Decouple

Interviews on sustainable technologies and policies addressing climate change AI summary

Dr. Chris Keefer Visit website › Science · EN · 335 episodes · latest 2026-11-12

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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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Dr. Chris Keefer

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  1. 2026-11-12 · 56 min · Season 33, episode 6

    In the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, when much of the world was turning away from nuclear energy, Leigh Curyer made a contrarian bet on uranium. He founded NexGen Energy and began exploring the largely overlooked…

  2. 2026-11-06 · 1 hr 9 min · Season 33, episode 5

    South Korea emerged from the devastation of the Korean War as one of the world's poorest countries. Within a generation, it had become an industrial powerhouse, mastering nuclear technologies originally imported from…

  3. 2026-10-23 · 1 hr 15 min · Season 33, episode 4

    By 1927, the United States had more than 22 million motor vehicles on its roads, compared with just 18,000 in the Soviet Union. This staggering disparity reflected one of the greatest productivity revolutions in human…

  4. 2026-10-15 · 1 hr 30 min · Season 33, episode 3

    How did a tiny, impoverished country whose principal exports included Jaffa oranges become the world's sixth nuclear power? Nuclear historian Avner Cohen, author of Israel and the Bomb and The Worst-Kept Secret, joins…

  5. 2026-09-25 · 1 hr 14 min · Season 33, episode 2

    The Canada-US trade war is escalating, threatening to unravel decades of economic integration between two of the world's closest allies. Chris Keefer is joined by returning guest Jesse Hoops to examine how we got here,…

  6. 2026-09-03 · 54 min · Season 33, episode 1

    Canada is once again attempting to build nuclear megaprojects after a long pause, making the experience of people who have actually delivered recent large industrial projects increasingly valuable. Ian McGregor is a…

  7. 2026-08-13 · 1 hr 24 min · Season 32, episode 10

    Fusion has spent nearly a century as the energy source of the future. In this episode, I’m joined by fusion scientist Gerrit Bruhaug to ask what has actually been achieved, what remains unsolved, and why progress has…

  8. 2026-08-06 · 1 hr 26 min · Season 32, episode 9

    Iran’s nuclear program is now more than seven decades old, stretching from the Shah’s ambitious Atoms for Peace-era plans to the Islamic Republic’s pursuit of enrichment, missile capability and nuclear latency. Iran…

  9. 2026-07-31 · 1 hr 11 min · Season 32, episode 8

    For almost the whole of human history, wood was the main act. It was the fuel that cooked food and smelted iron, the material that framed every house and hull, and the first bulk commodity ever moved at scale over long…

  10. 2026-07-23 · 44 min

    Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz joins Decouple to examine the history of Iran’s nuclear program and the negotiations that produced the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. As the agreement’s lead…

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05/2020 · over 6 years
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1 hr 3 min
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