December 18, 2004: Nuclear Reactors - Dr. Charles Till

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Charles Till, a physicist who helped start up Canada's first power reactor and later led the Integral Fast Reactor program at Argonne National Laboratory for nearly twenty years. Till explains that current light water reactors use less than one percent of mined uranium, creating massive amounts of long-lived waste requiring storage for hundreds of thousands of years. His IFR design addressed this by efficiently burning fuel, producing only short-lived fission products that… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-18-2004-nuclear-reactors-dr-charles-till