Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy

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Ep 328: Allan Carson - World Nuclear Association Aug 16, 2021

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1) How the UK nuclear market has shifted from decommissioning to new builds and the current state of the industry

2) Why fully-functioning nuclear reactors require design changes when crossing international borders into new regulatory requirements

3) Allan Carson's path to the World Nuclear Association to pursue international cooperation in reactor design

4) Plans for a future with regulatory collaboration and the direct impacts to clean energy & climate change

Ep 327: Jay Wileman - GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Aug 09, 2021

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1) Jay Wileman explains how the GE and Hitachi partnership started and how it's evolved over the years

2) A breakdown of the five different value streams GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy brings to its customers

3) Advantages of the up-and-coming BWRX-300 reactor in the global nuclear space

4) Why keeping and maintaining existing nuclear plants is key to achieving climate goals

Ep 326: Paul Nevitt - National Nuclear Laboratory Aug 03, 2021

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1) Why bringing manufacturing back to the UK is critical for controlling emissions 2) Paul Nevitt walks through how his early chemistry linked to nuclear through UK's defense sector study of actinides 3) Role of the National Nuclear Laboratory in driving collaboration towards achieving climate goals 4) A spotlight on some feature projects at the Nuclear Innovation Research Office

Ep 325: Jeremy Gordon - Fluent in Energy Jul 26, 2021

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1) The story of how Jeremy Gordon stumbled into editing Nuclear Engineering International Magazine with zero background in nuclear

2) Jeremy's transition to the World Nuclear Association and how he built World Nuclear News

3) Fukushima as a case study for how to communicate about a developing emergency situation at a nuclear power plant

4) Why creating alliances and collaboration with outside sectors is key to salvaging the nuclear industry's social license

Ep 324: Callum Thomas - Thomas Thor Associates Jul 21, 2021

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1) How Callum Thomas identified the human resources need in the nuclear industry, leading to the startup of his organization, Thomas Thor

2) Challenges and opportunities in finding and recruiting skilled personnel into the global nuclear workforce

3) Ways Thomas Thor is advocating for the nuclear industry and encouraging people to do independent research and come to their own conclusions about the technology

4) Why diversity and inclusion is key to successful collaboration and execution of nuclear projects and, on a bigger scale, achieving net-zero

Ep 323: Fiona Reilly - FiRE Energy Jul 14, 2021

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1. How Fiona Reilly's nuclear career started as a commercial lawyer visiting a nuclear power plant during a refueling outage

2. The key to building future nuclear projects through a combination of risk sharing and profit sharing

3. How technology parks, medical isotopes, and fusion can play an important role in UK's leveling up economic agenda

4. Considerations for financing energy projects and a breakdown of early project development costs

Ep 322: Jason Crawford - Roots of Progress Jul 12, 2021

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1) What led Jason Crawford to make the jump from Silicon Valley to a focus on the history of technology and philosophy of progress

2) How Jason got into writing and connected with some of his favorite economic historians through a viral post on the invention of the bicycle

3) The critical events that strangled nuclear energy progress in its early years and a look at the bottlenecks it faces today

4) A sneak peek of Jason's book, Roots of Progress, and a call to action to pay it forward to future generations through technological advancement

Ep 321: Lindsay Morton - National Cancer Institute Jul 07, 2021

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1) Lindsay Morton reflects on how she discovered the field of epidemiology and how it satisfied her love for math, biology, and research

2) How the National Cancer Institute contributes to global cancer research and a look at the projects they pursue internally

3) Why studying the impacts of radiation on the human body is so complex and some of the testing methodologies and biometrics used

4) A review of past and ongoing cancer studies related to the Chernobyl incident and how it informs data in new incidents, like at Fukushima

Ep 320: Stephen Chanock - National Cancer Institute Jun 30, 2021

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1. Dr. Chanock's early career in medicine, dedicating his work to cancer research

2. The National Cancer Institute's role within the National Institute of Health and why they decided to pursue studies on Chernobyl

3. A deep dive into the NCI's two most recent studies on Chernobyl, the largest of their kind

4. A look at the results of those studies and their larger applications for public health

Ep 319: Andrzej Strupczewski - National Center for Nuclear Research Jun 28, 2021

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1. Andrzej's early career leading the startup of Poland's Maria research reactor

2. His work at the IAEA and experiences traveling to plants around the world

3. Lessons learned about the safety of nuclear power plants from the Fukushima accident

4. Andrzej's belief's around changing the approach to the effects of small doses of radiation

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