Ep 87: Margaret Harding, 4Factor Consulting

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