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James Walker

Chief Executive Officer & Director, NANO Nuclear Energy Inc.

Search every verified James Walker interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. James Walker, CEO of NANO Nuclear Energy, has recently discussed the company’s microreactor technology and its potential applications across data centers, remote communities, and industrial sites. In media appearances and panel discussions, he described advanced reactors as capable of faster deployment than traditional nuclear systems, citing standardized designs and mass manufacturing as factors that could shorten timelines. He also highlighted safety improvements in newer reactor designs, stating that accident scenarios associated with older technology are not possible with current systems, and pointed to a planned reactor at the University of Illinois campus as an example of co-location in populated areas. Walker also addressed partnerships and commercial strategy. He mentioned a collaboration with Tillman Digital Gateway targeting up to six gigawatts of advanced nuclear capacity by around 2040, and described plans to structure agreements that include customer investment in NANO through equity grants, warrants, and milestone-based payments. On an earnings call, he stated that the company’s main bottleneck is not licensing but the pace of mass production expected around 2030, and expressed confidence that fuel fabrication capabilities for its first reactor already exist. In discussions about community opposition, he noted that data centers have sometimes faced more local pushback than nuclear projects, and advocated for using existing infrastructure and federal lands to accelerate deployment.

Recent appearances

  • Growth Without Gridlock: How Nuclear’s Load-Following and Co-Location Potential Can Ease NIMBYism

    October 10, 2026 · 📺 Texas Nuclear Alliance

    Featuring: James Walker, Chief Executive Officer, NANO Nuclear Energy Colleen Sweet, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, iTOTEM Analytics Gregory Forero, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, HGP Intelligent Energy David Holt, President, Consumer Energy Alliance Moderator: Lauren Clay, Co-Founder and Vice President, Texas Nuclear Alliance As communities across Texas face growing pressure from new infrastructure and rising electricity demand, local opposition — including resistance to high-voltage transmission lines and data centers — has become a central challenge to development. This panel…

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  • NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ:NNE)'s CEO James Walker Featured on Washington Times 'Bold and Blunt'

    September 23, 2026 · 📺 Nano Nuclear Energy Inc.

    Thank you to ‪@washingtontimes‬ and Cheryl Chumley for having our CEO, James Walker on Bold and Blunt to discuss nuclear power and NANOs role in the growing industry. James touches on NANO Nuclear Energy's approach to the micro reactor industry saying, "Its very different than the traditional reactor systems and the deployment timelines are much faster, 15 years might be shortened to 3 to 4 years." He added, "You now have the ability to mass manufacture components because they're standardized designs that will be deployed across multiple locations. It's more an assembly operation rather tha…

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  • Nano Nuclear Energy (NNE) CEO on Role in Data Centers, Power Partnerships

    August 29, 2026 · 📺 Schwab Network

    Nano Nuclear Energy (NNE) CEO James Walker joins Trading 360 to discuss how the AI and data center buildout is creating new demand for reliable nuclear power. Walker explains how the company’s microreactors could help address growing electricity needs, including through a partnership with Tillman Digital Gateway targeting 6 GW of power over the next decade. He also discusses how newer reactor designs could allow deployment closer to urban areas while improving safety compared with earlier generations. Segment originally aired Friday, August 28, 2026. ======== Schwab Network ======== Empoweri…

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  • NANO Nuclear Energy Q3 2026 Earnings Call | Portable Microreactor R&D Milestones Progress

    August 19, 2026 · 📺 i101

    NANO Nuclear Energy Q3 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 compan…

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  • NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ:NNE)'s CEO James Walker Featured on WTTW

    August 06, 2026 · 📺 Nano Nuclear Energy Inc.

    Thank you to ‪@wttw‬ for having our CEO, James Walker, share his expertise on the segment, "Amid Push for Nuclear Reactor Construction, Illinois Is One Step Closer to Selecting a Site". "The NANO Nuclear reactor, which would fit on a 2-acre plot of land adjacent to an existing power plant, is the first of its size to be submitted for federal approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission." NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NNE) is an advanced technology-driven nuclear energy company seeking to become a commercially focused, diversified, and vertically integrated company across the followi…

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  • NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ:NNE)'s CEO James Walker Featured on Critical Mass

    August 05, 2026 · 📺 Nano Nuclear Energy Inc.

    Thank you to ‪@CriticalMassio‬ for having our CEO, James Walker, on "How To Manufacture Nuclear Energy at Scale". "For nuclear now there's drivers coming from military bases, the tech industry for data centers, and places like the Canadian government for remote communities living off diesel," James stated, "There's all these different things now that nuclear is looking to fit into, and its in a unique position to fill these gaps." NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NNE) is an advanced technology-driven nuclear energy company seeking to become a commercially focused, diversified, and verticall…

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  • NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ:NNE)'s CEO James Walker Featured on "The Nuclear Comeback"

    July 14, 2026 · 📺 Nano Nuclear Energy Inc.

