Ep. 78 - Dan Wells, EPRI
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