![Kaelee Novich with equipment](https://www.boisestate.edu/coen-aml/wp-content/uploads/sites/674/2022/12/Novich_2_retouch-002-1.jpg)
We’re spending the last days of 2022 celebrating our best research accomplishments of the year! Graduate student Kaelee Novich shares her best accomplishment below:
“Since June of 2022, I have been interning at Idaho National Laboratory, where I am applying digital image correlation to validate potential safety systems for future molten salt reactors. Digital image correlation is a non-contact optical method to measure changes of volume of materials.”
![future molten salt reactors experiment items](https://www.boisestate.edu/coen-aml/wp-content/uploads/sites/674/2022/12/Sample-hot-1.jpg)