{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhopedose.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fproject-omega-staff-sheehan-0WXhcSyN","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Project Omega: Staff Sheehan","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/223a3e6c-50fc-4374-815a-724604482616/8a8dd5ed-aa4f-4aa7-8183-e24c3cb999b4/geminigeneratedimage5ue7el5ue7el5ue7.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"For the very first episode of Hope Dose, Matt sits down with Dr. Staff Sheehan, co-founder and CEO of Project Omega — his first interview since the company came out of stealth.\n\nProject Omega is tackling one of the most stubborn problems in clean energy: the roughly 100,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting on the campuses of power plants across America, managed — almost unbelievably — through decades of lawsuits rather than a real plan. Staff's insight is that this \"waste\" still holds more than 90% of its original energy and is more than 95% reusable uranium. Project Omega recycles it: pulling out the reusable fuel, and turning the leftover fission products like strontium-90 into tiny, long-duration power sources — what Staff calls \"batteries that never die.\"\n\nIt's a conversation about second acts (Staff's last company, Air Company, started by making vodka from CO2 before pivoting to sustainable jet fuel), about why hardware is having its moment again, and about a go-to-market playbook borrowed from the history of the solar cell. Along the way: the three kinds of radiation explained without a textbook, why you shouldn't eat your smoke detector, and the affordability case for energy abundance.\n\nA note on format: this is episode one, Staff was gracious enough to be our \"guinea pig,\" and we're still finding our feet. Thanks for being here at the start.\n"}