The Russian Atom feat. Mark Nelson

Russia has been in the nuclear energy game now for over 75 years and its nuclear industry has bounced back to become the leading exporter of reactors around the world. What accounts for this success?
In the context of oligarchs balkanizing and profiteering off of sectors of the USSR's formerly centrally planned economy, the Russian nuclear industry managed to re-consolidate itself into Rosatom, a collection of over 360 enterprises.
Rosatom is a vertically integrated state-owned enterprise that offers partnering countries around the world the full suite of services and training to bring it nuclear energy generation capacity.
Russia is also a world leader in SMR and advanced reactor technologies with concepts that have left the computer simulator and are connected to the grid gaining real-world engineering and operational experience. What lessons can we learn from this advanced reactor program?
I am joined by Mark Nelson, managing director of the Radiant Energy Fund. Mark is a leading researcher and speaker on the status and prospects of nuclear and alternative energy around the world. He holds degrees in mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering as well as Russian Literature.

[@lowspeedyoyo]

this is the best thing ive ever seen on this subject!

[@Zgembo121]

Great guest and subject matter

[@Spacedog79]

Fantastic interview, love the enthusiasm this guy has.

[@andrejmucic5003]

cool beans guys, learned a megaton

[@manatoa1]

Really gripping conversation!

[@thejfactor1]

This guest presents stone cold truths.

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

It is interesting to me that the young Ruzzian is not powered by market forces but to complete the fuel cycle to not tear up the earth more with mining but for the economy of using uranium properly and not waste the energy it took to mine uranium but to use the uranium they had properly. It is more or less the same thing for me in that the molten salt reactor will use the 95 % of the fuel in use to get the most energy from the fuel we have. It means a huge amount of energy produced from what we have and not have to mine any more uranium than what we have already. I can see in the future more uranium will need mined to give our nuclear forces the plutonium needed for the nuclear pits used to destroy the world, and not just Ruzzia. The thorium molten salt reactor will short cut this whole process and will make things nuclear not so tied to destroying our world but producing enough power electrically to even make desalination plants viable so as to circumvent our dependence upon the Colorado River but for Southern Cali so it can desalination seawater cheaply with small modular molten salt thorium reactors in the future. Cheap seawater cheap enough to use it for crop irrigation.

[@Garage-physicist]

Russia, according to Mark, on its nuclear exports: “We love all of you, let’s work together… I want to make you rich.” Sorry, but Mark’s pro-nuclear inclination is clouding his understanding of Russia and what truly motivates it.

[@jjuniper274]

I think I see a future chess move in the workings. Perhaps not chess, but a game of Risk. I hope it pays off.

[@NomenNescio99]

I get such an indescribable urge to grow a mustache when I watch this interview.

[@davidwilkie9551]

The bombs are working as desired both fast and slow, as the saying goes, "It's not the weapon that kills", it's those enabling it who have no intention of relinquishing the power to do so, that is the primary purpose for the Forever War. Only the real sense-in-common of one human purpose on one limited planet deciding to stop weapons and mind altering drugs, to protect health and welfare in practical effect instead of blatant disinformation and financially destructive behaviour., etc. The easiest time to reset was after Japan was bombed, but it's always NOW is the best opportunity to make it global policy, as the UN attempted.

[@manatoa1]

Decouple from the weather!

[@matejzlebir]

:) ?

[@manatoa1]

@@matejzlebir as climate change makes weather more volatile it seems crazy to make your energy supply dependent on the sun and wind. Not to mention the inherent disadvantages of renewables: diffuse, variable, intermittent.

[@Ulyssestnt]

I had the same cultureshock when I visited St.Petersburg and I am from western Europe by way of US.(and didn't have the same when deployed to Afghanistan,but then again there the west kinda came with me)

[@frankw2900]

These guys are so irritating with their acronyms soups. Why don’t they speak out the words on more frequent occasion? Why don’t they just talk to each other on the phone if they have so little interest in being educators?

[@dmitriyskvortsov9650]

Hmm, did not noticed any … any specific examples?