Preston first received his B.S. in Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles and is now a second year Ph.D. student in the Nuclear Engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley. He will be involved in the analysis of fission product yield data for Pu-239 using experimental data collected using the Fast Loading User Facility for Fission Yields (FLUFFY) at LBNL’s 88-Inch Cyclotron. In addition to this analysis, he will design and execute an experiment to measure delayed-neutron emission from actinide targets that seeks to improve the understanding of fission yield nuclear data. This nuclear data has significant uncertainties and such improvements will assist nuclear forensics and safeguards applications.
