Empowering Defense with Nuclear Energy: An Exclusive Interview with Dr. Jeff Waksman on Project Pele and the Future of Defense Energy

Dr. Jeff Waksman is a Program Manager at SCO where he leads Project Pele as well as Project TRISCO, which focuses on encapsulated nuclear fuel. Before arriving at SCO, he worked for NASA as a Senior Policy Adviser, and at IBM where he was a staff scientist working on advanced semiconductor technology such as reactive ion etching, III-V materials, quantum computing, and heterogeneous integration.

Last February Dr. Waksman joined Dr. Annie Kammerer, Chief of the Nuclear Power Branch Office of the Chief of Engineers (OCE) in the Department of the Army Headquarters (HQDA) at IDGA’s Operational Energy Summit to provide an overview of ongoing nuclear energy projects within the DoD Before the event, IDGA sat down with Dr. Wakman to discuss the following:

The latest updates on Project Pele
Misconceptions surrounding nuclear energy

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