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