Sep 27, 2018
In this episode we discuss...
- Margaret’s background in nuclear engineering and her personal journey in the nuclear industry
- Margaret’s work with boiling water reactors at GE
- The processes within phase changes in nuclear reactors
- The physics of bubbles in boiling water reactors and how it allows greater fuel production, lower enrichment, and reduced cost
- Tritium and the fears associated with it
- International considerations surrounding fuel and a history of the global nuclear sector
- How nuclear designs vary across the world - especially in the US, Europe, and Korea
- The benefits of government involvement in nuclear
- US regulations including the IAEA’s three phases necessary to build a nuclear power plant
- The pitfalls of natural gas and other renewables and how they impede the nuclear industry
- Nuclear’s environmental benefits surrounding climate change and why it’s important that the US work to set a precedent for the entire world