About this episode

Dr. Nitendra Singh discusses the challenges facing commercial fusion, including tritium breeding and workforce development.

Dr. Nitendra Singh, a nuclear engineer focused on advanced fuel cycles and fusion policy, joins Priyanca Ford for a clear-eyed look at what stands between today’s experiments and commercial fusion. They dig into the real complexity of tritium breeding and neutron economics, why levelized-cost comparisons are so slippery this early, the honest engineering timelines that regulators and power grids actually allow, and why building a skilled global workforce may be the field’s most underrated challenge.

People in this episode

Host: Priyanca Ford

Guest: Dr. Nitendra Singh

Topics covered

• commercial fusion
• tritium breeding
• neutron economics
• engineering timelines
• workforce development

Keywords

• commercial fusion
• tritium
• neutron economics
• engineering timelines
• workforce gap

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: nuclear engineer, fusion policy

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