Check out Dr. Harold Conner, Jr.'s recent appearance on the "Gone Fission Nuclear Report" podcast to hear about his journey from being the first African-American chemical engineering graduate of the University of Tennessee to becoming the site manager at the former Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, now called East Tennessee Technology Park.
Harold Conner, PhD, PE, CPEM, ASEM Fellow, AIChE Fellow —UT's first African-American chemical engineering graduate who went on to become the site manager of the world's largest uranium enrichment complex—is featured on this week's "Gone Fission Nuclear Report" in celebration of Black History Month. Michael Butler's podcast also offers vignettes about Black scientists who participated in the early history of atomic energy, a DOE connection to a leading candidate to become the first Black Justice on the Supreme Court, and the latest news from the DOE Environmental Management program. #podcast #energy #chemicalengineering #nuclearengineering
