Catherine Hough
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first heard Feb 2025
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Associate professor of Nuclear Plasma and Radiological Engineering
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentStarTalk with Neil deGrasse TysonSolving AI’s Energy Problem with Kathryn Huff · 5:32 · Feb 2025
…Yeah. So in fission, which is conventional nuclear power here in the United States and around the world, you separate, you break apart a heavy atom like uranium-235 or plutonium-239, whereas fusion gains energy from the binding reaction between two light particles fusing. And these would be isotopes of helium or hydrogen, typically. And so you're talking ab…
Neil deGrasse TysonStarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Solving AI’s Energy Problem with Kathryn Huff · 5:09 · Feb 2025
…But not only that, you've actually had a tour of duty serving the federal government. You were assistant secretary for nuclear energy in the Department of Energy, 2022 to 2024. So you did a little tour of duty there. So you've seen it all. So Catherine, could you just remind everybody the difference between fusion and fission?…
Neil deGrasse TysonStarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Solving AI’s Energy Problem with Kathryn Huff · 4:43 · Feb 2025
…You are associate professor in the department. Now, this is a mouth. This is like a business card's worth it. In the Department of Nuclear Plasma and Radiological Engineering. That's right. Which means she glows at night at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Hang on. Flip the card. Now it goes to the back of the card. Oh, it keeps going. Yes. So yo…
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