Atomic Show #348 – Abdalla Abou-Jaoude MARVEL Program Lead

July 13, 2026 5:19pm 39 min

MARVEL, a creative acronym meaning Microreactor Applications Research Validation and EvaLuation, is a trail blazing reactor development program designed to help the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the nuclear industr...

Atomic Show #347 – Dr. Jeff Waksman, Project Pele and Project Janus

June 20, 2026 5:25am 40 min

The U.S. military has a strong and growing interest in using small and micro nuclear reactors as a means of reducing logistics challenges and improving operational resilience. They like nuclear reactors for their ability...

Atomic Show #346 – Greg Piefer, CEO and Founder, Shine Technologies

June 16, 2026 2:44pm 46 min

Shine Technologies is a unique nuclear fusion company. The conventional path for nuclear fusion projects is to raise and spend billions of dollars and decades of research and development in efforts to successfully find ...

Atomic Show #345 – Bobby Gallagher, CEO Deployable Energy

May 18, 2026 6:00am 59 min

Deployable Energy is a young company with a guiding principle. They believe that nuclear energy should be a product, not a project. Founded in 2025 after a period of intensive study and design work, the company has devel...

Atomic Show #344 – Jarret Adams, Founder Full On Communications

May 08, 2026 4:33am 47 min

There are few industries in the world that have a greater need for skilled communications than the nuclear industry. It’s a challenging technology to understand and to explain to those who are not really interested in th...

Atomic Show #343 – Yasir Arafat, CTO Aalo Atomics

April 16, 2026 3:07am 44 min

Aalo Atomics is a three year old company that is focused on designing, manufacturing and deploying nuclear reactors. Their stated goal is to achieve an electricity production cost of less than $0.03 (3 cents) per kilowat...

Atomic Show #342 – Christo Liebenberg, President, LIS Technologies

April 08, 2026 5:42pm 56 min

LIS Technologies (LIST) is a young company with deep historical roots. CRISLA (Condensation Repression Isotope Selective Laser Activation), its laser isotope separation concept was developed and tested during the late 19...

Atomic Show #341 – Ho Nieh, Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

April 03, 2026 5:41am 41 min

Ho Nieh, Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, visited the Atomic Show for a wide ranging discussion about the agency, its role in enabling the safe use of nuclear energy, the importance of its mission to t...

Atomic Show #340 – Zion Lights, Author of “Energy is Life”

March 28, 2026 7:59am 1:09

Energy is Life begins with an alternative timeline – Zion Lights describes what her life would be like if her parents had not made the decision to emigrate from their village in India to become factor workers in the burg...

Atomic Show #339 – Greyson Buckingham, CEO Disa Technologies

January 05, 2026 4:52am 49 min

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 various estimates ranging between 1 an...

Atomic Show #338 – Craig Bealmear, CFO Oklo

November 19, 2025 4:56am 51 min

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 pe...

Atomic Show #337 – Leigh Curyer, CEO NexGen Energy

August 27, 2025 9:32am 39 min

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 nee...

Atomic Show #336 – Isabelle Boemeke, Author Rad Future

August 12, 2025 4:00am 1:00

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

July 12, 2025 11:02am 56 min

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 Presiden...

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

July 06, 2025 4:35am 54 min

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 boi...

Atomic Show #333 – Kurt Terrani, CEO Standard Nuclear

June 26, 2025 4:51am 1:04

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 And...

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

June 23, 2025 5:51am 1:07

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...

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

May 19, 2025 6:43am 32 min

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 r...

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

May 16, 2025 10:53am 52 min

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 ...

Atomic Show #329 – Dr. Kathryn Huff, former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy

March 27, 2025 6:10am 1:04

The Honorable Dr. Kathryn Huff is an associate professor in the nuclear, plasma and radiological engineering department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is the director of the Advanced Reactor Fuels la...