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In this episode we discuss...

• Ed’s background in the US Navy and his personal journey in the nuclear industry
• Ed’s work designing nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, and space crafts for the Navy
• General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls and their respective roles in nuclear construction
• Uranium hexafluoride gas reactors and the processes within
• Nuclear opponents and their negative effects on the construction and licensing processes
• How the US nuclear industry is working to overcome supply chain challenges including replacing medium enriched uranium with plutonium
• Table salt’s important role in recycling spent fuels
• The economics of fuel storage
• A deep dive into fuel and reactor lifetimes
• The plant Ed envisions including its total power output and the regulatory and financial hurdles involved