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 Des 20251h 12min
Why the First Nuclear Renaissance Failed: Can America Build Eight AP1000s Now?
The first U.S. nuclear renaissance collapsed under the weight of cheap shale gas, lost institutional expertise, and disastrous projects like Vogtle and Summer. Today, America is planning a fleet of ei...
11 Des 20251h 33min
The Real Stakes of a Saudi Nuclear Deal
Saudi Arabia burns nearly one million barrels of oil per day to keep its lights on, yet it has cheaper and faster ways to replace this than by building large nuclear reactors. So why is the Kingdom pu...
2 Des 20251h 3min
Microreactors: A Mirage of American Nuclear Innovation?
In this episode, Chris Keefer speaks with Hadron Energy founder Samuel Gibson, the twenty four year old entrepreneur pursuing a ten megawatt integral pressurized water microreactor through a one point...
25 Nov 202550min
The AP1000 Masterclass
Fan favourite, James Krellenstein, returns for a deep dive into the AP1000. We walk through how its conservative nuclear steam supply system is built from proven Westinghouse and Combustion Engineerin...
18 Nov 20251h 8min
The Great Nuclear Reshoring
In late October, amid the choreography of President Trump’s visit to Tokyo, two vast and curiously intertwined announcements were made: an $80 billion strategic partnership between the U.S. government...
11 Nov 20251h 26min
Russia’s Maritime Nuclear Fleet: A Glimpse Behind the Curtain
This week on Decouple, I sit down with Aleksey Rezvoi, a veteran maritime nuclear engineer who began his career in the Soviet Union designing third- and fourth-generation submarine and icebreaker reac...
4 Nov 20251h 5min
