Decouple
By Dr. Chris Keefer
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JC
May 22, 2022
This is the environmental conversation that I've personally been looking for.
Steve
Oct 25, 2021
highly intelligent
Description
There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Join me as I interview world experts to uncover hope in this time of planetary crisis.
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Microreactors, Macro Problems
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Paper Reactors to Power Reactors
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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TMI: Too Much Intervention?
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Small Reactors Are Bulking Up
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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321, Liftoff!
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Lead the Way, TVA
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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The Energy Transition Will Not Happen
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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The Bottomless Well
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The Three Mile Island Melt Up
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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A Westinghouse of Pain for Korea
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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The CANDU Story
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Will EVs Deliver on Decarbonisation?
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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The Real Costs of Advanced Nuclear
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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The Geography of Oil
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Australia’s Nuclear Debate
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Is an AI Energy Crisis Looming?
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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We’ve Got to Talk About the Bomb Some More
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Is Regulation Strangling Nuclear Energy?
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Climate Change and Mass Extinctions: A deep time perspective
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Modularity: Lessons from chemical process engineering
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May 23, 2024 |
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We've Gotta Talk About the Bomb
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May 14, 2024 |
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Marcel Boiteux: Builder of the World's Greatest Nuclear Fleet
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May 09, 2024 |
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The Chinese Atom
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May 08, 2024 |
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Renewable Nuclear: All about Breeder Reactors
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Vogtle part 4: Can Positive Learning Happen Next?
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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A Chat with the Nuclear Barbarian
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Californication of the Grid
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Deep Sea Mining
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Will Nuclear power AI?
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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The Fragilization of the Grid
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Peak Cheap Oil?
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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LNG the Champagne of Energy
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Ontario’s Nuclear Revival: Minister Todd Smith
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Vogtle Part 3: Was the NRC to blame?
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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The Energy Returns of Unconventional Oil
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Vogtle Part 2: Murphy’s Law
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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The Politics of a Canadian Nuclear Revival
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Prospects for Process Heat & “Advanced” Nuclear
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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It's a Material World
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Vogtle Part 1: the Nuclear Renaissance That Wasn't
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Extreme Weather and Alberta’s AWOL Renewable Energy
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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From Microchips to Atom Splits
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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A Fireside chat with Sec. Ernie Moniz
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Cracking the Nuclear Innovation Nut
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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COP28 & The Inconvenient Truth about Coal
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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How to Fuel a Tripling of Nuclear Energy
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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NuScale, New Problems
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Ontario’s Green Energy Act
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Enriching Uranium Understanding
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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US Offshore Wind Dead in the Water?
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Small Misunderstood Reactors
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Why is Western nuclear so expensive?
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Are renewables jobs the “fast food” employment of the energy transition?
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Just How Cheap are Wind & Solar?
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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How Ontario Decarbonized
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The Geothermal Masterclass
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Quebec reconsiders Nuclear. Waters up with that?
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Jigar Shah: Breaking the Nuclear Stalemate
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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An Oppenheimer on Oppenheimer
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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American Nuclear: The Next Chapter
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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American Nuclear: Failure to Learn, Destined to Repeat?
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Gone With the Wind: Denmark’s Stalled Energy Transition
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Embrace the Waste
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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The Case for CANDU
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Bridging the Metabolic Rift
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Stormy Waters Ahead for Offshore Wind
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Can the Left be Saved From Itself?
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Peak Oil and the End of Globalization
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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What About the Waste?
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May 28, 2023 |
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Non-Proliferation & the Antinuclear Mind
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May 22, 2023 |
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The Uranium Masterclass
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May 16, 2023 |
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What’s Nu-clear in Japan
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May 08, 2023 |
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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May 01, 2023 |
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The Great Canadian Nuclear Debate
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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A Eulogy for the German Atom
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Peak Shale: Not so fast!
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Barakah - A Nuclear Success Story
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Limits to Growth for Precision Fermentation
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Ontario’s Nuclear Advantage
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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The State of the Atom
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Peak Shale
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Much Ado About Tritium
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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How Big Things Get Done
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Energy Modeling: the Good, the Bad, and the Misleading
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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The Climate Aristocracy
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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It's Not Impossible, We Just Need a Better Plan
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Wizards and Prophets, Ecomodernists and Environmentalists w/ Charles C. Mann
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Lignite Coal: A German Love Story
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Peak Oil & the End of Growth
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Natrium, Coal Gasification, and Synfuels, Oh My!
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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What’s All the Fuss About Fusion?
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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From Sierra Leone to Sweden: A Panel Discussion on Nuclear at COP27
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Human Factors and Nuclear Reactors
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Mining Our Way to Net Zero
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Mark Nelson on Pyramids & COP27 Panels
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Nuclear Energy at COP27
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Nuclear Energy: Climate Friend or Foe?
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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An American Doctor’s Experience of the Chernobyl Accident
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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What is the nuclear secret sauce?
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Diesel Powered Decoupling?
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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A Canada-Germany Hydrogen Scandal?
