The Atomic Show

Atomic Show #351 – Tori Shivanandan, President and COO Radiant Nuclear

Radiant Nuclear is a dynamic company that has designed, built and transported a complete micro reactor that fits onto the back of a truck. That reactor, named the Kaleidos, will soon be fueled, started and tested through

Atomic Show #350 – Dr. Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Associate Laboratory Director, Energy & Environment Science & Technology, INL

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is best known for its nuclear engineering and pioneering reactor testing programs. Somewhat lesser known is the Lab’s cutting edge research in all other energy sources including

Atomic Show #349 – Josh Gillespie, COO National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC)

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) was born in 1949 as the National Reactor Testing Station after the Atomic Energy Commission decided they needed a place to test controlled nuclear fission power systems. Before being taken

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

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

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

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 a

Atomic Show #345 – Bobby Gallagher, CEO Deployable Energy

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Andree

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

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