Roth Capital Partners is bringing nuclear energy to Wall Street. On October 1, 2026, the California-based investment bank will host its inaugural Emerging Nuclear Technology Conference at the 1 Hotel Central Park in New York — an invitation-only event designed for institutional investors and companies operating across the full spectrum of the civil nuclear sector.
The conference spans the entire industry value chain: from uranium mining and the fuel cycle to next-generation reactors, spent fuel management, and fusion. Thirteen companies are already listed on the official roster as of September 27, including NANO Nuclear Energy, Centrus Energy Corp., Denison Mines Corp., TAE Technologies, Deep Fission, Hadron Energy, and Jaguar Uranium Corp. The lineup features both publicly traded and private companies, underscoring that financial interest in nuclear now spans a wide range of technological maturity stages.
The keynote will be delivered by Jay Yu, Founder, Executive Chairman, and President of NANO Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ: NNE). Craig Irwin, Managing Director and Senior Sustainability Research Analyst at Roth, will moderate the working lunch panel and the fireside chat. The event’s format also includes one-on-one meetings and small-group sessions between corporate executives and fund managers — the most direct mechanism for converting investor interest into actual capital deployment.
The decision to launch a conference dedicated exclusively to nuclear energy is anything but coincidental. Jesse Pichel, Managing Director and Co-Head of Sustainability Investment Banking at Roth, summed up the event’s core thesis: small modular reactors have the potential to transform complex nuclear power plants into factory-built, industrially scalable products. This represents a fundamental shift in the production paradigm — one that reduces construction timelines and costs, and that is drawing capital from investors who, until recently, had largely overlooked the sector.
Among the attendees, Jaguar Uranium Corp. (NYSE American: JAGU) stands out. The Canadian company, focused on South America, will present exploration updates on its four uranium, rare earth, and copper assets in Argentina and Colombia, including the historic Huemul mine in the province of Mendoza. The presence of a South American mining company alongside advanced reactor developers and fusion pioneers reflects the integrated nature of the conference: the nuclear industry of the future depends as much on technology as it does on the availability of raw materials.
Roth Capital Partners, headquartered in Newport Beach, California, is a private, employee-owned investment bank active in capital raising, equity research, M&A, and institutional market access. Choosing nuclear energy as the standalone theme of a dedicated conference signals that the sector has reached the critical mass needed to be treated as its own distinct investment class. The meetings taking place on October 1 could translate into concrete financing transactions in the months ahead for the participating companies, accelerating the development of technologies that are still in pre-commercial stages today but are attracting growing interest from pension funds, family offices, and clean energy-focused asset managers.
