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Nuclear power isn’t dead, despite a body blow from the 2011 Fukushima accident in Japan. And if our guest Nathan Myhrvold has anything to do with it, nuclear technology might see a true resurgence, taking the place of carbon-emitting coal plants in fast-growing countries like China and India. In this episode Myhrvold talks about progress at TerraPower—a spinout of his patent management firm Intellectual Ventures—where engineers are designing reactors that run on waste uranium and aren’t vulnerable to loss-of-coolant accidents.

Hosted and produced by Wade Roush. Music by Newfane. For more news and commentary about high-tech innovation in eleven cities and regions around the country, visit Xconomy.com.

Our guest Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and co-founder of Recorded Future, a cybersecurity firm based in the Boston area. He says countries and companies who want to defend against cyber attacks can’t depend on spies, wiretaps, satellites, or network software. These days, the Web itself is a rich source of threat intelligence. So, his Somerville, MA-based company has figured out how to turn the Web into one giant sensor, scanning both its public areas and its darker corners for intel that might help clients anticipate and thwart hackers and other bad actors.

Hosted and produced by Wade Roush. Music by Newfane. For more news and commentary about high-tech innovation in eleven cities and regions around the country, visit Xconomy.com.

Xconomy Voices brings you conversations with the world’s leading entrepreneurs and innovators. Our very first guest is Mary Lou Jepsen, founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Openwater. Jepsen is putting her expertise in display manufacturing to work to build inexpensive, wearable sensor systems that use infrared light from LCDs to collect data from inside the human body. Such technology could make lifesaving medical-imaging data much more accessible, and maybe even give us “telepathy”—or at least, the ability to see what people are thinking about by looking inside their brains.

Hosted and produced by Wade Roush. Music by Newfane. For more news and commentary about high-tech innovation in eleven cities and regions around the country, visit Xconomy.com.