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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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00:43:49

Ontario’s Nuclear Revival: Minister Todd Smith

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2024/02/23

Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith joins me to discuss the phenomenon of Ontario’s centrality to the West’s nuclear energy aspirations.

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01:17:25

Vogtle Part 3: Was the NRC to blame?

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2024/02/20

James Krellenstein returns to deeper dive the lessons of Vogtle and VC Summer

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01:09:49

The Energy Returns of Unconventional Oil

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2024/02/16

Chris Popoff returns to talk unconventional oil with a focus on oil sands. What is it? What are its energy economics? How is it like a battery? What does it have to do with peak cheap oil and how does nuclear fit into the picture?

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00:52:38

Vogtle Part 2: Murphy’s Law

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2024/02/12

James Krellenstein and I continue our deep dive analysis of what went wrong at Vogtle.

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01:18:43

The Politics of a Canadian Nuclear Revival

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2024/02/09

As Canada embarks on a new nuclear build out of SMRs and large Reactors, Professor Duane Bratt joins me to provide a political scientists perspective on the history and future of the Canadian nuclear sector.

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00:57:13

Prospects for Process Heat & “Advanced” Nuclear

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2024/02/07

Noah Rettberg walks us through an in depth exploration on the challenges of decarbonizing process heat.

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01:19:20

It's a Material World

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2024/01/31

Ed Conway author of “Material World” joins me to explore the material world underpinning the ethereal world of our perceived reality. He explains how sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium are transformed with technology and energy into the building blocks of our built world and how fragile, vulnerable and complex these processes have become.

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01:16:21

Vogtle Part 1: the Nuclear Renaissance That Wasn't

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2024/01/25

James Krellenstein returns to dig into what went wrong at Vogtle and why the nuclear “Renaissance” of the early 2000’s ended up a flop.

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01:03:01

Extreme Weather and Alberta’s AWOL Renewable Energy

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2024/01/17

Alberta, sitting on massive reserves of oil and gas, found itself teetering on the edge of blackout this week as temperatures in the negative 40 degree ranges led to multiple grid alerts. As a new record for peak demand was set at 12,384 MW, Alberta's 4481MW wind fleet went AWOL. This raises major concerns regarding electricity planning with a country wide federal mandate for Net Zero electricity by 2035 having already generated significant political controversy in Alberta which has imposed a

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00:37:42

From Microchips to Atom Splits

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2024/01/08

Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO at Microsoft and vice chairman of TerraPower joins me to discuss his experience bridging the world of software and nuclear power.

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00:23:29

A Fireside chat with Sec. Ernie Moniz

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2023/12/28

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.

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01:06:33

Cracking the Nuclear Innovation Nut

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2023/12/22

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 crawl? Nuclear historian Nick Touran joins me for an in depth analysis of the historic preconditions of nuclear innovation and its opportunities and limits going into the future.

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00:59:36

COP28 & The Inconvenient Truth about Coal

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2023/12/17

Robert Bryce joins me for a COP28 “reactions” episode and drops some hard truths on the world’s ever increasing appetite for coal.

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00:47:31

How to Fuel a Tripling of Nuclear Energy

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2023/12/12

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 2050. The topic: How to scale up Uranium mining, enrichment and advanced fuel manufacturing in the context of our emerging multipolar world and the West’s dependence on Russia for almost 1/4 of its enrichment needs. Enjoy! Feat. Tim Gitzel CEO Cameco, Dan Poneman CEO Centrus, Boris Schucht CEO Urenco

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01:23:04

NuScale, New Problems

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2023/12/02

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.

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00:43:24

Ontario’s Green Energy Act

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2023/11/28

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 aftermath of the global financial crisis. The lucrative 20 year feed in tariff contracts for wind and solar will end up costing Ontario more than 62 billion dollars.

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01:20:56

Enriching Uranium Understanding

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2023/11/13

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 of the technology but the US nuclear industry faces further reputational risk because no-one is taking responsibility and adequately planning adequate solutions despite NRC licenses being in place. James Krellenstein returns to take our proverbial hands and walk us through the front end of the nuclear

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00:38:58

US Offshore Wind Dead in the Water?

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2023/11/06

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 industry is vulnerable to the same cost drivers plaguing this sector.

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01:33:56

Small Misunderstood Reactors

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2023/10/18

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 commercial operation.

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00:45:35

Why is Western nuclear so expensive?

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2023/10/11

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/future-nuclear-energy-carbon-constrained-world/

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