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Nuclear Advocacy and Labour
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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A Physician's Perspective on Nuclear Waste
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Nord Stream Sabotaged, Energiewende Over?
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Germany: How to Fail An Energy Transition
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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A Cold Old World feat. Doomberg
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Avoiding an Energy Blunder Down Under
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Behind the Diablo Canyon Victory feat. Isabelle Boemeke
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Diablo Canyon Lives feat. Michael Shellenberger
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Decouple Reads: Fossil Future/Climate Change as Class War
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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The World's Largest Nuclear Refurbishment
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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The Inflation Reduction Act with Robert Bryce
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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The Story of Storage (Mark Nelson Masterclass)
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Gold Standard or Standstill? Reflections on the Nuclear Waste Management Organization
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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This Land Is Mined: The Coal Masterclass
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Germany: The Canary in the Coal Mine
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Ontario's Energy Conundrum
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Is Russia’s War the End of Climate Policy as We Know It?
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Something's Rotten with French Nuclear
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Testing the Credibility of Linear No-Threshold
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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What Does a Just Transition Look Like?
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Who Killed Nuclear Energy?
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May 31, 2022 |
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Sri Lanka's Fast Track to Agricultural Collapse
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May 24, 2022 |
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Getting Serious About Our Energy Future
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May 17, 2022 |
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Old Nuclear, New Ideas
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May 10, 2022 |
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Public Power Politics
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May 03, 2022 |
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Dr. Keefer Testifies on the “Just Transition”
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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From Consultant for Gazprom to Belgian Energy Minister
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Electrification 2.0
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Doomberg: Famine on the horizon?
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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India's Nuclear Past and Future with Dr. Anil Kakodkar
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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The Energy Poverty Returns on Energy Malinvested
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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The Finns Know How to Green Party
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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The Canada Green Bond Framework Needs a Rework
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The War on Energy
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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The Fog of Peace Lifts on the Energy Transition
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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So You're Telling Me There's a Chance: Germany's Nuclear Wobble
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Russian Troops at Chernobyl
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The Lazard People Are Taking Over
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Romantic Agriculture
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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My Mother Explains Romanticism to Me
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Keeping the Northern Lights On
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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A Hard Landing for Soft Energy
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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The Children of Chernobyl
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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An Indigenous Woman in Nuclear
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Doomberg Lays Out the Global Pecking Order
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Goodbye, Grohnde
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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The Wicked Problem With "Don't Look Up"
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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The Grim Fairy Tale of German Electricity
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Into the Wild: Dr. Keefer Before the MD
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Are Nuclear Plants Immortal?
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Precision Agriculture and Angry Optimism
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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One Billion Tons
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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What's A Wind Drought? Europe's Lust for the Gust
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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The James Hansen Interview
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Colonialism in Green
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Let The Market Decide? A History of Government Intervention in Energy
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Darth Vader On Geoengineering
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Can You Dig It? Should You Dig It? All About Mining
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Indigenous Climate Action
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Is African Poverty a Climate Solution?
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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A Sober Sitdown with the German Climate Negotiators
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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France’s Second Nuclear Renaissance?
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Will the Revolution be Funded?
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Michael Shellenberger: A Heretic Among Heretics
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Its Gas or Nuclear, you Pickering
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Sayonara Nuclear? Japan’s Energy Transitions
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Ted Nordhaus Deconstructs Degrowth
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Emmet Penney and the Nuclear Barbarians
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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How to Feed a Warming Planet
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Europe's Winter of Discontent
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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Illinois' Nuclear Near-Death Experience
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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The EU Green Taxonomy Soap Opera feat. Myrto Tripathi
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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What’s up with the “Modernism” in Ecomodernism? feat. Alex Trembath
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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The Preconditions of France's Nuclear Buildout feat. François Perchet
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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The Belgian Green’s Climate Own Goal feat. Rob De Schutter
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Taiwan's Energy Gamble feat. Angelica Oung
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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A Natural Gas Masterclass feat. Mark Nelson
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Ontario’s Climate Retreat feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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The coming European blackouts and SMR opportunities feat. Kalev Kallemets
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Assessing the Sixth IPCC report feat. Zeke Hausfather
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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Medical Isotopes? We CANDU that!: Feat James Scongack
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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SMR Economics and the Nuclear Secret Sauce feat. Tony Roulstone
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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How Radiation Affects Us feat. Dr. Douglas Boreham
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Batteries, Energy Lysenkoism, and Geopolitics feat. Mark P. Mills
