Episode Content:

• Mark's background in geology and how that ties in to spent fuel disposal

• His lab career starting at Los Alamos, then Argonne, then INL

• INL's history and role in developing nuclear technology

• New technologies that help bring advanced reactors to fruition

• Specifically how INL helps facilitate the commercialize new reactor technology

• How the National Labs work with industry and role of R&D in US competitiveness

• INL's work as the "underwriter's lab" of storage technology

• How the various contributions of the national labs work as a whole system

• How competing on ideas drives science forward

• Smartgrid, cybersecurity, and design with resiliency in mind

• The importance of multidisciplinary learning and

• Mark's insight looking towards the future of technology