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  • Atomic Show #339 – Greyson Buckingham, CEO Disa Technologies

    Atomic Show #339 – Greyson Buckingham, CEO Disa Technologies

    Rod AdamsByRod Adams
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    Abandoned uranium mine waste has been a big deal for decades, but almost no one had an inkling about what we should do to solve the problem. The scale of the challenge is huge, with various estimates ranging between 1 and 8 billion tons of uranium mining waste rock spread over more than 10,000 sites,…

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    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…

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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 #339 – Greyson Buckingham, CEO Disa Technologies
    Advanced Atomic Technologies · Nuclear regulations · Nuclear Waste · The Atomic Show Podcast · Uranium mining

    Atomic Show #339 – Greyson Buckingham, CEO Disa Technologies

    Abandoned uranium mine waste has been a big deal for decades, but almost no one had an inkling about what we should do to solve the problem. The scale of the challenge is…

  • 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…

Small Module Reactors

SMR developments, politics, investments

  • Keep it Simple: Complex Systems Cost More

    It must also be understood that the 60 percent efficient gas turbine combined cycle is a very sophisticated piece of machinery operating with its material at close to maximum limits. A first generation…

  • Update from Hyperion Power Generation Chief Operating Officer

    Yesterday morning I wrote a post titled Where is Hyperion Power Generation headed now? By the time I was ready for a lunch break, I had received an email from the Chief Operating…

  • Valuable Tool for Antarctic Research or Costly Waste?

    Before the discovery of nuclear fission, the only power source capable of supplying reliable electrical energy in remote locations was a combustion engine. Because of its compact nature compared to a coal fired…

AP 1000 Saga

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

  • Advanced Atomic Technologies · AP1000 saga · New Nuclear

    Reactor Coolant Pumps for AP1000 still a problem

    This is a story that I really don’t want to tell, but bad news is like old fish. It doesn’t smell any better as it ages. All eight AP1000 construction projects are at…

  • AP1000 saga · Fossil fuel competition · New Nuclear · Nuclear Cost Data

    Is Levy County nuclear plant too expensive to compete with natural gas?

    On Saturday, May 11, 2013, the Tampa Bay Times published a lengthy piece by Ivan Penn titled Levy nuclear plant more costly than a natural gas facility that uses a detailed analysis with…

  • Antinuclear activist · AP1000 saga · Nuclear Cost Data · Politics of Nuclear Energy

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    The flagship project of the US nuclear energy renaissance is in trouble. The people of the great state of Georgia and the investors in Georgia Power may end up footing the bill for…

The Smoking Gun Series

Stories of fossil fuel interests fighting nuclear

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    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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    In a break from its historical tactic of quietly enabling surrogates, the US petroleum industry has started to openly engage in battles to suppress use of atomic fission. The Ohio division of the…

  • How did an oil shale investor hamstring his atomic energy competition? (Ancient but impactful smoking gun)

    How did an oil shale investor hamstring his atomic energy competition? (Ancient but impactful smoking gun)

    During the contentious effort that resulted in passage of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, Sen Eugene D. Milliken (R-CO) played an important role in establishing an attempted US government monopoly over all…

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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