Dr. Oded Doron is Vice President, Engineering at X-energy, where he leads a broad, multi-disciplinary engineering team responsible for the strategy, design, and development of the company’s advanced nuclear technologies. 

Dr. Doron has a wide range of engineering experience and knowledge. He is the third generation in his family to be involved in steel fabrication and engineering. Dr. Doron has been in the advanced reactor world for nearly a decade. He has been involved with the designs of the sodium fast reactor and both salt-fueled and -cooled molten salt reactors. Dr. Doron’s focus is on developing a reactor plant design that is inherently safe, cost competitive, and can be built and licensed. 

Prior to X-energy, Dr. Doron was the Senior Director of Reactor Systems Design at Kairos Power. In this role, he directed teams for the development of the design and analysis for the Reactor Systems, including all safety related systems, of the Kairos Power Fluoride Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor. He previously owned the responsibility for the design of several in core components for TerraPower’s sodium fast reactor and designed the initial shielding concepts for the company’s molten chloride fast reactor. He managed his family's steel fabrication business, and he engineered and stamped the structural steel designs and drawings the company was fabricating. He also worked at Sandia National Laboratory in nuclear forensics, where he worked in the development of sensor technology for the detection of nuclear detonations in urban environments. At Sandia, he was awarded an Outstanding Innovation award for a US patent application and was co-inventor on another patent. Dr. Doron also worked in the shielding group at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. 

Dr. Doron earned his Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) in nuclear engineering in 2007, and his B.S. at UT in mechanical engineering in 2002. He is a Professional Engineer registered in Texas with a dual competence in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering.