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Decouple — 330 episodes
Megaprojects: Some Assembly Required w/ Ian MacGregor
The State of Fusion Energy w/ Gerrit Bruhaug
Sunk Costs & Diminishing Returns of Iran's Nuclear Program w/ Farzan Sabet
Biomass Masterclass w/ Mark Nelson
Ernie Moniz: Reflections on the JCPOA
Fission Impossible? Financing New Nuclear w/ Michael Seely
CANDU: The Truly Modular Reactor w/ Navid Badie
The Birth of America’s Nuclear Power Industry
Limits to Growth of LLMs w/ David Helmer
The Gas Turbine: The Final Revelation in Humanity’s Pantheon of Prime Movers (w/ David Helmer)
Understanding the World's Most Unusual Commodity Cycle
The Absolute Best Water Reactor: What Happened to the World’s Fastest Constructed Reactor?
Nuclear Reprocessing: Promise vs Reality
Greenwashing with Chinese Characteristics
The Luxury Beliefs That Broke Europe’s Energy System | Doomberg
What's happening with CANDU?
The Week LNG Became a Target
The Fuels Powering Nuclear's Biggest Promises
Nuclear Fuel: The Most Sophisticated Industrial Product You've Never Learned About
The Most Boring Path to 10 Gigawatts: Why Nuclear Uprates Matter Right Now
AI with Chinese Characteristics
A Case Study of Excellence from Canada’s Nuclear Golden Age
EPR: The Reactor That Tried to Please Everyone and Satisfied No One
Why Nuclear Shipping Is Inherently Niche
Janus: The Army’s Second Attempt at Fielding Microreactors
Why the First Nuclear Renaissance Failed: Can America Build Eight AP1000s Now?
The Real Stakes of a Saudi Nuclear Deal
Microreactors: A Mirage of American Nuclear Innovation?
The AP1000 Masterclass
The Great Nuclear Reshoring
Russia’s Maritime Nuclear Fleet: A Glimpse Behind the Curtain
How China Builds Reactors So Fast
Engineering State v. Lawyerly Society
Where Is Nature Going?
Handling the Heat
Nuclear Meme Stocks
Carbon Dioxide: Earth's Thermostat
To Bomb or Not to Bomb
Rare Earth Emergency
Battery Power
The Export Expert
#289 - Breaking the Ice
The State of the Atom (2025)
Sun, Silicon, and Xinjiang
Small Reactor, Big Price
Is Wright's Law Wrong?
Is America Making Itself Irrelevant?
Tim Cook, Nation-Builder
Trump's Nuclear Executive Orders
No Risk, All Reward
Hellbrise
The Iberian Blackout
Cycles of Life
Hard Lessons with Hot Helium
The Machines Behind The Machines
Respect the Rads
Pass the Salt
"Better Water Reactors"
The Industrialization Playbook
Fuel for Thought
China, the Electrostate
Mission: Recommission
Carbon Capture for Dummies
Electric Dreams
Oil: A Masterclass
A Civil Nuclear Debate
Reactors on Wheels
A Heterodox Economics Lesson
The End of an IRA?
The Forgotten Climate Debate
Defense in Depths
Microreactors, Macro Problems
Paper Reactors to Power Reactors
TMI: Too Much Intervention?
Small Reactors Are Bulking Up
321, Liftoff!
Lead the Way, TVA
The Energy Transition Will Not Happen
The Bottomless Well
The Three Mile Island Melt Up
A Westinghouse of Pain for Korea
The CANDU Story
Will EVs Deliver on Decarbonisation?
The Real Costs of Advanced Nuclear
The Geography of Oil
Australia’s Nuclear Debate
Is an AI Energy Crisis Looming?
We’ve Got to Talk About the Bomb Some More
Is Regulation Strangling Nuclear Energy?
Climate Change and Mass Extinctions: A deep time perspective
Modularity: Lessons from chemical process engineering
We've Gotta Talk About the Bomb
Marcel Boiteux: Builder of the World's Greatest Nuclear Fleet
The Chinese Atom
Renewable Nuclear: All about Breeder Reactors
Vogtle part 4: Can Positive Learning Happen Next?
