International Presence

NPI Director, Dr. K.L. Peddicord, has long been engaged with numerous nuclear engineering research and educational programs across the globe, beginning with his work as a visiting scientist at the EURATOM Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy in 1981- 82. Other European connections include the collaborative programs developed between Texas A&M University and the Ecole National Polytechnique de Genoble and EPF School of Engineering-Sceaux between 1985 and 1995, and his collaboration with theLandau Network Centro Volta in Como, Italy.. He also has had important links to nuclear engineering colleagues in Russia since 1995, collaborating with the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) and the Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering (INPE), and since 2009 has been helping to develop academic programs in nuclear engineering with the University of Tartu in Estonia. Between 1998 and 2003, Dr. Peddicord organized several NATO Advanced Research Workshops and Expert Visits dealing with secure use of nuclear materials. He has also facilitated collaboration with the Dalton Institute at the University of Manchester, England since 2008. An active participant in many IAEA programs, he has taken part in several panels and missions with the Department of Nuclear Energy on curricula and human resources development since 2009. He has also carried out reviews of programs in nuclear fuels for the Canadian National Research Council at the Royal Military College with the University Network for Excellence in Nuclear Education (UNENE) since 2008.

In recent years, Dr. Peddicord has expanded his international connections to Asia and the Middle East, visiting Tsing Hua University, Peking University and Fudan University, and presenting lectures in nuclear fuels and materials at the Harbin Engineering University in China. He visited the Homi Bhabha National Institute and Mangalore University in India, and has been engaged in a collaboration on human resources development for the nuclear industry with the Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, Abu Dhabi since 2009. His most recent visit was to Jordan in 2010, where he took part in an IAEA sponsored conference on the utilization of nuclear energy.