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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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UAMPS stepping forward to serve customers
The established nuclear energy industry has taken a wait-and-see approach to the idea of developing and deploying smaller, simpler fission power stations that can take advantage of the economy of series production. The…
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The Atomic Show #135 – Tom Sanders – President, American Nuclear Society
Tom Sanders took office as the President of the American Nuclear Society on June 18, 2009. Rod Adams spoke with him on the day before. Tom explained his goals for the year, the…
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Atomic Show #186 – SMRs, Climate Change, and Natural Gas Competition
On the evening of July 29, 2012, Suzy Hobbs-Baker, Director of the Nuclear Literacy Project and founder of PopAtomic Studios, Dan Yurman, who blogs at Idaho Samizdat and writes for Fuel Cycle Week…
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Vogtle 3 and 4 construction continuation agreement through June 3
Late yesterday evening, Georgia Power announced that it and Westinghouse had come to an agreement – “in principle” – that would result in a transition of the Vogtle 3 & 4 project management…
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Toshiba Announces $6.3 B Writedown On A $229 M Construction Company Acquisition
Toshiba’s chairman, Shigenori Shiga, has accepted the responsibility for his company’s financial challenges and operating losses and resigned his position as chairman and as a board member. He remains an executive with the…
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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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Corporate environmental contributions: Greenwashing or worse?
Ken Silverstein posted a thought-provoking piece on Forbes.com titled Being ‘Good Neighbors’ And Staying Out Of Print Motivates Companies To Be Environmental Stewards. The following quote stimulated me to provide a slightly different…
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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…
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Smoking Gun – Former Oil and Gas Executive Recorded in Opposition to Nuclear Energy Development
A story titled GOP House candidate Bill Flores backtracks on loans for nuclear power plants caught my eye this morning. It tells the story of Bill Flores, who is running for congress in…
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.