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A Fireside chat with Sec. Ernie Moniz
Season 21 Episode 3
Sec Ernie Moniz and I chat about best practices for “embarking” and “re-embarking” nations as 24 countries pledge to triple nuclear energy by 2050.
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Cracking the Nuclear Innovation Nut
Season 21 Episode 2
Humanity went from inducing the first fissions of heavy elements in 1938 to a nuclear powered submarine in just 16 years. Why has that tremendous pace of nuclear innovation seemingly slowed down to a…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
COP28 & The Inconvenient Truth about Coal
Season 21 Episode 2
Robert Bryce joins me for a COP28 “reactions” episode and drops some hard truths on the world’s ever increasing appetite for coal.
Published on 2 years ago
How to Fuel a Tripling of Nuclear Energy
Season 20 Episode 10
Dr. Keefer sat down with some of the Titans of the nuclear fuel cycle at the “Net Zero Nuclear Summit” on the sidelines of COP28 in the UAE where 24 countries have pledged to triple nuclear energy by…
Published on 2 years ago
NuScale, New Problems
Season 20 Episode 9
The cancellation of the Carbon Free Power Project was a massive blow to US SMR front runner NuScale. James Krellenstein joins me for a deep dive.
Published on 2 years ago
Ontario’s Green Energy Act
Season 20 Episode 8
Chris Adlam joins me to discuss Ontario’s attempt to imitate Germany’s Energiewende. It began as an attempt to kickstart a green energy industry by retooling struggling automotive plants in the after…
Published on 2 years ago
Enriching Uranium Understanding
Season 20 Episode 7
One in 20 American homes are powered by Russian enriched uranium because the USA lacks sufficient enrichment capacity to meet its own needs. Energy and fuel security are supposed to be a strong point…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
US Offshore Wind Dead in the Water?
Season 20 Episode 5
The recent cancellation of two large wind projects in New Jersey are the latest in a series of setbacks for the nascent US offshore wind industry. Mark Nelson joins me to analyze whether the nuclear …
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Small Misunderstood Reactors
Season 20 Episode 4
James Krellenstein joins me to discuss the rationale underlying small modular reactors and in particular the challenges of getting novel reactor concepts from the experimental stage to reliable comme…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Why is Western nuclear so expensive?
Season 20 Episode 3
Jacopo Buongiorno joins me to discuss the cost drivers of nuclear and how we can drive them down. For a deeper dive check out this MIT study that Jacopo led. studyhttps://energy.mit.edu/research/futu…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago