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#045 The Future of Nuclear Energy: Politics, Culture, and Technology with Mark Nelson

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The Midwestern Boys That Got Us Stick Together

Mark Nelson grew up wanting to be an astronaut and started studying aerospace engineering at Oklahoma State University. He discovered nuclear energy, switched to that for graduate studies; tried to get a job in the nuclear industry during a very bad downturn. Went over to California to work for a sequence of environmental nonprofits focused on keeping nuclear in the conversation. Then spent four years trying to keep nuclear plants for being shut down around the world.

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