Nuclear power is often discussed as a technology problem. The deeper constraint is execution: cost, schedule, construction risk, financing, supply chain readiness, and whether new power capacity can actually be delivered on a timeline that matters.

Jake Jurewicz argues that the future of nuclear power depends on changing the way plants are built. As the co-founder and CEO of Blue Energy, he is working on a deployment model that applies shipyard manufacturing, LNG construction methods, large-format prefabrication, and gas-to-nuclear sequencing to small modular reactors.

In this conversation, we look at why nuclear's biggest bottleneck is not only reactor design, how Blue Energy is trying to reduce first-build risk, and why firm power capacity has become a critical constraint for AI, data centers, reshoring, industrial hubs, water needs, and long-term energy security.

What You'll Discover In This Episode

Why nuclear's biggest bottleneck is cost, schedule, and execution

How small modular reactors create a different path for deployment

Why Blue Energy is applying shipyard and LNG construction methods to nuclear

How gas-to-nuclear sequencing can reduce first-build risk

Why firm power is becoming a constraint for AI, data centers, and industrial growth

About the Guest

Jake Jurewicz is the CEO and co-founder of Blue Energy. Jake has over 10 years of experience building, investing in, and advising companies in the energy, climate, security, and construction sectors. He previously co-founded Entropy Power, a developer of behind-the-meter co-located industrial loads at wholesale generators, and served as Head of Transition Risk and Strategic Projects at Cervest, a UK startup focused delivering high-granularity climate risk analysis to real estate and infrastructure. Previously, Jake served on the corporate strategy team at Exelon Corporation, leading projects in R&D, strategic planning, and venture capital across the categories of nuclear, solar, hydrogen, energy storage, and distributed energy resources. Before Exelon, Jake worked in the nuclear security sector, pursued research in nuclear fusion, and apprenticed as a construction draftsman. Jake holds a Master's in Nuclear Science & Engineering as well as a dual bachelor's in physics and nuclear science & engineering from MIT.

Alex Krutz is the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing at the U.S. Commerce Department and the Managing Director at Patriot Industrial Partners, an Industrial Advisory firm.

Alex and his team partner with growth-oriented companies to improve their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and supply chain optimization initiatives.

Alex has earned the nickname "The Factory Doctor" from industry executives, analysts and media due to spearheading many manufacturing and supply chain turnarounds. Alex has completed over 250+ industrial performance improvement projects and manufacturing turnarounds around the globe in USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, Italy, France, South Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan and India.

You can find Alex's Op-Ed articles that are featured in industry-leading publications, including Washington Times, Forbes, Aviation Week and Flight Global. He has also been cited in major media outlets, such as Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, among others. He has contributed to prominent conferences and webinars organized by Bank of America, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and other institutions.

Resources

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Alex and his team at Patriot Industrial Partners work with growth-oriented organizations to raise their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and due diligence.

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What energy capacity means for manufacturing, national security, and economic sovereignty

America can't rebuild manufacturing by focusing only on the final assembly line. The deeper problem is the industrial layer underneath it: castings, forgings, tooling, materials, equipment, process control, and the skilled workforce that knows how to make hard parts. Those capabilities are easy to overlook until aircraft are grounded, production programs stall, or critical components can only be sourced from overseas.

Cameron Schiller argues that reindustrialization has to start at that foundational layer. As the CEO and founder of Rangeview, he is building a Southern California foundry focused on highly specialized investment castings, including nickel-based superalloys and structural components.

In this conversation, we look at why castings and forgings have become a national capacity problem, how digital tooling can remove months of delay from complex casting programs, and why rebuilding American manufacturing means rebuilding the systems, skills, and factory infrastructure that make everything else possible.

