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The Nuclear Opportunities Workshop (NOW) is an annual event focused on all aspects of the nuclear ecosystem, bringing together stakeholders from across industry, government, research, academia, and the next generation of the workforce to connect, collaborate, and advance what’s next.

Featured Speakers

Governor Bill Lee

Governor

State of Tennessee

 

Randy McNally

Lt. Governor & Speaker of the Senate

Tennessee Legislature

Congressman Chuck Fleischmann

U.S. Representative (TN-03)

 

 

Tim Walsh

Assistant Secretary for the Office of Environmental Management

U.S. Department of Energy

Brandon Williams

Under Secretary for Nuclear Security

Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration

U.S. Department of Energy

Stephen Streiffer

Director

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

David W. Salyers

Commissioner

Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation

Deniece Thomas

Commissioner

Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development

 

Senator Marsha Blackburn

 

United States Senate

Video comments

Bill Hagerty

U. S. Senator

State of Tennessee

Video comments

Hash Hashemian

President and CEO

Analysis and Measurement Services

 

Panelists and Speakers

Todd Ailes

President and Chief Executive Officer

CNS Y-12

Carolyn Anderson

Steve and Karen Ellebracht Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

University of Missouri-Columbia

Paul Artman

Fellow System Design Engineering

AMD

 

Scott Atchley

Chief Technology Officer

National Center for Computational Science and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

Rita Baranwal

Chief Nuclear Officer

Radiant

Former Assistant Secretary, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

Dominick Bindl

Chief Operating Officer

Realta Fusion

Ed Blandford

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Kairos Power

Jim Blankenhorn

President & CEO

UCOR

Tracy Boatner

President & CEO

East Tennessee Economic Council

Nick Brown

Professor & Pietro F. Pasqua Fellow

University of Tennessee, Department of Nuclear Engineering

Jeremy Busby

Associate Lab Director for Isotope Science and Enrichment 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Annie Caputo

President

Caputo Energy Advisory, LLC

Former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioner

Troy Carter

Director of Fusion Energy Division

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Kelli Chaney

President

TCAT - Knoxville

Molly Cripps

Director

Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s (TDEC)

Ben Di'Chiara

Director of Tennessee STEM Innovation Network

Battelle Education

Joel Duling

President 

TRISO-X - X-energy

Teresa Duncan

Nuclear Strategist and VP of Workforce and Community Development

Tennessee Board of Regents & Roane State Community College

Julie Ezold

Performance Analysis Manager

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Mehdi Reisi Fard

Deputy Director, Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-Power Production and Utilization Facilities (DANU)

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR)

 

Xyla Foxlin

American Engineer, Entrepreneur and YouTuber

 

Brandon Gibson

Chief Operating Officer

State of Tennessee

Warren Gooch

Mayor

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

 

Michelle Goodson

Director, ORAU STEM Accelerator

ORAU

 

Meryl Harris

Target Market Specialist

Tennessee Valley Authority

Jason Hatfield

Vice President, Chief of Staff

TRISO-X

Gale Hauck

Technical Area Lead, DOE Microreactor Program

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Mary Helen Hitson

Y-12 Field Office Manager

National Nuclear Security Administration

Scott Hsu

Fusion Partner

Lower Carbon Capital

Sonya Johnson

Public Affairs and Stakeholder Management Director

UCOR

Steve Jones

President

Steve Jones & Associates

Member, ETEC Executive Committee

Ben Jordan

Director of Business Development

Centrus Energy

Moe Khaleel

Associate Laboratory Director for National Security Sciences

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

Indya Kincannon

Mayor

City of Knoxville, Tennessee

 

Seth Kirshenberg

Executive Director

Energy Communities Alliance

 

John (JJ) Langford

Chief Technology Officer

BWXT

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Mike Laufer

Chief Executive Officer and

Co-Founder

Kairos Power

 

Christo Liebenberg

Co-Founder, President & CTA

LIS Technologies

 

Ed Petit de Mange

VP for Fuel Recycling

Oklo

Keeley Marrocco

Chief Operating Officer 

Standard Nuclear

Matt Miles

Sr. Vice President Marketing and External Affairs

Type One Energy

Joe Miller

President of Government Operations

BWXT

 Bob Morris

President and Founding Principal

Robert Morris Consulting

Chair

ETEC  - Tennessee Nuclear Network [TN²]

Peter Newby

President and CEO 

MS Technology, Inc.

Erik Olds

Manager, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management

U.S. Department of Energy

 

Jean-Luc Palayer

CEO and President

Orano USA

 

Felice Presti

Manager of Nuclear Power Operations

Bechtel Power Corporation

 

Matt Rasmussen

Chief Nuclear Officer

Tennessee Valley Authority

 

Jason Remer

Nuclear Industry Leader

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

 

Michael Russell

Director-Nuclear Services, Sr. Quality Manager

Strata-G

 

Lou Martinez Sancho

Chief Technology Officer

Westinghouse

 

Soumyendu Sarkar

Senior Director & Senior Distinguished Technologist of Artificial Intelligence

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

 

Sarah Schaefer

President/Project Manager

Isotek systems, AtkinsRealis 

 

Clayton Scott

Chief Commercial Officer

NuScale

 

Beth Shelton

Director of the State of Tennessee Division of Radiological Health 

Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC)

 

Randy Steele

Nuclear Power Engineering Technology

Chattanooga State Community College

&

Executive Director

BWRx Studio

Stenstrom_Kiewit Nuclear Solutions

Brian Stenstrom

Vice President of Construction

Kiewit Nuclear Solutions

Dan Stout

Managing Director

Advanced Nuclear Advisors

 

Braden Stover

Senior Advisor, Nuclear and Quantum Strategy

Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD)

 

Kenya Stump

Executive Director of the Office of Energy Policy

State of Kentucky, Energy and Environment Cabinet

 

David Terry

Executive Director

National Association of State Energy Officials, an Alliance Associate. (NASEO)

 

William (Bill) Tindal

Director

Tennessee Nuclear Network [TN²]

 

Will Trumm

Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative and Federal Affairs Officer

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

 

Bibake Uppal

Head of Kyoto Fusioneering America

 Kyoto Fusioneering America

Michelle Vincenti

Electrical Engineer, Global Data Center Engineering

Intel Corporation

Will Wagner

Vice President, Nuclear Power Business Development

Bechtel Power Corporation

 

Trey Wheeler

Senior Executive, Department of Energy

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Wilkett 2

Greg Wilkett

SRPPF Project Director

Fluor

 

John Williams

Chief Policy Officer

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)

Martin Williamson

Senior Director of Global Security and Strategic Partnerships

Consolidated Nuclear Security

Ken Yager

Senator

Tennessee Legislature

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