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Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy

Feb 28, 2018

Episode Content:

  • Her fascinating entrance to the Nuclear field at an incredibly young age

  • An overview of space nuclear reactors

  • The wide variety of the different projects she’s participated in at INL

  • She dives into energy availability intermittency and transmission

  • Applying nuclear energy as an Industrial...


Feb 21, 2018

Episode Content:

  • How Hans became interested in nuclear energy

  • An overview of the of pebble bed technology physics and materials

  • How high temperature can be safer than low temperature

  • The ups and downs of interest in the technology

  • He explains need to build expertise, infrastructure, modeling and new...


Feb 14, 2018

In part 1 of  5 in our special INL series we interview John Wagner, the Associate Laboratory Director of the Nuclear Science and Technology Directorate. If you’re not familiar with the structure of the National lab hierarchy… that title is a big deal. In the first half of the episode we discuss:

 

  • John’s entrance...


Feb 7, 2018

In this episode we interview Rachel Slaybaugh, who, before we were introduced, on three separate occasions was recommended as a must have on this program. She’s a professor at UC Berkeley, founder of the Nuclear boot camp which we’ll discuss shortly, and newest program director at ARPA-E. Today we discuss:

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