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This week's featured speaker is Charles Forsberg of MIT. His talk is titled "Coupling Heat Storage to Nuclear Reactors For Variable Electricity Output with Base-Load Reactor Operations."

This week's featured speaker at the UT Energy Symposium is Kevan Weaver, Director of Technology Integration at TerraPower, LLC. His talk is titled "Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems."

This week's featured speaker is Professor Dave Nagel of George Washington University.

Refreshments will be served in the POB Connector Lobby at 4:45 p.m., followed by a 45-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A session.

UT Energy Symposium talks are free and open to the public; no RSVP required.

Sessions are recorded and available here.

Brian Zarin, Director, Fueling Freedom Project, will be the invited speaker for the first talk of the fall 2017 semester.

The UT Energy Symposium meets every Thursday during the long semesters. Come early to attend a networking session before the talk: refreshments will be served at 4:45 p.m. in the POB Connector Lobby outside the auditorium.