Decouple Podcast
1) 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 ...Show More
2) 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...Show More
3) 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...Show More
Why the First Nuclear Renaissance Failed: Can America Build Eight AP1000s Now?
1:33:58 | Dec 11th, 2025
4) 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...Show More
5) 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...Show More
6) 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...Show More
7) 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...Show More
8) 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...Show More
9) How China Builds Reactors So Fast
This week I sit back down with François Morin in his third appearance on the show. François is the World Nuclear Association’s point person on China. He works and travels inside China, speaks fluent M...Show More
10) Engineering State v. Lawyerly Society
This week on Decouple, I sit down with Dan Wang, a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover History Lab and author of "Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future." We trace how China became an “engin...Show More