The Atomic Show
Episodes
Atomic Show #341 – Ho Nieh, Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 enab...
Atomic Show #340 – Zion Lights, Author of “Energy is Life”
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Atomic Show #339 – Greyson Buckingham, CEO Disa Technologies
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 scal...
Atomic Show #338 – Craig Bealmear, CFO Oklo
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oklo is rapidly becoming a household name, at least among households with members who pay attention to energy industry developments and/or the headli...
Atomic Show #337 – Leigh Curyer, CEO NexGen Energy
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
Atomic Show #336 – Isabelle Boemeke, Author Rad Future
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Atomic Show #335 – Dr. Hash Hashemian, President American Nuclear Society
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ameri...
Atomic Show #334 – Jonathan Nistor, COO Blue Wave AI Labs
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Blue Wave AI Labs has been creating and supplying artificial intelligence tools – mainly in the form of machine learning – to operating nuclear p...
Atomic Show #333 – Kurt Terrani, CEO Standard Nuclear
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Standard Nuclear emerged from the start-up stealth mode in early June 2025 with the announcement of successfully raising $42 million from a group o...
Atomic Show #332 – Thomas Jam Pedersen, CEO Copenhagen Atomics
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Copenhagen Atomics is an ambitious Danish company with a bold, potentially world-changing vision. They’re driven by a goal of manufacturing one...
Atomic Show #331 – Caleb Brooks, Kronos MMR Project lead for University of Illinois
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne (UIUC) is planning to build a uniquely capable micro reactor project on its campus. For decades, the univ...
Atomic Show #330 – Joe Klecha, CNO The Nuclear Company (TNC)
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Nuclear Company (TNC) describes itself as “a fleet-scale American nuclear deployment company.” TNC is a young, visionary company ...
Atomic Show #329 – Dr. Kathryn Huff, former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Honorable Dr. Kathryn Huff is an associate professor in the nuclear, plasma and radiological engineering department at the University of Illinois...
Atomic Show #328 – Matt Loszak, CEO Aalo
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Atomic Show #327 – Rod Baltzer, CEO, Deep Isolation
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deep Isolation is one of Nucleation Capital’s more impactful portfolio companies because its technology can enable greater success for most of ...
Atomic Show #326 – Jigar Shah, former director of DOE Loan Programs Office
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Atomic Show #325 – Marco Visscher – The Power of Nuclear
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After many years as an independent journalist with an antinuclear bent, Marco Visscher began questioning his long-held beliefs. He realized that the ...
Atomic Show #324 – Jay Hakes, Author of Presidents and the Planet
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Hakes, an accomplished author and historian, visited the Atomic Show to talk about his recently published book, Presidents and the Planet: Climat...
Atomic Show #323 – Julie Kozeracki, Director of Strategy, DOE Loan Programs Office
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Kozeracki was the lead author for a U.S. Department of Energy strategy document titled Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Advanced Nuclear publish...
Atomic Show #322 – Westinghouse’s eVinci micro reactor
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Westinghouse’s eVinci is a 15 MWth, 5 MWe micro reactor. Westinghouse often refers to it as a nuclear battery. Unlike conventional nuclear p...
Atomic Show #321 – Andrew Harmon, VP Natura Resources
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a construction permit on September 16, 2024 to Abilene Christian University (ACU) to build a molten salt ...
Atomic Show #320 – Magnus Mori, Urenco
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Urenco is one of the few companies in the world that enriches uranium. It’s one of an even smaller group of enrichers that aren’t owned b...