UT Institute for Nuclear Security

05/26/2025

UT’s land-grant mission is a promise to the people we serve to continue to light the way and pursue excellence in everything we do.

10/17/2023

Thursday October 26 at 4 PM (Eastern US time), the Institute for Nuclear Security and the Center for National Security and Foreign Affars (both of the University of Tennessee) will be hosting Scott Roecker, Vice President of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. He will be speaking on “Troubling Findings from the 2023 Nuclear Security Index” in the Toyota Auditorium in the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center.

Admission is free and open to the public, and his seminar will also be livestreamed and available recorded at https://tiny.utk.edu/Roecker_talk for those looking to participate remotely.

Flyer for the seminar in the comments.

04/15/2016

"It sounds like this was all civilian, or close to civilian-type technology, not classified material. But it's still a serious crime."

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Chinese-born U.S. nuclear engineer has been accused of recruiting a team of U.S.-based experts to help a state-controlled Chinese nuclear energy company build reactors there. Szuhsiung Ho, also…

04/04/2016

More winners from the First Annual IJNS Student Writing Competition! See the flyer for details on this year's competition. http://ow.ly/10guQw

04/01/2016

Great turnout at the 's 2016 Science Academic Program last February!

Current Students, Faculty & Staff, George Schweitzer, Governor’s Chair for Global Nuclear Security Howard Hall, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Radiochemistry Center of Excellence, y-12 national security complex

03/31/2016

During , -America asked Hall for his perspectives on the current state of security affairs. http://ow.ly/108SWo

To discuss the Nuclear Security Summit and how the fatal terror attack in Brussels has shined a light on the growing nuclear terror threat, Dr....

03/28/2016

Dr. Russ Hirst, Dr. Haidy Ghoname, Amb. Sameh Aboul-Enein, Dr. Howard Hall, and Dr. Joe Stainback

03/28/2016

Howard Hall, Dean Rice and Natalie Manaeva Rice were interviewed by WBIR regarding warnings of dirty bomb interest. http://ow.ly/ZZv9k

After the terrorist attacks in Brussels, global security experts are warning about the risks of dirty bombs back home.

03/28/2016

Global Security Lecture-"Emerging Regional Challenges,"
Ambassador Sameh Aboul-Enein, tonight, 5:30 pm in the Toyota Auditorium at the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy.

03/25/2016

Tweeted a recent excellent article by Richard Stone that discusses some of the nuclear forensics research going on at http://bit.ly/1V9Cc9Z

03/25/2016

exposing ISIL nuclear terror nexus. http://ow.ly/ZUORH As we predicted... http://ow.ly/ZUOSJ NSS 2016

The brothers behind Tuesday's attacks may have plotted to steal material needed for a dirty bomb.

03/22/2016

Doel 2014 and underscore the importance of Nuclear Security http://ow.ly/ZPiT4 http://ow.ly/ZPj18

Belgium has been left without half of its nuclear capacity, as GDF Suez subsidiary Electrabel confirmed that its Doel 4 nuclear reactor has been...