The Penn State Breazeale Reactor is the country’s first licensed and longest continuously operating nuclear research reactor, and now it is one of the most productive. The reactor can now run five beam ports with seven neutron beam lines simultaneously.
Since its founding in 1955, the reactor has undergone a series of renovations, the biggest being in 2018. Today, the Breazeale Reactor remains the oldest operating reactor in the country.
Experts from industry and academia offered their insights and led panel discussions on ways to improve digital fairness at the recent Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Fall Symposium.
Metal corrosion is a problem across infrastructure in all fields, according to Juan Pablo Gevaudan, assistant professor of architectural engineering and principal investigator who received a three-year, $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program to further explore the degradation science of concrete as it applies to nuclear waste.
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