Episode Content: Jeff's earlier career as an NRC vendor inspector  The relationship between NRC and Industry including the balance of health and safety against cost and schedule  His work with Westinghouse bidding on an South African nuclear build and the story behind their attempted development of the pebble bed A description of the Pebble Bed technology advantages Further details on the X-energy fuel and reactor technology The role of Silicon Carbide in in TRISO Fuel  An alternative safety approach to redundancy and defense in depth The X-energy team composition and its founder Kam Ghaffarian  How high temperature nuclear can be used for water desalination Further details of X-energy's deployment strategy