Avatar
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.

One Comment

Comments are closed.

Recent Comments from our Readers

  1. Avatar
  2. Avatar
  3. Avatar

    Renewables people are masters in marketing. Unreliable intermittent generators whose output is all over the place, and usually badly correlated…

  4. Avatar
  5. Avatar

Similar Posts

Tamping down the spread of NC Warn sponsored misinformation regarding the comparison of solar and nuclear costs

ByRod Adams

On July 8, 2010, an activist group named NC Warn that is specifically organized to fight reliable nuclear energy and promote unreliable, weather dependent wind and solar energy published a press release announcing to the world that they had commissioned a paper proving that solar generated electricity had become cheaper than electricity from new nuclear…

Wasserman and Barton on DailyKos – not similar reading experiences

ByRod Adams

A friend sent me a link to a Harvey Wasserman comment about nuclear energy on DailyKos. As usual, he is pushing his lifelong anti-nuclear agenda by pointing to a Colbert Show skit with Jackson Browne – who is a far better singer than he is an energy solutions analyst. If you have time, stop by…

National Energy Board approves retention bonuses for pipeline regulators

ByRod Adams

I have been in several forums where Nuclear Regulatory Commission leaders have cautioned the nuclear industry about recruiting its employees. Their pitch is that such actions could cause a logjam where license applications and other regulatory actions will be slowed due to a lack of reviewing capacity. Apparently, regulatory capacity constraints are not limited to…

Dot Earth Wonders if Increased Solar Investments Would be Beneficial

ByRod Adams

Andrew Revkin at the New York Times Dot Earth blog published a blog this morning titled Should Major Emitters Focus on the Sun. Within his blog is a presentation with graphs of historical research investments in various energy technologies that shows a small share of the overall budgets being provided to solar power research. Andy’s…

Northwest Alabama TimesDaily article titled "Nuclear Future"

ByRod Adams

In Northwest Alabama there is growing interest in the prospect of new jobs tied to the Second Atomic Age. According to an article titled Nuclear future published on November 6, 2006, there is the potential for 90,000 new jobs associated with building new reactors during the period from 2007-2011. The source of that estimate, according…