Entrepreneur, rocket engineer, and nuclear expert Doug Bernauer joined Rep. Crenshaw to discuss the future of portable nuclear energy, colonies on Mars, and the bureaucratic inertia standing in their way. A fascinating conversation with lots of insights into the science and the regulatory environment of space exploration and nuclear power.
Doug Bernauer is the CEO of Radiant Nuclear, a startup developing mass produced portable nuclear reactors. Before that, Doug spent 12 years working on a variety of research and development projects for SpaceX. Follow him on X at @DougBernauer.
• Learning from SpaceX’s culture of innovation
• Overcoming the physical limitations of living on Mars
• Nuclear-powered rockets
• Small modular reactors and micro-reactors
• Bringing nuclear power to overseas military bases
• Risk analysis of nuclear power
• Uranium Fuel 101
• What stalled the 1960s nuclear power boom?
• Regulatory reforms to kickstart nuclear again
• Bringing the SpaceX model to nuclear
• Deploying clean, cheap energy to remote regions
• A Russian nuclear power station on the moon?
