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  • Atomic Show #346 – Greg Piefer, CEO and Founder, Shine Technologies

    Atomic Show #346 – Greg Piefer, CEO and Founder, Shine Technologies

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    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 find a path over, around or through the technical barriers that have prevented nuclear fusion from becoming a large scale energy production…

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  • 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…

  • 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…

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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 #346 – Greg Piefer, CEO and Founder, Shine Technologies
    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…

  • 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…

Small Module Reactors

SMR developments, politics, investments

  • Why are smaller reactors attracting so much interest?

    Small modular reactors (SMRs) are gaining increased attention as a major opportunity in clean power production. They are a welcome tool in the necessary transition from an energy system dominated by hydrocarbon combustion…

  • Pronuclear videos continuing to proliferate – The Nuclear Option

    With a hat tip to Ben Heard at Decarbonize SA, I thought it might inspire you to see two videos side by side. These videos were created in geographic locations that are about…

  • 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.

  • AP1000 saga · New Nuclear

    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…

  • AP1000 saga

    Luis Reyes, Regional Administrator for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Commenting on AP1000 Shield Design Concerns

    During the Nuclear Construction Summit being held at the Dupont Hotel in Washington, DC on October 26 and 27, I had the opportunity to listen to a talk by Luis Reyes, the Regional…

  • AP1000 saga

    GA Power announces a decision deferral until May 12

    Last night, GA Power issued a terse press release stating that it will continue working on the detailed project assessment needed before it can decide whether or not to continue trying to complete…

The Smoking Gun Series

Stories of fossil fuel interests fighting nuclear

  • CNN promotes natural gas as “safer” than nuclear – smoking gun

    An article titled Fukushima inspires safety features for Georgia nuclear reactors is a recent addition to CNN’s Powering the Planet series. It is packed full of misinformation about nuclear energy along with subtle…

  • Stanford climate scientists promote 100% renewable revolution using natural gas money

    We’ve been repeatedly told that 97% of climate scientists agree that CO2 emissions from human activity are a major cause of climate change. Scientists who question that assertion are villified as “climate change…

  • Smoking Gun Part 16 – Leader of British National Union Of Miners Demands CCS and Nuclear Shutdown

    I have always tried to be clear when I talk about how fossil fuel interests have been responsible for much of the success of the organized anti-nuclear movement. Many people in various discussion…

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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