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Jacob DeWitte

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Oklo Inc.

Search every verified Jacob DeWitte interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jacob Dewitte, co-founder and CEO of Oklo, discussed the company's recent milestones and strategy in several appearances. In August 2026, Oklo announced that its Groves Isotope Test Reactor in Texas reached first criticality, a milestone Dewitte described as the company's first fully Oklo-designed, developed, built, and operated reactor. He stated that the reactor was built in 229 days and called it, based on the company's research, the fastest-ever built nuclear reactor on private lands supported by a private company. Dewitte attributed the pace to industry leadership and government support, and said the experience provides a blueprint for repeating and scaling future nuclear projects. Dewitte also outlined Oklo's business approach during the company's second-quarter 2026 earnings call, describing it as "one integrated nuclear technology platform across power, fuel, and isotopes" rather than three separate businesses. He emphasized the company's multi-fuel strategy, including the use of recycled fuel and plutonium blends, and said fast reactors with recycling have the potential to power the planet's energy needs for billions of years. He also highlighted demand drivers such as AI, manufacturing, and domestic isotope production for medical and industrial uses, and said the company is in conversations with five states about potential campus sites.

Recent appearances

  • Oklo Built A Nuclear Reactor In 11 Months

    September 18, 2026 · 📺 The Best One Yet

    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 bes…

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  • How Oklo Is Building the Blueprint for Advanced Nuclear

    September 04, 2026 · 📺 Oklo Inc

    Oklo’s Groves Isotope Test Reactor reached first criticality in August 2026, marking a major milestone for our advanced nuclear technology and the next step toward commercial-scale isotope production. Built from the ground up in less than a year, Groves gave Oklo hands-on experience across nuclear engineering, construction, regulatory execution, startup, and reactor operations. In this video, Oklo CEO Jacob DeWitte and the engineers behind Groves share their perspectives on the road to criticality, what it took to bring the reactor online, and how that experience is informing Oklo’s broader…

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  • Oklo Q2 2026 Earnings Call | Revenue Tops Forecast at $1.2M with $3B Cash Reserves Held

    August 07, 2026 · 📺 i101

    Oklo Q2 2026 Earnings Conference Call. Twitter - https://x.com/i101yt If you find our work useful, please support us by purchasing a Super Thanks— it truly helps us a lot. #earningscall #StockMarketNews #conferenceCall Earnings Call | Earnings Conference Call | Earnings concall | concall | quarterly results | Stock News | Full Year results | Fiscal Year results | investment news | stock latest news | Annual Meeting of Shareholders | Annual Meeting of Unitholders | Special and Annual Meeting of Shareholders | AGM | Annual General Meeting If you want us to remove your company's earnings ca…

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  • LIVE:Oklo Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Webcast

    August 07, 2026 · 📺 Wealth,Finance & Investment Center

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  • NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE: Oklo CEO highlights rapid pace of industry scale

    August 07, 2026 · 📺 Fox Business

    Oklo co-founder and CEO Jake DeWitt joins 'Mornings with Maria.' to discuss the company's Groves isotope test reactor reaching criticality, America's nuclear renaissance and building an isotope supply chain and more. 00:00 Nuclear power’s major comeback in America 01:09 AI and manufacturing driving massive energy demand 03:11 Scaling advanced reactors at world record speed 04:50 Reforming nuclear permitting and the innovation ecosystem 06:10 Domestic production of medical isotopes for cancer treatment 07:32 Milestone: Building a nuclear reactor in under a year Subscribe to Fox Business: htt…

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  • ‘FIRST OF THIS KIND’: DOE grants Oklo's Groves Isotope Test Reactor final safety approval

    July 06, 2026 · 📺 Fox Business

    Oklo CEO Jacob DeWitte discusses the Department of Energy's final safety approval for the Groves Isotope Test Reactor in Lockhart, Texas, on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ #fox #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #foxbusiness #theclamancountdown #oklo #jacobdewitte #departmentofenergy #doe #nuclearenergy #nuclear #energy #reactor #innovation #technology #texas #lockharttexas #manufacturing #cleanenergy #americaninnovation #businessnews Subscribe to Fox Business: https://bit.ly/2D9Cdse Watch more Fox Business Video: https://video.foxbusiness.com Watch Fox Business Network Live: http:/…