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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What Went Wrong at Vogtle? feat. Mark Nelson
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Nuclear Energy is Union Energy feat. Bob Walker
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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A Good War feat. Seth Klein
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Fragilizing South Africa’s Grid feat. Gaopalelwe Santswere
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Emergency Reactor feat. Zion Lights
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Why Nuclear Energy Has Been a Flop feat. Jack Devanney
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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What's happening at Taishan? feat. Mark Nelson
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Small, Modular and North of 60 Feat: Jay Harris
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Energy Democracy and Its Discontents feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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Uranium mining past, present and future feat. Jerry Grandey
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May 30, 2021 |
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The Climate Crystal Ball feat. Zeke Hausfather
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May 25, 2021 |
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How to Win Friends and Influence feat. Isabelle Boemeke
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May 22, 2021 |
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Saving our clean energy cathedrals in Illinois feat. Madi Czerwinski
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May 18, 2021 |
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Carbon Abatement Cost and the Social Cost of Carbon feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
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May 15, 2021 |
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Poland’s Pragmatic Environmentalists feat. Adam Blazowski
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May 12, 2021 |
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Reverse Geo-Engineering with Carbon Capture and Sequestration feat. Sean Wagner
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May 08, 2021 |
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Beyond Chutzpah NGO led Climate Vandalism & Indian Point. feat Dietmar Detering and Isuru Seneviratne
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May 04, 2021 |
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Mothers for Nuclear. feat Heather Hoff
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May 01, 2021 |
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Deregulation and deep decarbonisation feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Nuclear the ultimate ESG investment feat. Arthur Hyde
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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The Russian Atom feat. Mark Nelson
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Fukushima & Much Ado About Tritium feat. Dr Geraldine Thomas
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Hydrogen Hope and/or Hype feat. James Fleay
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Magical Thinking, Moore's Law, and Energy feat. Mark P Mills
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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Mark Z Jacobson's Roadmap to Nowhere feat. Mike Conley
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Decoupling from the Naturalistic Fallacy feat. Alan Levinovitz
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Thoughtscaping at Chernobyl feat. Iida Ruishalme
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Is China the Future of Nuclear Energy? feat. Francois Morin
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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Avocado Politics feat. Nils Gilman
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Can the Left & Right Come Together to Decouple? feat. Emmet Penney and James Fleay
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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Hazards, Risks and Science Communication feat. Iida Ruishalme
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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10 Years Since Tohoku & Fukushima feat. Paul Blustein
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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At COP26 Net Zero Needs Nuclear feat. Arun Khuttan
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Bill Gates vs Climate Change feat. Leigh Phillips
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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UK Decarbonisation: Legally Binding But Precarious feat. David Watson
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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The Case for Nuclear Energy in Philippines feat. Mark Cojuangco
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Canada, Climate, CANDU & Canoes feat. Jeremy Whitlock
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Trouble in Texas feat. Mark Nelson
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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The Other Energy Transition feat. Dr. Scott Tinker
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Wizards and Prophets, Ecomodernists and Environmentalists feat. Charles C Mann
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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Greenpeace selling Vegan natural gas? feat. Simon Wakter
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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The Rise of Nuclear Fear feat. Spencer Weart
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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Means, Motive, Opportunity: Fossil Fueled Radiophobia feat. Rod Adams
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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The Politics of Energy Transition feat. Robert Bryce
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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The Nuclear Fusion Energy Delusion? feat. Gerrit Bruhaug
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Gaia, Technology, and the Anthropocene feat. Lewis Dartnell
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Hope, Hype, Hubris, and Deep Decarbonisation feat. Nick Touran
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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China’s Great Climate Leap Forward? feat. Seaver Wang
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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The Heterodox Anthropologist of Nuclear feat. Bret Kugelmass
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Doctors for Nuclear Energy feat. Dr. Anton Van Der Merwe
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Reflections on the Decouple Journey feat. Jesse Freeston
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal feat. Madi Czerwinski
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Ecomodernism's Arch Pragmatist feat. Ted Nordhaus
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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The Malthusian Spectre Haunting Environmentalism feat. Michael Shellenberger
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Russian Gas & Germany's War on Nuclear: EU Energy Realpolitik feat. Mark Nelson
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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The Nuclear New Deal feat. Emmet Penney
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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French Nuclear Energy & Social Solidarity feat. Myrto Tripathi
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Shorting the Grid feat. Meredith Angwin
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Sunset on Greenpeace's Solar Village feat. Gayatri Vaidyanathan
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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Stand Up for Nuclear feat. Paris Ortiz Wines
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Isodope: Isabelle Boemeke the Nuclear Influencer
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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Existing Nuclear and Imaginary Nuclear feat. Mark Nelson
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Swords Into Plowshares: How to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons feat. James Conca
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Karnkraft: Sweden's Social Democratic Nuclear Climate Fix feat. John Ahlberg
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Apocalypse Never Review feat. Leigh Phillips
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Solutions for the "Impossible" Problem of Nuclear "Waste" feat. Dr. James Conca
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Six Degrees of Climate Emergency feat. Mark Lynas
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Coming out as pro-nuclear feat. Zion Lights
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Nuclear Accidents & the Scientific Consensus feat. Gerry Thomas
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Confucius Smiled: COVID-19 Lessons from the East feat. Nils Gilman
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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The Death of Neo-Liberal Ecomodernism? feat. Jon Symons
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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The Windmill and the Atom: Energiewende Germany's Energy Transition feat. Thijs Beckers
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Climate Cage Fight: Nuclear vs Coal in Ontario feat. Steve Aplin
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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What is to be done? feat. Jesse Freeston
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May 27, 2020 |