May 15, 2007

The Russell Family Foundation Supports Research in Nuclear Waste Transmutation at NC State

The Russell Family Foundation recently awarded $114,405 to Dr. Man-Sung Yim, associate professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University, in continued support of his research to mitigate the potential hazards of nuclear waste through transmutation, a process that alters the physical characteristics of nuclear waste to make its storage easier. This award will support two graduate students during academic year 2007-08 and a postdoctoral researcher in spring 2007 and academic year 2007-08.

Yim, his graduate students and postdoctoral researchers will continue their research to determine the most efficient way to transmute nuclear waste. They have focused on the use of particle accelerators to bombard the waste with electrons. The NC State team is also collaborating with the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow on applying risk assessment and management techniques to the cleanup of radioactive waste at former weapons complex sites.

Yim received his B.S. and M.S. in nuclear engineering from Seoul National University in 1981 and 1983, respectively, his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1987, and his S.M. and Sc.D. in environmental health science from Harvard University in 1991 and 1994, respectively.

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