U.S. Air Force Reserve Major Daniel Lamb, MPhil, and Rui Guo, Ph.D. join the Nuclear Technology and Engineering Team with a focus on the development of ‘ODIN’
NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NNE) (“NANO Nuclear” or “the Company”), a leading advanced nuclear energy and technology company focused on developing portable, clean energy solutions, today announced the addition of two prominent engineers, Major Daniel Lamb, MPhil, and Rui Guo, Ph.D., to its Nuclear Technology and Engineering Team.
“We are thrilled to welcome two additional, highly skilled engineers to our team,” said Prof. Ian Farnan, Lead for Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Radiation and Materials at NANO Nuclear Energy. “The additions of Daniel Lamb and Rui Guo continue our trend of retaining some of the most talented and hard-working individuals to continue the development of our innovative advanced nuclear technologies. Their expertise will be invaluable to the continued development of our ‘ODIN’ microreactor as we move towards physical test work and collect the necessary data to further refine its operations.”
“The addition of highly competent and motivated engineers is always a welcome development, and I am looking forward to working closely with Major Lamb and Dr. Guo,” said Eugene Shwageraus, Lead of Nuclear Reactor Engineering of NANO Nuclear Energy. “One of the tenets and major benefits of nuclear energy is its inherent safety and efficiency, and this is something we want to achieve on a portable scale with the ‘ODIN’ microreactor. I’m certain that Major Lamb and Dr. Guo will be invaluable additions to our Nuclear Technology and Engineering Team.”
Major Lamb is a nuclear engineer and an expert in nuclear safeguards and counter-proliferation. He serves as a Major in the US Air Force Reserves, where he leads a group of 176 military and civilian engineers with a budget of $22 million and service contracts worth $26 million servicing utilities and infrastructure worth $2.8 billion supporting US and NATO operations. He has led multi-national engineering teams in the U.S. Air Force as a qualified Civil Engineer and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Officer, supporting operations across Europe and Afghanistan under NATO. As an EOD Officer, Major Lamb was assigned to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency where he advised the U.S. European Command and led a $12 million program to counter chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological threats.
His work for NANO Nuclear will be to ensure safety, security, and safeguards-by-design are incorporated into NANO Nuclear’s microreactors in development and align the designs with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations so that once development is complete and the necessary regulatory licenses are secured, they can be deployed globally.
Major Lamb most recently completed a Master of Philosophy in Nuclear Energy at the University of Cambridge where his research supported a Department of Energy project on open architecture for nuclear cost reductions to speed delivery of small modular reactors (SMRs). He also holds Graduate Certificates in Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Weapons Effects, Policy, and Proliferation from Harvard’s Extension School and the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Figure 1 – NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. Bolsters is Nuclear Technology and Engineering Team with the Additions of Daniel Lamb, MPhil (left) and Rui Guo, Ph.D. (right)
Dr. Rui Guo specializes in nuclear materials in the waste and fuel cycle area and has extensive experience in novel experimental characterization and simulation methods for studying nuclear materials.
Dr. Guo obtained his first degree in Materials Science from the University of Birmingham prior to his admission into the University of Cambridge, where he completed his MPhil in Nuclear Energy and PhD in Nuclear Materials. A Shumei fellowship position followed at Tsinghua University after his return to China, where he worked on broader environmental projects including cement CO2 absorption and CO2 emission from various energy systems.
His current research focuses on developing reliable and robust coolant and fuel cycle systems that meet the technical requirements of novel reactor designs, including the Company’s ‘ODIN’ microreactor.
“We’re delighted to welcome Major Lamb and Dr. Guo to our Nuclear Technology and Engineering group,” said James Walker, Chief Executive Officer, and Head of Reactor Development of NANO Nuclear Energy. “We have been fortunate to add highly competent and forward-thinking engineers and researchers as we enter the next phase in the development of our ‘ODIN’ portable microreactor. The information we gather from our ongoing and future physical test work on ‘ODIN’ will be crucial to the potential success of our future licensing and regulatory efforts.”
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