Ep 178: Jon Ball, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

In this episode, we discuss how...

(1) Jon's path through the industry from handling fuel storage at Hanford to optimizing fuel production and working on services at GE Hitachi

(2) How the GE services division uses uprates to increase nuclear power production on a scale equivalent to building new nuclear power plants

(3) Jon's work on the ideation and inception of a design for small EWBRs, a high power output reactor, that could compete with combined gas

(4) The development of and target commercial markets for GE's BWRX 300 small modular reactor