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