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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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    Atomic Show #337 – Leigh Curyer, CEO NexGen Energy

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    Atomic Show #336 – Isabelle Boemeke, Author Rad Future

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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

  • No obstacles prevent China from rapidly building floating nuclear power plants

    No obstacles prevent China from rapidly building floating nuclear power plants

    Credible entities in China have begun lining up the supply chains required to produce reliable electrical power from barge mounted nuclear fission power plants. There are no technical, industrial, or regulatory hurdles that…

  • Atomic Show #268 – Jigar and Jake

    Atomic Show #268 – Jigar and Jake

    Oklo Power recently announced that it had filed the first non-light water reactor combined license application ever submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Their 1.5 MWe fast spectrum, passively safe reactor represents a…

  • Smaller nuclear reactors allow decentralized power – some critics not pleased

    Smaller nuclear reactors allow decentralized power – some critics not pleased

    Even a broken clock is right twice a day. That is one of the sayings that I remember whenever I read works about energy by people like Amory Lovins or Ralph Nader and…

AP 1000 Saga

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

  • AP1000 saga

    China breaks ground on world’s first Westinghouse AP1000

    Chinaview.cn published a story on February 26, 2008 titled China starts excavation for world’s first 3rd-generation nuclear plant. The plant is the first of four reactors whose order was initially announced in December,…

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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

    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.

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