A Chat with the Nuclear Barbarian
Californication of the Grid
Deep Sea Mining
Will Nuclear power AI?
The Fragilization of the Grid
Peak Cheap Oil?
LNG the Champagne of Energy
Ontario’s Nuclear Revival: Minister Todd Smith
Vogtle Part 3: Was the NRC to blame?
The Energy Returns of Unconventional Oil
Vogtle Part 2: Murphy’s Law
The Politics of a Canadian Nuclear Revival
Prospects for Process Heat & “Advanced” Nuclear
It's a Material World
Vogtle Part 1: the Nuclear Renaissance That Wasn't
Extreme Weather and Alberta’s AWOL Renewable Energy
From Microchips to Atom Splits
A Fireside chat with Sec. Ernie Moniz
Cracking the Nuclear Innovation Nut
COP28 & The Inconvenient Truth about Coal
How to Fuel a Tripling of Nuclear Energy
NuScale, New Problems
Ontario’s Green Energy Act
Enriching Uranium Understanding
US Offshore Wind Dead in the Water?
Small Misunderstood Reactors
Why is Western nuclear so expensive?
Are renewables jobs the “fast food” employment of the energy transition?
Just How Cheap are Wind & Solar?
How Ontario Decarbonized
The Geothermal Masterclass
Quebec reconsiders Nuclear. Waters up with that?
Jigar Shah: Breaking the Nuclear Stalemate
An Oppenheimer on Oppenheimer
American Nuclear: The Next Chapter
American Nuclear: Failure to Learn, Destined to Repeat?
Gone With the Wind: Denmark’s Stalled Energy Transition
Embrace the Waste
The Case for CANDU
Bridging the Metabolic Rift
Stormy Waters Ahead for Offshore Wind
Can the Left be Saved From Itself?
Peak Oil and the End of Globalization
What About the Waste?
Non-Proliferation & the Antinuclear Mind
The Uranium Masterclass
What’s Nu-clear in Japan
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The Great Canadian Nuclear Debate
A Eulogy for the German Atom
Peak Shale: Not so fast!
Barakah - A Nuclear Success Story
Limits to Growth for Precision Fermentation
Ontario’s Nuclear Advantage
The State of the Atom
Peak Shale
Much Ado About Tritium
How Big Things Get Done
Energy Modeling: the Good, the Bad, and the Misleading
The Climate Aristocracy
It's Not Impossible, We Just Need a Better Plan
Wizards and Prophets, Ecomodernists and Environmentalists w/ Charles C. Mann
Lignite Coal: A German Love Story
Peak Oil & the End of Growth
Natrium, Coal Gasification, and Synfuels, Oh My!
What’s All the Fuss About Fusion?
From Sierra Leone to Sweden: A Panel Discussion on Nuclear at COP27
Human Factors and Nuclear Reactors
Mining Our Way to Net Zero
Mark Nelson on Pyramids & COP27 Panels
Nuclear Energy at COP27
Nuclear Energy: Climate Friend or Foe?
An American Doctor’s Experience of the Chernobyl Accident
What is the nuclear secret sauce?
Diesel Powered Decoupling?
A Canada-Germany Hydrogen Scandal?
Nuclear Advocacy and Labour
A Physician's Perspective on Nuclear Waste
Nord Stream Sabotaged, Energiewende Over?
Germany: How to Fail An Energy Transition
A Cold Old World feat. Doomberg
Avoiding an Energy Blunder Down Under
Behind the Diablo Canyon Victory feat. Isabelle Boemeke
Diablo Canyon Lives feat. Michael Shellenberger
Decouple Reads: Fossil Future/Climate Change as Class War
The World's Largest Nuclear Refurbishment
The Inflation Reduction Act with Robert Bryce
The Story of Storage (Mark Nelson Masterclass)
Gold Standard or Standstill? Reflections on the Nuclear Waste Management Organization
This Land Is Mined: The Coal Masterclass
Germany: The Canary in the Coal Mine
Ontario's Energy Conundrum
Is Russia’s War the End of Climate Policy as We Know It?
Something's Rotten with French Nuclear
Testing the Credibility of Linear No-Threshold
What Does a Just Transition Look Like?
