Dr. Joy Rempe

With nearly 30 years of experience in reactor safety and high temperature testing, Dr. Joy L. Rempe is a Laboratory Fellow and Group Leader at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) where she leads in-pile instrumentation development efforts for INL’s Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility. She also serves as a member of several advisory groups reviewing the US Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy Research and Development programs, and she provides assistance to industry and regulators on severe accident issues. Dr. Rempe has received US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US NRC) and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recognition awards for achievements accomplished in the Three Mile Island Unit -2 Vessel Investigation Project; and in 2011, she was awarded a US DOE Secretarial Honors Award for her contributions in the US response to the events at Fukushima . She holds a BS degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Missouri – Rolla and MS and PhD degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Rempe has authored or co-authored 45 archival peer reviewed journal publications and over 80 peer-reviewed conference papers on reactor safety, severe accident phenomena, high temperature testing, and in-pile instrumentation. She is an inventor/co-inventor on several patents/patents pending. In 2009, she was elected to the ANS Board of Directors; and in 2010, she was selected to serve on the US NRC's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards.