Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation 2

Well Represented in Japan for the 2025 IEEE NSSMIC

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ETI2.0 was well represented in Yokohama last week for the 2025 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference (November 1 – 8, 2025) — the annual gathering of people who actually build the sensors, detectors, and algorithms that keep the nuclear world measurable, accountable, and safe.

The ETI GT/TAMU/CSM/OSU/UW/LANL team presented across multiple sessions:
✅ Advanced SiPM Technologies
✅ AI for Enhanced Fiber-Optic Monitoring
✅ Polysiloxane Mixed-Field Scintillator Arrays
✅ Real-Time Neutron Multiplicity & Source Localization
✅ Radiation Effects on Diamond NV Quantum Sensors for Reactor Dosimetry
✅ Silicon Carbide Radiation Detector Performance Up to 600 °C
✅ Metal-Hydride Gas Detector for Tritium Quantification

Across the slate, SiPMs, diamond NV, polysiloxanes, SiC, fiber systems, metal-hydride gas detectors, neutron multiplicity, the message is the same: There is no nuclear renaissance without an instrumentation renaissance.

In addition to the technical presentations from the consortium members, Dr. Anna Erickson chaired a session with Dr. Sara Pozzi — “Sensors & Systems for Non-Destructive Assay and Safeguards of Nuclear Material”.


Proud of the students, collaborators, and the entire Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation 2.0 ecosystem for pushing these technologies forward. This is what a modern, interdisciplinary nuclear workforce looks like — hands-on and field-ready.

Engaging With K-12 at GA Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing (AIM)

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An ETI2.0 team at Georgia Tech, two graduate students from Dr. Anna Erickson group and one Research Associate from Dr. Roxanne Moore group, created and facilitated the activity/demo for K-12 at the Georgia Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing (GA AIM) event that was held in Carrollton, GA on September 29, and Savannah, GA on October 3, 2025. GA AIM supports the expansion of AI in manufacturing across the state.

During this event, students can explore AI, automation, and advanced manufacturing through interactive tours, coding sessions, and hands-on activities/demos, which is a great opportunity for the ETI2.0 consortium to collaborate with GA AIM and provide a demo or hands-on activity to engage with the K-12 audience.

Dr. Erickson on CBS News 24/7 — Explains the Importance of Centrifuges to Iranian Efforts to Build Nuclear Weapons

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The latest U.S. strikes in Iran hit the infrastructure that supports advanced uranium enrichment: centrifuge components, vacuum systems, and critical power supplies. Even striking peripheral infrastructure, like vacuum pumps or cold traps, can cripple enrichment throughput without necessarily destroying centrifuges.

CBS News video — Dr. Erickson explains the uranium enrichment process.

Professor Anna Erickson, the Director of ETI Consortium 2.0, was recently invited to CBS News 24/7 to explain how centrifuge technology shapes nuclear weapons capability and intentions, how designs have evolved from the IR-1 to the IR-9, and why disrupting enrichment infrastructure can matter without dismantling an entire nuclear program. Watch this CBS News video here. Her article, “Why the US bombed a bunch of metal tubes − a nuclear engineer explains the importance of centrifuges to Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons,” was published in The Conversation earlier this month. More details are available here.

Dr. Raymond Cao Appointed to the Ohio Nuclear Development Authority

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Dr. Raymond Cao, Nuclear Engineering Professor & Nuclear Reactor Lab Director at the Ohio State University, who is also the Thrust Area Lead of ETI 2.0 consortium, has been appointed by the Office of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine to the Ohio Nuclear Development Authority (https://lnkd.in/gYpBAXyG). The authority is responsible for the development of advanced nuclear reactor commercialization, isotope production and nuclear waste reduction.