Ep 12: Jeff Harper, X-Energy

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