​Kemal Pasamehmetoglu is known for being both innovative and candid. So, looking back to when the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) was founded in December 2015, he readily acknowledges that “in the first seven to eight months, we tried to define what GAIN really meant.”

There were numerous meetings with Department of Energy (DOE) program managers, a roadshow to national laboratories, emphasizing how they could be part of the program, and discussions with private industry about GAIN’s potential benefits.

“We needed to determine how to best line up the existing programs and be helpful,” Pasamehmetoglu, GAIN’s first director, said. There was a focus to ensure the “being helpful” metric applied to every corner of the nuclear community, especially private reactor developers.

GAIN has been highly successful at being helpful. In being broadly understood, not so much. READ MORE​

