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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

  • B&W mPower™ Reactor Control Room Simulator Begins Operations

    (CHARLOTTE, N.C. – December 4, 2012) – The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE: BWC) is pleased to announce that the production-standard control room prototype for its B&W mPower™ small modular reactor (SMR)…

  • HTR-PM – Nuclear-heated gas producing superheated steam

    The first HTR-PM (High Temperature Reactor – Pebble Module), one of the more intriguing nuclear plant designs, is currently under construction on the coast of the Shidao Bay near Weihai, China. This system…

  • 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

    Unintended Consequences – Redesign for Aircraft Impact Rule Calls AP1000 Shield Design Into Question

    One of the lessons that should have been learned during the first nuclear age was that rule changes aimed at solving a new “issue” can have unintended consequences in another area of plant…

  • AP1000 saga · International nuclear · New Nuclear

    Nuclear plant output in China poised for rapid increases in 2018-2020

    The last two days in June 2018 saw the first power generation from two separate first of a kind nuclear plants in China. Taishan 1, a 1650 MWe European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) was…

  • Antinuclear activist · AP1000 saga · Politics of Nuclear Energy

    NRC wavering on AP1000 decision under pressure by FOE

    On May 10, 2011, the Friends of the Earth, a group that has professionally opposed nuclear energy since the late 1960s, issued a press release that challenged the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s refusal…

The Smoking Gun Series

Stories of fossil fuel interests fighting nuclear

  • Above board competition in energy markets finally emerging. API Ohio pushing for nuclear shutdowns

    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…

  • Smoking gun Part 7 – Australian mining union targets nuclear as a job threat

    The ‘smoking gun’ series on Atomic Insights provides links to articles that describe a direct anti-nuclear statement from someone who is openly supporting a competitive energy source. This afternoon, I received an anonymous…

  • Smoking Gun – Jerry Taylor, a Fellow at the Cato Institute, founded by a Koch, Focuses Libertarian Rhetoric Against Nuclear, but Ignores Natural Gas Subsidies

    Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute, a self proclaimed libertarian think tank, recently visited Fox Business to explain his opposition to nuclear energy. The episode was…

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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