Patrick White
Group Lead, Fusion Energy Safety and Regulation
About
Patrick White joined Clean Air Task Force (CATF) in 2025 as the Group Lead for fusion energy safety and regulation. He leads the CATF International Working Group on fusion energy safety, waste, and non-proliferation, focused on creating globally harmonized regulatory policy and frameworks for commercial fusion energy.
His work includes detailed technical and policy analysis of fusion technology to help develop proportional regulatory frameworks that enable the effective, efficient, and predictable licensing and deployment of commercial fusion energy. He also contributes to CATF’s work on advanced fission energy with a focus on regulatory issues, and stakeholder outreach and education.
He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.S. and PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His PhD research focused on developing new licensing methods and regulatory frameworks for commercial fusion technology and his M.S. research focused on new advanced fission reactor licensing pathways. He also was coauthor of the 2018 MIT “Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World” study and he led report research on new nuclear power plant licensing.
Previously, he was the Research Director at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, leading technical analysis and stakeholder engagement on advanced nuclear energy, and worked with the commercial nuclear industry at MPR Associates.
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