Advanced Accelerator Applications

Stefano is a physicist who began working on nuclear energy and nuclear waste transmutation more than 30 years ago.

He later took an unexpected turn into medicine, founding Advanced Accelerator Applications, a company that use radioactive materials to diagnose and treat disease.

He took that company public and Novartis ultimately acquired it for approximately $3.9 billion.

Now he's returned to the energy problem he started working on decades ago.

And, you know, really does put the current nuclear moment into perspective.

It's like the idea itself is much older than the excitement around it.

But you eventually sort of put the reactor ambition on hold and, you know, spent more than 15 years building advanced accelerator applications, using these advanced radioactive isotopes to diagnose and treat disease before the Novartis acquisition, which I noted there in the intro.

But Was that detour actually the thing that made Nucleo possible? Or I guess, what did it teach you now that applies to nuclear energy?