Comments on: January 16, 2026 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-16-2026-zimmerman-batchelor-podcast/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: James Street https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-16-2026-zimmerman-batchelor-podcast/#comment-1627662 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:01:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=120811#comment-1627662 A video about Doug Bernauer CEO of Radiant that is building portable nuclear micro reactors. He’s a former SpaceX guy and trying to bring that same rapid iterative design and build process to his company. At 2:44 he makes the comment about the nuclear regulatory bureaucracy “We don’t have the regulatory environment that’s set up and ready for innovation.”

“This SpaceX Engineer is Building a Mobile Nuclear Reactor | Doug Bernauer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6B8n7Jg7Zo
(34 minutes from a year ago. Interesting but nothing profound)

Another article about former SpaceX employees trying to bring SpaceX’s business model to the Military Industrial Complex. Castelion is building hypersonic missiles, and Divergent Technologies is 3D printing missile bodies and structures. The article gives a nice summary of SpaceX’s practice “You need to get to hardware early, you need to test, then you need to iterate fast, and then do it again. The way that you’re able to do that is, anywhere that you need to, vertically integrate.”

“Meet the New Weapon-Making Kids on the Block Under Hegseth’s Watch”
https://economiccollapse.report/meet-the-new-weapon-making-kids-on-the-block-under-hegseths-watch/

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