Davis-Besse nuclear plant

You have to do a presentation. The presentation should be no more than 10 minutes. If it's more than 12 minutes, I'll stand up next to you and you quit talking — which, if I intimidate you enough, you will quit talking. The topic is anything you want, literally anything you want. You could tell us about nuclear materials. I've had Course 20 people before, and they've talked about Zircaloy — why you use Zircaloy as the cladding for nuclear fuel. They've talked about the Davis-Besse incident, which was a big near-catastrophic failure of a nuclear reactor in the United States. I teach welding metallurgy now to the Navy officers in Course 2. For about 120 years the US Navy has been sending people — thirty-year-old lieutenants and whatnot — back to get master's degrees at MIT, and I teach them during the summer. We've had people do flying buttresses for Gothic cathedrals. It can be any topic you want, because I've found that if I let you talk about what you want to talk about, you'll do a much better job.