Who Killed Nuclear Energy?

Who Killed Nuclear Energy?

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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 budget and ahead of schedule. Petrunik’s career spans Canada’s nuclear golden age ...  Show more

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 conversation traces how a design intended to satisfy every regulator through a desi ...  Show more

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