BWX Technologies
Erik Nygaard is Acting President and Director, Product Development of BWXT Advanced Technologies. Paul Kjellander is PUF Senior Advisor, former NARUC and Idaho Commission President.
BWX Technologies, known as BWXT, is a company that delivers innovative nuclear solutions. Its workforce builds systems to power the U.S. Navy’s submarine and aircraft carrier fleet, restores the natural environment at government nuclear sites, supplies the components and fuel for clean energy to power homes and businesses, produces life-saving nuclear medicine, and is revolutionizing reactors and fuels.
As if that weren’t enough, BWXT recently began fabricating the reactor core for the Pele transportable microreactor for the Department of Defense at Idaho National Laboratory. Pele could become one of the first advanced reactors to operate in the United States as early as 2026.
To find out more, PUF Senior Advisor Paul Kjellander spoke with BWXT Advanced Technologies Acting President and Director, Product Development Erik Nygaard about BWXT’s nuclear manufacturing experience and the potential for microreactors in both military and commercial applications. If testing is successful, then transportable nuclear power could meet the increasing demand for a resilient, carbon-free energy source.
PUF’s Paul Kjellander: Over the last thirty years, the U.S. has decommissioned more reactors than built or deployed. BWXT has a different story about reactor deployment,