Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant

All right.

So we should kind of quickly go over how nuclear reactors work, even though we have a pretty great episode on that.

Yeah.

Disposing of that stuff.

Yeah.

We have a pretty good episode on nuclear energy.

I can't remember what it was called.

Do you happen?

Did you check that?

I thought we did one just on creating nuclear energy, no?

All right.

Well, we'll go over it quickly again, just how it works, because it works how creating energy works at a coal plant or a natural gas plant, because what you're essentially trying to do is boil water to produce steam, and that steam turns a turbine.

But in this case, the fuel is not coal or natural gas.

It's these little uranium-235 pellets.

Like I said, sort of a half of a thumb size.

And you mentioned fuel assembly.

A fuel assembly, well, you get these little pellets.

You put them inside these long fuel rods, and then you bundle together those fuel rods, and those are the fuel assemblies.

And depending on the size of the reactor and the type, there's anywhere from 150 to about 800 of those bundled up cylindrical fuel rods as fuel assemblies in the reactor core.

Yeah, yeah, it's been going on for a long time.