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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Burns in the News
South Bend Tribune
March 18, 2024
As part of its Michiana Science Cafe虂 series, the presents “A Conversation About: Nuclear Facts, Fiction and Future” at 6 p.m. March 20 at the , 304 S. Main St. Peter Burns, a professor in Notre Dame’s department of chemistry & biochemistry and civil and environmental engineering and Earth sciences, will talk about the current state of nuclear energy research in the United States and discuss the future implications of nuclear energy as an alternative energy source.
The Independent
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.