Who Killed Nuclear Energy?
Sri Lanka's Fast Track to Agricultural Collapse
Getting Serious About Our Energy Future
Old Nuclear, New Ideas
Public Power Politics
Dr. Keefer Testifies on the “Just Transition”
From Consultant for Gazprom to Belgian Energy Minister
Electrification 2.0
Doomberg: Famine on the horizon?
India's Nuclear Past and Future with Dr. Anil Kakodkar
The Energy Poverty Returns on Energy Malinvested
The Finns Know How to Green Party
The Canada Green Bond Framework Needs a Rework
The War on Energy
The Fog of Peace Lifts on the Energy Transition
So You're Telling Me There's a Chance: Germany's Nuclear Wobble
Russian Troops at Chernobyl
The Lazard People Are Taking Over
Romantic Agriculture
My Mother Explains Romanticism to Me
Keeping the Northern Lights On
A Hard Landing for Soft Energy
The Children of Chernobyl
An Indigenous Woman in Nuclear
Doomberg Lays Out the Global Pecking Order
Goodbye, Grohnde
The Wicked Problem With "Don't Look Up"
The Grim Fairy Tale of German Electricity
Into the Wild: Dr. Keefer Before the MD
Are Nuclear Plants Immortal?
Precision Agriculture and Angry Optimism
One Billion Tons
What's A Wind Drought? Europe's Lust for the Gust
The James Hansen Interview
Colonialism in Green
Let The Market Decide? A History of Government Intervention in Energy
Darth Vader On Geoengineering
Can You Dig It? Should You Dig It? All About Mining
Indigenous Climate Action
Is African Poverty a Climate Solution?
A Sober Sitdown with the German Climate Negotiators
France’s Second Nuclear Renaissance?
Will the Revolution be Funded?
Michael Shellenberger: A Heretic Among Heretics
Its Gas or Nuclear, you Pickering
Sayonara Nuclear? Japan’s Energy Transitions
Ted Nordhaus Deconstructs Degrowth
Emmet Penney and the Nuclear Barbarians
How to Feed a Warming Planet
Europe's Winter of Discontent
Illinois' Nuclear Near-Death Experience
The EU Green Taxonomy Soap Opera feat. Myrto Tripathi
What’s up with the “Modernism” in Ecomodernism? feat. Alex Trembath
The Preconditions of France's Nuclear Buildout feat. François Perchet
The Belgian Green’s Climate Own Goal feat. Rob De Schutter
Taiwan's Energy Gamble feat. Angelica Oung
A Natural Gas Masterclass feat. Mark Nelson
Ontario’s Climate Retreat feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
The coming European blackouts and SMR opportunities feat. Kalev Kallemets
Assessing the Sixth IPCC report feat. Zeke Hausfather
Medical Isotopes? We CANDU that!: Feat James Scongack
SMR Economics and the Nuclear Secret Sauce feat. Tony Roulstone
How Radiation Affects Us feat. Dr. Douglas Boreham
Batteries, Energy Lysenkoism, and Geopolitics feat. Mark P. Mills
What Went Wrong at Vogtle? feat. Mark Nelson
Nuclear Energy is Union Energy feat. Bob Walker
A Good War feat. Seth Klein
Fragilizing South Africa’s Grid feat. Gaopalelwe Santswere
Emergency Reactor feat. Zion Lights
Why Nuclear Energy Has Been a Flop feat. Jack Devanney
What's happening at Taishan? feat. Mark Nelson
Small, Modular and North of 60 Feat: Jay Harris
Energy Democracy and Its Discontents feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
Uranium mining past, present and future feat. Jerry Grandey
The Climate Crystal Ball feat. Zeke Hausfather
How to Win Friends and Influence feat. Isabelle Boemeke
Saving our clean energy cathedrals in Illinois feat. Madi Czerwinski
Carbon Abatement Cost and the Social Cost of Carbon feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
Poland’s Pragmatic Environmentalists feat. Adam Blazowski
