The Nuclear Renaissance - Radiant | a16z American Dynamism
Radiant and a16z argue mass-produced small nuclear reactors can revive US energy leadership
“we regulated nuclear out of business because we made it too expensive”
a16z's American Dynamism portfolio company Radiant makes the case for small modular reactors as the path to affordable, abundant energy, citing regulatory overreach as the reason the US stopped innovating on nuclear after the 1970s. The content is a promotional pitch for nuclear energy revival framed around national competitiveness and grid fragility. Relevant to AI infrastructure only tangentially — AI's power hunger makes energy supply a background concern — but this content contains no direct AI signal.