The Atomic Show

Atomic Show #352 – John Wagner, Director, Idaho National Laboratory

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is in one of its busiest periods since the 1950s-late 1960s when it hosted the construction of 52 test, special purpose and demonstrat

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 Kaleido

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 res

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

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

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 resili

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 resear

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 inte

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 ex

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 produc

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 c

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

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 vil

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

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

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 i

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 (

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. T

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 le