Claire Donovan
Lead Engineer, Reactor Systems
Luminary Energy
LinkedIn: demo://claire-donovan
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Lead Engineer, Reactor Systems
Luminary Energy
2021 - Present
Leads a team of 9 engineers on full primary loop design for ARIA Gen-2 and handles design authority sign-off for safety-critical systems.
Nuclear Systems Engineer
Luminary Energy
2018 - 2021
Designed and modeled passive cooling and shutdown systems for the ARIA microreactor platform. Conducted RELAP5 and OpenMC safety analyses in support of NRC pre-application review.
Education
M.S. Nuclear Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology • Atlanta, GA, USA
2016 - 2018
B.S. Nuclear Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA, USA
2012 - 2016
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Mar 21, 2026Last edited on Mar 21, 2026
Impeccable credentials, minimal social bandwidth
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Strength: Domain expertise that is evidently world-class; takes her work extremely seriously
Weakness: Minimal interpersonal range; operates in a very narrow register that works in technical settings and nowhere else
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Mar 21, 2026Last edited on Mar 21, 2026
World-class engineer, not always the easiest to br...
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Strength: Depth of safety and systems engineering expertise, composure under regulatory pressure
Weakness: Low tolerance for imprecision can slow down cross-functional briefings that need a more generalist framing
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Mar 21, 2026Last edited on Mar 21, 2026
The most thorough engineer I've ever encountered
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Strength: Intellectual rigor, commitment to safety standards, domain expertise that is simply not common
Weakness: Hard to gauge from limited contact — she operates in a world with far less margin for error than most
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