Atomic Show 100 – Interview with NuScale founders Paul Lorenzini and Jose Reyes

ByRod Adams

NuScale Power has been the topic of several recent Atomic Insights posts and also has been mentioned on Idaho Samizdat and on CleanTechnica.com. IMHO this company is big news – it is a venture-funded company with a small nuclear plant design that just may be able begin operating in the commercial market in less than 5 years. (That is my estimate, not the company’s.)

To give our coverage of this exciting development some more depth, I used some of my extensive network of contacts – thanks Gwyneth – to get right to the top. As a result, I was able to record a great chat with Paul Lorenzini and Jose Reyes, NuScale’s President and Chief Technical Officer respectively.

They were both busily working at 6:00 pm on a Friday night – nobody ever said that starting a new company was a 9-5 job.

Go to The Atomic Show #100 – Nuclear Power on a New Scale – NuScale Power and listen to the conversation. Hope you decide to join in with your comments!

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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