Ep 78: Dan Wells, Electric Power Research Institute

Ep 78: Dan Wells, Electric Power Research Institute

In this episode we discuss...

  • Dan's background in chemical engineering and his personal journey in the nuclear industry
  • Dan's work studying lanthanides and actinides
  • The different types of research and development an independent nonprofit organization like EPRI provides to utilities
  • The contributing factors within primary and secondary coolants and how they alter the chemistry of oxides on materials
  • Where plants get their water and the purification processes involved
  • How water's chemistry changes over the lifetime of a reactor why that led to the introduction of alloy 690 in steam generators
  • Boric acid's critical role in maintaining power level in a reactor
  • Automation in the water chemistry analysis space
  • Dan's current work providing the data necessary to qualify switching from lithium 7 to potassium hydroxide

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