Researchers get $5.25M to advance Nuclear Technologies

A team of environmental scientists and engineers from Clemson University, the University of South Carolina and South Carolina State University was awarded a three-year, $5.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The team, led by Clemson University associate professor Brian Powell, will work in the advancement of monitoring, remediation and disposal of radioactive contaminants. The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research hopes to address key scientific issues identified by several DOE programs that limit the present understanding of radionuclide behavior in natural and engineered systems in support of closure of DOE legacy weapons production sites, disposal of radioisotope-bearing wastes and disposal of spent nuclear fuel from commercial energy production.