Engineering student works with explosives in Department of Energy internship

Nineteen-year-old Nathanael Breed didn’t expect to play with C-4 explosives as a college sophomore, or work for a top government agency. But by the grace of God, and a network connection through Liberty University’s School of Engineering, Breed landed an internship that most students only dream about.  

This past summer, Breed performed high-explosive diagnostics and data collection for the Department of Energy (DOE). Stationed at the Los Alamos’ National Security site in Nevada, Breed completed a variety of tasks including loading C-4 and other high explosives, calibrating the blast radius of those explosions, and developed a system for acoustic diagnostics.

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