William S. Charlton


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Dr. Charlton is an associate professor of nuclear engineering and director of the Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute (NSSPI) at Texas A&M University. Dr. Charlton is an expert in the area of nuclear nonproliferation research and education. Prior to his appointment at Texas A&M, he was an assistant professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin and served as a technical staff member in the Nonproliferation and International Security Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He remains heavily involved with Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. His areas of research include reactor physics methods with applications to safeguards and nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear material production calculations, fuel cycle analysis, and nuclear fuel design and assessment.

Dr. Charlton's grants and funding include "Development and Application of Quantitative Proliferation Resistance Methodologies for Reprocessing Scenarios," (Sandia National Laboratory); "Russian Academic Program in Nonproliferation and International Security," (National Nuclear Security Administration); "Pathways to Nuclear Terrorism," (Los Alamos National Laboratory); "Scattered Neutron Tomography Based on a Neutron Transport Inverse Problem," (U.S. Department of Energy); "Proliferation Resistance Assessments," (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory); "Development of a Method for Analyzing Signatures from a Radiological Dispersal Device," (Los Alamos National Laboratory); "NuGET Experiment Validation," (Sandia National Laboratory); "Stochastic Network Interdiction Models for Homeland Security," (National Science Foundation); and "Nonproliferation Issues for Latin America: Argentinean and Brazilian Nuclear Power Plants and Reprocessing Facilities," (Oak Ridge National Laboratory).

Among his many awards, Dr. Charlton was named the George Armistead Jr. '23 Faculty Fellow in 2005. Dr. Charlton is recognized as one of the leaders in nuclear nonproliferation education and research. He has over 100 technical publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Charlton received his Ph.D. (1999), master of science (1997), and bachelor of science (1995) in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University.