Another Adventure with Nuke Herder Andrew Bieniawski
October 14, 2010 at 8:44 pm Ryan Jones Leave a comment
You might remember Andrew Bieniawski ’89 from our feature in our Jan/Feb 2009 issue, and from previous mentions on this very blog. If not: He’s the guy from the National Nuclear Security Administration who leads special-ops teams into far-away places (mostly the old Eastern bloc nations) to secure loose nuclear material. He was back in the news this week, when England’s Telegraph newspaper and NPR both featured the latest mission by Bieniawski and his team: trucking a load of bomb-grade uranium—enough to build eight nuclear devices—from Poland to Russia, where it will be reprocessed and made safe. The Telegraph reports that this is the project’s biggest shipment yet.
Like comic book superheroes, Bieniawski and his team can go home when it’s over knowing they really did make the world a safer place. I imagine that must feel pretty cool.
Ryan Jones, senior editor
Entry filed under: The Penn Stater magazine. Tags: Andrew Bieniawski, NPR, Poland, Russia, Telegraph.
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