US nuclear innovator NuCube Energy has hired Michael Green as its inaugural chief legal officer to help support the company’s growth and its expansion in Arizona.
Green joins from nuclear power company Oklo, where he was deputy general counsel for strategic execution. At NuCube, he will lead the company’s legal function and support partnership development, deployment planning and engagement with Arizona’s energy and technology ecosystem.
Arizona-based NuCube is developing a high-temperature modular microreactor that can generate electricity and industrial-grade heat.
Writing on LinkedIn, Green said: “What drew me to NuCube is the ambition and creativity behind the NUSUN platform solid-state fission reactor. A genuinely new approach to nuclear at a moment when the world needs new approaches. Helping shape the legal and regulatory path for a technology like this is the work I have spent my career preparing for.”
Green spent a year at Oklo, having previously been deputy GC at nuclear reactor developer TerraPower. Before that he spent close to 16 years at Pinnacle West Capital Corporation across several legal roles, including as associate GC for nuclear and environmental.
He started his legal career as an associate at Morgan Lewis & Bockius having previously spent two decades serving in the US Navy.
Green’s appointment comes after a wave of nuclear-related in-house hires in the US last year. In October, NuScale Power hired its second CLO in less than four months, appointing James Canafax to replace Shahram Ghasemian who had joined in July as its first CLO.
Canafax was previously GC and chief compliance officer at maritime financing business Maritime Partners. Corvallis, Oregon-based NuScale Power develops small modular reactor nuclear technology, with each reactor unit capable of generating 77 megawatts of electricity.
In September last year, US nuclear peer The Nuclear Company hired Robert Harmon, a former deputy GC at Tesla, to become its first CLO. Harmon joined from construction tech business ICON. The Nuclear Company is helping modernise the deployment of nuclear power plants in the US through the use of AI-driven technology.
Meanwhile in May, nuclear innovator Terrestrial Energy hired Brian Romanzo as GC from franchising consultancy REP’M Group. North Carolina-based Terrestrial Energy develops small modular nuclear power plants that are built with advanced reactor technology using molten salt as a coolant instead of water.
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