The Birth of America’s Nuclear Power Industry
James Krellenstein returns to take apart one of the most persistent myths in energy discourse: the idea that there was a golden age when nuc...
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There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Join me as I interview world experts to uncover hope in...
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Limits to Growth of LLMs w/ David Helmer
AI hype has bled deep into the nuclear sector, and in this episode, Chris Keefer sits down with returning guest David Helmer, an engineer an...
The Gas Turbine: The Final Revelation in Humanity’s Pantheon of Prime Movers (w/ David Helmer)
David Helmer spent years working on cooling systems for GE jet turbines before moving to Boston Consulting Group, the Applied Physics Labora...
Understanding the World's Most Unusual Commodity Cycle
Grant Isaac, President and COO of Cameco, joins Decouple to explain why uranium behaves unlike any other commodity. With essentially zero fu...
The Absolute Best Water Reactor: What Happened to the World’s Fastest Constructed Reactor?
Nuclear construction once hit timelines that today sound implausible. First of a kind reactors completed in under four years, delivered at l...
Nuclear Reprocessing: Promise vs Reality
In this episode of Decouple , Chris Keefer is joined once again by Michael Seely of the Atomic Blender to explore nuclear fuel reprocessing...
Greenwashing with Chinese Characteristics
In this episode we are joined by Seaver Wang to discuss the physical foundations of China’s industrial dominance in solar, batteries, electr...
The Luxury Beliefs That Broke Europe’s Energy System | Doomberg
Europe once treated energy as the foundation of civilization. After the oil shocks of the 1970s, it built nuclear at scale, opened the North...
What's happening with CANDU?
This episode features Joe St. Julian, President of Nuclear at AtkinsRéalis, outlining why Canada may be closer to a new nuclear fleet build...
The Week LNG Became a Target
The Iranian drone strike on Qatar’s Ras Laffan industrial complex has sent shockwaves through global energy markets, triggering force majeur...
The Fuels Powering Nuclear's Biggest Promises
There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Join m...
Nuclear Fuel: The Most Sophisticated Industrial Product You've Never Learned About
Nuclear fuel is nothing like the coal or gas it replaces. Where fossil fuels are destroyed in combustion, nuclear fuel must survive years of...
The Most Boring Path to 10 Gigawatts: Why Nuclear Uprates Matter Right Now
For two decades the nuclear conversation has revolved around new builds, advanced reactors, and megaproject risk. Meanwhile, forty Westingho...
AI with Chinese Characteristics
In this episode of Decouple, Chris sits down with Kyle Chan of the High Capacity Substack to unpack what “AI with Chinese characteristics” a...
A Case Study of Excellence from Canada’s Nuclear Golden Age
In this special episode of Decouple, Chris Keefer speaks with Ken Petrunik, one of the few leaders in the Western nuclear industry who has t...
EPR: The Reactor That Tried to Please Everyone and Satisfied No One
In this episode of Decouple we deep dive the European Pressurised Reactor and what its troubled construction history reveals about the real...
Why Nuclear Shipping Is Inherently Niche
Why have we built nuclear ships before, proven they can operate, and still not made them commonplace? Nick Touran breaks down the history of...
Janus: The Army’s Second Attempt at Fielding Microreactors
In this episode of Decouple , Dr. Jeff Waksman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment,...
Why the First Nuclear Renaissance Failed: Can America Build Eight AP1000s Now?
The first U.S. nuclear renaissance collapsed under the weight of cheap shale gas, lost institutional expertise, and disastrous projects like...
The Real Stakes of a Saudi Nuclear Deal
Saudi Arabia burns nearly one million barrels of oil per day to keep its lights on, yet it has cheaper and faster ways to replace this than...