Sushil C. Jain Undergraduate Scholarship

Sushil C. Jain, started his career as an Assistant Engineer in 1977 with Toledo Edison Company. Sushil led the testing, nuclear engineering, safety analysis and PRA activities at Davis Besse. He also led the implementation of TMI-2 lessons learned and the 1985 complete loss of feedwater event at Davis Besse. Jain became the Director of Engineering and Director of Engineering and Services at Toledo Edison. In 1996, he joined Duquesne Light as the VP of Nuclear Services at Beaver Valley. In late 1999, Jain left Beaver Valley as the Senior VP of Nuclear Services to start Empyrean Services, providing engineering, management and technical consulting services to nuclear industry in US and Canada. Empyrean has been a premier provider of consulting services, delivering expert assistance in all facets of nuclear fuel cycle and operations including construction, startup, advanced reactor/SMR design and licensing, and nuclear plant decommissioning. In 2003, Jain started The Empyrean Group, which caters to the non-nuclear power industry.

Jain was the President and CEO of Empyrean until his retirement in May 2022. He has served as an executive consultant in the energy industry on national and international levels. He has also served as a chairman and member of several safety review and oversight boards. He has been a Lifetime member of ANS since 1994 and member of the US Nuclear Industry Council D&D Task Force. Sushil holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering, a Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering and previously held a Professional Engineer license.