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Self-regulation is, is, is a diet where you're, you're the nutritionist and the cake. It just— you need a comp— the answer is both, right? Nuclear power has the NRC, airlines have the FAA, and drugs have the FDA. We don't let Boeing certify its jets anymore. We learned that the hard way.
Scott Galloway · Pivot · Nvidia’s AI Guardrails, Big Tech’s White House Visits, and Elon’s Voter Data Grab · 2026-09-29Sure. The interesting thing is that there is actually a distinction in the history of nuclear regulation, which is there's a difference between advisers in the— before the NRC, it was the Atomic Energy Commission. And the AEC was created to oversee nuclear development. And many of the scientists who did forecast the importance of riskiness of the technology were involved. Interestingly, like Einstein writes this letter and says like nuclear war— he basically describes like what nuclear annihilation could look like. There's a whole bunch of other scientists that actually run the numbers and they're like, this is what could happen if all the nuclear bombs go off. They do all the calculations. There's some that go a little bit too far. But in general, like the scientists were the ones who got to it earlier. But the scientists didn't actually wind up being the regulators. They wound up being the advisors. So Oppenheimer became the chair of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, which had enormous influence but didn't actually issue licenses.
John Coogan · TBPN · METR and AI Regulation, Zuck Pushes Back on AI Slowdown, Fed Hikes Rates | Diet TBPN · 2026-09-16Like, you can just be a nuclear engineer, mechanical engineer, material scientist, physicist, health physicist, geologists, probabilistic risk analysts, cybersecurity professionals they hire for this. Emergency preparedness. They hire lawyers. They hire inspectors. Pay for some of these jobs ranges between $125,000 and $187,000 for many NRC technical staff roles. This machinery did have to get sort of described by the scientists, but then the implementation of that machine, of that regulatory structure, is actually done by really hardworking, really talented Americans, but not head in the clouds, not thinking about the future in some, you know, bizarre way, that's enough to happen at the democratic level and then it gets implemented. And I think that that might eliminate a little bit of this like, okay, well, this person who's really tied to you is now inside actually the one with the keys, the one with the role overseeing you. I don't know, what do you think about this, Tyler?
John Coogan · TBPN · METR and AI Regulation, Zuck Pushes Back on AI Slowdown, Fed Hikes Rates | Diet TBPN · 2026-09-16The interesting thing is that there is actually a distinction in the history of nuclear regulation, which is— there's a difference between advisors in the— before the NRC, it was the Atomic Energy Commission. And the AEC was created to oversee nuclear development. But— and many of the scientists who did forecast the importance of riskiness of the technology were involved. Interestingly, like Einstein writes this letter and says like nuclear war— he basically, you know, describes what nuclear annihilation could look like. There's a whole bunch of other scientists that actually run the numbers, and they're like, "This is what could happen if all the nuclear bombs go off." They do all the calculations. There's some that go a little bit too far, but in general, the scientists were the ones who got to it earlier, but the scientists didn't actually wind up being the regulators. They wound up being the advisors.
John Coogan · TBPN · Third Party Evaluators, Fed Hikes Rates, Zuck Pushes Back On AI Slowdown | Jeremy Allaire, Tomasz Tunguz, William Layden, Justin Beroz, Eli Wachs, Sean McCarthy, Tom Mueller · 2026-09-16Like, you can just be a nuclear engineer, mechanical engineer, material scientist, physicist, health physicist, geologists, probabilistic risk analysts, cybersecurity professionals. They hire for this. Emergency preparedness. They hire lawyers. They hire inspectors. Pay for some of these jobs ranges between $125,000 and $187,000. For many, NRC technical staff roles. So, like, once the machinery— the machinery did have to get sort of described by the scientists, but then the implementation of that machine, of that regulatory structure, is actually done by really hardworking, really talented Americans, but not head in the clouds, not thinking about the future in some bizarre way. That's enough to happen at the democratic level, and then it gets implemented. And I think that that might eliminate a little bit of this like, "Oh, okay, well, like this person who's really tied to you is now like inside actually the one with the keys, the one with the role overseeing you."
John Coogan · TBPN · Third Party Evaluators, Fed Hikes Rates, Zuck Pushes Back On AI Slowdown | Jeremy Allaire, Tomasz Tunguz, William Layden, Justin Beroz, Eli Wachs, Sean McCarthy, Tom Mueller · 2026-09-16And speaking of policy support, I wanted to ask you about changes at the NRC. How has that affected the broader advanced nuclear industry and Oklo specifically?
