Professor Arden Rowell is the Co-Principal Investigator on a research team that has been awarded an $800,000 grant from the Department of Energy to help improve the safety of nuclear power in the United States. The project will use cross-cutting interdisciplinary tools to quantify the risks posed by nuclear power plants. 

The project is a collaboration through the Socio-Technical Risk Analysis (SoTeRiA) Laboratory, which is directed by Assistant Professor Zahra Mohaghegh at the University of Illinois' Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering. 

Read the full press release on the NPRE website.