Penn State Breazeale Reactor expands in size and in opportunities - Video #63196

Penn State’s Radiation Science & Engineering Center and the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering broke ground on a 10,000-square-foot, $9.5 million expansion of the Breazeale Reactor on Oct. 21. The nation’s first licensed and longest continuously operating nuclear research reactor, Breazeale’s expansion will accommodate an equipment donation from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Germany, valued at $9.8 million, and facilitate more advanced neutron beam research as well as the growth of nuclear engineering at Penn State.