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  • Atomic Show #339 – Greyson Buckingham, CEO Disa Technologies

    Atomic Show #339 – Greyson Buckingham, CEO Disa Technologies

    Rod AdamsByRod Adams
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    Abandoned uranium mine waste has been a big deal for decades, but almost no one had an inkling about what we should do to solve the problem. The scale of the challenge is huge, with various estimates ranging between 1 and 8 billion tons of uranium mining waste rock spread over more than 10,000 sites,…

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    The Atomic Show Podcast · Uranium mining

    Atomic Show #337 – Leigh Curyer, CEO NexGen Energy

    NexGen Energy is a uranium mining company that is nearing the end of a long transition from a successful exploration entity to a uranium producing company. The company is in the final stages…

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The Atomic Show Podcast

The Atomic Show Podcast includes interviews, roundtable discussions and atomic geeks all centered around the idea that nuclear energy is an amazing boon for human society.

  • Atomic Show #339 – Greyson Buckingham, CEO Disa Technologies
    Advanced Atomic Technologies · Nuclear regulations · Nuclear Waste · The Atomic Show Podcast · Uranium mining

    Atomic Show #339 – Greyson Buckingham, CEO Disa Technologies

    Abandoned uranium mine waste has been a big deal for decades, but almost no one had an inkling about what we should do to solve the problem. The scale of the challenge is…

  • Atomic Show #338 – Craig Bealmear, CFO Oklo
    Advanced Atomic Technologies · Atomic Entrepreneurs · Fuel Recycling · Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors · The Atomic Show Podcast

    Atomic Show #338 – Craig Bealmear, CFO Oklo

    Oklo is rapidly becoming a household name, at least among households with members who pay attention to energy industry developments and/or the headliners in the financial press. Oklo is in the process of…

  • Atomic Show #337 – Leigh Curyer, CEO NexGen Energy
    The Atomic Show Podcast · Uranium mining

    Atomic Show #337 – Leigh Curyer, CEO NexGen Energy

    NexGen Energy is a uranium mining company that is nearing the end of a long transition from a successful exploration entity to a uranium producing company. The company is in the final stages…

Small Module Reactors

SMR developments, politics, investments

  • NEI Small Reactor Forum Report – Part 1

    The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) hosted its biannual Small Reactor Forum on February 25, 2014. The agenda for the one day event included six well-organized sessions with presentations from three small reactor vendors,…

  • Theo Simon and George Monbiot – Rational discussion about nuclear energy development

    During the past week or so, I have been spending quite a bit of time following a discussion about nuclear energy between Theo Simon and George Monbiot. It is a deeply philosophical engagement…

  • Project Dilithium – Boldly going back to a place our ancestors visited and prematurely abandoned

    Project Dilithium – Boldly going back to a place our ancestors visited and prematurely abandoned

    In January 2019, the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) of the U.S. Department of Defense officially informed the world that it was interested in learning more about small, mobile, nuclear generators. The SCO said…

AP 1000 Saga

Why one of the most advanced new reactors has been challenged.

  • Advanced Atomic Technologies · AP1000 saga · New Nuclear

    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…

  • Antinuclear activist · AP1000 saga · Nuclear Cost Data · Politics of Nuclear Energy

    Georgia residents may pay for Jaczko’s antinuclear behavior

    The flagship project of the US nuclear energy renaissance is in trouble. The people of the great state of Georgia and the investors in Georgia Power may end up footing the bill for…

  • Steve Kuczynski, Chief Nuclear Officer, Southern Co. Speaking to 7th Annual SMR and Advanced Reactor Summit
    AP1000 saga · Atomic politics · Business of atomic energy · New Nuclear · NRC

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The Smoking Gun Series

Stories of fossil fuel interests fighting nuclear

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    Eric Berger, writing for the Houston Chronicle, published an article on Friday titled Nuclear power’s core of support gains strength. He provided some opposing view commentary from Peter Hartley, a man he describes…

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    In 1993, after I had made a decision to resign my active duty commission and design a small atomic engine, a colleague warned me that “the oil companies will never let you succeed.”…

  • Smoking Gun Part 16 – Leader of British National Union Of Miners Demands CCS and Nuclear Shutdown

    I have always tried to be clear when I talk about how fossil fuel interests have been responsible for much of the success of the organized anti-nuclear movement. Many people in various discussion…

Investing in Nuclear

Nuclear investments – enabling the transition to a low-carbon economy

  • Parnassus Versus Green Century: A Contrast in Styles

    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…

  • How Hot is Cold Fusion?

    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.

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