NE grad student advances to finals of Argonne National Laboratory CRI Program
Hamilton’s company, Atlas Energy Systems, is part of a program of innovators focused on energy and science technologies. Through an annual call, four to six teams will be selected to join CRI and develop technologies to create a more sustainable future.
Atlas Energy Systems was founded by Hamilton (pictured left), Purdue student Joshua Auger, and Purdue alumni Kyle Harris and Kyle Pendergast. The company has developed The Atlas Power Cell (pictured right), which has the capability to take spent nuclear fuel or nuclear waste and convert the residual radiation energy in this material into usable electric power. One power cell can provide electricity for the duration of the radioactive material’s half-life and can be stacked with other power cells to create the Atlas Energy System.
Atlas Energy Systems board of advisors includes Purdue Nuclear Engineering faculty member Dr. Robert Bean; visiting scholar Dr. Thomas Adams; and Michael Shepard of the Purdue Foundry.
To learn more about the Argonne National Laboratory Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) Program, visit: http://chainreaction.anl.gov/
To learn more about Atlas Energy Systems, contact Hamilton at ian.hamilton@atlasenergysystems.org.
To learn more about Purdue’s School of Nuclear Engineering, visit: https://engineering.purdue.edu/NE