    Thank you to ‪@PayneCapitalMgmt‬ for having our CEO, James Walker, on "The Nuclear Comeback". "One of the ideas of the industry in general," James states, "was that you would create an ability to mass produce reactor systems. Our reactor has been deliberately designed so we can produce them along a production line, and we can keep making them". NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NNE) is an advanced technology-driven nuclear energy company seeking to become a commercially focused, diversified, and vertically integrated company across the following business lines: (i) cutting edge portable and…

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  • The Nuclear Comeback with James Walker, CEO, Nano Nuclear Energy

    June 18, 2026 · 📺 Payne Capital

    Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence right now. But almost no one is asking the most important question: Where is all the power going to come from? AI data centers are incredibly energy-intensive. The infrastructure being built to support this technology is going to require massive, reliable, and uninterrupted electricity. And that brings us to a surprising conclusion… Nuclear energy is quietly becoming one of the most important investment themes of the next decade. Over the last few weeks, we had the chance to sit down with James Walker, CEO of Nano Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ:…

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  • NANO Nuclear Energy Q2 2026 Earnings Call |$15M Funding Secured To Advance Zeus Micro-Reactor Design

    May 15, 2026 · 📺 i101

    NANO Nuclear Energy Q2 2026 Earnings Conference Call. 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 If you want us to remove your company's earnings call or any other conference call, please reach out to [email protected].

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  • NNE CEO on AI Driven Power Demand

    May 08, 2026 · 📺 Schwab Network

    Nano Nuclear Energy (NNE) CEO James Walker joins Market on Close following news of its MOU with Supermicro (SMCI) to power AI data centers. He explains the differences between the "Homer Simpson" sized nuclear sites versus micro-reactors which are in greater demand as AI requires larger energy demands. James addresses the safety concerns around nuclear energy and explains why micro-reactors have added safeguards to prevent meltdowns. He adds how easily the technology is to mass deploy calling it "an exciting transformation" in the space. ======== Schwab Network ======== Empowering every inves…

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  • NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE) CEO James Walker Featured on BNN Bloomberg’s “Trading Day”

    May 07, 2026 · 📺 Nano Nuclear Energy Inc.

    “There has been an explosive growth of AI, cloud computing, and high performance computing that requires an unprecedented increase in global energy demand," James stated. "A lot of tech centers are turning to solutions that will provide them with that base load power capable of being off grid with zero carbon emissions. They are going in the direction of nuclear.” NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NNE) recently announced it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server and AI infrastructure sol…

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  • NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ:NNE)'s CEO James Walker Live From the NASDAQ MarketSite

    April 21, 2026 · 📺 Nano Nuclear Energy Inc.

    Thank you to ‪@nasdaq‬ for hosting NANO Nuclear Energy's CEO, James Walker, at the NASDAQ MarketSite. NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NNE), a leading advanced nuclear energy and microreactor developer, recently announced that a Construction Permit Application (CPA) has been submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its KRONOS MMR™ microreactor. The CPA was formally submitted by The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U. of I.), NANO Nuclear’s partner for the KRONOS MMR™ deployment at the U. of I. The CPA submission repre…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“I would say, judge, I'm going to try and solve your problems and everyone wins out of this. So you won't need to spend huge amounts on infrastructure upgrades to get your grid up to a capacity where you can meet this incoming demand. We can be offsite and we can provide that baseload power the data centers want because they can sustain such little downtime on an annual basis. It will create industry. It's zero carbon”

“It's interesting actually. We have a big partner in Texas at the moment. They're building a data center right now, like they're actively building up the site, and uniquely for me, I think, is that when you go to local council events or things like that, they're the more controversial partner, which is interesting being the nuclear company sitting there and watching the pushback that they're receiving. And a lot of th”

“The data centers is a very interesting scenario because we've done town halls before with data centers and we've actually noticed how much more unpopular they are with communities than nuclear which you know you wouldn't expect being you know with the I've been involved in nuclear in a long time and I would say that's the first time that's happened. And it's because data centers have been responsible for utility bill”

“The new advanced reactors contrast that quite dramatically because of the type of fuel that they're utilizing. There's no emergency planning zone around a lot of these reactor systems. So they can collocate on the base and they can be put in dense population centers. And to give an example, our micro reactor system we're building one at the moment in the middle of the University of Illinois campus. And you know that'”

“I think the bottleneck for us is not a licensing or regulatory issue. It's going to be how quickly we can mass produce these things come 2030.”

“We're targeting something like two gigawatts of advanced nuclear capacity for tech in partnership with Tillman by about the mid 2030s and by about 2040, in the region of six gigawatts is being targeted between us.”

Other executives at NANO Nuclear Energy Inc.

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