Brett Rampal is a nuclear energy expert with two decades of experience spread across the commercial, policy, research, and investing environments surrounding and supporting U.S. nuclear energy generation and development. Brett is a nuclear engineer by trade and training with Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Florida. After and while completing his education, Brett supported the existing nuclear fleet with nuclear fuel, safety analysis, and project management associated roles at General Electric-Hitachi (GEH) and Westinghouse Electric Company (WEC).
At GEH, Brett support first of a kind licensing engagement on the ESBWR NRC Design Certification and later supported existing plants through performance of safety analysis associated with the monitoring of operating reactors. Brett served as lead core designer and engineering project manager for the Dominion fleet of plants, North Anna, Surry, and Milestone, during his five years at WEC. In this role, Brett helped design and manage uprates, fuel analysis and contracting, safety analysis, improved computer analysis tools and methods, and other cost-saving or operational improvements across these plants.
Following his time at WEC, Brett spent three years as one of the on-staff fuel engineers at NuScale Power, developing first of a kind safety analysis and methods to support the 2017 design certification application. Brett has also been a long-time member and leader within the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and served as the chair of the Young Members Group in 2016 as well as a member of the public policy, external affairs, and numerous other ANS roles. Brett currently still continues his ANS services as the only ANS content coordinator, leading webinar production and the development of executive content at national meetings, as well as a sitting member of ANS’s nuclear waste task force.
In 2017, Brett started at Clear Air Task Force (CATF) and spent five years leading the nuclear focus and research area at CATF as the Director of Nuclear Innovation. Brett supported the drafting or development and passage or creation of numerous important nuclear energy laws, provisions programs such as, or within, NEIMA, NEICA, the Civil Nuclear Credit Program, the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, the Energy Act of 2020, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Advance Act, and others.
In 2022, Brett left CATF and started at Veriten where he currently serves as the Senior Director of Nuclear and Power Strategy. At Veriten, Brett advises large energy companies, industrials, utilities, investors, as well as nuclear companies of all sizes and varieties on how best to understand and achieve success in the growing nuclear energy opportunity space.
Brett has also served as the Chief Technical Analyst for Segra Capital Management, a nuclear-focused hedge fund, in addition to time supporting government affairs activities for Deep Isolation, a nuclear waste borehole disposal company. Brett has been identified by the University of Florida Alumni Association as the 2014-2015 Leader of the Year and by ANS with a 2012 Presidential Citation, a 2018 Young Member Excellence Award, and in the inaugural 40 under 40 class in 2024.