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Celebrating the arrival of the Golden Era of Nuclear Power
The dawn of the Golden Era of Nuclear Power in the United States was celebrated on June 25, 2026 with music, lights and inspirational speeches. A crowd of several thousand people at Idaho Falls’s Mountain America Center included nuclear professionals from the Idaho National Lab, representatives from the Department of Energy, local dignitaries and entrepreneurs….
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Advanced Atomic Technologies · Army Nuclear Program · Micro Reactors · New Nuclear · Nuclear deployment · Small Nuclear Power Plants · The Atomic Show Podcast
Atomic Show #347 – Dr. Jeff Waksman, Project Pele and Project Janus
The U.S. military has a strong and growing interest in using small and micro nuclear reactors as a means of reducing logistics challenges and improving operational resilience. They like nuclear reactors for their…
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Advanced Atomic Technologies · Atomic Entrepreneurs · Fuel Recycling · Fusion · isotopes · The Atomic Show Podcast · therapeutic radiation
Atomic Show #346 – Greg Piefer, CEO and Founder, Shine Technologies
Shine Technologies is a unique nuclear fusion company. The conventional path for nuclear fusion projects is to raise and spend billions of dollars and decades of research and development in efforts to successfully…
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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…
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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 · Army Nuclear Program · Micro Reactors · New Nuclear · Nuclear deployment · Small Nuclear Power Plants · The Atomic Show Podcast
Atomic Show #347 – Dr. Jeff Waksman, Project Pele and Project Janus
The U.S. military has a strong and growing interest in using small and micro nuclear reactors as a means of reducing logistics challenges and improving operational resilience. They like nuclear reactors for their…
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Advanced Atomic Technologies · Atomic Entrepreneurs · Fuel Recycling · Fusion · isotopes · The Atomic Show Podcast · therapeutic radiation
Atomic Show #346 – Greg Piefer, CEO and Founder, Shine Technologies
Shine Technologies is a unique nuclear fusion company. The conventional path for nuclear fusion projects is to raise and spend billions of dollars and decades of research and development in efforts to successfully…
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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…
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New Nuclear Power Barges: Russians Build on Ice Breaker Lead
The northern coast of Russia is an area endowed with rich natural resources and vast mineral wealth but burdened with a limited infrastructure. Because of the extremely cold winters, transportation is difficult and…
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Atomic Show #321 – Andrew Harmon, VP Natura Resources
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a construction permit on September 16, 2024 to Abilene Christian University (ACU) to build a molten salt research reactor. This marked the first university research reactor approval…
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Atomic Show #303 – Bret Kugelmass, CEO Last Energy
Last Energy is an innovative new company governed by a philosophy of avoiding the invention of anything that has not been done before. They have created a business that is laser focused on…
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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…
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Next Round of AP1000s in China Will Actually Be CAP1000s With No Westinghouse Involvement
A little more than three years ago, I wrote an article expressing my belief that the four AP100s that Westinghouse sold to China in a landmark deal signed in December 2006 would be…
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GA Power And Westinghouse Extend Temp Vogtle Nuclear Plant Construction Agreement Through May 12
Late Friday evening, Georgia Power issued a terse press release. Thousands of people who have been tensely anticipating a crucial decision regarding the fate of the Plant Vogtle expansion project cannot stop worrying…
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Smoking gun: AEC told President Kennedy why coal industry was opposed to nuclear energy
It’s been quite a while since my last smoking gun post on Atomic Insights. It may be time to revive the series to remind nuclear energy advocates to follow the money and know…
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Smoking Gun 6 – Chesapeake Energy Strategy
I love honest people. Engaging in straightforward discussions and even arguments is one of my favorite pastimes. This morning, I opened up my copy of Chesapeake Energy’s annual report and read the following…
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Smoking gun: LNG ship builders and their financial backers stoke nuclear fears
It’s been a while since my last ‘smoking gun’ report so it might be worth a brief reminder of what that categorization means. For Atomic Insights, the tag ‘smoking gun’ means a story…
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.