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Dennis Whyte is a nuclear scientist at MIT and the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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  (00:00) - Introduction
  (05:54) - Nuclear fusion
  (23:53) - e=mc^2
  (38:20) - Fission vs fusion
  (43:32) - Nuclear weapons
  (47:19) - Plasma
  (54:29) - Nuclear fusion reactor
  (1:09:50) - 2022 nuclear fusion breakthrough explained
  (1:30:27) - Magnetic confinement
  (1:49:36) - ITER
  (1:54:23) - SPARC
  (2:08:23) - Future of fusion power
  (2:16:55) - Engineering challenges
  (2:35:36) - Nuclear disasters
  (2:40:21) - Cold fusion
  (2:54:36) - Kardashev scale
  (3:04:00) - Advice for young people

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