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Rita Baranwal served as the former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy, the head of the Office of Nuclear Energy within the United States Department of Energy. She was confirmed to that position by the Senate on June 20, 2019, sworn in on July 11, and served until January 2021. She previously served as the Director of the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) initiative at Idaho National Laboratory starting in that role in August 2016. She is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Westinghouse.