We’ve Got to Talk About the Bomb Some More
Professor Alex Wellerstein returns for a part two answering questions about the bomb, near misses, command and control and more.
1 Jul 20241h 48min
Is Regulation Strangling Nuclear Energy?
Is overzealous regulation the root cause of the contemporary crisis in deployment of nuclear reactors in the USA? James Krellenstein argues that Nuclear Regulatory Commission critics are trapped in th...
24 Jun 20241h 19min
Climate Change and Mass Extinctions: A deep time perspective
Science journalist Peter Brannen joins me to discuss the kill mechanisms of Earth’s five mass extinctions. Humanity has developed the god like power’s to mimic all of them. From altering the carbon cy...
8 Jun 20241h 5min
Modularity: Lessons from chemical process engineering
How should we think about modularity in the nuclear space? Jesse Hubesch joins me to disentangle the much hyped concept of modularity from his perspective as a chemical process engineer.
23 Mai 202449min
We've Gotta Talk About the Bomb
Historian of science Professor Alex Wellerstein joins me to talk about the sword haunting the ploughshare of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
14 Mai 20241h 17min
Marcel Boiteux: Builder of the World's Greatest Nuclear Fleet
Marcel Boiteux, a shy economist who escaped occupied France to fight the Nazis before working out the theory of electricity pricing for newly-nationalized Electricite de France, rose to become the gre...
9 Mai 20241h 20min
The Chinese Atom
While the west struggles to deliver nuclear plants and dreams about novel reactor technologies China is deploying it all: large LWR, SMR and MSR/HTGR. World Nuclear Association China lead Francois Mor...
8 Mai 20241h 17min
Renewable Nuclear: All about Breeder Reactors
In the early days of nuclear power uranium was thought to be a critically rare mineral. Nuclear engineers sought to solve this problem with a special type of reactor that produced more fissile materia...
22 Apr 202457min
