Luis Betancourt

Luis Betancourt is the Technical Assistant for the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). Mr. Betancourt joined the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 2008 as a Digital Instrumentation and Controls Engineer in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. Since that time, he has held several positions of increasing responsibility, including Project Manager and Technical Reviewer in NRR, NRO, and NMSS, and Acting Chief of the Instrumentation, Controls, and Electronics Engineering Branch in NRO. Most recently, Mr. Betancourt served as the Technical Assistant for the Division of Safety Systems in NRR. Before joining the NRC, he worked as a Controls Engineer for GE Aviation and as a New Products Engineer at Stryker Endoscopy.

Mr. Betancourt received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. He is a graduate of the 2010 NRC’s Nuclear Safety Professional Development Program and the 2016 NRC’s In-House Meeting Facilitator and Advisor Program. Mr. Betancourt is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Maryland.