In this episode we interview Per Peterson, professor at one of UC Berkeley's Nuclear reactors groups. He’s the world expert on Fluoride Salt Cooled High Temperature reactors and a founder of Kairos Power, an Oakland, CA based nuclear startup, pursuing commercialization of that same technology. He has a lot of insight to share in this space including:

• The true cost drivers in plant construction and operations
• Civil nuclear energy from the perspective of non-proliferation
• Public misunderstandings around nuclear waste
• Theories around various safety design approaches
• Integral effects test facilities and their role in new reactor technology development
• How market failures make it challenging to develop new reactors
• Opportunities to borrow learnings from the success of the revitalization of the private space industry