The Fuels Powering Nuclear's Biggest Promises
5 Mars 1h 25min
Nuclear Fuel: The Most Sophisticated Industrial Product You've Never Learned About
Nuclear fuel is nothing like the coal or gas it replaces. Where fossil fuels are destroyed in combustion, nuclear fuel must survive years of continuous fission inside a reactor and come out the other ...
26 Feb 1h 20min
The Most Boring Path to 10 Gigawatts: Why Nuclear Uprates Matter Right Now
For two decades the nuclear conversation has revolved around new builds, advanced reactors, and megaproject risk. Meanwhile, forty Westinghouse pressurized water reactors continue operating at roughly...
17 Feb 1h 5min
AI with Chinese Characteristics
In this episode of Decouple, Chris sits down with Kyle Chan of the High Capacity Substack to unpack what “AI with Chinese characteristics” actually means. Rather than framing artificial intelligence a...
12 Feb 1h 6min
A Case Study of Excellence from Canada’s Nuclear Golden Age
In this special episode of Decouple, Chris Keefer speaks with Ken Petrunik, one of the few leaders in the Western nuclear industry who has taken large reactors from first concrete to operation under b...
29 Jan 1h 3min
EPR: The Reactor That Tried to Please Everyone and Satisfied No One
In this episode of Decouple we deep dive the European Pressurised Reactor and what its troubled construction history reveals about the real constraints on nuclear build out in the modern West. The con...
15 Jan 1h 17min
Why Nuclear Shipping Is Inherently Niche
Why have we built nuclear ships before, proven they can operate, and still not made them commonplace? Nick Touran breaks down the history of maritime nuclear power, from the Nuclear Ship Savannah and ...
8 Jan 1h 26min
Janus: The Army’s Second Attempt at Fielding Microreactors
In this episode of Decouple, Dr. Jeff Waksman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, explains how the U.S. Army is making a second attempt at maki...
18 Dec 20251h 12min
