Designing for Safety — Risk, Reliability & the New Golden Age of Nuclear - Dr. Curtis Smith
About this episode
Dr. Curtis Smith discusses the advancements in nuclear energy and safety engineering with Priyanca Ford.
Dr. Curtis Smith of MIT, a leading authority on probabilistic risk assessment, joins Priyanca Ford to explore why many now call this a golden age of nuclear energy. They discuss what fusion can learn from decades of fission safety engineering, why regulators are treating fusion systems more like particle accelerators, and how advanced modeling, AI, and heat-storage technology could reshape clean-energy systems.
People in this episode
Host: Priyanca Ford
Guest: Dr. Curtis Smith
Topics covered
- nuclear energy
- fusion
- risk assessment
- safety engineering
- clean energy
- AI
- modeling
Keywords
- nuclear energy
- fusion
- risk assessment
- safety
- AI
- clean energy
- modeling
- heat-storage technology
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Organizations: MIT
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