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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
2022 ANS Annual Meeting
Ms. Hotchkiss has 35 years of experience bringing new energy technologies to market. In the late 80’s she helped build a market for “fringe” technologies. Today we know them as geothermal, wind and solar – the stalwarts of renewable energy. Her career spans regulation, advocacy as well as private sector power generation. With ECG she now dedicates her expertise to building a roadmap for fusion as a regulated, accepted, and welcomed green commercial choice. Ms. Hotchkiss holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale College.
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