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  • Atomic Show #338 – Craig Bealmear, CFO Oklo

    Atomic Show #338 – Craig Bealmear, CFO Oklo

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    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 designing and permitting a family of small modular reactors that it plans to own and operate to produce electricity, heat and isotopes…

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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 #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…

  • Elegant woman with long wavy hair in front of greenery for atomic insights.
    Atomic Advocacy · Atomic education · Nuclear Communications · The Atomic Show Podcast

    Atomic Show #336 – Isabelle Boemeke, Author Rad Future

    Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:55 — 58.0MB) Subscribe: RSS

Small Module Reactors

SMR developments, politics, investments

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    Observations from the US Nuclear Industry Council’s 10th annual Advanced Reactor Summit

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AP 1000 Saga

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

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    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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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

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    How Hot is Cold Fusion?

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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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