The Investigator
About Ross Ridenoure
Ross Ridenoure is a nuclear industry executive with decades of operational experience in commercial and naval nuclear power.
A four-time Senior Reactor Operator and Chief Nuclear Officer at Hadron Energy, he brings a disciplined operator’s perspective to the history of commercial, experimental, demonstration, and naval reactors.
Forgotten Reactors explores the machines, mistakes, and hardearned lessons that shaped the modern nuclear industry.
ABOUT THE ARCHIVE
A living record of experimental, ambitious, and overlooked reactors - and the lessons they left behind.
THE MISSION
Forgotten Reactors documents the machines that shaped nuclear history—not only the successes, but the experiments, missteps, and ambitious designs that quietly moved the industry forward.
WHY IT MATTERS
The commercial nuclear fleet did not emerge fully formed. It evolved through iteration, correction, and hard-earned operational experience. Many of those lessons are no longer widely discussed. This archive exists to preserve them.
The Investigator
The archive is curated by a career nuclear operator and engineer with decades of operational and leadership experience across multiple reactor technologies.
The perspective is informed by firsthand industry evolution—from early experimentation to institutional reliability.