As a graduate student at Purdue University, Robert Bean was steeped in the nuclear engineering world. He had a degree in nuclear science. He operated his school’s nuclear reactor. And he advised undergraduates on career opportunities related to being a nuclear engineer.
As a graduate student at Purdue University, Robert Bean was steeped in the nuclear engineering world. He had a degree in nuclear science. He operated his school’s nuclear reactor. And he advised undergraduates on career opportunities related to being a nuclear engineer. Yet he had never heard of "safeguards.”
“I wasn’t aware of how to apply an education in nuclear science outside of a reactor,” said Bean, who now works in safeguards and nondestructive assay at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.