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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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333 episodes

  1. How America Gave Away Its Industrial Superpower w/ Stefan Link 1:14:51
  2. The Story of the Israeli Bomb w/ Avner Cohen 1:29:59
  3. The Canada-US Trade War: A Bridge Too Far? w/ Jesse Huebsch 1:14:13
  4. Megaprojects: Some Assembly Required w/ Ian MacGregor 54:11
  5. The State of Fusion Energy w/ Gerrit Bruhaug 1:24:24
  6. Sunk Costs & Diminishing Returns of Iran's Nuclear Program w/ Farzan Sabet 1:25:54
  7. Biomass Masterclass w/ Mark Nelson 1:10:43
  8. Ernie Moniz: Reflections on the JCPOA 43:40
  9. Fission Impossible? Financing New Nuclear w/ Michael Seely 1:29:39
  10. CANDU: The Truly Modular Reactor w/ Navid Badie 1:09:21
  11. The Birth of America’s Nuclear Power Industry 1:02:56
  12. Limits to Growth of LLMs w/ David Helmer 1:32:24
  13. The Gas Turbine: The Final Revelation in Humanity’s Pantheon of Prime Movers (w/ David Helmer) 1:05:48
  14. Understanding the World's Most Unusual Commodity Cycle 1:18:46
  15. The Absolute Best Water Reactor: What Happened to the World’s Fastest Constructed Reactor? 1:09:12
  16. Nuclear Reprocessing: Promise vs Reality 1:41:30
  17. Greenwashing with Chinese Characteristics 1:06:57
  18. The Luxury Beliefs That Broke Europe’s Energy System | Doomberg 1:17:03
  19. What's happening with CANDU? 1:16:41
  20. The Week LNG Became a Target 1:15:31
  21. The Fuels Powering Nuclear's Biggest Promises 1:25:26
  22. Nuclear Fuel: The Most Sophisticated Industrial Product You've Never Learned About 1:20:46
  23. The Most Boring Path to 10 Gigawatts: Why Nuclear Uprates Matter Right Now 1:05:29
  24. AI with Chinese Characteristics 1:06:11
  25. A Case Study of Excellence from Canada’s Nuclear Golden Age 1:03:06
  26. EPR: The Reactor That Tried to Please Everyone and Satisfied No One 1:17:24
  27. Why Nuclear Shipping Is Inherently Niche 1:26:57
  28. Janus: The Army’s Second Attempt at Fielding Microreactors 1:12:44
  29. Why the First Nuclear Renaissance Failed: Can America Build Eight AP1000s Now? 1:33:58
  30. The Real Stakes of a Saudi Nuclear Deal 1:03:39
  31. Microreactors: A Mirage of American Nuclear Innovation? 50:15
  32. The AP1000 Masterclass 1:08:58
  33. The Great Nuclear Reshoring 1:26:42
  34. Russia’s Maritime Nuclear Fleet: A Glimpse Behind the Curtain 1:05:31
  35. How China Builds Reactors So Fast 1:13:36
  36. Engineering State v. Lawyerly Society 53:12
  37. Where Is Nature Going? 54:59
  38. Handling the Heat 1:10:08
  39. Nuclear Meme Stocks 1:06:42
  40. Carbon Dioxide: Earth's Thermostat 1:21:31
  41. To Bomb or Not to Bomb 1:17:50
  42. Rare Earth Emergency 1:06:30
  43. Battery Power 1:07:14
  44. The Export Expert 1:21:57
  45. #289 - Breaking the Ice 53:37
  46. The State of the Atom (2025) 1:16:30
  47. Sun, Silicon, and Xinjiang 1:11:41
  48. Small Reactor, Big Price 1:40:15
  49. Is Wright's Law Wrong? 1:04:24
  50. Is America Making Itself Irrelevant? 1:06:39