“I am not afraid, and you should not be afraid of anything either.”
— Yulia Navalnaya

Personally I’m devoted to fighting disinformation and related post-truth ills as a co-founder of the Clarity Foundation.

Professionally I’m focused on zero-carbon energy solutions involving uranium (nuclear) and, erstwhile, cobalt.

I’m currently CEO of Myriad Uranium, which is developing uranium projects in Wyoming, USA and elsewhere. I was a founder of East Africa-focused M2 Cobalt which sold to the once-glorious Jervois Global. Pre-2014 I was inter alia a director of Uzhuralzoloto which was Russia’s second-largest gold producer. But then Russia invaded Crimea and eastern Ukraine and that role was put paid to.

It seems like a lifetime ago given the blaze of current politics, but early December 2023, in connection with COP28, the Sapporo 5 (US, Canada, Japan, UK, France) and 17 other countries pledged to triple nuclear power output by 2050 to help drastically reduce carbon emissions in order to fight global warming. Nuclear is our best chance. Reactor fleets are growing fast worldwide. Germany’s aside (although stay tuned on that one), Europe’s green parties, founded on anti-nuclear principles, are now “pro-nuclear”. Even Greta isn’t against it. The US government has sort of banned Russian fuel rods and is also repatriating conversion, enrichment, and fuel fabrication capacity. If you’re in the business, it’s fascinating times. Uranium spot prices nearly tripled in two years but as of early 2025 have given back some of those gains. The long term contracting price keeps rising which, we’ve now decided because it’s higher, is the more important price to watch.

Back to disinformation and post-truth. To me, the big threat globally which underlies our current plight and threatens humanity’s ability to cooperate and face reality head-on, is authoritarianism. With that, I especially loathe what one might call “developing country autocrat support providers.” They’re the worst. And there’s lots of competition for worst. Most recently, in late March 2025, Erdogan has locked up his rival the mayor of Istanbul and Musk has locally blocked posts about it on Twitter. This is an important kind of autocrat support and colourfully and tragically illustrates the iron rule that those who advocate absolute free speech too often mean they want freedom to spread their own disinformation while simultaneously suppressing professional journalism and the collection and dissemination of objective facts.

As I mention above, I co-founded and help lead the Clarity Foundation, a not-for-profit. We recently received significant coverage in the top-level science journal Nature. My co-founder Dr. David Sweet participated in the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit on Misinformation in Washington, DC. Please visit our Clarity Foundation website (a work in progress) to learn more about us. Please refer any friends who might be interested in us, too

Philosophically, I think Rawls’ Veil of Ignorance should guide policymaking. Roughly that means, if you’re governing, imagine you could be born disadvantaged into the polity you govern.

Overall I keep this site so I have a place to put things with no better home. It’s more for me, but you’re welcome to explore it. If you know me you can ask for the password to see more.

— Tom