projects outlined in this proposal will benefit from experts in more than one area.
The integral collaborative approach of ETI 2.0 is essential for training 21st century professionals who will be capable of effectively addressing modern nuclear nonproliferation problems, which are inherently multidisciplinary and require an ability to look beyond one person’s expertise. The ETI 2.0 Consortium will enable environmental analysis and emerging technologies thrusts to take advantage of the data science, novel radiation sensors, digital twins, and testbeds, while contributing back to enhance the methods and algorithm development.