When you have options, be true to your values. Andy Worrall, Integrated Fuel Cycle Section Head, ORNL

Andy Worrall is currently the Integrated Fuel Cycle Section Head in the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Deputy Director of the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN), a U.S Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy initiative.

Andy lives in Knoxsville, just north of the Smoky Mountains. He grew up in Wolverhampton and went to Bingly Junior School and Highfields Secondary School. Andy studied Maths, Physics and Chemistry at A level.

Andy then went on to study Physics at Lancaster University and then Physics and Technology of Nuclear Reactors as a Masters at the University of Birmingham. During this time, Andy also completed an Industrial Placement with BMFL, where he was later offered a job after completing his Masters where you developed into Senior Technology Manager where he managed a team of people.

After seven years, Andy then went on to become Technical Authority of Reactors and Fuels for National Nuclear Laboratory and then from there decided it was time for a change, so he moved abroad to the U.S. where he now works at ORNL.

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