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⚡ “1st Pod in a Nuclear Reactor” — Inside Oklo’s Cancer-Fighting, Waste-Recycling Reactor

You read that right: The first podcast we’re aware of recorded inside a nuclear reactor.


Yetis, the team at Oklo are fans of the show - And they paid to fly us down to Texas to visit their Nuclear Reactor and sponsor this episode. We sat down with their co-founder and CEO Jake DeWitte literally feet from a silo with splitting atoms so we could explore this wild new technology. And we interviewed Jake just like we would any CEO.


Because they’re building the most unique nuclear reactor in history: It’s tiny, tidy, and sexy. This next-gen nuclear power company runs on recycled fuel, it fits beside a data center, and it’s designed to look like a luxurious ski chalet.


Oklo was invested in early by Sam Altman (who became the Chairman) and is one of the few publicly-traded nuclear brands. And we say “brand” because they’re building a lifestyle brand - The Lululemon of Nuclear. Their vision is handful of nuclear company towns, where you work, live, eat, date, and play, all powered by a safe local nuclear reactor. And in addition to carbon-free electricity running on recycled uranium, they (no big deal) generate isotopes that can cure cancer.


Jake will tell us how they pulled off a nuclear breakthrough worthy of a 2nd Oppenheimer movie. And why the financials of a pre-revenue company justify the $8B valuation Wall Street’s given it. Plus, you’ll discover why a reactor glows blue, why he'd drink the water, and the one thing he disagrees with Sam Altman about.


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Jack’s grad school essay on nuclear: More Nuclear Power Now


Yetis and Besties, this one's a field trip.


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