Associate Lab Director for Nuclear Science & Technology at Idaho National Laboratory. We're changing the world's energy future by advancing nuclear energy.
Idaho Falls, ID
Joined May 2009
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Magic Valley friends: tonight @INL and the Idaho Advanced Energy Consortium are hosting a free screening of The Road to Advanced Nuclear at @CSIEagles in Twin Falls. Doors 6 p.m., film at 7, panel after. A great look at the reactors being built and tested in Idaho. ⚛️🎥
🗓️ Oct. 27 | 🕕 6 p.m. |📍@CSIEagles Fine Arts Center, Twin Falls, Idaho
Join us for a free public screening of @INL's The Road to Advanced Nuclear documentary for a deep dive into the world of advanced nuclear & our role in it! ⚛️🎥
Save a seat now: eventbrite.com/e/screening-r…
Congrats to @UWyo's Laura de Sousa Oliveira and @INL's Jackson Harter on a new @GovNuclear and EPSCoR award to use AI to better predict heat transport in nuclear fuel and help speed advanced reactor licensing!
uwyo.edu/news/2026/10/uw-led…
The @ORNL and @INL partnership through @GovNuclear's AGR program built the world's best TRISO fuel for reactor developers, powered by great researchers, HFIR, ATR, the IFEL and HFEF hot cells, and unique characterization labs. This is what national lab research looks like! ⚛️
Impressive development! Every reactor depends on the systems that turn its heat into something useful, and steady non-nuclear testing like this is how we get to deployment. Looking forward to more @AntaresNuclear hardware coming to @INL! ⚛️
Impressive development! Every reactor depends on the systems that turn its heat into something useful, and steady non-nuclear testing like this is how we get to deployment. Looking forward to more @AntaresNuclear hardware coming to @INL! ⚛️
Great week for microreactors! The Navy selected @RadiantNuclear for a prototype at Naval Weapons Station Crane, and Fort Benning hosted the first Janus site visit for three planned Kaleidos units. Thanks @DeptofWar for backing reactor development and deployment! @Waksman84 @INL
We are changing the world's energy future at INL, and we're hiring! Do work you can't do anywhere else, from today's reactors to the next generation and space, with capabilities like ATR and the MFC hot cells. Many roles are open in Idaho Falls:
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@INL #NuclearEnergy #Careers
Nuclear Science Week is in full swing at @INL! Two I'd recommend: Wednesday's virtual overview of the 55 reactors built at our site, and Kate the Chemist live in Idaho Falls on Friday. No science background needed, just curiosity. Join us! ⚛️ #NuclearScienceWeek
Nuclear Science Week kicks off tomorrow & @INL is celebrating by hosting hands-on events, virtual presentations & creative experiences highlighting nuclear energy!⚛️
Join us – no science background needed, just curiosity! View the full schedule of events: inl.gov/nuclear-energy/nucle…
The fuel is here at @INL. The reactor is being finished and will soon be on its way. Let's go! @Waksman84
Fuel arrival: xitter.cf/INL/status/19959160489…
#ProjectPele #Microreactor #AdvancedNuclear #NuclearEnergy ⚛️
The future of American energy is nuclear, and BWXT is helping lead the way. Today, BWXT’s Joe Miller hosted U.S. Secretary of Energy, @ChrisAWright_ and Congressman @RepJohnMcGuire at our BWXT Innovation Campus in Lynchburg, Virginia for a firsthand look at Project Pele – our deployable nuclear microreactor.
The visit showcased BWXT’s role in advancing nuclear innovation and strengthening America’s energy security, and capped off a regional engagement focused on the future of American energy.
Thank you, Secretary Wright and Congressman McGuire, for championing American nuclear innovation!
#NuclearEnergy #AmericanNuclear #EnergySecurity #ProjectPele
On site at INL. Fuel mid-Nov. Criticality planned for December.
In 1953, Rickover said a practical reactor is one that “is being built now.”
MARVEL is coming together at @INL. All major components are on site, and fuel is scheduled for mid-November.
It wasn’t easy. Grateful for the effort, skill, and persistence of the team behind it. The lessons learned will benefit every reactor that follows.
