2022 LLNL Nuclear Science and Security Summer Internship Program

Technical Report · Thu Dec 08 04:00:00 EST 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1903454· OSTI ID:1903454

Zavarin, Mavrik ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Nuclear Science and Security Summer Internship Program (NS³IP) is designed to give graduate and undergraduate students an opportunity to come to LLNL for 8–10 weeks of hands-on research. Students conduct research under the supervision of a staff scientist, attend a weekly lecture series, interact with other students, and present their work to the LLNL scientific community at the end of the program. Students also have the opportunity to meet staff scientists one-on-one, participate in LLNL facility tours (e.g., the National Ignition Facility and Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry), and gain a better understanding of the various science programs at LLNL. Due to the travel and access restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 NS³IP was organized as a hybrid internship program. Five of the 20 NS³IP students participated remotely. One of the 8 students funded directly by DTRA participated remotely. With LLNL’s extensive institutional support, remote students accessed the laboratory’s cyberinfrastructure through a secure virtual desktop environment and all seminars, mentor interactions, summer presentations, and laboratory tours had a remote option. The hybrid approach to the internship program provided flexibility to both the interns and their mentors to construct creative research projects that maximized student exposure to nuclear science research that is relevant to DTRA and LLNL. We anticipate continuing a hybrid internship format in the summer of 2023.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOD
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-07NA27344
• OSTI ID: 1903454
• Report Number(s): LLNL-TR-843055; 1065708
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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