International High Level Radioactive Waste Management (IHLRWM 2025)

Kaushik Banerjee

Senior Technical Advisor

Idaho National Laboratory

Kaushik Banerjee is a Senior Technical Advisor at Idaho National Laboratory, where he supports the U.S. Department of Energy’s advanced nuclear fuel availability program. In this role, he leads efforts to ensure near-term allocations of High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) for advanced reactor demonstrations and to advance long-term strategies for building a resilient domestic market for both HALEU and Low-Enriched Uranium (LEU).

Kaushik has extensive experience across the nuclear fuel cycle, having previously held positions at Holtec International, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and Idaho National Laboratory (INL). His work has spanned storage, transportation, and disposal of spent nuclear fuel, as well as the development of innovative data collection and analysis tools for spent fuel management.

He earned his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from Kansas State University.