NMSU’s College of Engineering awarded $4.8 million Department of Energy grant
NuChemE Pipeline Team
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has awarded a $4.8 million grant to New Mexico State University to expand research and workforce skills in the area of radioactive tank waste management.
Over the course of three years, the grant will support the NMSU’s College of Engineering, Business and Arts and Sciences, as well as grant partners from the University of Texas at El Paso, Georgia Institute of Technology, Savannah River National Laboratory and Savannah River Nuclear Solutions.
NMSU Chemical and Materials Engineering Associate Professor Catherine Brewer is the lead for the new project titled “Evaluating New Materials and Processes for Radioactive Tank Waste Processing: Workforce Development in f-Element Chemistry, Nuclear Chemical Engineering, and Supply Chain Management,” also known as the NuChemE Pipeline.
“The goal of this project is to give students the knowledge, experiences and person-to-person interactions to help them consider and be prepared for careers with the DOE,” Brewer said. “Part of that preparation is familiarity with the f-elements (elements in those two rows below the Periodic Table like uranium, plutonium and the rare earth metals) and the steps of the nuclear fuel cycle, from raw material mining through management of spent nuclear fuels.”
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