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