Kevan Weaver, Ph.D.

Kevan Weaver leads TerraPower’s technology development and integration team. Before joining TerraPower, he worked at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for more than nine years in various capacities. He served as the national technical director for System Interface and Support Systems for the Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative, and as technical lead for Reactor Testing and Qualification for Fission Surface Power Systems for a NASA/Department of Energy Space Reactor Program.

He also served as the U.S. system integration manager for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant/Very High Temperature Reactor (NGNP) and Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor programs. He was also the co-chair on the international Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor system steering committee for the Generation IV International Forum. Early in his tenure at INL, he was group leader for the Advanced Reactor Design Group. With much of his career in advanced reactor design and analysis, Dr. Weaver collaborated with fellow researchers on Generation IV nuclear energy systems and the Generation IV International Forum.

His technical background includes reactor physics, reactor design, fuel cycle analysis, radiation spectroscopy, radioisotope production and reactor operations. In addition, Dr. Weaver is the author or co-author of more than 90 publications and technical reports in nuclear science and engineering, and is the co-author of a new textbook on fast spectrum reactors.

Dr. Weaver holds a Bachelor of Science in physics with minors in math and Spanish from Brigham Young University, and a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of Utah. He is a member of the Alpha Nu Sigma and Tau Beta Pi honor societies, and is a member of the American Nuclear Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.