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🗓️ 14 May 2025
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Introducing Decarbonizing the High Seas With Mikal Bøe from Fissionary.
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Get ready to dive deep into the thrilling possibilities of nuclear power on the high seas! In our season finale, Mary and Jordan drop anchor with Mikal Bøe, Chairman and CEO of CORE Power, a company building scalable new nuclear technologies for ocean transport. Striving to see a world where shipping generates zero carbon emissions, Mikal and his team are leveraging new nuclear technologies for the development of both nuclear ships and floating reactors.
Mikal shares insights on how nuclear ships operate, what decarbonizing ocean transport would mean, the evolution of shipping technology, and the critical role nuclear power will play in the future of global trade.
Mikal Bøe: LinkedIn | CORE Power
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| 0:00.0 | This is Visionary, a show exploring how nuclear powers your world. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Mary Carpenter. |
| 0:12.6 | And I'm Jordan Houghton. Let's jump in. |
| 0:23.8 | Hey, Jordan. |
| 0:26.6 | Hey, Mary, and hello, Fissionaries. |
| 0:28.1 | Thanks for being back with us. |
| 0:29.2 | Hey, Fissionaries. |
| 0:32.9 | Welcome to the final episode of season three. I can't believe we're at the end of another season of Fissionary. |
| 0:38.8 | I feel like we just wrapped season two. And here we are again. I know. It's been a great season, though. We talked about |
| 0:44.4 | everything from saving rhinos to floating nuclear reactors, which is what we're talking about |
| 0:51.0 | today. Today's episode, we're talking to Mikkelbow, who is the chairman and CEO of Core Power, |
| 0:56.7 | which is a company focused on next-gen reactor technologies for the maritime industry. |
| 1:02.6 | And Mary, I had to tell you, this conversation was really interesting to me because I think I've only thought about shipping, like, three times in my life. |
| 1:12.6 | The first time was when Paris Hilton was dating all those shipping airs, the Greek shipping air. |
| 1:17.2 | She went through that phase. |
| 1:18.9 | And then there was one, the ever-given block, the Suez Canal. |
| 1:23.3 | And that was like the multi-day, like how this is going to affect like global trade and shipping. |
| 1:29.4 | And then when the cargo ship hit the key bridge in Baltimore, beyond that, those are like |
| 1:35.7 | the only times shipping was on my radar. And this is so interesting to me because when you |
| 1:41.6 | actually listen to McCall talking about the scale of shipping |
| 1:45.9 | and the things that are delivered, you have this whole maritime network behind the scenes |
| 1:51.6 | that is making our lives possible. And I feel like we just go on about our lives and we don't |
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