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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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Bechtel And BWXT Quietly Terminate mPower Reactor Project
Generation mPower, one of the early leaders in the development of small modular reactors (SMR), has decided to fully terminate its partnership and put the design material that was developed onto a corporate…
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NuScale announces achievement of unlimited coping time
At the Nuclear Energy Insider SMR Conference in Columbia, S.C., Dr. Jose Reyes, a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of NuScale Power, announced that his team had achieved an impressive design breakthrough….
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Army Nuclear Power Plants
Designation Description of Reactors SM-1 This stationary military reactor was the Army’s prototype and training facility. It began operation in April 1957 at Fort Belvoir, VA, several months before the Shippingport reactor. SM-1…
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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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Several important nuclear energy developments from the Westinghouse press office
On October 28, 2015, Westinghouse issued a press release titled AP1000® RCP REACHES FULL QUALIFICATION confirming a rumor I heard during my visit to Knoxville last week. The release contained wonderful, sigh of…
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Reactor Coolant Pumps for AP1000 still a problem
This is a story that I really don’t want to tell, but bad news is like old fish. It doesn’t smell any better as it ages. All eight AP1000 construction projects are at…
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Jerry Taylor of Cato Institute – Fires Back at My "Smoking Gun" Accusation That He is Opposed To Nuclear Energy BECAUSE He Prefers Natural Gas
Jerry Taylor, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, has taken the time to produce a detailed and well-referenced rebuttal to my post titled Jerry Taylor, a Fellow at the Cato Institute, founded…
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Smoking Gun Part 22 – John Hofmeister Explains Why Energy Companies are Parochial (aka Destructively Competitive)
John Hofmeister’s book Why We Hate the Oil Companies should be required reading for people who aspire to engage in the energy conversation. It helps to explain so many things. I do not…
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“Greens” fighting Pebble mine are helping Rio Tinto, Anglo-American and BHP Billiton
I came across an interesting saga yesterday. My introduction came from a May 14, 2015 opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal titled The Greens’ Back Door at the EPA. (Hint: If you…
Investing in Nuclear
Nuclear investments – enabling the transition to a low-carbon economy
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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.