First U.S. Space Reactor to Full Power in 40+ Years
Designed the test hardware that took a space reactor to criticality and 28 hours of full-power operation, the first new U.S. fission reactor built and tested in four decades.
Career reactor and space-nuclear engineers from DOE national labs, DoW, and NASA: the brains behind real national reactor programs.
Epithermal Power LLC is a minority-owned small business in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Our team brings backgrounds from DOE (LANL, SNL, INL), DoW (DARPA, U.S. Army), and NASA: a deep bench in cutting-edge nuclear engineering, serving government agencies and private companies alike.
Micro- and space-reactors are our craft, not a trend
Our principals led reactor design, multiphysics, and test at the top U.S. national labs and on NASA and DoW programs. We keep names off the public site out of respect for the sensitivity of the programs and people involved, and share full bios directly under NDA.
Reactor designer and computational physicist with 9+ years across DOE national labs and current space-nuclear propulsion experience. Inventor of the multiphysics framework behind CRISP, and an active clearance holder.
25+ years in space-nuclear power and propulsion across NASA and DOE national labs. The hands behind the test hardware for the first new U.S. fission reactor taken to full power in four decades.
40+ years in reactor physics, nuclear systems, and space-nuclear power and propulsion across the U.S. national laboratories. A recognized technical leader who has shaped national reactor and space-power programs and built the teams now delivering them.
Critical experiments, criticality-safety analysis that authorized a fuel-fabrication facility, space-reactor test hardware, and the government's reference designs, delivered across DOE, NNSA, DoW, DARPA, and NASA.
Designed the test hardware that took a space reactor to criticality and 28 hours of full-power operation, the first new U.S. fission reactor built and tested in four decades.
Led a high-priority experiment end to end: design, optimization, multiphysics, material down-selection, safety, and full systems integration.
Criticality-safety analysis that enabled successful authorization of a new fuels-fabrication facility at a DOE/NNSA complex.
Authored U.S. government reference designs for space surface power and nuclear electric propulsion, the designs peer programs are measured against.
Reactor-engineering lead on a multi-million-dollar effort to accelerate metallic-fuel qualification.
Supporting a cislunar nuclear-propulsion demonstration with software integration, nuclear testing, and launch safety.
Partner with a team that has taken reactors from design to criticality.