In the 47th installment of The Atomic Exchange Podcast, co-hosts Dr. Goran Calic and Michael Tadrous welcome Professor Paul Nary of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania to unpack how major industries evolve when a new technology takes over. They explore classic boom and bust patterns, what signals a shakeout, and why predicting timing is so hard even when the signs are obvious. The conversation shifts to AI platforms, energy as the real constraint, and how firms build a prudent portfolio of investments, partnerships, and acquisitions to preserve optionality without betting the company. They close by connecting vertical integration, thin markets, and uncertainty management to real examples from electric vehicles, computing, and the race to build infrastructure fast enough. Tune in for a sharp, framework-driven conversation on AI, energy bottlenecks, and corporate strategy.

In the 46th installment of The Atomic Exchange Podcast, co-hosts Dr. Goran Calic and Michael Tadrous break down their new research on how large language models struggle with nuclear regulation. They open with a recap of closed-door briefings at the Canadian Nuclear Association and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, then explain embeddings, how vector spaces and cosine similarity drive retrieval, and why small differences across regulations blur together. The episode walks through accuracy and distraction tradeoffs, omission risks that cascade downstream, and live tests showing that even with many retrieval attempts models still miss or mix sections. They close with practical fixes, from human-in-the-loop workflows and structured prompts to rewriting regulations into machine-readable formats that reduce error at the source.

In the 45th installment of The Atomic Exchange Podcast, co-hosts Dr. Goran Calic and Michael Tadrous take a deep, practical look at radon. They explain what radon is and how it harms, why winter readings run higher than summer, and how long-term lab tests compare to continuous monitors. Then they separate home exposure from miner studies, translate working-level months into everyday Bq/m³, and walk through large U.S., Danish, and multi-country European studies to see where risk actually shows up. The episode closes with clear takeaways on when to test, what thresholds matter in practice, how to think about mitigation, and why health policy can drift from the underlying evidence.