The Atomic Show

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…