Building a nuclear reactor is extraordinarily exciting. It's also extraordinarily hard. In life, there's little of the former without the latter.

Imagine being the defending Olympic champion and running a 9.85 100m dash and finishing FIFTH. What a crazy talented field. Spectacular.

My wife signed me up for a tango class and the teacher told me “it takes two to tango”, but I couldn’t figure out if it was an idiom, an aphorism, or a factual instruction.

That unfamiliar sound you hear is the delivery of the 3 billion kilograms of coal being delivered which will be required to replace this nuclear power plant every year.

I feel seen.

My hotel room in Idaho Falls came with 4 coffee pods, all of which are decaf. Who do I call to report a hate crime?

The most underfunded facet of nuclear engineering is materials science, and it's not even close. Materials science isn't "sexy", but it's foundational. You cannot build anything without it.