Episode Content:

• Jeff's earlier career as an NRC vendor inspector
• The relationship between NRC and Industry including the balance of health and safety against cost and schedule
• His work with Westinghouse bidding on an South African nuclear build and the story behind their attempted development of the pebble bed
• A description of the Pebble Bed technology advantages
• Further details on the X-energy fuel and reactor technology
• The role of Silicon Carbide in in TRISO Fuel
• An alternative safety approach to redundancy and defense in depth
• The X-energy team composition and its founder Kam Ghaffarian
• How high temperature nuclear can be used for water desalination
• Further details of X-energy's deployment strategy