2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo

Edward Blandford

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Kairos Power

Dr. Edward Blandford is a Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Kairos Power. He is responsible for all KP-FHR engineering and technology development functions within the company. These responsibilities include all major hardware demonstrations, standing up fuel and salt supply infrastructure, manufacturing, supply chain and procurement, environmental health and safety, construction management, and engineering operations.

Prior to co-founding Kairos Power, he was at the University of New Mexico as an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. Dr. Blandford was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also worked for several years as a project manager at the Electric Power Research Institute, focusing on steam generator thermal-hydraulics and material degradation management.

Dr. Blandford has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently sits on advisory boards for the nuclear engineering departments of the University of New Mexico, Texas A&M, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.