In this episode, we discuss...

• How Akira Tokuhiro’s interest in race car design inspired him to study nuclear engineering
• Research for the Japanese sodium cooled fast reactor
• How nuclear energy safety culture and public risk perception compares to other industries
• Responsibilities of being a director and licensed operator of a university experimental reactor
• Safety challenges of graphite-moderated nuclear reactors
• How the nuclear industry united to address the accident at Fukushima
• Benefits of NuScale Power’s small modular reactors (SMR’s)
• Akira’s development of a new Bachelor of Technology in Sustainable Energy Systems at Ontario Tech University