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⚛️The Math Behind the Fuel Cycle
Dec 20, 2025

⚛️The Math Behind the Fuel Cycle

Today we’re doing some arithmetic. Hang in there. This is the kind of napkin math that explains why nuclear fuel keeps sneaking back into energy security briefings, why geopolitics is all over the news right now, and why supply headlines matter more than most people think, and not just for investors. It matters for anyone who cares about nuclear at scale.

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⚛️From Feeding the World to Powering It
Dec 07, 2025

⚛️From Feeding the World to Powering It

If you work in or around nuclear, your mental material list probably goes uranium, zirconium, hafnium, maybe a little bit of boron if you’re feeling fancy. Phosphate sounds like it belongs in a farmer’s catalog, not in a conversation about reactors, AI data centers, and grid stability. Yet here we are.

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⚛️How to Own Physical Uranium (Legally & Easily)
Nov 26, 2025

⚛️How to Own Physical Uranium (Legally & Easily)

Today we are talking about something that has been weirdly hard for regular people to do for decades, even as the nuclear story has gone from niche to front page: owning physical uranium.

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⚛️ The Mineral Behind Nuclear Power’s AI Advantage
Nov 20, 2025

⚛️ The Mineral Behind Nuclear Power’s AI Advantage

Today, we’re zooming in on the mineral sitting at the crossroads of nuclear baseload power, AI data centers, and the global battery race.Phosphate powers the future, literally.And yes, I know what you’re thinking: Phosphate? Isn’t that the fertilizer stuff?Let me explain.

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⚛️Rebuilding America’s Nuclear Foundation
Nov 14, 2025

⚛️Rebuilding America’s Nuclear Foundation

This is not the weekly update, that one will land in your inbox on Monday. Today we’re heading deep into America’s heartland, where the key to the next energy revolution doesn’t glow, doesn’t split, and doesn’t make headlines... but makes everything else in the nuclear world possible.

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⚛️ The Hidden Bottleneck in Nuclear Fuel
Oct 30, 2025

⚛️ The Hidden Bottleneck in Nuclear Fuel

This is not the weekly update, that one will hit your inbox on Monday. Today we’re doing a deep dive (yes, memes included) on how one obscure mineral keeps the global nuclear fuel cycle alive.

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⚛️Google Plugs Six Data Centers Into Nuclear
Oct 13, 2025

⚛️Google Plugs Six Data Centers Into Nuclear

PLUS: NANO Nuclear Brings Microreactor Production to Illinois

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⚛️Fluorspar: The Key Mineral for Enrichment
Oct 02, 2025

⚛️Fluorspar: The Key Mineral for Enrichment

This is not the weekly update, that one will hit your inbox on Monday. Today we’re doing another deep dive, and this time we’re zooming in on one of the most overlooked choke points in global energy security: fluorspar. Without it, enrichment stalls, reactors go quiet, and the rest of our clean energy plans start to wobble.

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