Naked Nuclear

I&C with Tighe Smith: The Nervous System of a Nuclear Reactor

ABOUT THIS EPISODE What keeps a nuclear power plant running safely after 50 years? Tighe Smith knows better than almost anyone. As Chief Nuclear Officer at Paragon Energ

Follow The Friday: Nuclear Down Under with Mark Schneider

Mark Schneider accidentally became a nuclear professional at 17 when a sarcastic answer to a Navy recruiter — "only if you have nuclear power" — launched a 20-year career

Ukrainian War Refugee to Microreactor Entrepreneur: Building the N1 with Jonas Helwig

Jonas Helwig is Swedish-born, French-passport-holding, and was living in Ukraine when the war started. He fled with his wife and their newborn daughter, ended up in Bueno

Season 4 Sneak Peak! How to Scale Nuclear Energy with Ross-Matzkin-Bridger

SNEAK PEAK! Season 4 of Naked Nuclear is about the infrastructure underneath nuclear energy, the laws, regulations, economics, and institutions most people never think a

After-Pop! Wait... Should We Recycle Used Nuclear Fuel? The History, Economics, and Proliferation concerns

Ed McGinnis said something in our last episode that's hard to shake: 96% of the energy in spent nuclear fuel has never been touched. The physics checks out. But what happ

It's Not Actually Waste: How CURIO is Tackling the Nuclear Waste Problem with Ed McGinnis

Imagine filling up your car at a gas station in Washington, DC, and heading toward Richmond. Twenty miles down the road, you pull over, call a tow truck, and scrap the ca

After-Pop! Megawatts Thermal vs Electric?

Dr. John Zino stood in front of a room of engineers, technicians, and career-changers and told them a nuclear reactor is "just boiling water." Jaws dropped. Really? That'

Inside the BWRX-300 with Dr. John Zino | "We're just boiling water!"

What does it actually look like to spend nearly 40 years inside the nuclear industry, from submarine shielding to the Department of Energy to the cutting edge of small mo

How to Build the Internet’s Best Nuclear Guide with Nick Touran

What does it take to explain one of the most misunderstood technologies on Earth? This Final Friday on Naked Nuclear, Danielle sits down with Nick Touran for a new Follo

The 41-Hour Pour: When a Nuclear Plant Begins to Exist

At 2:13 AM in Waynesboro, Georgia, crews were already deep into a process they couldn’t stop. For 41 continuous hours, concrete flowed into the basemat of Vogtle Unit 4,

Why Build Nuclear When We Have Solar?

I Asked If Solar Could Power California… and It Got Complicated What started as a simple question turned into a full-blown debate:  If solar panels and batteries are ge

Change Your Mind on Climate Change: Why Energy is Life with Zion Lights

What happens when an environmentalist changes their mind about nuclear energy? In this episode of Naked Nuclear, Danielle sits down with Zion Lights, environmental advoc

Raised by the Reactor: How a 19 year-old Laborer Became a Nuclear Welder

When people talk about building nuclear power plants, the conversation usually centers on policy, engineering, and billion-dollar infrastructure. But reactors aren’t bui

After-Pop! What is an EPC & Why You Should Care?

What an EPC Actually Does: Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Explained What does it actually take to build a nuclear power plant? In this After-Pop! episode of

Built By Bechtel: How to Build Advanced Nuclear with Ahmet Tokpinar

Nuclear power is often described as essential for climate goals, grid reliability, and energy security. But here’s the real question: Can we actually build it safely, o

Island Energy Super Heroes: How one Jamaican PhD Student is Transforming Energy Literacy

What happens when a nuclear engineering PhD student realizes that the book she needed as a child… doesn’t exist? She writes it. In this episode of Naked Nuclear, Daniel

Nuclear Physics for 3rd Graders? How ANS is Re-shaping K-12 Education with Uchenna Ezibe

In this episode, Danielle talks with Uchenna Ezibe about how the American Nuclear Society is shaping the future of nuclear education—starting as early as kindergarten. Th

BONUS Crossover Episode: The Future of Nuclearn & Naked Nuclear

In this crossover episode between Naked Nuclear and Nuclearn’s The Future of Nuclear, we bring together two teams with different backgrounds but a shared philosophy: curi

Intro to Fusion Energy with Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

What exactly is plasma, and why are some of the world’s brightest minds betting on fusion energy to power our future? In this episode of Naked Nuclear, host Danielle si

After-Pop! Inside the Z Machine: The Most Powerful Pulse on Earth

What happens when you unleash more power than every power plant on Earth — for just a few billionths of a second? Welcome to After-Pop! — today, we’re diving into the Z