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?