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  • Atomic Show #345 – Bobby Gallagher, CEO Deployable Energy

    Atomic Show #345 – Bobby Gallagher, CEO Deployable Energy

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    Deployable Energy is a young company with a guiding principle. They believe that nuclear energy should be a product, not a project. Founded in 2025 after a period of intensive study and design work, the company has developed a product branded as the Unity Nuclear Battery (UNB™). It’s a 1 MWe (3 MWth) micro reactor…

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  • Atomic Show #344 – Jarret Adams, Founder Full On Communications
    Atomic Advocacy · Atomic education · Nuclear Communications · The Atomic Show Podcast

    Atomic Show #344 – Jarret Adams, Founder Full On Communications

    There are few industries in the world that have a greater need for skilled communications than the nuclear industry. It’s a challenging technology to understand and to explain to those who are not…

  • Atomic Show #343 – Yasir Arafat, CTO Aalo Atomics
    Advanced Atomic Technologies · Atomic Entrepreneurs · Innovation · Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors · New Nuclear · Small Nuclear Power Plants · Smaller reactors · The Atomic Show Podcast

    Atomic Show #343 – Yasir Arafat, CTO Aalo Atomics

    Aalo Atomics is a three year old company that is focused on designing, manufacturing and deploying nuclear reactors. Their stated goal is to achieve an electricity production cost of less than $0.03 (3…

  • Atomic Show #342 – Christo Liebenberg, President, LIS Technologies
    Advanced Atomic Technologies · Atomic Entrepreneurs · Nuclear Fuel Cycle · The Atomic Show Podcast

    Atomic Show #342 – Christo Liebenberg, President, LIS Technologies

    LIS Technologies (LIST) is a young company with deep historical roots. CRISLA (Condensation Repression Isotope Selective Laser Activation), its laser isotope separation concept was developed and tested during the late 1980s and early…

  • Atomic Show #341 – Ho Nieh, Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
    NRC · Nuclear regulations · The Atomic Show Podcast

    Atomic Show #341 – Ho Nieh, Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

    Ho Nieh, Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, visited the Atomic Show for a wide ranging discussion about the agency, its role in enabling the safe use of nuclear energy, the importance…

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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 #345 – Bobby Gallagher, CEO Deployable Energy
    Advanced Atomic Technologies · Atomic Entrepreneurs · Gas Cooled Reactors · Gas cooled water moderated · Innovation · New Nuclear · The Atomic Show Podcast

    Atomic Show #345 – Bobby Gallagher, CEO Deployable Energy

    Deployable Energy is a young company with a guiding principle. They believe that nuclear energy should be a product, not a project. Founded in 2025 after a period of intensive study and design…

  • Atomic Show #344 – Jarret Adams, Founder Full On Communications
    Atomic Advocacy · Atomic education · Nuclear Communications · The Atomic Show Podcast

    Atomic Show #344 – Jarret Adams, Founder Full On Communications

    There are few industries in the world that have a greater need for skilled communications than the nuclear industry. It’s a challenging technology to understand and to explain to those who are not…

  • Atomic Show #343 – Yasir Arafat, CTO Aalo Atomics
    Advanced Atomic Technologies · Atomic Entrepreneurs · Innovation · Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors · New Nuclear · Small Nuclear Power Plants · Smaller reactors · The Atomic Show Podcast

    Atomic Show #343 – Yasir Arafat, CTO Aalo Atomics

    Aalo Atomics is a three year old company that is focused on designing, manufacturing and deploying nuclear reactors. Their stated goal is to achieve an electricity production cost of less than $0.03 (3…

Small Module Reactors

SMR developments, politics, investments

  • NGNP aims to expand nuclear fission out of its electricity producing niche (box)

    The NGNP Alliance recently published a thought provoking blog titled Energy Vs. Electricity and Why We Care that clearly explains the basis for their interest in using high temperature gas cooled reactors. That…

  • Atomic Show #268 – Jigar and Jake

    Atomic Show #268 – Jigar and Jake

    Oklo Power recently announced that it had filed the first non-light water reactor combined license application ever submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Their 1.5 MWe fast spectrum, passively safe reactor represents a…

  • Bechtel and BWXT have announced an acceleration of Generation mPower

    Note: For an update on this topic see subsequent post titled Bechtel will “pursue” acceleration of mPower project. On March 4, 2016, in a press release issued from Reston, VA, Bechtel and BWX…

AP 1000 Saga

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

  • Advanced Atomic Technologies · AP1000 saga · Business of atomic energy · New Nuclear · Pressurized Water

    Diseconomy of scale – world’s largest canned-motor reactor coolant pump

    On February 16, 2015, an AP article by Ray Henry titled Nuclear plants delayed in China, watched closely by US firms contained a short paragraph that has contributed to a number of sleepless…

  • AP1000 saga

    China may export the technology learned by building modern reactors

    I have some trouble explaining my reluctance to do business with China. Perhaps it is just stubbornness or my inability to move on from my long established Cold War mentality, but I simply…

  • AP1000 saga · Fossil fuel competition · New Nuclear · Nuclear Cost Data

    Is Levy County nuclear plant too expensive to compete with natural gas?

    On Saturday, May 11, 2013, the Tampa Bay Times published a lengthy piece by Ivan Penn titled Levy nuclear plant more costly than a natural gas facility that uses a detailed analysis with…

The Smoking Gun Series

Stories of fossil fuel interests fighting nuclear

  • Smoking Gun Part 9 – Carbon Sequestration advocates share an interesting funding source

    A good friend sent me a link to an interesting diary on Daily Kos titled “Clean Coal”‘s Dirty Hands?. That diary entry used an article written by Peter Montague, titled INSIGHTS: Carbon Sequestration…

  • Above board competition in energy markets finally emerging. API Ohio pushing for nuclear shutdowns

    In a break from its historical tactic of quietly enabling surrogates, the US petroleum industry has started to openly engage in battles to suppress use of atomic fission. The Ohio division of the…

  • Smoking Gun Part 14 – Peter Hartley Claims Natural Gas is Cheaper Than Nuclear

    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…

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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