Episode 124
Ep 124: Bob Mumgaard, Commonwealth Fusion
Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy · Titans of Nuclear
November 21, 201846m 12s
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Show Notes
In this episode we discuss...
- Bob's background in fusion and personal journey in the nuclear industry
- Bob's day-to-day as Chief Executive Officer at Commonwealth Fusion Systems
- Bob's graduate work at MIT researching new technologies to solve fundamental challenges with fusion
- Superconductors, their applications, and how Bob has significantly contributed to their productization
- The mechanisms that enable superconductors to operate at very high temperatures
- Why only 3 of over 100,000 superconductors have been commercialized
- How collaboration between academics and industrialists is helping to drive fusion technology into the marketplace
- Bob's mission to expedite superconductivity commercialization so that it can be deployed globally