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Dr Ahmed Hussein - A safer, cheaper nuclear reactor design

from BC Humanists Podcast · host BC Humanist Association

Dr Ahmed Hussein is a professor of nuclear physics at the University of Northern British Columbia and a research scientist at TRIUMF and Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US. Dr Hussein will be speaking about a a new and safer design for a nuclear power plants called dual fluid nuclear fission reactor. Among its other benefits, these reactors can make use of waste from traditional nuclear reactors as fuel while also extracting considerably more energy from existing nuclear fuel. Recorded at the Sunday, February 14, 2016 meeting of the BC Humanist Association in Vancouver. Learn more at http://www.bchumanist.ca

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