Episode Content:

• Chris' start in the Nuclear Propulsion Office Candidate Program.
• Training with the A1W Prototype in Idaho Falls.
• Technology development and sodium-cooled power plants.
• Improving the cost performance of technology.
• Advanced and vessel refueling machines.
• Sodium and its different mediums.
• The history of metal and the importance of building to increasing scale for commercialization.
• Alkaline metal technology development.
• Function of the cold trap in a sodium loop.
• The differences between a sodium system and a light water system.
• Aqueous and pyro processing technology development
• The importance of maintaining the US' technology edge and knowledge base