What are the biggest issues that you think are top of mind for the nuclear industry and for NAC international today? NAC is really known as a leader in nuclear waste storage and transportation and consulting services. And it also put me in a small company environment, which was also refreshing and challenging as well. I got to dive into storage, transportation, and disposal, parts of the business that I was not involved in at General Electric. First, it was focused on the backend of the nuclear fuel cycle. Joining NAC in 2003 presented me with some new learnings. Try to exceed the expectations of my managers and my coworkers, and then build on those experiences as I moved to my next assignment. And the key to me in each of the assignments was to dive in and learn as much as I could. And I worked there for 16 years in a variety of engineering, project management and business management assignments. And that experience and advice from some engineers that I worked with there led me to change my major to get into mechanical engineering, but after graduating from A&M the nuclear industry came calling and I joined General Electric’s nuclear energy business. Well first I studied nuclear engineering at Texas A&M University, and I actually began working on co-op assignments at the South Texas Project in the spring of my sophomore year. How did you get interested in nuclear and how did you end up as CEO of NAC International? It’s really great to be with you today.Īnd maybe you could just start by giving us a little bit information on your background. So we’re really happy to have you here today Kent.
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I should also add that Kent and NAC were the lead investor in Deep Isolation’s Series A last year in 2020. I’m the CEO of Deep Isolation and Kent Cole is the CEO and President of NAC International. It’s really great to have you here today. If there’s a topic discussed in the podcast that is unfamiliar to you, or you’d like to more closely review what was said, please see the show notes at /podcasts. Opinions expressed by the interviewers and their subjects are not necessarily representative of the company. A core company value is to seek and listen to different perspectives. We believe that listening is an important element of a successful nuclear waste disposal program. We hope this podcast will give you a clearer picture of Nuclear Waste: The Whole Story. In this series, we explore the nuclear waste issue with people representing various pieces of this complicated puzzle. So what’s the delay? The answers are complex and controversial.
No country has yet successfully disposed of commercial spent nuclear fuel, but it’s not for lack of a solution. alone, one in three people live within 50 miles of a storage site. Safety is always top of mind in the nuclear industry, and we work really hard to embed essential traits like compliance and a questioning attitude into NAC’s culture.ĭid you know that there are half a million metric tons of nuclear waste temporarily stored at hundreds of sites worldwide? In the U.S. Minimal edits have been made only for clarity purposes. Note: This transcript is the raw transcript of this podcast.
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