Dr. Chase N. Taylor joined the Fusion Safety Program at Idaho National Laboratory in 2012. Dr. Taylor’s research areas focus on hydrogen isotope behavior, refractory metals, radiation interaction with materials, plasma physics, and materials characterization.  Current research investigates tritium retention in neutron activated plasma facing components for magnetic fusion energy. He holds expertise in numerous material evaluation techniques, and during his time at INL has built up a surface science characterization laboratory at the Safety and Tritium Applied Research (STAR) laboratory. These materials characterization capabilities include glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy (GD-OES), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS), scanning electron/Auger microscopy (SEM), and positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS), among others. Dr. Taylor acts as an INL principle researcher and has over 45 journal publications and over 500 citations. Dr. Taylor sits on the Executive Committee for the American Nuclear Society Fusion Energy Division. He has also served as a guest editor for the journal, Fusion Engineering and Design. Dr. Taylor is fluent in Spanish and enjoys backpacking, skiing, and spending time with his family.