Learn more here: inl.gov/marvel/
Congrats to Garrett LeCroy, @INL's Outstanding Postdoc of the Year, for his molten salt monitoring work, and Casey Icenhour, Postdoc Mentor of the Year, from our MOOSE team. Proud to see NS&T talent recognized! 👏
Congrats to @INL's 2026 Postdoc Award winners! 👏
🔹Outstanding Postdoc of the Year Garrett LeCroy (honorable mention Srikar Srinivas)
🔹Postdoc Mentor of the Year Casey Icenhour (honorable mention Birendra Adhikari)
Learn more: brnw.ch/21x6rpi
Proud to partner with CORE POWER & @SouthernCompany on MCRE at @INL, with support from @ENERGY. Great progress toward the world's first fast-spectrum molten chloride reactor experiment, giving designers real operating data, not just models. Criticality as early as 2027! ⚛️
The U.S. Department of @ENERGY has approved funding to accelerate the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE), supporting work by @SouthernCompany, @INL and CORE POWER.
Read the full announcement below or on our website: bit.ly/4dA4IAf
#COREPOWER #MaritimeNuclear #NuclearEnergy #NuclearPropulsion
Want to learn nuclear science from the experts? Idaho families, come meet INL scientists and engineers during Nuclear Science Week, Oct. 19-23, with hands-on activities, tours and talks! ⚛️
@INL is bringing @nuclearsciweek to Idaho families Oct. 19-23!🔬
Explore nuclear science through tours, presentations, hands-on STEM activities & opportunities to meet real scientists.
Family Nuclear Science Night is Oct. 28.
Explore events & register:brnw.ch/21x6lCT
One of the best ways to add nuclear power is to expand our operating plants: 345 MW of uprates at Southern, 433 MW at Vistra, 890 MW from Constellation & Google, & ~2.25 GW of restarts at Palisades, Crane & Duane Arnold. DOE's UPRISE aims for 5 GW by 2029. @GovNuclear @ENERGY ⚛️
.@INL proudly supports the efforts of @GovNuclear's newly launched Utility Power Reactor Incremental Scaling Effort (UPRISE), an initiative focused on accelerating domestic #NuclearEnergy production by maximizing the nation’s existing infrastructure. ⚛️
🔗energy.gov/ne/articles/natio…
Steady progress in Kemmerer. Great to see Natrium coming out of the ground. @INL is proud to be supporting @TerraPower technology development and testing. ⚛️
inl.gov/nuclear-energy/meet-…
Construction crews at Kemmerer Unit 1 continue to install critical underground infrastructure at the project site, supporting the foundation of America’s first utility-scale advanced nuclear power plant. See how progress is built: terrapower.com/natrium/ #Natrium #AdvancedNuclear
This is what Launch Pad is for: enabling developers to move fast to produce critical medical isotopes like Lu-177 here at home. Great work @oklo, and kudos to @ENERGY and our @NRICnuclear team making it happen. ⚛️
After building our Groves Isotope Test Reactor from the ground up and bringing it to criticality in less than a year, Oklo has been selected to advance Groves 2 Forge as part of the U.S. @ENERGY’s Nuclear Energy Launch Pad initiative.
Groves 2 Forge builds directly on what we learned at Groves. We plan to integrate isotope production and processing together in one facility with an initial focus on lutetium-177, an isotope used in targeted cancer treatments.
We are taking what we demonstrated at Groves and moving toward commercial-scale isotope production, while building the experience and infrastructure needed to strengthen domestic isotope supply.
Groves showed how quickly we can build. Groves 2 is about building on that momentum to produce materials that can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
Learn more:
oklo.com/newsroom/oklo-to-ad…
It's a golden era for nuclear, and @INL is where the whole industry comes to test, demonstrate, and deliver. Work across every design, not just one. Looking for your next chapter in nuclear? We're hiring! Don't see a job post that fits? DM me. ⚛️ inl.gov/careers/
The momentum for new nuclear is real. States, industry, labs, and @ENERGY all pulling in the same direction.
ICYMI: @EnergyUnderSec highlighted how President Trump is unleashing the American Nuclear Renaissance at the Texas Nuclear Alliance! 🇺🇸
