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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...
Grant Isaac, President and COO of Cameco, joins Decouple to explain why uranium behaves unlike any other commodity. With essentially zero fu...
Nuclear construction once hit timelines that today sound implausible. First of a kind reactors completed in under four years, delivered at l...
In this episode of Decouple , Chris Keefer is joined once again by Michael Seely of the Atomic Blender to explore nuclear fuel reprocessing...
In this episode we are joined by Seaver Wang to discuss the physical foundations of China’s industrial dominance in solar, batteries, electr...
Europe once treated energy as the foundation of civilization. After the oil shocks of the 1970s, it built nuclear at scale, opened the North...
This episode features Joe St. Julian, President of Nuclear at AtkinsRéalis, outlining why Canada may be closer to a new nuclear fleet build...
The Iranian drone strike on Qatar’s Ras Laffan industrial complex has sent shockwaves through global energy markets, triggering force majeur...
There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Join m...
Nuclear fuel is nothing like the coal or gas it replaces. Where fossil fuels are destroyed in combustion, nuclear fuel must survive years of...
For two decades the nuclear conversation has revolved around new builds, advanced reactors, and megaproject risk. Meanwhile, forty Westingho...
In this episode of Decouple, Chris sits down with Kyle Chan of the High Capacity Substack to unpack what “AI with Chinese characteristics” a...
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...
In this episode of Decouple we deep dive the European Pressurised Reactor and what its troubled construction history reveals about the real...
Why have we built nuclear ships before, proven they can operate, and still not made them commonplace? Nick Touran breaks down the history of...
In this episode of Decouple , Dr. Jeff Waksman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment,...
The first U.S. nuclear renaissance collapsed under the weight of cheap shale gas, lost institutional expertise, and disastrous projects like...
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...
In this episode, Chris Keefer speaks with Hadron Energy founder Samuel Gibson, the twenty four year old entrepreneur pursuing a ten megawatt...
Fan favourite, James Krellenstein, returns for a deep dive into the AP1000. We walk through how its conservative nuclear steam supply system...
In late October, amid the choreography of President Trump’s visit to Tokyo, two vast and curiously intertwined announcements were made: an $...
This week on Decouple , I sit down with Aleksey Rezvoi , a veteran maritime nuclear engineer who began his career in the Soviet Union design...
This week I sit back down with François Morin in his third appearance on the show. François is the World Nuclear Association’s point person...
This week on Decouple, I sit down with Dan Wang, a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover History Lab and author of "Breakneck: China’s Quest...
This week, we zoom out to the broader intellectual themes that shaped Decouple ’s origins five years ago. I’m joined by Jesse Ausubel, a vis...
Process heat accounts for two-thirds of industrial emissions. Yet talk of decarbonization often misses the engineering realities that separa...
Nuclear has entered its meme stock moment. Last week, Oklo hit a market capitalization of $20.7 billion—more than established nuclear giants...
This week, award-winning science writer Peter Brannen returns to Decouple to explore the 4.5 billion-year story of carbon dioxide on Earth....
Professor Alex Wellerstein returns from the set of WIRED (watch his excellent appearance here ) to help me understand the origins of Middle...
This week, we talk about rare earth metals. What are they, where do they come from, and how are they redefining global power? I’m joined by...
This week, we talk about the rise of the global battery industry: its history, key players, raw material struggles, and how China came to do...
This week, we talk about Russian nuclear exports. Michael Seely, host of AtomicBlender , joins me to discuss the rise of Rosatom: Russia’s n...
This week, we travel to the edge of the map with Aleksandr Surtcev , an engineer who has crewed Russian nuclear icebreakers along the Northe...
This week, Mark Nelson joins us to deliver his second annual “State of the Atom” address. The nuclear power landscape has transformed in the...
This week, we talk solar power—a long overdue topic on Decouple. In the past, guests have often been critical of the value of renewables on...
We have an unusual episode today. One, because of its length (1 hour 40 minutes), and two, because I’m the guest. Joined by Aidan Morrison a...
This week, we return to nuclear power. Specifically, nuclear construction and “learning curves.” It is intuitive that doing something over a...
This week, I’m joined by Kyle Chan, author of the recent NYTimes Op-Ed titled "In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrel...
This week, I’m joined by Patrick McGee, a journalist and author of Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company . I recommend...
Last week, U.S. President Trump signed four executive orders to accelerate nuclear power deployment: Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Tech...
This week, we look beyond the physical infrastructure supporting our lives to the owners taking over that infrastructure: asset managers. Br...
In the wake of Europe's largest blackout in decades, commodities investor Alexander Stahel helps us to understand the physics of power grids...
This week, we cover the recent blackout on the Iberian peninsula. Guillem Sanchis Ramirez , a Spanish nuclear engineer and advocate, walks u...
This week, we take a break from nuclear power to talk about larger systems: those of Planet Earth. Professor Andy Knoll, renowned Harvard ge...
This week, we talk High Temperature Gas Reactors , or HTGRs, with a Decouple favorite: reactor designer and nuclear historian Nick Touran (...
This week, we talk tools. With precision machinist Noah Rettberg, we explore a facet of modernity as important as energy, for it is the tech...
This week, we talk radiation—the elephant in the room during many conversations about nuclear power. Nick Touran, a reactor designer and nuc...
Molten Salt Reactors are often portrayed as nuclear’s great missed opportunity, promising unparalleled safety, efficiency, and fuel sustaina...
This week, we talk Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) with James Krellenstein, the CEO of Alva Energy. We dive into the engineering, history, and...
This week, we talk industrial policy. Economist and author Steve Keen joins me to shine light on the present moment by exploring the histori...
Today, we talk uranium nuclear fuel. MIT Professor Koroush Shirvan, joins me to dive into the hidden complexities of nuclear fuels. From ear...