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The Story of the Israeli Bomb w/ Avner Cohen

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The Canada-US Trade War: A Bridge Too Far? w/ Jesse Huebsch

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Megaprojects: Some Assembly Required w/ Ian MacGregor

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The State of Fusion Energy w/ Gerrit Bruhaug

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Sunk Costs & Diminishing Returns of Iran's Nuclear Program w/ Farzan Sabet

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Biomass Masterclass w/ Mark Nelson

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Ernie Moniz: Reflections on the JCPOA

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Fission Impossible? Financing New Nuclear w/ Michael Seely

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CANDU: The Truly Modular Reactor w/ Navid Badie

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The Birth of America’s Nuclear Power Industry

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Limits to Growth of LLMs w/ David Helmer

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The Gas Turbine: The Final Revelation in Humanity’s Pantheon of Prime Movers (w/ David Helmer)

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Understanding the World's Most Unusual Commodity Cycle

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The Absolute Best Water Reactor: What Happened to the World’s Fastest Constructed Reactor?

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Nuclear Reprocessing: Promise vs Reality

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Greenwashing with Chinese Characteristics

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The Luxury Beliefs That Broke Europe’s Energy System | Doomberg

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What's happening with CANDU?

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The Week LNG Became a Target

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The Fuels Powering Nuclear's Biggest Promises

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Nuclear Fuel: The Most Sophisticated Industrial Product You've Never Learned About

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The Most Boring Path to 10 Gigawatts: Why Nuclear Uprates Matter Right Now

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AI with Chinese Characteristics

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A Case Study of Excellence from Canada’s Nuclear Golden Age

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EPR: The Reactor That Tried to Please Everyone and Satisfied No One

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Why Nuclear Shipping Is Inherently Niche

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Janus: The Army’s Second Attempt at Fielding Microreactors

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Why the First Nuclear Renaissance Failed: Can America Build Eight AP1000s Now?

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The Real Stakes of a Saudi Nuclear Deal

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Microreactors: A Mirage of American Nuclear Innovation?

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The AP1000 Masterclass

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The Great Nuclear Reshoring

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Russia’s Maritime Nuclear Fleet: A Glimpse Behind the Curtain

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How China Builds Reactors So Fast

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Engineering State v. Lawyerly Society

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Where Is Nature Going?

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Handling the Heat

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Nuclear Meme Stocks

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Carbon Dioxide: Earth's Thermostat

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To Bomb or Not to Bomb

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Rare Earth Emergency

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Battery Power

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The Export Expert

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#289 - Breaking the Ice

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The State of the Atom (2025)

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Sun, Silicon, and Xinjiang

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Small Reactor, Big Price

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Is Wright's Law Wrong?

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Is America Making Itself Irrelevant?

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Tim Cook, Nation-Builder

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Trump's Nuclear Executive Orders

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No Risk, All Reward

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Hellbrise

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The Iberian Blackout

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Cycles of Life

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Hard Lessons with Hot Helium

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The Machines Behind The Machines

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Respect the Rads

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Pass the Salt

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"Better Water Reactors"

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The Industrialization Playbook

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Fuel for Thought

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China, the Electrostate

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Mission: Recommission

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Carbon Capture for Dummies

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Electric Dreams

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Oil: A Masterclass

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A Civil Nuclear Debate

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Reactors on Wheels

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A Heterodox Economics Lesson

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The End of an IRA?

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The Forgotten Climate Debate

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Defense in Depths

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Microreactors, Macro Problems

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Paper Reactors to Power Reactors

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TMI: Too Much Intervention?

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Small Reactors Are Bulking Up

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321, Liftoff!

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Lead the Way, TVA

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The Energy Transition Will Not Happen

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The Bottomless Well

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The Three Mile Island Melt Up

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A Westinghouse of Pain for Korea

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The CANDU Story

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Will EVs Deliver on Decarbonisation?

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The Real Costs of Advanced Nuclear

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The Geography of Oil

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Australia’s Nuclear Debate

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Is an AI Energy Crisis Looming?

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We’ve Got to Talk About the Bomb Some More

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Is Regulation Strangling Nuclear Energy?

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Climate Change and Mass Extinctions: A deep time perspective

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Modularity: Lessons from chemical process engineering

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We've Gotta Talk About the Bomb

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Marcel Boiteux: Builder of the World's Greatest Nuclear Fleet

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The Chinese Atom

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Renewable Nuclear: All about Breeder Reactors

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Vogtle part 4: Can Positive Learning Happen Next?

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A Chat with the Nuclear Barbarian

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Californication of the Grid