CEOInterviews.AI
Start App
Try: AI strategy tariffs earnings guidance layoffs interest rates growth

Seth Grae

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Lightbridge

Search every verified Seth Grae interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Seth Grae, Chairman and CEO of Lightbridge Corporation, has recently appeared in multiple media interviews and conferences to discuss the company's advanced nuclear fuel technology. In an October 2026 interview on the Schwab Network from Tokyo, where he attended the Top Fuel 2026 conference, Grae stated that Lightbridge Fuel is designed to produce up to 20% more power from existing reactors and about a third more from new ones, suggesting that three new reactors could deliver the output of four. He compared this to a Google-Constellation deal that adds roughly one reactor's worth of power by upgrading equipment across 11 plants. Grae also participated in the Atlantic Council Nuclear Energy Policy Summit in September 2026, where he was a panelist on "Financial De-Risking of New Nuclear Projects." He discussed the company's progress with U.S. Department of Energy and Idaho National Laboratory support, including approval to use a loop at the Advanced Test Reactor and selection under DOE's Launchpad INL program to authorize a pilot fuel fabrication facility. In other appearances, Grae described Lightbridge's metallic fuel as a new design distinct from the oxide fuel used for decades, and he addressed nuclear safety, stating that the industry "literally has never had anyone die of anything nuclear." He also discussed how abundant, reliable power is becoming a key factor in attracting industrial facilities to states like Wyoming.

Recent appearances

Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“It's a fuel that we invented as well as the process of making it, a co-extruded metallic fuel, not pellets in a tube, with three main areas that add value to the utilities. One is a power up rate. So that could be up to 10% for an existing plant without changing the steam generator or up to 20% if you change the steam generator which the utilities do periodically and about a third more power for new build reactors wi”

“We really view the nuclear industry as being in two types of companies. There's the utilities that produce the power and there's the suppliers. And the utilities are the big dogs because if they need something, they will pull it through the supply chains or do the best they can to do it. But if your supplier and utility doesn't want it, it doesn't matter how much you make, you're not going to sell any. Now, some comp”

“It used to be a lot of factories and other industrial facilities would compete for where do you get the biggest tax break? You know, where are we going to go to build this automobile assembly plant? And now it starts with can you guarantee us the power at a reliable cost for decades? And if you can't, we're not going, no matter how big a tax break we get. And but if you can, then you're very much in the running. So, ”

“I think nuclear and aviation have a lot of analogies. And how safe is it to get into this thin metal tube and go miles in the air at hundreds of miles per hour? And the answer is it's the safest part of your day. And the reason is there's people who work very hard at making it safe. And at making it the safest part of your day, from the people in the industry to the regulators. And that's how it is with nuclear. It's”

“India very recently passed a law called the Shanti Act that in the text of the law does fix the issue. And it's very important because if a vendor, say someone that sells a valve to a reactor, gets blamed and is found guilty in an Indian court, say for the valve being defective, and might be held liable for a billion dollars of damage to the reactor building or something in some potential incident, that's not how Ind”

“India has about 8 gigawatts electric of nuclear power in the whole country. That's about as much power as New York City uses. But India has a policy now to grow that from 8 to 100 gigawatts electric of nuclear power by 2047, which is as much nuclear power as the US has. That's about a fifth of all the electric power in the United States.”

The summary and quote tags on this profile are produced with AI assistance from verified, first-person interview transcripts, then checked by our team to confirm the speaker's identity and the accuracy of every quote. See how we verify →