Existing Nuclear and Imaginary Nuclear feat. Mark Nelson

Dreams of advanced nuclear and the SMR revolution around the
corner which will solve all of Nuclear's problems such as
economics, safety and load following are very popular within the
Nuclear Energy community. These technologies are exciting and an
inevitable addition to the nuclear energy mix but are they the
quickest nuclear route to deep decarbonization? Are they a
substitute for our existing cutting edge large scale nuclear
technology like the recently unveiled Barakah station in the UAE
or our "old" reactor designs like CANDU which can burn used
nuclear fuel and thorium? 


I am joined by Mark Nelson, the managing director of Radiant
Energy Fund and a leading researcher and speaker on the status
and prospects of Nuclear Energy to wade into this controversy.
Mark is a former generation fellow at the Breakthrough Institute
and was a senior analyst at Environmental Progress. He holds
degrees in mechanical, aerospace and nuclear engineering. 


This is gauranteed to be a controversial show and I look forward
to the debate it will spark. Please follow us and join the debate
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