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Decouple

Dr. Chris Keefer

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 this time of planetary crisis.

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01:03:10

The real costs of advanced nuclear

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2024/08/08

Robbie Stewart and Enrique Velez-Lopez, the founders of nuclear start up Boston Atomics, join me to discuss the true costs of advanced nuclear design engineering.

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01:09:53

The Geography of Oil

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2024/08/03

Jimmy Fortuna of Enverus takes me on a world tour of oil production by region illuminating the unique geopolitical, technological and political challenges to accessing our most important form of energy.

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01:07:13

Australia’s Nuclear Debate

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2024/07/27

Aidan Morrison, Director of Energy Research at the Centre for Independent Studies joins me for an update on the Australian nuclear debate which is shaping up to be a core issue in the approaching federal election.

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01:17:07

Is an AI Energy Crisis Looming?

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2024/07/17

Mark Mills is the executive director of the National Centre for Energy Analytics and author of “The Cloud Revolution” How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s. Join us as we explore how to power an AI enhanced Cloud network and its implications on the grid and climate politics.

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01:48:21

We’ve Got to Talk About the Bomb Some More

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2024/07/01

Professor Alex Wellerstein returns for a part two answering questions about the bomb, near misses, command and control and more.

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01:19:06

Is Regulation Strangling Nuclear Energy?

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2024/06/24

Is overzealous regulation the root cause of the contemporary crisis in deployment of nuclear reactors in the USA? James Krellenstein argues that Nuclear Regulatory Commission critics are trapped in the 1980’s and that the spectre haunting today’s deployments are not primarily regulatory. Due to simplified systems and lower material costs modern NRC approved passive reactors should be cheaper than complex Gen 2 reactors. In addition there are 17GWe worth of combined construction and operating

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01:05:50

Climate Change and Mass Extinctions: A deep time...

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2024/06/08

Science journalist Peter Brannen joins me to discuss the kill mechanisms of Earth’s five mass extinctions. Humanity has developed the god like power’s to mimic all of them. From altering the carbon cycle to eutrophication of oceans and to a far lesser degree our asteroid like thermonuclear weapon arsenal.

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00:49:53

Modularity: Lessons from Chemical Process engineering

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2024/05/23

How should we think about modularity in the nuclear space? Jesse Hubesch joins me to disentangle the much hyped concept of modularity from his perspective as a chemical process engineer.

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01:17:11

We've Gotta Talk About the Bomb

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2024/05/14

Historian of science Professor Alex Wellerstein joins me to talk about the sword haunting the ploughshare of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

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01:20:34

Marcel Boiteux: Builder of the World's Greatest...

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2024/05/09

Marcel Boiteux, a shy economist who escaped occupied France to fight the Nazis before working out the theory of electricity pricing for newly-nationalized Electricite de France, rose to become the greatest builder of nuclear power the world has ever seen. Mark Nelson, founder of Radiant Energy Group, explains what forces shaped his mind, his role in the fateful "War of the Nuclear Systems," how he prepared for the oil crisis that triggered the "all nuclear" Messmer plan, and how

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01:17:43

The Chinese Atom

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2024/04/29

While the west struggles to deliver nuclear plants and dreams about novel reactor technologies China is deploying it all: large LWR, SMR and MSR/HTGR. World Nuclear Association China lead Francois Morin joins me to catch us up on recent developments and trends.

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00:57:38

Renewable Nuclear: All about Breeder Reactors

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2024/04/22

In the early days of nuclear power uranium was thought to be a critically rare mineral. Nuclear engineers sought to solve this problem with a special type of reactor that produced more fissile material than they consume. Nick Touran joins me to discuss and explore the long term sustainability of nuclear power.

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01:09:50

Vogtle part 4: Can Positive Learning Happen Next?

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2024/04/16

The Grand Finale is here. We wrestle with the question of whether nuclear can find its groove and the positive learning rates that have eluded it so frequently. Vogtle unit 4 came in 40% cheaper than unit 3. Can those gains continue downwards? Is Vogtle 5 more likely to follow this cost reduction curve compared to a new AP1000 elsewhere?

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01:06:29

A Chat with the Nuclear Barbarian

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2024/04/09

Emmet Penney joins me to shoot the breeze and catch up on the whirlwind developments of the last few months.

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01:22:01

Californication of the Grid

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2024/03/30

Fan favourite, Mark Nelson, joins me for an update on California’s soaring electricity prices and worsening grid dysfunction.

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00:50:01

Deep Sea Mining

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2024/03/26

Seaver Wang, oceanographer and co-director of climate and energy at the Breakthrough Institute joins me to unravel controversies surrounding deep sea mining for the polymetallic nodules of the abyssal plains.

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01:20:40

Will Nuclear power AI?

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2024/03/18

James Krellenstein joins me to explore the extraordinary power requirements of the AI revolution and how this demand for vast amounts of baseload generation will impact the nuclear sector.

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01:07:14

The Fragilization of the Grid

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2024/03/08

David March CEO of Exergy/Energy joins me to discuss the sharp decline in power quality from increasing penetration of intermittent generation and the impact its having on mission critical industries and manufacturing.

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01:11:58

Peak Cheap Oil?

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2024/03/06

Art Berman joins me to discuss the likelihood and implications of cheap peak oil.

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01:12:43

LNG the Champagne of Energy

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2024/02/27

Stephen Stapczynski, Bloomberg Business senior reporter, joins me to discuss everything you always wanted to know about LNG but were afraid to ask.

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