Happy Atomic Earth Day

ByRod Adams April 22, 2010July 17, 2020

Rod Adams

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.

Response to New York Times Question – Has Trust Leaked Away With the Tritium

ByRod Adams April 21, 2010July 17, 2020

Matthew Wald published a column in the Green Inc. portion of the New York Times on April 20, 2010 titled Has Trust Leaked Away With the Tritium?. As many of you know, I get have been irked by the way that the industry and the federal regulators have not adequately helped the public to understand…

Uranium politics are becoming interesting (again)

ByRod Adams December 5, 2006July 21, 2020

One of the free articles available today from the Wall Street Journal is titled Nuclear Power Revival Could Encounter Hurdles: Tight Uranium Supplies, Scarce Processing Facilities May Hurt Bush Energy Plan. The article paints an interesting picture where there is plenty of room to read between the lines, especially if you are an experienced negotiator,…

Atomic Show 74 – Interview with Brian Paxton, MBendi Information Services

ByRod Adams December 5, 2007July 6, 2020

MBendi Information Services (Pty) Ltd is a company based in South Africa that is focused on providing business, economic, social, political and industrial information about Africa. All too few Americans and Europeans know much about Africa, its people, its needs and its aspirations. I spoke with Brian Paxton, the Managing Director of MBendi Information Services…

It is never safe to panic and it is wrong to appear uncertain when you know what to do

ByRod Adams March 15, 2011August 28, 2020

I have spent the past few hours sifting through conflicting news reports and commentary trying to find out if there is any reason at all to rethink my original prediction from Saturday, March 12 regarding the ultimate effect of damage to Japanese nuclear plants caused by an enormously powerful earthquake followed by a higher than…

The coal waste issue

ByRod Adams January 7, 2009December 15, 2022

I have been getting into conversations with people about nuclear energy for several decades now, and nearly every one of them eventually gets around to “the waste issue”. It happened to me again on Monday night during an interesting conversation with a politically active federal government employee. Here is the scene. I was at a…

Don't knock our Nuke power

ByRod Adams November 10, 2005July 18, 2020

It took me a while to find a good link to this article, so I am a little late in talking about an interesting report that was published in the Mississauga Business Times on 27 October 2005. It describes a talk given by my friend and colleague Dr. Jerry Cuttler to his local Rotary Club….