“So what, after a 30-year drought, is drawing smart young people back to the nuclear industry? The answer is climate change.” So says the world’s most influential think tank, the Brookings Institute.

Young MIT graduates, Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie have a plan to revolutionise nuclear energy, with potentially world saving technology that will cut carbon using existing nuclear waste.

In this superb video, Leslie and Mark explain how advanced nuclear could answer big questions around the safety, waste and economics of conventional nuclear power.

If you’re hungry for more, this long read by Josh Freed: Back to the Future: Advanced Nuclear Energy and the Battle Against Climate Change tells you everything you need to know about why advanced nuclear energy could hold a key to fighting climate change.