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?

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