Bio
Elena Tajuelo Rodriguez is an R&D Staff Member at the Nuclear Structures and Construction Group. She is a Physicist and an experimentalist with a general interest in Materials Science. She joined ORNL as a postdoc in 2016 to investigate the effects of irradiation (gamma rays and neutrons) on concrete components. She continues pursuing research within this area as a staff member, participating in an extensive network of collaborations and projects with Universities, the NRC, and the DOE Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program (LWRS). She has been a recipient of multiple Nuclear Science User Facilities RTE proposals to study the effects of gamma rays on calcium silicate hydrates or the main cement components, and neutron irradiated aggregates of varied mineralogy. She has collaborated in two LRDR projects related to carbon capture via mineralizati