Dr. Kerry Howe Receives $510K Contract for Water Quality Project

February 24, 2012

UNM Civil Engineering Associate Professor Kerry Howe has received a new one-year $510,000 research contract from the South Texas Project (STP) Nuclear Operating Company to investigate industrial water quality and treatment issues. The project will investigate how a hypothetical loss-of-coolant accident is affected by the quality of the cooling water. STP operates two commercial nuclear power reactors in Bay City, Texas.