Feds give $5M to nuclear energy students

Ninety-one college students will split more than $5 million in Energy Department scholarships and fellowships to study in nuclear energy fields.

Officials awarded 59 scholarships worth $7,500 each and 32 three-year graduate fellowships worth $50,000 per year to students pursuing “nuclear engineering degrees and other nuclear science and engineering programs relevant to nuclear energy,” the department announced on Thursday.

{mosads}The department said the scholarships are part of the Obama administration’s “efforts to expand clean energy innovation.”

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said, “by helping promote cutting-edge nuclear science and engineering, the Department is helping to advance American leadership in the safe, secure and efficient use of nuclear energy here and around the world.”  

More than 500 students have received $25 million in nuclear energy scholarships since 2009.