The Atomic Show

Rod Adams - Atomic Insights
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The Atomic Show

The Atomic Show Podcast includes interviews, roundtable discussions and atomic geeks all centered around the idea that nuclear energy is an amazing boon for human society.

  1. MAR 27

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

    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 laboratory and currently specializes in nuclear reactor core neutronics and multi-physics modeling. She served as the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy...

    1h 4m

  2. MAR 14

    Atomic Show #328 – Matt Loszak, CEO Aalo

    Aalo Atomics is a two year old micro reactor company founded by Matt Loszak, a serial entrepreneur, and Yasir Arafat, a skilled nuclear engineer who previously lead the DOE’s MARVEL advanced micro-reactor demonstration project. Note: At Nucleation Capital, we were impressed enough with the company and the team to add it to our growing portfolio...

    55 min

  3. FEB 19

    Atomic Show #327 – Rod Baltzer, CEO, Deep Isolation

    Deep Isolation is one of Nucleation Capital’s more impactful portfolio companies because its technology can enable greater success for most of the rest of the companies – and for the entire nuclear energy sector. The company has been developing, testing and refining its systematic approach to nuclear waste disposal for a decade. Despite the fact...

    58 min

  4. FEB 17

    Atomic Show #326 – Jigar Shah, former director of DOE Loan Programs Office

    Jigar Shah has had a lengthy career as an energy industry entrepreneur and strategic thinker. He founded Sun Edison and helped to create a new model for deploying solar power systems. He was part of the Carbon War Room and then founded Generate Capital to provide loans to proven technologies that had not yet achieved...

    51 min

  5. JAN 31

    Atomic Show #325 – Marco Visscher – The Power of Nuclear

    After many years as an independent journalist with an antinuclear bent, Marco Visscher began questioning his long-held beliefs. He realized that the accepted alternatives to fossil fuel were not actually reducing fossil fuel use so much as they were limiting the rate at which it was increasing. He began acknowledging that nuclear energy was a...

    1h 2m

  6. 12/02/2024

    Atomic Show #324 – Jay Hakes, Author of Presidents and the Planet

    Jay Hakes, an accomplished author and historian, visited the Atomic Show to talk about his recently published book, Presidents and the Planet: Climate Change Science and Politics from Eisenhower to Bush. Sometimes referred to as “the untold story of climate change,” Hake’s book is an enlightening jaunt through a history discovered during long days in...

    1h 6m

  7. 11/12/2024

    Atomic Show #323 – Julie Kozeracki, Director of Strategy, DOE Loan Programs Office

    Julie Kozeracki was the lead author for a U.S. Department of Energy strategy document titled Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Advanced Nuclear published in September 2024. The document was the result of a multi-agency, multi-lab effort to update a previously issued report. During our conversation, Kozeracki described how the report was informed by changes in the...

    52 min

  8. 10/11/2024

    Atomic Show #322 – Westinghouse’s eVinci micro reactor

    Westinghouse’s eVinci is a 15 MWth, 5 MWe micro reactor. Westinghouse often refers to it as a nuclear battery. Unlike conventional nuclear power plants, eVinci uses no water and doesn’t produce steam. The eVinci is not “just another way to boil water.” There are no pumps in the system that moves heat out of the...

    42 min
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The Atomic Show Podcast includes interviews, roundtable discussions and atomic geeks all centered around the idea that nuclear energy is an amazing boon for human society.

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  • Creator
    Rod Adams - Atomic Insights
  • Years Active
    2012 - 2025
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Atomic Insights
  • Show Website
    The Atomic Show

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