Reverse Geo-Engineering with Carbon Capture and Sequestration feat. Sean Wagner
Beyond Chutzpah NGO led Climate Vandalism & Indian Point. feat Dietmar Detering and Isuru Seneviratne
Mothers for Nuclear. feat Heather Hoff
Deregulation and deep decarbonisation feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
Nuclear the ultimate ESG investment feat. Arthur Hyde
The Russian Atom feat. Mark Nelson
Fukushima & Much Ado About Tritium feat. Dr Geraldine Thomas
Hydrogen Hope and/or Hype feat. James Fleay
Magical Thinking, Moore's Law, and Energy feat. Mark P Mills
Mark Z Jacobson's Roadmap to Nowhere feat. Mike Conley
Decoupling from the Naturalistic Fallacy feat. Alan Levinovitz
Thoughtscaping at Chernobyl feat. Iida Ruishalme
Is China the Future of Nuclear Energy? feat. Francois Morin
Avocado Politics feat. Nils Gilman
Can the Left & Right Come Together to Decouple? feat. Emmet Penney and James Fleay
Hazards, Risks and Science Communication feat. Iida Ruishalme
10 Years Since Tohoku & Fukushima feat. Paul Blustein
At COP26 Net Zero Needs Nuclear feat. Arun Khuttan
Bill Gates vs Climate Change feat. Leigh Phillips
UK Decarbonisation: Legally Binding But Precarious feat. David Watson
The Case for Nuclear Energy in Philippines feat. Mark Cojuangco
Canada, Climate, CANDU & Canoes feat. Jeremy Whitlock
Trouble in Texas feat. Mark Nelson
The Other Energy Transition feat. Dr. Scott Tinker
Wizards and Prophets, Ecomodernists and Environmentalists feat. Charles C Mann
Greenpeace selling Vegan natural gas? feat. Simon Wakter
The Rise of Nuclear Fear feat. Spencer Weart
Means, Motive, Opportunity: Fossil Fueled Radiophobia feat. Rod Adams
The Politics of Energy Transition feat. Robert Bryce
The Nuclear Fusion Energy Delusion? feat. Gerrit Bruhaug
Gaia, Technology, and the Anthropocene feat. Lewis Dartnell
Hope, Hype, Hubris, and Deep Decarbonisation feat. Nick Touran
China’s Great Climate Leap Forward? feat. Seaver Wang
The Heterodox Anthropologist of Nuclear feat. Bret Kugelmass
Doctors for Nuclear Energy feat. Dr. Anton Van Der Merwe
Reflections on the Decouple Journey feat. Jesse Freeston
Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal feat. Madi Czerwinski
Ecomodernism's Arch Pragmatist feat. Ted Nordhaus
The Malthusian Spectre Haunting Environmentalism feat. Michael Shellenberger
Russian Gas & Germany's War on Nuclear: EU Energy Realpolitik feat. Mark Nelson
The Nuclear New Deal feat. Emmet Penney
French Nuclear Energy & Social Solidarity feat. Myrto Tripathi
Shorting the Grid feat. Meredith Angwin
Sunset on Greenpeace's Solar Village feat. Gayatri Vaidyanathan
Stand Up for Nuclear feat. Paris Ortiz Wines
Isodope: Isabelle Boemeke the Nuclear Influencer
Existing Nuclear and Imaginary Nuclear feat. Mark Nelson
Swords Into Plowshares: How to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons feat. James Conca
Karnkraft: Sweden's Social Democratic Nuclear Climate Fix feat. John Ahlberg
Apocalypse Never Review feat. Leigh Phillips
Solutions for the "Impossible" Problem of Nuclear "Waste" feat. Dr. James Conca
Six Degrees of Climate Emergency feat. Mark Lynas
Coming out as pro-nuclear feat. Zion Lights
Nuclear Accidents & the Scientific Consensus feat. Gerry Thomas
Confucius Smiled: COVID-19 Lessons from the East feat. Nils Gilman
The Death of Neo-Liberal Ecomodernism? feat. Jon Symons
The Windmill and the Atom: Energiewende Germany's Energy Transition feat. Thijs Beckers
Climate Cage Fight: Nuclear vs Coal in Ontario feat. Steve Aplin
What is to be done? feat. Jesse Freeston