TMWG Members

Taylor Loy
Chair
Taylor Loy holds a postdoc position at Virginia Tech generously funded by a Carnegie Corporation of New York grant to research the civilian/military boundary in nuclear infrastructures. He brings a diverse academic/professional background to the study of civilian and military nuclear technologies. He received his PhD in Science, Technology, & Society(STS) at Virginia Tech, and his dissertation focuses on tritium, a unique and ephemeral radioactive isotope that readily transgresses established boundaries between civilian/military and natural/technological domains.
Publications
- Beyond Byproduct: Rethinking Tritium in Fusion Technologies (Nov/Dec 2025)
- How Military Tritium Production in Civilian Reactors Can Further Non-proliferation Goals (Feb 2025)
- Promoting Fusion Energy Leadership with U.S. Tritium Production Capacity (Nov 2024)
- Tritium Matters: Constructing Nuclearity and Navigating Ambivalence of a Unique Material (July 2024)
- Speculating on Tritium Futures: Why Defense Material Should Fuel Fusion Innovation (April 2023)
