The Power Hour | Saving Lives with Nuclear Technology with Matt Sanford and Michael Hoehn

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts.  Join Jack and his guests today for an extremely interesting and informative conversation about a part of the nuclear industry that you might not know about: medical and industrial isotopes.  The United States once led the world in the production of these critical elements but has fallen way behind in recent decades.  Our guests today not only have kept the U.S. on the map with these life saving technologies but are working towards making the U.S. a leader once again.  Matt Sanford is the executive director at the University of Missouri Research Reactor and Michael Hoehn is the program director for the NextGen MURR.  In a nutshell, Matt oversees the production of life saving medical isotopes and other important industrial isotopes at the University of Missouri and Michael is in charge of getting a new reactor built to expand that capacity.  This is important work on it own, but that the University of Missouri is one of an handful of labs in the U.S. doing this work makes their work critical.  You will learn how these isotopes are produced, distributed and used in this podcast. Our promise to you is that you will be smarter after listening to this one.   One more thing.  Jack has a new book out called Nuclear Revolution, which you can get here here.  If you want to be the smartest person at the dinner party and put those anti-nuclear people in their place, you want Nuclear Revolution .  Join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. And buy the book!