One of the awesome guys that got to meet at the Idaho National Labs is Nicholas Woolstenhulme. He’s a mechanical engineer working on the fuel for nuclear reactors, and his whole career has been working on the fuel for nuclear reactors.

He gets to learn about all the fuels that are possible to make, test them out, figure out how to make them better, make them safer, make them more efficient. In this conversation, we dig into that. He brought me an amazing example of a 3d printed model of how fuel can be structured in modern reactors.

I’m going to put a picture of that on the blog so you can see it and I hope that you guys will learn something from this. I know these are deep nerd conversations, but we really have to have them in order to get to the bottom of what’s possible from the people who are really in the trenches.

And we’re so lucky to have thousands of people in the trenches. Engineers working on every aspect of making modern, safe nuclear reactors. We have all the talent that we need. We have all the people that we need, what we need to do is go build them and I’m so excited to see that this country is finally getting our act together. Finally turning around on sentiment around nuclear reactors.

Important Links:

• Nicholas Woolstenhulme Research Bio
• Idaho National Labs