NRC chair to visit campusNuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Dale Klein will be in Raleigh Thursday to speak to the community and tour the nuclear reactor on campus.
After meeting with Chancellor James L. Oblinger and other campus administrators, Klein will address students in a speech entitled “The Nuclear Renaissance — A View from America’s Chief Nuclear Regulator,” according to NRC Public Affairs Director Eliot Brenner. He said the speech, which will take place from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in Witherspoon Rooms 113 and 117, will be open to students. Klein will also take questions from the audience during the speech.
Brenner said Klein will talk about a variety of topics, including the job market for nuclear engineers. He also mentioned that the NRC is in hiring mode, which Klein will address in his speech.
Klein will also be touring the one megawatt nuclear reactor located inside Burlington Hall on his visit to Raleigh.
Although Brenner said Klein is planning to attend a reception to meet and speak with students around 4 p.m., the location has not yet been determined.
Later in the evening, Klein will also be speaking at a dinner for the local chapter of the American Nuclear Society.
Klein, on leave from a tenured position at the University of Texas, began his term as the NRC chair on July 1, 2006. He is the official spokesman for the commission, which licenses and oversees the operation of commercial nuclear power plants and other nuclear activities, and has the ultimate authority over the NRC’s functions.
Microsoft offers free game, limited time onlyAfter a holiday rush of users overloaded Microsoft’s Xbox Live service through early January, the company promised gamers it would make up to them in the form of a free Xbox Live Arcade game download.
The company delivered on the promise last week, offering the game Undertow, for free. The only catch is that players had about five days to download it — the deal went active Jan. 23 at 2 a.m. and ended Jan. 27 at 11:59 p.m.
The side-scrolling shooter, set in an underwater world, has single player and multiplayer modes and features gameplay centering on control of territory.
— Tyler Dukes
