Jonathan Grams

Project Researcher

Jon Grams is a project researcher for GAIN. He provides research and technical assistance for the legacy documentation program and GAIN state engagement efforts. He also works with Idaho National Laboratory’s Nuclear Science and Technology directorate on Generation IV technology research projects.

Prior to GAIN, Jon worked for Idaho National Laboratory’s Cultural Resource Management Office as an architectural historian and researcher of legacy advanced reactor designs. He has spent multiple decades researching aerospace technologies, gas turbine design, naval architecture, and the history of nuclear weapons development.

Previously, Jon worked for many years in the trades; including carpentry, housing construction, (electrical) utility work, machinist, agricultural equipment operator, and tree care business owner/operator.

He holds an M.A. in history from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the thesis of which focused on a series of 1962 fusion experiments conducted by Livermore Research Laboratory (LRL) and was published in the MIT Press Journal of Cold War Studies. He also has an M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Colorado Denver.

Jon lives in Idaho falls and enjoys climbing, mountain biking, and hiking.