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A Civil Nuclear Debate
Season 27 Episode 3
Two thought leaders in the nuclear energy conversation, James Krellenstein and Ted Nordhaus, join Decouple for a “debate” over the question of reactor size: should advanced, small nuclear technologie…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Reactors on Wheels
Season 27 Episode 2
Jeff Waksman, program manager for Project Pele, joins Dr. Chris Keefer to discuss the impetus for the military microreactor project, the logistics and energy challenges at the heart of modern warfare…
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago
A Heterodox Economics Lesson
Season 27 Episode 1
Steve Keen, economist and author, joins me to explain how modern economics has catastrophically misunderstood the role of energy in our world and underestimated the risks of climate change through ov…
Published on 1 year ago
The End of an IRA?
Season 26 Episode 10
Phil Chaffee, Editor of Nuclear Intelligence Weekly and Bureau Chief of Energy Intelligence’s New York offices, joins me to discuss the implications of a second Trump administration on U.S. nuclear e…
Published on 1 year ago
The Forgotten Climate Debate
Season 26 Episode 9
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, a French historian of science & technology, shares how European societies grappled with climate change centuries before modern science proved the scale and breadth of its impac…
Published on 1 year ago
Defense in Depths
Season 26 Episode 8
Aidan Morrison, director of energy research at Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies, takes us to the depths of Australia’s security predicament as a country near Maritime Southeast Asia depende…
Published on 1 year ago
Microreactors, Macro Problems
Season 26 Episode 7
Nick Touran, a nuclear engineer and manager at TerraPower, unearths the sobering realities of micro nuclear reactors. Through a detailed discussion of physics, engineering, economics, and history, To…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Paper Reactors to Power Reactors
Season 26 Episode 6
Nick Touran tells the story of Admiral Hyman Rickover, the “Father of the Nuclear Navy” and author of the legendary "Paper Reactor" memo. We discover how Rickover’s hard-driving management and obsess…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
TMI: Too Much Intervention?
Season 25 Episode 5
James Krellenstein, co-founder of Alva Energy, explains precisely what happened at the Three Mile Island accident, in which an ordinary reactor trip cascaded into a partial meltdown due primarily to …
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Small Reactors Are Bulking Up
Season 25 Episode 4
Koroush Shirvan, an MIT professor and consultant on recent major reports on nuclear economics, sheds light on the hidden costs of small modular reactors. Lower power densities, ballooning containment…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago