Brent R Beatty

Bio

Nuclear/mechanical engineer Brent Beatty is assistant director for the RPF project and serves as Control Account Manager for the Modular Hot Cell portion of the project – about one-third of the facility cost.

Brent, who joined ORNL in 2006 as an intern and full-time in 2012, served as the technical lead in the remote hot cell assembly of curium targets in the production of californium-252 and managed the design and fabrication of a new neptunium pellet production line for the plutonium-238 project. He has been group leader for the Radioisotope Infrastructure and Development Group and acting group leader for the Target Production and Target Design, Analysis and Qualification groups. Previously, as a National Nuclear Security Administration nonproliferation graduate fellow, Brent provided federal nuclear criticality and nuclear safety oversight for Plutonium Disposition Projects at the Savannah River Site, leading assessments of Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear Safety subject matter activities.

Brent holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Nuclear Engineering degree from North Carolina State University, where he was a graduate fellow.