Stefano Buono

Welcome back to Green Giants, Titans of Clean Energy.

Today I'm joined by Stefano Buono, founder and CEO of Nucleo.

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.

And if you don't know much about nuclear, this conversation is for you.

We're going to start with the basics, then get into the much bigger questions around safety, waste, cost, plutonium, energy security, and what it actually takes to turn an ambitious scientific idea into a commercial energy business.

With that, Stefano, welcome to the show.