About Us

Mr. Jay Brister is Managing Director of Blue Sky Nuclear, an independent nuclear executive consulting service focusing on strategic nuclear power related outcomes that further the commercial nuclear power and emerging fusion industry. 

Prior to this role he was Chief Business Development Officer for General Fusion.  A Vancouver, BC based company developing Magnitized Target Fusion.  He had global responsibility for Government Relations, Communications and Business Development for the company. 

Previously he was Vice President Business Development, with AECOM’s Nuclear & Environment business unit and responsible for applying his understanding of the nuclear market, client needs and competitive position to build partnerships, and pursue and capture new work to align with AECOM’s goal to grow the development of the commercial nuclear D&D market – which migrated to an asset acquisition based approach in 2018. He has been involved in asset transfer decommissioning transactions since 2016 and has bid on all available projects since 2016. 

In August 2018 he relocated back to the United States from two years in London, where he was VP, International Business Development with AECOM Construction Services. With over 40 years of power experience, he was responsible for developing power-related business opportunities around the globe for AECOM. Prior to his London assignment, Mr. Brister was the successful capture manager for the $1.5 Billion San Onofre Decommissioning project with Southern California Edison.
 

Prior to AECOM, Mr. Brister was the Chief Business Development Officer for Babcock & Wilcox’s Generation mPower Small Modular Reactor where he was responsible for the global order book for the technology spending significant time in China and the United Kingdom.  Prior to mPower he was Vice President for CH2M’s nuclear power organization. He was responsible for developing nuclear power-related business opportunities for CH2M around the world. Mr. Brister’s work in the commercial nuclear utility industry includes a Prefeasibility Study for Nuclear Power for the Energy Market Authority in Singapore and several years in Abu Dhabi working on the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation’s nuclear new build program. He has held various management roles at multiple nuclear power plants in the United States as well as new nuclear development consulting roles in the UK, Poland, UAE, Canada, and South Korea. He has also presented strategies on new nuclear program development to countries interested in developing commercial nuclear power programs at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. In 2019 he was part of an IAEA expert mission trip to Saudi Arabia providing advice to K A Care on large scale nuclear power procurement.

Prior to CH2M he developed new nuclear program contracts, acquisition, valuation, leasing and management services opportunities for additional nuclear generating assets and supporting businesses for Entergy’s nuclear fleet in the United States. He has been involved in more than twenty nuclear power plant and corporate acquisition opportunities, multiple nuclear new build programs and has successfully concluded $25 Billion (USD) in nuclear focused transactions. He has conducted nuclear power feasibility studies, nuclear power financing support, risk analyses, reactor vendor negotiations, and cost analysis of a wide range of nuclear technologies, and state and federal level regulatory strategy development supporting nuclear power. 

A former board member of the Fusion Industry Association (2022-2023), a former member of the Civilian Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee to the US Secretary of Commerce (2019-2020) and key roles in several nuclear decommissioning industry task force committees, Mr. Brister has a B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering Technology from Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey and is a former US NRC licensed nuclear operator at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station.