Dennis Whyte is a nuclear scientist at MIT and the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
0:32 – Nuclear fusion
18:31 – e=mc^2
32:58 – Fission vs fusion
38:10 – Nuclear weapons
41:56 – Plasma
49:07 – Nuclear fusion reactor
1:04:27 – 2022 nuclear fusion breakthrough explained
1:25:04 – Magnetic confinement
1:44:14 – ITER
1:49:01 – SPARC
2:03:00 – Future of fusion power
2:11:33 – Engineering challenges
2:30:14 – Nuclear disasters
2:34:58 – Cold fusion
2:49:14 – Kardashev scale
2:58:38 – Advice for young people
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