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UW Assistant Professor Receives Grant to Protect Nuclear Plants Using Particle Dampers

University of Wyoming Department of Mechanical Engineering assistant professor Dr. Ankit Saxena has received nearly $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop new ways to protect nuclear power plants from earthquakes using a technology called particle dampers.UW Director of Institutional Communications Chad Baldwin explained how the dampers will work in theory. C. Baldwin According to Baldwin, although the project focuses on nuclea…