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Nuclear Energy: Past, Present, and Future

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 7:00–8:00 PM
  • Location
    138 DeBartolo Hall
  • Description
    🏆 A Sustainability Cup Dorm Competition Event as part of the 18th annual Notre Dame Energy Week 🏆

    As part of the 18th annual Notre Dame Energy Week, Notre Dame’s chapter of the American Nuclear Society invites the public to join a discussion about nuclear energy presented by Peter C. Burns, the Massman Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences. Professor Burns will give an overview of the current energy landscape and advocate for nuclear energy as being the safest, quickest way for society to combat climate change.
    Biography
    Peter C. Burns has focused most of his research over the past decade on the solid state and environmental chemistry of heavy metals, especially actinides including uranium, neptunium and plutonium. Much of this research is applied to nuclear waste disposal and understanding the mobility of actinides and heavy metals in the environment. The structures, compositions, stabilities, and thermochemistry of uranium compounds are studied in relation to the evolution of a geological repository for nuclear waste, as well as natural uranium deposits. Burns was formerly the Director of NDE. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1994, his M.S. in Geology from the University of Western Ontario in 1990, and his B.S., the University of New Brunswick in 1988.
    Vintage ND Energy shirts will be given out at this event while they last.
    Originally published at energy.nd.edu.
  • Website
    https://green.nd.edu/events/2024/09/24/nuclear-energy-past-present-and-future-sustainability-cup-dorm-competition-event/

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