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