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Atomic energy technology, politics, and perceptions from a nuclear energy insider who served as a US nuclear submarine engineer officer Under our current energy paradigm, nuclear power has the reputation of needing enormous up-front capital investments. Once those investments. SERIOUS, TIMELY, VITAL CONVERSATION ABOUT EFFECTS OF IONIZING RADIATION. Recently, the American Nuclear Society and the Health Physics Society hosted an historically important meeting on updating the scientific During the past two days, I’ve spent 20-30 hours listening to and participating in a sometimes heated and often polite discussion about In some ways, Kairos Power has a familiar sounding story. It is a California-based start-up founded by three bright people, all with a tie to Cal Berkeley (UCB). They have decided to turn their grant-funded tech research into a for-profit company. One of the founders, Dr. Per Peterson, is a long established UCB professor with a national reputation, two had been his students during their doctoral Dr. Ed Blandford earned his PhD at UCB about a decade ago and had established his reputation as an expert in thermal hydraulics through five years of experience as a project manager at EPRI and leading a research program at the University of New Mexico as a tenure track Dr. Mike Laufer, the third founder, came to Berkeley after earning a degree at Stanford. That’s a place that is known for being de*ply infected with entrepreneurial fever. A Google search on Mike’s name might make one believe he has had a long, successful career in medicine and medical device development, but that’s a Mike from a previous generation. During a plenary presentation on the first day of the 2018 ANS Winter Meeting, Per Peterson, Kairos’s Chief Nuclear Officer, described Kairos CEO Mike Laufer’s policy of starting every meeting with a review of the company’s mission statement. > Kairos Power has a mission to enable world’s transition to clean > energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s