Mr. Joe Palmer is a mechanical engineer with the Reactor Experiment Design group at the Idaho National Laboratory.  Since the mid-1990s Mr. Palmer has been the lead design engineer and/or Principle Investigator for a number instrumented in-pile experiments, beginning with Irradiation Test Vehicle installed in the Advanced Test Reactor in 1998, and culminating with the AGR-5/6/7 triso-fuels experiment in 2017.  In 2013-2015 Mr. Palmer was the PI for a collaborative project with MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory to develop a test rig capable of producing a crack in a specimen, and detecting the length of that crack during irradiation in a high-power test reactor. 

In addition to reactor experiment design, Palmer has experience in chemical process equipment design, dynamic systems modeling, piping systems, stress and thermal analysis. He also holds a Professional Engineering license in the state of Idaho.