Podcasts by 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.
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Atomic Show #314–Economies of scale for micro, small, medium, large reactors–with James Krellenstein from 2023-11-28T09:55:13
James Krellenstein is a physicist, consultant and nuclear energy historian. He is currently employed as a senior advisor to Global Health Strategies. He started up their decarbonization practice wi...
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Atomic Show #313 – Stefano Buono, Founder and CEO of Newcleo from 2023-10-30T17:48:55
Stefano Buono is a physicist and the successful founder of Advanced Accelerator Applications, a multibillion dollar company that pioneered the use of several therapeutic medical isotopes. After mak...
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Atomic Show #312 – Tyler Bernstein, CEO Zeno Power from 2023-09-18T11:49:12
Zeno Power makes cost-effective radioisotope power systems (RPS) for some of the most challenging environments in the solar system. Its systems use a proprietary package that allows a wider variety...
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Atomic Show #311–Mary Jo Rogers – Founder, Rogers Leadership Group from 2023-09-13T14:45:43
Mary Jo Rogers is a trained clinical psychologist who developed her interest workforce safety cultures and leadership in the nuclear power sector while consulting and working for ComEd (later Exelo...
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Atomic Show #310–Ron Faibish on Space Nuclear Power from 2023-07-07T19:44:44
In the past few years, there has been a strong revival of interest in using nuclear fission energy to power space travel and planetary exploration. There have also been new developments in radioiso...
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Atomic Show #309–Matt Huber, Geography of Energy from 2023-06-15T12:39:07
Matt Huber is a professor of geography at Syracuse University. He writes about energy, economies and the way that energy sources have influenced modern societies and economies. One of his first boo...
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Atomic Show #308–Alyssa Hayes, Nuclear Energy Advocate from 2023-06-11T17:22:35
Alyssa Hayes is a leader in the pro-nuclear movement. She is a PhD candidate in nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee and she has been interested in policy making and politics since in...
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Atomic Show #307–Mark Nelson, Managing Director Radiant Energy Group from 2023-05-17T17:54:35
Mark Nelson has been traveling the world in an effort to help create a sustainable pronuclear movement. His focus includes both saving existing plants and encouraging the construction of new reacto...
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Atomic Show #306–Dr. Rita Baranwal, Westinghouse AP300 from 2023-05-12T10:32:59
Westinghouse, one of the world’s first nuclear power plant vendors, recently announced a new small modular reactor (SMR) design called the AP300. It is described as a simplified version of the AP10...
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Atomic Show #305–Oliver Stone and Joshua Goldstein Co-Writers Nuclear Now from 2023-04-19T20:39:38
On Apr 28, the much anticipated film, Nuclear Now, will premier in selected theaters in New York, Sedona and Los Angeles. It will remain available in those venues for a week. On May 1, 2023, the fi...
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Atomic Show #304–Len Rodberg, Nuclear New York from 2023-03-02T09:18:07
Dr. Leonard Rodberg spent most of his adult life being opposed to nuclear energy. A half a dozen years ago, he abruptly changed his mind. Ever since, he has been a strong and vocal advocate for the...
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Atomic Show #303–Bret Kugelmass, CEO Last Energy from 2022-12-09T09:10
Last Energy is an innovative new company governed by a philosophy of avoiding the invention of anything that has not been done before. They have created a business that is laser focused on building...
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Atomic Show #302–Dr. Sama Bilbao y Leon, Director General, World Nuclear Association from 2022-12-02T10:25:05
Dr. Sama Bilbao y Leon, the Director General of the World Nuclear Association, visited the Atomic Show to provide an international perspective on the revival in interest in nuclear energy deploymen...
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Atomic Show #301–Matt Crozat, Executive Director for Strategy and Policy Development, NEI from 2022-11-11T18:31:32
The nuclear energy policy landscape in the US has changed significantly during the past 5 years. Once seen as an issue with enormous differences between the political parties, it has become one of ...
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Atomic Show #300–Dr. Lindsay Krall,“Nuclear Waste from Small Modular Reactors” from 2022-10-28T11:10:41
Dr. Lindsay Krall is a geochemist currently working on projects characterizing the behavior of radioactive isotopes that will eventually be stored in a deep geologic repository being designed in Sw...
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Atomic Show #299–Dr. Chris Keefer, C4NE from 2022-10-05T19:42:48
Dr. Chris Keefer is one of the busiest and most successful nuclear energy advocates working today. He is a Canadian emergency room doctor, the founder of Doctors for Nuclear Energy, the founder and...
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Atomic Show #298–Marcus Seidl–Researching small modular reactors near Hamburg, Germany from 2022-07-17T18:53:37
Marcus Seidl is a German nuclear professional who received his PhD in nuclear physics in 2002, a year after his home country decided that it would exit nuclear energy in favor of investing in a lar...
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Atomic Show #297–Krusty–The Kilopower reactor that worked from 2022-05-19T08:36:18
Patrick McClure and David Poston successfully developed, obtained funding, constructed and operated a new atomic fission power source that produced useful quantities of electricity during the perio...
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Atomic Show #296–Julia Pyke, Director of Finance Sizewell C from 2022-03-12T11:02:28
Sizewell C is a project to build a 3,200 MWe power station consisting of two EPR units on the site that currently hosts a single large pressurized water reactor (Sizewell B). With the exception of ...
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Atomic Show #295–Liz Muller, Co-founder and CEO of Deep Isolation from 2022-01-24T13:14:53
Deep Isolation is a young company developing solutions for “the nuclear waste issue.” They have built their solution option based on highly developed technologies used in the oil and gas drilling s...
