Ep 17: Rita Baranwal, GAIN Program

Episode Content:

• Rita's start in Materials Engineering at MIT, her transition into the space research world

• Her work at Westinghouse in their fuel fabrication facility

• Scouting "Game Changing" technologies across robotics, advanced reactors, advanced chemical engineering, advanced manufacturing, digital instrumentation and control

• How her experience working between Westinghouse and the Labs helped her understand the shortcomings she needed to fix from the inside

• GAIN initiatives: Vouchers, Workshops, Facilitating industry work with the labs

• Fuel testing for advanced reactors and the need to build a domestic Fast Test Reactor

• The formation of a 30 Million dollar per year for 5 years open ended funding opportunity

• A quick discussion of the NRC modernizing their licensing framework