Hamilton’s company, Atlas Energy Systems, was chosen to join CRI to develop technologies utilizing spent nuclear fuel as an energy source rather than discarding. This technology can replace other energy sources such as gasoline and lithium-ion batteries, reducing their negative environmental impacts caused by emission and metal waste products, respectively.

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 Ian Hamilton and the other Argonne National Laboratory CRI participants, visit: https://chainreaction.anl.gov/innovators/

Contact Hamilton at ian.hamilton@atlasenergysystems.org to learn more about Atlas Energy Systems.

To learn more about Purdue’s School of Nuclear Engineering, visit: https://engineering.purdue.edu/NE