Gone Fission Nuclear Report:The 2024 Interns Have Arrived
June 17, 2024 | S4 E12
This is the time of year when hundreds of interns descend on DOE sites around the country. They are eager and enthusiastic, ready to soak up new information gleaned from being out of the classroom and on the job. They are a critical part of the essential pipeline that will ensure the Department of Energy's Environmental Management program will have enough qualified workers to fulfill its cleanup mission in the decades ahead. In this week's episode of
the Gone Fission Nuclear Report podcast, host Michael Butler talks with Susan Sparks and Shannon Potter, DOE and contractor intern program managers at Portsmouth/Paducah and Oak Ridge, as well as Maurice Thompson, head of DOE's Career Pathways Program at DOE Headquarters. We will also meet Samina Mondal, an outstanding participant in the program who has quickly become a well-spoken advocate for the Environmental Management program.
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Morning Edition - Bill Gates is going Nuclear: How his latest project could power U.S. homes and AI
June 14, 2024
Artificial intelligence may come for our jobs one day, but before that happens, the data centers it relies on are going to need a lot of
electricity.
So how do we power them and millions of U.S. homes and businesses without generating more climate-warming gases?
Microsoft founder, billionaire philanthropist and investor Bill Gates is betting that nuclear power is key to meeting that need — and he’s digging into
his own pockets to try and make it happen.
