If humans are going to flourish moving forward, nuclear energy is going to need to proliferate across the world.
Ryan MacLeod is a laboratory technologist at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. He joins the show to clear the air on the misconceptions around nuclear energy, it's potential, and the state of the industry today. If humans are going to flourish moving forward, nuclear energy is going to need to proliferate across the world.
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58:01 - Nuclear future
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