What You'll Discover In This Episode

Why final assembly is only one part of reindustrialization

How castings and forgings became a hidden capacity constraint

Why foundry knowledge has become a generational handoff problem

How digital tooling changes the casting timeline

Where supply chain risk hides inside the equipment layer

What it takes to rebuild hard industrial capability in America

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About the Guest

Cameron Schiller is the CEO and founder of Rangeview, a Southern California company focused on rebuilding American foundry capacity through highly specialized investment castings. Rangeview works on high-value castings, including nickel-based superalloys, VIM melt, and structural components, with a focus on difficult parts, fast iteration, commercialization, and scaling production timelines. Cameron founded the company out of the same family garage where he grew up building robots, and his background as a roboticist and manufacturing operator has shaped Rangeview's approach to automation, digital tooling, materials science, and factory systems. His work is focused on bringing advanced manufacturing capacity back to the United States and building the next generation of American foundries.

Alex Krutz is the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing at the U.S. Commerce Department and the Managing Director at Patriot Industrial Partners, an Industrial Advisory firm.

Alex and his team partner with growth-oriented companies to improve their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and supply chain optimization initiatives.

Alex has earned the nickname "The Factory Doctor" from industry executives, analysts and media due to spearheading many manufacturing and supply chain turnarounds. Alex has completed over 250+ industrial performance improvement projects and manufacturing turnarounds around the globe in USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, Italy, France, South Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan and India.

You can find Alex's Op-Ed articles that are featured in industry-leading publications, including Washington Times, Forbes, Aviation Week and Flight Global. He has also been cited in major media outlets, such as Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, among others. He has contributed to prominent conferences and webinars organized by Bank of America, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and other institutions.

Resources

Have a project that can benefit from Alex's expertise?

Alex and his team at Patriot Industrial Partners work with growth-oriented organizations to raise their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and due diligence.

Visit TheFactoryDoctor.com to learn more about private consulting and to request a Discovery Call.

When companies are trying to scale complex hardware, the work can easily be split into separate lanes: engineering, production, supply chain, quality, sales, and operations. Each team has its own tasks, its own constraints, and its own way of measuring progress.

Keith Flynn's point is that speed comes from organizing those teams around the outcome they are trying to deliver, not just the work sitting in front of them. They are the ones who organize teams around outcomes, give people clarity on the result they are trying to achieve, and build the systems that help them get there.

Keith currently serves as Senior Vice President of Production at Anduril, where he helps scale advanced defense manufacturing for a new generation of hardware systems. He brings more than 20 years of experience across manufacturing, engineering, robotics, automotive, and new product launches, including leadership roles at Tesla, Starsky Robotics, and Toyota.

What You'll Discover In This Episode

• The relationship between speed, risk, and execution in modern manufacturing

• Why outcome-driven teams move faster than task-based organizations

• How Anduril thinks about production as part of the product from day one

• Why software-defined capability changes how defense hardware can be built

• The role digital tools play in connecting engineering, supply chain, production, and quality

• When stable demand becomes one of the most powerful tools for rebuilding industrial capacity

About the Guest

Keith Flynn is the Senior Vice President of Production at Anduril. He brings more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing and engineering, with deep expertise in developing and scaling innovative hardware systems across the automotive, robotics, and defense sectors. Before Anduril, he held leadership roles at Tesla across engineering, operations, research and development, new products, automation, and technologies. He also led the hardware engineering organization at autonomous trucking startup Starsky Robotics, and earlier in his career, supported new vehicle launches and manufacturing at Toyota.

Alex Krutz is the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing at the U.S. Commerce Department and the Managing Director at Patriot Industrial Partners, an Industrial Advisory firm.

Alex and his team partner with growth-oriented companies to improve their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and supply chain optimization initiatives.

Alex has earned the nickname "The Factory Doctor" from industry executives, analysts and media due to spearheading many manufacturing and supply chain turnarounds. Alex has completed over 250+ industrial performance improvement projects and manufacturing turnarounds around the globe in USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, Italy, France, South Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan and India.

You can find Alex's Op-Ed articles that are featured in industry-leading publications, including Washington Times, Forbes, Aviation Week and Flight Global. He has also been cited in major media outlets, such as Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, among others. He has contributed to prominent conferences and webinars organized by Bank of America, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and other institutions.

Resources

Have a project that can benefit from Alex's expertise?

Alex and his team at Patriot Industrial Partners work with growth-oriented organizations to raise their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and due diligence.

Visit TheFactoryDoctor.com to learn more about private consulting and to request a Discovery Call.