Rod Adams
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.

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  • President Ahmadinejad of Iran Asserts His Country's Nuclear Rights

    ByRod Adams

    This afternoon (September 17, 2005) President Ahmadinejad of Iran spoke emphatically to the United Nations, telling the assembled body that his country had a right to use nuclear energy. He also stated what should be obvious to any careful observer – though his country currently exports oil, it will not last much longer. The New…

  • PBMR Project Winding Down – Entering Intellectual Property Protection Mode

    ByRod Adams

    As long time Atomic Insights readers know, I have been following the developments of the South African Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project for many years – since before the company was formed, in fact. As a result of many factors, the government of South Africa has decided to stop funding the project. Though the…

  • Atomic attention in the recent media

    ByRod Adams

    There have been serval articles about atomic energy published in the past couple of days. These articles are appearing in prominent places in my local newspapers. Here is a sample: Calvert Residents Content in Nuclear Plant Shadow from the Washington Post on Saturday, August 13, 2005 Power Hungry World Embraces Nuclear Energy from the Washington…

  • Recommended reading about Iran

    ByRod Adams

    Iran is a complex and diverse country that is portrayed in a very negative light in many US publications. It has also been the subject of many confusing and bellicose statements by US government leaders for many years. However, with very few exceptions, Americans have little first hand knowledge of the people or the country…

  • Letter to a reporter from Bloomberg – 1/7/2006

    ByRod Adams

    One of my many weird hobbies is writing early morning letters to authors and editors of news stories about energy topics. I figured that it might be a good use of this blog space to post some of those gems, since some of them never see the light of day. (Occasionally, however, I get them…

  • Short Seller Attacks Continue Against Nuclear Project Promoter AEHI

    ByRod Adams

    Disclosure: I am long on AEHI. One of piece of knowledge that I continue to struggle to share with the world is the recognition that there are sometimes large financial rewards available from going negative. Many people instinctively recognize a sales pitch and often discount the source as someone who is interested in making money…