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Atomic Show #354 – Doreen Harris, President and CEO NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority)
New York has a long and storied nuclear energy history. It is the home of the oldest operating commercial reactor, Nine Mile Point plus three other units that collectively produce more than 20% of its electricity. Those four units operate with an average capacity factor that is even higher than the already high U.S. nuclear…
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Advanced Atomic Technologies · Energy density · New Nuclear · Pressurized Water · Small Nuclear Power Plants · Smaller reactors · The Atomic Show Podcast · Water Cooled Reactors
Atomic Show #353 – Assil Halimi, CEO and Co-Founder, Apollo Atomics
Apollo Atomics is developing a line of integral pressurized water reactors that builds on 70 years worth of operational experience with materials, chemistry, fuels, supply chains and training. The company is implementing a…
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Atomic Show #352 – John Wagner, Director, Idaho National Laboratory
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is in one of its busiest periods since the 1950s-late 1960s when it hosted the construction of 52 test, special purpose and demonstration nuclear reactors. Back when it…
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Advanced Atomic Technologies · Atomic Abundance · Electric Grid · Gas Cooled Reactors · Graphite Moderated Reactors · Micro Reactors · New Nuclear · The Atomic Show Podcast
Atomic Show #351 – Tori Shivanandan, President and COO Radiant Nuclear
Radiant Nuclear is a dynamic company that has designed, built and transported a complete micro reactor that fits onto the back of a truck. That reactor, named the Kaleidos, will soon be fueled,…
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Atomic Show #350 – Dr. Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Associate Laboratory Director, Energy & Environment Science & Technology, INL
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is best known for its nuclear engineering and pioneering reactor testing programs. Somewhat lesser known is the Lab’s cutting edge research in all other energy sources including wind,…
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Atomic politics · Business of atomic energy · New Nuclear · Politics of Nuclear Energy · The Atomic Show Podcast · US state actions
Atomic Show #354 – Doreen Harris, President and CEO NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority)
New York has a long and storied nuclear energy history. It is the home of the oldest operating commercial reactor, Nine Mile Point plus three other units that collectively produce more than 20%…
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Advanced Atomic Technologies · Energy density · New Nuclear · Pressurized Water · Small Nuclear Power Plants · Smaller reactors · The Atomic Show Podcast · Water Cooled Reactors
Atomic Show #353 – Assil Halimi, CEO and Co-Founder, Apollo Atomics
Apollo Atomics is developing a line of integral pressurized water reactors that builds on 70 years worth of operational experience with materials, chemistry, fuels, supply chains and training. The company is implementing a…
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Atomic Show #352 – John Wagner, Director, Idaho National Laboratory
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is in one of its busiest periods since the 1950s-late 1960s when it hosted the construction of 52 test, special purpose and demonstration nuclear reactors. Back when it…
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SUNY Maritime Student Advocates Commercial Nuclear Ship Propulsion
Stimulated by early atomic optimism, naval successes and Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace initiative, four nations built ocean going ships with nuclear propulsion plants. The US built the NS Savannah, Germany built the Otto…
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History Made as NuScale Files First SMR Application With U.S. Nuke Regulators
Two years ago, NuScale committed to filing a license application for its eponymous SMR design with U.S. regulators by the end of 2016. Just three months before two company executives used a custom…
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The Atomic Show #100 – Nuclear Power on a New Scale – NuScale Power
Paul Lorenzini and Jose Reyes of NuScale Power chat about their company’s 45 MWe natural circulation light water reactor. This episode sponsored by Entergy Nuclear. Imagine – a traditional utility company far sighted…
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Who said modular construction would save money on first of a kind units?
On July 27, 2015, the Wall St. Journal published an article written by Rebecca Smith titled Prefab Nuclear Plants Prove Just as Expensive. That piece has been widely shared and discussed on social…
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Toshiba Announces $6.3 B Writedown On A $229 M Construction Company Acquisition
Toshiba’s chairman, Shigenori Shiga, has accepted the responsibility for his company’s financial challenges and operating losses and resigned his position as chairman and as a board member. He remains an executive with the…
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Next Round of AP1000s in China Will Actually Be CAP1000s With No Westinghouse Involvement
A little more than three years ago, I wrote an article expressing my belief that the four AP100s that Westinghouse sold to China in a landmark deal signed in December 2006 would be…
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Smoking Gun Part 18 – An Oldie But a Goodie – Oil Heat Institute of Long Island Ad Using Scare Tactics to Fight Shoreham
One of the most famous battles against nuclear energy in the US, a struggle whose effects remain important to this day, was fought on Long Island. The saga involved nearly two decades of…
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Esso Italiana paid political parties for specific “corporate objectives” including oil instead of nuclear
In 1972, an Exxon internal audit disclosed that Esso Italiana, Exxon’s Italian subsidiary, had been making payments to Italian political parties that were tied by amount to specific corporate objectives. One of the…
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Uranium ban versus Coal Encouragement by Navajo Nation President
Yesterday morning during my commute, I listened to the May 31 edition of Democracy Now (http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl?issue=20050531) and heard an interesting interview with Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. He made a couple of statements…
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Parnassus Versus Green Century: A Contrast in Styles
Cross-posted from Nucleation Capital June, July and August of 2023 were the three hottest months the Earth has ever seen by such a large margin, it left climate scientists agog. Climate disasters are abounding apace, with the U.S. hit by 23 large-scale disasters, a record-breaking year already. In Pakistan, extreme rainfall and flooding affected 33…
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How Hot is Cold Fusion?
The 24th International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF24) was held at the lovely and spacious Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA over four days in late July. As a venture investor looking at evaluating and investing in a wide range of advanced nuclear ventures, I was invited to participate and/or sponsor the event. While…
Rod Adams
Managing Partner, Nucleation Capital, a venture fund enabling broader investor access to a diverse portfolio of advanced nuclear energy and deep decarbonization ventures. Nuclear energy expert and former submarine Engineer Officer with nuclear propulsion plant experience. Founder, Adams Atomic Engines, Inc. Host and producer, The Atomic Show Podcast.