Sam Root is Process Model Engineer at EES&T, where he studies solutions for integrating nuclear power into the industrial sector. He works as part of a team that conducts technoeconomic assessments and life cycle analyses to show the financial, economic, and reliability impacts that advanced nuclear power can have on industries such as chemicals, oil & gas, and others.

With 7 years of experience in chemical engineering, Sam Root possesses expertise in modeling chemical and thermal systems including power cycles and electrochemical and thermochemical reactions. His academic background includes research in post-combustion CO2 capture as well as neutronic, thermal hydraulic, and heat mass transport modeling of a molten salt fueled microreactor. While completing his Master's, he also worked at INL as a graduate intern in the same role.

Before joining INL, Sam researched as a Graduate Fellow funded by NRC, earning an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from University of Idaho. He has 2 scientific publications, and his work includes a provisional patent application filed by INL.

Nuclear integration, hydrogen, synthetic fuels, energy efficiency, decarbonization, integrated energy systems