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As a graduate student at Purdue University, Robert Bean was steeped in the nuclear engineering world. He had a degree in nuclear science. He operated his school’s nuclear reactor. And he advised undergraduates on career opportunities related to being a nuclear engineer.
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As a graduate student at Purdue University, Robert Bean was steeped in the nuclear engineering world. He had a degree in nuclear science. He operated his school’s nuclear reactor. And he advised undergraduates on career opportunities related to being a nuclear engineer. Yet he had never heard of "safeguards.” “I wasn’t aware of how to apply an education in nuclear science outside of a reactor,” said Bean, who now works in safeguards and nondestructive assay at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.