Dr. Rusty Towell

Dr. Rusty Towell is the founding director of ACU’s Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing (NEXT) Lab which is building the first university advanced reactor in the country.  Rusty has a BS degree in Engineering Physics from ACU and a Ph.D in nuclear physics from the University of Texas.  He served in the U.S. Navy as an instructor at the Naval Nuclear Power School and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with Los Alamos National Laboratory working at Brookhaven National Lab.