Ep 08: Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Idaho National Labs

Episode Content:

• Her fascinating entrance to the Nuclear field at an incredibly young age

• An overview of space nuclear reactors

• The wide variety of the different projects she’s participated in at INL

• She dives into energy availability intermittency and transmission

• Applying nuclear energy as an Industrial heat source, utilizing the steam for district heating, chemical process, water desalination, and how all this fits into broader energy ecosystem

• The many uses of hydrogen and how it can be integrated in a nuclear system

• Laboratory scale model validation of the worlds future integrated energy systems