#361 | Emmet Penney: Roadblocks to a Nuclear Renaissance, the Broken Energy Grid, and the Decarbonization Challenge

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Emmet Penney, Editor-in-Chief of Grid Brief and host of the Nuclear Barbarians podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss Germany's decision to shut down its remaining nuclear reactors, why the U.S. hasn't vastly expanded its nuclear power capacity over the past year, the 1970s roots of the country's broken energy grid, decarbonization tradeoffs, and the lack of a broad pro-nuclear political coalition.

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0:00.0	Marsher here. Welcome back to the Realignment.
0:03.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:08.4	RealMS spent a lot of time covering the feature of nuclear energy
0:12.5	and giving the fact that Jeremy decided this past weekend
0:14.9	to shut down its three-rein nuclear power plants.
0:17.7	I thought it was the perfect time to follow up on this conversations.
0:21.2	We're speaking with Emmett Penny. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Grid Brief,
0:26.4	host of the Nuclear Reparions Podcast, and contributor American affairs
0:30.3	among other publications. We cover what Germany's decision means for its
0:34.4	energy mix. How countries like France can inform how the United States thinks
0:38.3	about scaling up nuclear energy. Why I think there is an actually a coalition
0:42.6	in favor of a radical expansion of nuclear energy in the United States
0:46.3	and a bunch of other broader topics that capture how Emmett is really deep we
0:50.0	thought out on a bunch of different spaces within the energy context.
0:52.8	We're going to cover everything from Enron to the grid to
0:55.4	how these policy decisions started in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
0:59.6	Hope you all enjoy this conversation and I will note that Sog and I will have
1:02.6	another Q&A AMA discussion episode coming up this week.
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1:14.8	future subscription episodes and all our other great content.
1:18.3	Hope you all enjoy this conversation.
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