Abby Bennett · Energy Evolution · AI demand is intensifying the race to build advanced nuclear reactors · 2026-09-15The NRC is putting in place permitting pathways that are aligned with our build, own, and operate model. And also part of that is because we're looking to deploy the same asset over and over again. Part of what the NRC is also looking to do is make sure that once elements of our design have already been permitted for the second powerhouse, if we're replicating that for powerhouses 3, 4, 5, then don't make us re-permit for what's already been permitted. And so I think looking for those simplification opportunities, looking for those acceleration opportunities, and the fact that the NRC is very much being a collaborative partner at the moment along with the Department of Energy is really quite exciting for our business overall, but for the sector as well.
Craig Bellmer · Energy Evolution · AI demand is intensifying the race to build advanced nuclear reactors · 2026-09-15And I think it's safe to say that the things that I see both the Department of Energy doing through the reactor pilot programs, some of the changes I see the NRC making, it's hard to put into words how incredible those changes have been just in the 3 years that I've been at OCLO. And I think what excites me is I don't know if I could have ever in my wildest dreams thought that we would've seen some of those progressive policy changes 3 years when I joined the company. So it's almost like I don't know what to expect other than to just expect more collaboration and expect the unexpected.
Craig Bellmer · Energy Evolution · AI demand is intensifying the race to build advanced nuclear reactors · 2026-09-15I think you can look for milestones around that path towards getting our first powerhouse in Idaho critical. As we finish some of our design work and layout work for Ohio, I think we'll also start sharing milestones around the projects that go beyond Idaho Falls. We're also already fabricating fuel for that first powerhouse in a facility called the Aurora Fuel Fabrication Facility. I think we'll start talking about— the equipment is getting ready for that facility such that we can start fabricating fuel next year. Once we complete our preliminary design work, we'll start permitting activities with the NRC for that recycling facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. We are already starting design work and figuring out our deployment plans for the next couple of isotope reactors that will be commercial reactors that will follow on from the first growth facility.
Craig Bellmer · Energy Evolution · AI demand is intensifying the race to build advanced nuclear reactors · 2026-09-15Maybe the last thing, which— expect the unexpected, because 18 months ago there wasn't even a reactor pilot program in place. When I joined Oklo, there was not an Advance Act in place that was creating accelerated permitting pathways with the NRC. And it does feel like there's a lot of investor appetite and potential government funding pathways for nuclear as well. And so I think it's a little bit of stay awake because I've found in my 3 years at Oklo, expect the unexpected and be able to react to the unexpected. And I think we've done that and done that quite well. And I think there'll be more of that to come.
Craig Bellmer · Energy Evolution · AI demand is intensifying the race to build advanced nuclear reactors · 2026-09-15Great. Well, I, one of the key things that I think we're both very excited about is mass-producing as many components for these reactors as we can. This is something that should shrink the lead time for everything from the reactor vessels to the pumps that move the fluid around inside these power plants, to the instruments, to the safety mechanisms, to days, if not weeks, if not months. If you look at the time it takes to build a standard nuclear power plant, and standard is that kind of 1,000-megawatt chunk, you have to, by the time you get through siteworks and then concrete pouring and then shipping these massive, massive metal containers to site, I mean, Vogtle was way, way over schedule and over budget. I think the best people in the world are installing these in 5 years. That's not as fast. That's not where we want to be, right? We're looking at designs on the smaller end where you could deploy in less than 2 years, ideally in months. A typical data center is going— one building maybe goes up in 9 months at this point. And you really want your power generation systems to be able to match that timeline. So mass manufacturing, love to see that coming out of companies like Allu Atomics and some of the other ones on the small end of things. In terms of other bottlenecks, it was great to see Part 57 released from the NRC to create a pathway for advanced reactors that looks different from the traditional methods for light water reactors. Those regulations were set up very specifically for technologies and in a way that just isn't applicable to some of the, some of the newer designs. It's exciting to see some of the fuel supply chain mature, which we can talk more about, and the power generation side of things and like all the other things besides and outside that, what we call the the nuclear island, which is like where the magic happens and the, and the fuel produces heat. All of these components have to come together, and we're seeing that happen a lot faster at that smaller, you know, 1 to 20 megawatt scale.
Carly Anderson · Macro Voices · MacroVoices #548 Dr. Carly Anderson: Emerging Energy Technologies Roundup · 2026-09-03Hi everyone, this is Lucas Voss with Becker's Healthcare. Thanks so much for tuning in to the Becker's Healthcare podcast series. It's great to have you. Today's conversation is built around a new insight report from NRC Health called The Currency of Time. The premise is that patients judge healthcare through two different lenses: whether an organization respects their time by making care easy to access And the second part, whether the time they spend receiving care actually feels worthwhile. And I'm so excited to have two wonderful guests to discuss the insights of that report, to dig in with them. William England, Strategic Advisor Research at NRC Health and also the author of the report. Great to have him. Casey Arends, the Director Experience Strategy at Fairview. Welcome to you both. I wanna hop right in because again, we have so much to discuss. There's so many great insights in this report. And William, I'll start off with you. The report again looks at the patient experience through those two different lenses: time saved and time well spent. What do those two mean, and why are both important to patient loyalty today?
