Yim, Mansung Professor and Director NSSPI

Dr. Yim's work aims at the safe and responsible use of nuclear technology with research activities covering nuclear nonproliferation/security, nuclear waste management, nuclear safety, and nuclear energy policy. While working at KAIST, Prof. Yim founded NEREC (Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center) and trained over 330 next-generation leaders in nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear policy from ~60 countries. He is currently a Senior Member of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, a member of the Scientific Program Committee of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the Council of Advisors on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy of OECD/NEA, the International Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee of Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, and the Korean National Academy of Engineering. He is an associate editor (Asia) of Nuclear Technology for the American Nuclear Society, a member of the editorial advisory board of Progress in Nuclear Energy and International Journal of Nuclear Security, and an editor at the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.