Atomic Insights

Atomic Show #339 – Greyson Buckingham, CEO Disa Technologies

Rod Adams — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:52:18 GMT

Abandoned uranium mine waste has been a big deal for decades, but almost no one had an inkling about what we should do to solve the problem. The scale of the challenge is huge, with about 75 million tons spread over more than 10,000 sites, nearly all of which are in western states and Native American sovereign nations. The Navaho Nation is the jurisdiction with the biggest burden – about 40% of the ...read more

Atomic Show #338 – Craig Bealmear, CFO Oklo

Rod Adams — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:56:17 GMT

Oklo is rapidly becoming a household name, at least among households with members who pay attention to energy industry developments and/or the headliners in the financial press. Oklo is in the process of designing and permitting a family of small modular reactors that it plans to own and operate to produce electricity, heat and isotopes that it will sell to its end customers under long term power ...read more

How Did the MOX Project Get So Expensive? [Redux]

Rod Adams — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:06:25 GMT

Plutonium, a source of nuclear reactor fuels with incredible potential, is getting a new look. President Trump’s Executive Order 14302, Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base (May 23, 2025), directed the Executive Branch to strengthen the U.S. nuclear fuel cycle. Though plutonium reuse is mentioned several times, paragraph 3(c) specifically pertains to using surplus material from the weapons ...read more

Atomic Show #337 – Leigh Curyer, CEO NexGen Energy

Rod Adams — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:32:06 GMT

NexGen Energy is a uranium mining company that is nearing the end of a long transition from a successful exploration entity to a uranium producing company. The company is in the final stages of hearings and approvals needed from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to allow it to begin constructing the mine infrastructure for its Rook 1 project . In a term that might be familiar to petroleum ...read more

Atomic Show #336 – Isabelle Boemeke, Author Rad Future

Rod Adams — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT

Isabelle Boemeke is a successful fashion model who chose an avocation that still confuses many of her friends and colleagues. She became an early pronuclear influencer. If you ask Google AI “who is the first pronuclear influencer” the answer will be Isabelle Boemeke. Among her communications tools is a popular Tic-Toc account loaded with video clips explaining various aspects of nuclear ...read more

Atomic Show #335 – Dr. Hash Hashemian, President American Nuclear Society

Rod Adams — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:02:51 GMT

Dr. Hash Hashemian has been an inspiring leader in the nuclear industry for half a century. He was recently inaugurated as the President of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) after serving for a year as the Vice President/President Elect. His company, AMS Corporation , provides key services and products to nearly every nuclear power plant in the United States and a growing portion of those located ...read more

Surest way to crush nuclear power’s growing momentum would be to decapitate the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Rod Adams — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:48:26 GMT

An internet meme that we have largely ignored is apparently gaining enough support from a few influential people to become a real life concern. The misdirected idea is that it’s time to reorganize nuclear energy and radioactive material regulatory bodies into oblivion. If that notion is put into motion, the world’s nuclear energy revival will be stopped in its tracks for years if not ...read more

Atomic Show #334 – Jonathan Nistor, COO Blue Wave AI Labs

Rod Adams — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:35:11 GMT

Blue Wave AI Labs has been creating and supplying artificial intelligence tools – mainly in the form of machine learning – to operating nuclear power plants since 2016. Their initial set of tools focused on improving boiling water reactor core reload designs. The company was formed to address the chosen problem because it was a time consuming – aka expensive – data-driven task with a large number ...read more

New York’s next nuclear plant is likely to be a four unit BWRX-300 installation

Rod Adams — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:44:07 GMT

On June 23, New York’s Governor Hochul announced that she had directed the New York Power Authority to build a new nuclear energy facility with at least 1 GWe of capacity. During the announcement speech, she provided several bits of information leading to an informed prediction that the facility will initially include 4 BWRX-300’s on a site close to Lake Ontario. The hints leading ...read more

Atomic Show #333 – Kurt Terrani, CEO Standard Nuclear

Rod Adams — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:51:26 GMT

Standard Nuclear emerged from the start-up stealth mode in early June 2025 with the announcement of successfully raising $42 million from a group of venture capitalist led by Decisive Point with participation from Andreessen Horowitz , Washington Harbour Partners , Welara , Fundomo and Crucible Capital . Though Standard Nuclear is young enough to have a single page web site, it owns and operates ...read more

Atomic Show #332 – Thomas Jam Pedersen, CEO Copenhagen Atomics

Rod Adams — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:51:54 GMT

Copenhagen Atomics is an ambitious Danish company with a bold, potentially world-changing vision. They’re driven by a goal of manufacturing one reactor per day from a high quality, certified factory. If they achieve that goal, they would be adding an additional 37 GW/year of heat to the global energy supply. They want to help make affordable, reliable, clean and abundant energy available to everyone ...read more

Accelerating Nuclear Using The Bully Pulpit

Rod Adams — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:27:14 GMT

Part 2 – Changing Culture and Reducing Uncertainty President Trump signed five Executive Orders on May 23 that are designed to accelerate the process of unleashing nuclear energy’s incredible potential. Those orders build on strong and growing public support as well as recently enacted, strongly bipartisan laws that have made it abundantly clear that America both needs and wants the affordable ...read more

Using the bully pulpit to energize the atomic energy industry

Rod Adams — Thu, 29 May 2025 10:21:36 GMT

Part 1. Addressing the nuclear waste issue Nuclear power has been steadily regaining its political and public popularity for about a decade and a half. A number of new laws, head of state actions and international commission decisions have made it clear that nuclear energy’s reliability, contributions to economic growth, safety and cleanliness are valuable features worth investment and deployment ...read more

Atomic Show #331 – Caleb Brooks, Kronos MMR Project lead for University of Illinois

Rod Adams — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:43:42 GMT

The University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne (UIUC) is planning to build a uniquely capable micro reactor project on its campus. For decades, the university hosted a traditional research reactor that supported important research projects and provided operating experience. But, like the majority of university research reactors, it did not produce any useful heat or electricity. Kronos MMR™ has a ...read more

Atomic Show #330 – Joe Klecha, CNO The Nuclear Company (TNC)

Rod Adams — Fri, 16 May 2025 15:53:07 GMT

The Nuclear Company (TNC) describes itself as “a fleet-scale American nuclear deployment company.” TNC is a young, visionary company driven by what business author Jim Collins describes as a BHAG – “Big Hairy Audacious Goal” – in his best-selling book titled Built To Last . TNC’s intermediate goal is to deploy 6 large nuclear reactors in the U.S. while developing ...read more