Lucas Voss · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast · The Currency of Time: Driving Patient Loyalty Through Better Experiences · 2026-08-26And we also want to thank our podcast sponsor, NRC Health. You can tune into more podcasts from Becker's Healthcare by visiting our podcast page at beckershospitalreview.com.
Lucas Voss · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast · The Currency of Time: Driving Patient Loyalty Through Better Experiences · 2026-08-26One, exactly what you were saying, Jason, right? Like, there have already been submarines that are at the bottom of the ocean and have nothing to do with the propulsion, just for other reasons they sank. And that's even what our Navy nuclear submarine officer had offered to us, right? Like, when you think about those, and those are very different levels of enrichment for fuel. So one is like very high levels of enrichment that we are never going to get access to from like a commercial standpoint.. And ours is like pretty much the most like commercially available, like low-grade enrichment level. So just wildly, wildly different on that side. And then you really only have to refill these once every couple of years. And so when you're thinking about like the waste, it's so small. Plus they're already— the NRC has already done a great job of, you know, making sure that there are clear guidelines and compliances that you need to follow. So we don't We're not the ones needing to create that. Industrial plants do this at a massive scale already for the last 70 years. You might even be driving on the highway next to a distribution of, of where some things are located and not even know. And so these things are happening.
Kofi Asante · This Week in Startups · How AI splits startups into winners and losers | E2322 · 2026-08-07There's this chicken and egg that existed for nuclear in the last 20 years. Where you need data in order to go to the regulator, but in order to go to the regulator with data, you have to have run a plant, right? And so there's this like, okay, how do you get the empirical data? And the way that people tried to solve that was with modeling and simulation, right? So if you look at the nuclear industry outside of Valor, it's mostly a modeling and simulation industry. Like when you think of a nuclear company, right, there's like nuclear companies out there that everyone knows the name of and you kind of look under the COVID It's actually a modeling and simulation company, right? They produce, um, very, very precise, what we call paper reactors, which have really good predictions of how a theoretical thing might behave. And that was sort of the hack to try to get around this regulatory chicken and egg. But the alternative is that you actually just do what Congress originally intended. Um, if you look back at the early days of nuclear legislation, um, there were actually two pathways for nuclear in the United States. There was the testing pathway and the commercial pathway. So the commercial pathway everyone knows is called the NRC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The NRC is solving for large-scale commercial deployment of mature systems. So yeah, if you try to do the iteration under the regulator that's concerned with large-scale commercial deployment of mature systems, that's going to be tough, right? You're going to be asked commercial deployment questions when you're just trying to figure out how to bend some steel and get some atoms splitting. But there's another pathway, and that pathway is the Department of Energy. So most people don't know this, but the Department of Energy was originally called the ERDA, the Energy Research and Development Agency. And people don't know that because it was only called the ERDA for about 2 years. There was a little 2-year period where it was, it was renamed shortly after, but its origin is actually a spinout of the Atomic Energy Commission. So where the DOE comes from originally is Congress taking the Atomic Energy Commission, which was one agency responsible for both commercial deployment and for testing. And they said, actually, let's split these out. Let's make the NRC in charge of commercial deployment. Let's make the ERDA in charge of testing, and we'll have these two separate agencies. And then 2 years later, Congress said, actually, we're just going to call the ERDA the Department of Energy, right? The DOE. But the origin of this agency is Testing nuclear reactors. That's, that's what it's for. And everyone sort of forgot this. It's just been sitting there in legislation for like 40 years and no one's really taken advantage of it except for one government program here or there where they want to, you know, do a NASA space reactor or something like that. But it has, from a legal perspective, been waiting for an administration to say, hey, this might be a way to accelerate nuclear R&D. And that's exactly what the Trump administration has done. So the reactor that's behind us here was turned on under an executive order. It was EO-14301, which called for 3 advanced reactors to go critical on American soil by July 4th. And, and we built it under Department of Energy authority under that executive order. So, I mean, this is an incredibly exciting time in nuclear. This is really breaking that chicken and egg, right? It's the first time where we've been able to to shortcut that, you know, problem of how do you get data. And, and we have data now. We're currently, as we're sitting here making 100 kilowatts, splitting something like 10 to the 17 atoms per second in this reactor behind us. So this is the control room. There's two sections. This is the control half. This door's closed. We have to have senior reactor operators permission to enter here, which we just got. Thank you, Brent. And out here is sort of our observation room.
Isaiah Taylor · No Priors_ Artificial Intelligence _ Technology _ Startups · How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor · 2026-07-02