Peter Burns
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Henry J. Massman Chair and Professor of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences;
Director, Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame
- Environmental mineralogy and crystallography
- Mineral crystal structures and crystal chemistry
- Mineral structural energetics
- Mineral paragenesis
- Nuclear waste disposal
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The Independent
Race to block burial of nuclear waste by the Great Lakes over fear of tainting crucial fresh water supply
March 03, 2022
“One of them is commercial spent nuclear fuel, and that’s what the Canadian reactors tend to produce, and that’s what commercial power plants produce,” Peter Burns, director of the Center for Sustainable Energy at the University of Notre Dame, tells The Independent.
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