Host: Rebecca Li

If you'd like to join: Join the Slack channel #learning-group-nuclear

Meeting time: 2:00pm ET

This is a learning group. This means that members commit to meeting once a week at a fixed time. We commit to allocating N hours per week to researching this topic on behalf of the working group. The goal of the working group is to produce a tangible output (e.g. a viable business plan or a white paper on the field).

Goals

• Generate a Starter Pack for nuclear energy.
• Bring in nuclear scientists to speak.

Basic Vocabulary

• Q - Fusion gain energy factor. Q>1 means power is net created, while Q<1 means power is consumed in the fusion reaction

• Ignition - the point at which a reaction becomes self-sustaining

• Burn - colloquially consuming the radioactive fuel. e.g. CANDU reactors burn natural uranium, in addition to enriched uranium.

• NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency

• Nuclear Waste: [1]

  

Reactor Types

Companies in the Space

References

[0] Wikipedia