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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 really interested in the nitty gritty details. There is a significant portion of the industry that believes in silently going about its…
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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…
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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…
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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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Atomic Show #340 – Zion Lights, Author of “Energy is Life”
Energy is Life begins with an alternative timeline – Zion Lights describes what her life would be like if her parents had not made the decision to emigrate from their village in India…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Naval Reactors should be empowered to show the way – again
President Obama should task John Richardson with a mission similar to the one that President Dwight Eisenhower gave Hyman G. Rickover. Richardson is the current leader of Naval Reactors (NR), the organization that…
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New York’s next nuclear plant is likely to be a four unit BWRX-300 installation
On June 23, New York’s Governor Hochul announced that she had directed the New York Power Authority to build a new nuclear energy facility with at least 1 GWe of capacity. During the…
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Looking forward to Nuclear Energy Insider’s SMR Conference
For the past 5 years, Nuclear Energy Insider has been holding annual gatherings focused on developments related to small modular reactors (SMR). From the outside, it can appear that little progress has been…
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One Toshiba Lesson – Organizations With Venerable Corporate Names Can Be Risky Acquisitions
There are numerous reasons why Toshiba, formerly an enormous and successful Japanese electronics manufacturer, is struggling to survive. One of the lessons available to be learned – once again – is caveat emptor…
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NRC wavering on AP1000 decision under pressure by FOE
On May 10, 2011, the Friends of the Earth, a group that has professionally opposed nuclear energy since the late 1960s, issued a press release that challenged the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s refusal…
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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…
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How important has oil money been to antinuclear movement?
A couple of days ago, I wrote about my discovery that Robert O. Anderson, a long time leader in the global petroleum business, had provided the seed money that David Brower used to…
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Energy Supply Worries Are Over! Natural Gas Resource Estimate Increased by 3%!
I am in a snarky mood this morning. Please forgive me while I try to explain the sources of my wry amusement – and my continuing worries that keep me from getting a…
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Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association and Marcellus Shale Coalition join antinuclear “citizens group”
The Beaver Valley (PA) Times has published an important article titled Group forms to oppose bailout of struggling nuclear power industry. That article needs to be read and retained by those of us…
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.