Brian Boyer

About Brian Boyer

Dr. Boyer returned to the IAEA in 2015 as a P-4 Nuclear Safeguards Analyst looking to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of IAEA safeguards. He was promoted to Section Head of International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO) in September 2019 transferring from Safeguards to Nuclear Energy\'s Division of Nuclear Power. Retired 31 March 2023. He started working at the Idaho National Laboratory in December 2024 with a desire to bring his experience to bear in transferring knowledge to the next generation and creating solutions to deploying and safeguarding new reactors and fuel cycles. Dr. Boyer worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2006 to 2015 working in the field of nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards, specializing in training and education in nuclear safeguards, evaluation of design and analysis of nuclear safeguards concepts, and the creation of safeguard approaches for various nuclear facilities including gas centrifuge enrichment plants, light water reactors, uranium conversion plants, and plutonium reprocessing facilities. He has taught a distance-learning graduate course for the Pennsylvania State University Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering entitled \"NucE 597G - Nuclear Fuel Cycle Primer with Emphasis on Safety, Safeguards and Security\". From 2002 to 2006, Dr. Boyer worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory as a nonproliferation and safeguards specialist. From 1997 to 2002, he worked at the IAEA as a nuclear safeguards inspector doing inspections in the European Union, former Eastern Bloc States, and the former Soviet Union and as a nuclear safeguards analyst in the Section for System Studies. Dr. Boyer is a member of the American Nuclear Society and served as president and vice-president of the Long Island American Nuclear Society Chapter. He is also a senior member of the Institute of Nuclear Material Management (INMM). In 2013 to 2015 he was a member at large on the INMM Board. He is a winner of the INMM\'s Edway R. Johnson Meritorious Service Award in 2013.

Experience

1. Nuclear Engineer

   Idaho National Laboratory

   Dec 2024 — Present

   Nuclear nonproliferation

Education

• Penn State University

  M.S., Nuclear Engineering

  1983 — 1985

• Penn State University

  B.S., Nuclear Engineering

  1976 — 1980

• Penn State University

  Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering

  1985 — 1992