Wesley Deason Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

• Leading our team in the development of USNC's portable reactor, Pylon.

Greater Seattle Area

• Worked with NASA, Aerojet-Rocketdyne and BWXT to develop commercial nuclear rocket designs• Completed technoeconomic and market analysis of nuclear energy systems in remote regions and emerging markets

Vienna, Austria

• Researched the economic role of flexible power as a complement to renewable energy - led to being first author on a rare journal publication by the IAEA• Researched the resource requirement for nuclear infrastructures (including regulatory, governmental, and commercial) in nuclear newcomer countries.• Assisted in the development of the IAEA’s Nuclear Power Human Resources (NPHR) Model

Idaho Falls, Idaho

• Research subcontractor to Idaho National Laboratory and NASA• Researched applications of nuclear Integrated Energy Systems (IES) under the lead of Drs. Shannon Bragg-Sitton and Richard Boardman• Reactor team member of the Space Capable Cryogenic Thermal Engine (SCCTE) design exercise at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Assisted in the design of a baseline 15-35 klbf nuclear thermal rocket using LEU-tungsten fuel• Co-developed the Space Propulsion Optimization Code (SPOC), which was used to develop the baseline SCCTE-2 reactor core using Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) high performance computing resources• Assisted Phillip J. Finck, Chief Scientist of INL, in researching topics as needed

Ms, Nuclear Engineering

Performed system analysis studies of a Gen IV nuclear reactor utilizing vented fuel under the advisement of Dr. Andrew C. Klein Executive.

Bs, Nuclear Engineering

Director of Scouting Programs for the TAMU-ANS Student Section ANS National Student Design Competition Winning Team Member ANS Student.