Crazy Wisdom

Crazy Wisdom

Why did people stop becoming nuclear scientists? - Leslie Dewan: Founding Principle of Nucleation Capital

March 9, 2020 · 53 min

MP3 · Apple Podcasts · Spotify

We talk about the following questions

What did the 3 mile island do to the public acceptance of nuclear power?

What is the age distribution of nuclear engineers?

What are the nuclear technologies Leslie is most excited about?

Whats it like to build a startup in a field that is at the prototype stage with huge capital and regulatory requirements?

What is currently going on in the Fusion startups?

Check out nucleation capital here: https://nucleationcapital.com/

Episode transcript
Stewart Alsop III00:16

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. Today I had a special guest, Leslie Dewan. She works in finance for nuclear power, for finding investment for nuclear power and raising investment and distributing investment. And so this is a special episode. We didn't really go into stress or creativity that much, although I think it's still related, as I'll describe shortly. I am under the impression that if we want to, or if we are really serious about tackling the energy problem and the fact that there's global climate change happening, then, then we need nuclear power as a base for our electricity. It's obvious, so obvious that we need nuclear power and then to be supplemented by other things like solar and wind and all these other things. That is the only way that we're going to get off of fossil fuels and have a really radical change to our. The way that we turn, the way that we create energy. And so I was really grateful to be able to just really dive into Leslie's expansive knowledge over what nuclear power is and what the potential of it is and some of the more experiential stuff and some of the more concrete and practical things as well. So I hope you enjoy this episode. If you do, please find us on itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and go ahead and subscribe. If you're really feeling gracious, please go ahead and leave a review as well. As always, I'm on Twitter ewartalsop III. My DMs are open. I'd love to hear from you about what you think of this show or about any of the other shows that I've done. Have a great day. Thank you. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. Today my guest is Dr. Leslie Dewan and she is the founding principal of Nucleation Capital. So welcome to the show, Leslie.

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