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October 2016

On Friday, October 28, NNSA administrator Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz (Ret.) visited the Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and received an overview of the lab’s projects supporting NNSA missions. Among these were capabilities in partnership with NNSA and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility, and an emerging technology that could prove useful in future disarmament agreements, pending the results of further development, testing and evaluation.

Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz (Ret.), NNSA administrator, begins an experiment in zero knowledge protocol, an emerging nuclear warhead verification technology, by pushing a button to activate a neutron generator at PPPL.
Klotz views a zero knowledge protocol experiment.

Klotz visits with leaders and scientists at PPPL. Front row, from left: Terry Brog, Interim Director, PPPL; Klotz; Dave McComas, Princeton University VP for PPPL; back row, from left: Rob Goldston, Princeton professor of astrophysical sciences and former director of PPPL; Phil Efthimion, head, Plasma Science and Technology Department, PPPL; Pete Johnson, head, Princeton Site Office, DOE; Amitava Bhattacharjee, head, Theory Department, PPPL; Michael Zarnstorff, deputy director for research, PPPL; Nathaniel Fisch, director, Princeton University Program in Plasma Physics; Sebastien Philippe, Princeton University graduate student.
Klotz, middle, discusses a new X-ray spectrometer developed at PPPL, with Lan Gao, left, and Ken Hill, physicists at the lab.
Klotz discusses a zero knowledge protocol experiment with Princeton graduate student Sebastien Philippe at PPPL.

From left, Terry Brog, interim director, PPPL; Dave McComas, Princeton University VP for PPPL; Klotz; and Sebastien Philippe, Princeton University graduate student; watch a zero knowledge protocol experiment at PPPL.

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