WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Governor Mike Braun's administration has set a goal to have nuclear power plants in Indiana within eight years. Purdue University is leading the research on this initiative.

The West Lafayette campus is hosting the Global Nuclear Energy Economic Summit next week.

Purdue is home to Indiana's only nuclear reactor, called PUR-1.

"It's been operating since 1962 and current license power is ten kilowatts thermal, which is about ten toasters,” Stylianos Chatzidakis, Purdue assistant professor of nuclear engineering said. "It's not much."

But the information collected by researchers and students is powerful when applied on a larger scale. Purdue is on the front line of bringing nuclear energy to Indiana's power grid.

In 2019, Purdue converted the reactor to completely

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