In this episode, we discuss... 1) Mohamed Bourham’s path to a career in nuclear from Egypt to Europe to North Carolina State University 2) Mohamed reviews his many areas of research, including electrothermal propulsion, radiation, waste, and material science 3) How dry cask storage for spent fuel has performed so far and why there are different ideas about nuclear waste storage 4) Mohamed explains how fusion is controlled with magnetic fields and the impact it has on materials in the fusion reactors