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Atomic Show #294–Mikal Boe, Core Power Founder and CEO from 2022-01-05T11:55:25
Mikal Boe, courtesy of Core Power Mikal Boe has spent 30 years in and around the commercial shipping industry. Several years ago, he began wondering how his industry was going to meet the increa...
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Atomic Show #293–Robert Bryce–Journalist and Bird Watcher from 2021-12-04T12:05:23
Robert Bryce talking about Power Hungry Robert Bryce is an admired journalist, book author, filmmaker, public speaker, Congressional witness and podcaster who has focused on energy, power and it...
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Atomic Show #292–Andrew Crabtree, Founder,“Get Into Nuclear” from 2021-11-11T10:05:09
Andrew Crabtree is a former professional rugby player and banker who decided to transition to the nuclear industry in 2007. He had recognized that the banking industry was going to be in for a roug...
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Atomic Show #291 – Kalev Kallemets, Fermi Energia from 2021-02-24T11:46:57
Fermi Energia is an Estonian company whose mission is to provide its home country with an independent, clean, safe and affordable electricity production system by 2035. That system will be anchored...
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Atomic Show #290–Myrto Tripathi, Voices of Nuclear from 2021-02-09T18:13:40
Nuclear energy professionals are credible sources of information about a powerful technology that can help address climate change and contribute to humanity's development. Voices of Nuclear is a...
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Atomic Show #289–All Reactors Large and Small from 2021-01-29T12:43:25
Pro-nuclear advocates generally agree that there is a large and growing need for new nuclear power plants to meet energy demands with less impact on the planet and its atmosphere.There is frequent,...
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Atomic Show #288 – Per Peterson, CNO, Kairos Power from 2021-01-25T12:30:16
Per Peterson in R-Lab with ETUDE, the scaled water test version of the Engineering Test Unit now in construction in AlbuquerqueImage provided by Kairos Power Kairos Power Is developing a truly n...
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Atomic Show #287–Darren Gale, VP Commercial Operations, X-Energy talks about Xe-100 from 2020-11-12T13:23:25
X-Energy is the lead recipient for one of two industry groups selected to receive $80 M in Department of Energy (DOE) funding as part of a public-private partnership program to demonstrate advanced...
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Atomic Show #286–Chris Wright, CEO Liberty Oilfield Services from 2020-11-06T09:40:50
Chris Wright is the CEO of Liberty Oilfield Services, which recently became the second largest US company performing the work of drilling and completing oil and gas wells in shale formations. He...
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Atomic Show #285–MMR at Illinois from 2020-11-03T10:56:10
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a stretch goal of completing its next research and test reactor by the end of 2025. It has assembled a team that includes several other major univ...
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Atomic Show #284–Meredith Angwin, Author of Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid from 2020-10-16T10:44:03
Meredith Angwin has become an authority on the arcane topic of governing electric grids in the United States. She's concerned and thinks others will may share her concern when they recognize there ...
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Atomic Show #283–The Good Energy Collective from 2020-10-10T18:05:59
Jessica Lovering, Rachel Slaybaugh, and Suzy Baker founded and lead Good Energy Collective, a policy research organization that is actively"building the progressive case for nuclear energy as an es...
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Atomic Show #282–Chris Keefer, Decouple Podcast from 2020-10-04T11:30:17
Dr. Chris Keefer Chris Keefer is the creator and host of the Decouple Podcast. He is an emergency room doctor whose activist bent and desire to make the world a better place has led him to becom...
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Atomic Show #281–Paris Ortiz Wines–Global Coordinator for Stand Up For Nuclear from 2020-09-15T22:38:31
Paris Ortiz-Wines Global Coordinator, Stand Up for Nuclear Paris Ortiz-Wines wants you to Stand Up for Nuclear Energy. She is the global coordinator for the annual, month-long event that includ...
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Atomic Show #280–Zion Lights–Director, Environmental Progress UK from 2020-07-16T13:19:48
Zion Lights Zion Lights is a formally trained science communicator, author of a carefully researched book titled The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting, and an experienced environmental activist...
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Atomic Show #279–Michael Shellenberger talks about Apocalypse Never from 2020-07-08T09:49:35
Michael Shellenberger's new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All has provoked numerous reactions and conversations. It is a carefully researched, 400 page work where 25% ...
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Atomic Show #278–Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR) project partners USNC, GFP and OPG from 2020-06-21T08:55:13
Global First Power (GFP), Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) and Ontario Power Generation (OPG) recently announced that they had formed a joint venture called Global First Power Limited Partner...
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Atomic Show #277–Simon Wakter, pro-nuclear engineer in an ambivalent country from 2020-05-30T20:29:53
Simon Wakter is a strongly pro-nuclear engineer in a country that passed a referendum officially phasing out nuclear energy since several years before he was born. He has to round up to be called a...
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Atomic Show #276 – HolosGen Claudio Filippone and Chip Martin from 2020-05-19T13:03:55
HolosGen has attacked the nuclear power plant cost and schedule challenge from the opposite direction chosen by many nuclear reactor developers. Claiming to be agnostic about the reactor specifics ...
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Atomic Show #275 – Managing advanced nuclear development during pandemic from 2020-05-12T09:32:15
Managing any business is hard work, especially during a global pandemic with stay-at-home orders in place. It requires creativity and flexibility along with some amount of prior preparat...
Atomic Show #274 – Thomas Jam Pedersen, Copenhagen Atomics from 2020-04-30T17:42:56
Copenhagen isn't the first city name that comes to mind as the place to start a nuclear company. Denmark has decommissioned its last research ...
Atomic Show #273 – Liz Muller, Deep Isolation from 2020-04-23T22:53:24
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Atomic Show #272 – Karnfull Energi from 2020-04-18T12:37:19
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