Nick Woolstenhulme is an engineer, researcher, and technical leader
with 20 years of experience in the field of irradiation testing for nuclear
fuels and materials development. He currently works in the fuel development,
performance, and qualification department at Idaho National Laboratory. He has
led development of several irradiation tests for fission and fusion
applications in the ATR, TREAT, and other material test reactors both domestic
and abroad. He currently leads irradiation testing for DOE’s Advanced Fuels
Campaign and is the technical program manager for a project to establish a
large scale criticality testing facility at INL. He also leads development of
new innovation potentials at INL including pioneering work to revolutionize
heat transfer in nuclear reactors using additively-manufactured lattices.