​Daniel Thomas is a senior spent fuel analyst in the Used Fuel Management Department at Idaho National Laboratory.  He attended Georgia Tech, where he earned his B.S. and M.S. in nuclear engineering.  His experience includes work for storage and transportation cask vendors, fuel vendors, and Department of Energy contractors, including 13 years on the Yucca Mountain Project in the Waste Package and Engineered Barrier areas and 5 years on the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility Project as a senior criticality safety analyst.  His work areas have included package design, transport and storage cask criticality and shielding analysis, wet fuel storage rack criticality analysis, reactor vessel fluence, radiological safety analyses, new plant nuclear analyses, enrichment facility criticality work, decay heat work, isotopic generation, and plant criticality safety analysis.  His current work is in packaging of DOE-managed spent nuclear fuel for dry storage, transport, and eventual disposal.

• ​Canisters/packages for spent nuclear fuel 
• Criticality analysis 
• Fluence/nuclear materials
• Isotope technologies