Dr. Jon Carmack is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Fuel Cycle. Prior to this, he served as a senior technical advisor to NE from March 2018 to March 2023. He previously served as national technical director for NE's Advanced Fuels Campaign.
Jon began his career as a student at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in 1989 and joined the Fuels and Materials Department after graduating with a B.S. and M.S. in nuclear engineering from the University of Washington in 1991. During graduate school he worked for Haliburton (NUS) Nuclear Utility Services. He left INL in 1999 and spent five years at BWX Technologies in Lynchburg, Virginia, returning to INL in 2004 to join the DOE Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative program. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Idaho, in 2012, focusing on fuel-cladding chemical interaction formation in fast reactor metallic fuels.
Jon is well-known as an avid skier, biker, farmer, and Toyota Land Cruiser aficionado.