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  • Oklo CEO weighs in on nuclear energy aspirations in space

    April 16, 2026 · 📺 CNBC Television

    Jacob DeWitte, Oklo CEO, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss nuclear energy's impact on markets, plans in space and future growth. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/42d859g » Subscribe to CNBC TV: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBCtelevision » Subscribe to CNBC: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBC » Watch CNBC on the go with CNBC+: https://www.cnbc.com/WatchCNBCPlus Turn to CNBC TV for the latest stock market news and analysis. From market futures to live price updates CNBC is the leader in business news worldwide. Connect with CNBC News Online Get the la…

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  • Oklo CEO on nuclear growth strategy: 'We're in full build mode'

    March 18, 2026 · 📺 CNBC Television

    Oklo CEO Jacob DeWitte joins 'Money Movers' to discuss the company's latest earnings report, the company's growth strategy, and more.

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  • $OKLO Oklo Inc Q4 2025 Earnings Conference Call

    March 17, 2026 · 📺 EARNMOAR

    03/17/2026 Q&A: 27:12 Oklo Inc. develops advanced fission power plants to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale to the customers in the United States. It also commercializes nuclear fuel recycling technology that converts nuclear waste into useable fuel for its reactors. Oklo Inc. has an joint agreement with newcleo to develop advanced fuel fabrication and manufacturing infrastructure in the United States. Oklo Inc. is based in Santa Clara, California. #okloinc #earningscall #fundamentalanalysis #oklo #investing

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  • LIVE: Oklo Fourth Quarter 2025 Financial Results and Business Update Call

    March 17, 2026 · 📺 Wealth,Finance & Investment Center

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  • Oklo CEO: First phase of nuclear power agreement with Meta could come online as early as 2030

    January 12, 2026 · 📺 CNBC Television

    Oklo co-founder and CEO Jacob Dewitte joins 'Money Movers' to discuss the company's nuclear agreement with Meta, the development of a nuclear power campus in Ohio, and more. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/42d859g » Subscribe to CNBC TV: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBCtelevision » Subscribe to CNBC: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBC » Watch CNBC on the go with CNBC+: https://www.cnbc.com/WatchCNBCPlus Turn to CNBC TV for the latest stock market news and analysis. From market futures to live price updates CNBC is the leader in business news world…

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  • 'This is a huge opportunity' to fuel reactors sooner and faster, says Oklo's CEO

    December 17, 2025 · 📺 CNBC Television

    Oklo CEO Jacob DeWitte joins 'Squawk on the Street' following to discuss turning plutonium stockpiles into energy, Oklo's reactor ...

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“When I look at the world right now, we have an under supply of all the things needed to make fuel. That's uranium, that's mining, that's conversion, that's enrichment, that's fabrication. We're working to solve all those on the front end, but recycling helps as well because it alleviates the needs here. The other thing is like uranium in today's reactors when you pull it out of the ground you have to enrich it and wh”

“I think the thing that compounds and stunted some of that effort too was the fact like we said it sounds cheesy but it's real this was not easy information to get access to partly because it wasn't digitized. It was in the library. You had to go read it and then like limited distribution on copies and some of it was restricted information. So it's like getting it was but once you poured into it or you'd hear lecturer”

“For the first time in the history of nuclear which is still a pretty young technology, we are seeing in this country industry lead and government enable and support and that, what I'm standing in is a testament to that. We see nuclear reactors get built at record speed in the United States, where we are in committee from Texas as far as we can tell by the research we've done, the fastest ever built, nuclear reactor o”

“We are in this amazing time, demand from a number of different places, the headline grabber is AI and we are behind in powering the security perspective. Not to mention amazing things AI can do for everyone but that's not the only variable. We bring in better appliances and better utilities and the other big sleeper coming is the fact that we are bringing manufacturing back to this country. Electricity went with them”

“There's about 12 trillion barrels of oil equivalent sitting in what we consider waste inventories and stockpiles today. That's enough energy to power the entire country's power needs for, you know, a millennia. Oh, and by the way, every year our operating plants produce enough waste to power the country for four more years.”

“We met a guy named Sam Altman who was actually looking at starting a nuclear company because he saw nuclear was so important and energy was kind of the key to abundance going forward. And he will say now today clearly that abundant intelligence is ultimately going to be built on abundant energy.”

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