yesterday, elaine grossman reported that the u.s. nuclear regulatory commission has deferred action on a petition from the american physical society urging that an assessment to proliferation risk should precede the licensing of each processing facility in the united states. informed opinions are converging on the important topics, but they're framed by the different expert communities. it is our objective here in the nuclear policy talk series to bring these together. we've brought over 200 nuclear policy experts to campus in the last three years. as part of a nuclear policy talk series ranging from gw elliott school alumnus and acting undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, to senator richard lugar, united nations security council's ban ki moon and murray snyder. we're engaged in research on the topic as "going nuclear and international security in the 21st century" coed itted by michael brown reflects. we're developing new course offerings in this area including a new graduate course this fall offered

elaine grossman reported that the u.s. nuclear regulatory commission has deferred action on the decision from the american physical society, urging that an assessment to risk should receive licensing of each new enrichment or reprocessing facility in the united states. informed opinions are burgeoning on these topics. this agreement remain. framed by the differences of different expert communities. it is our objective here in this series to bring these together. we have brought over 200 nuclear policy experts to campus in the last three years. as part of the talks series, and acting under secretary rose got a mark -- we are engaged in research on this topic as the mit book [inaudible] coedited by the dean of the elliott school, michael blount, reflects. we are also new course offers -- offerings in this area. nuclear material science for non-material students. funded by a grant. it is a great pleasure to convene this discussion to date to have all of you here together and have the opportunity to introduce doctor olli heino