Shane and Rod talk about a new nuclear research project that has been designated at HT3R – pronounced “heater”. It is a 10-25 MW thermal reactor with a closed cycle helium turbine. The project is a partnership between General Atomics, the University of Texas Permian Basin, and Thorium Power. The pre-conceptual design agreement was signed…
When I get into conversations with people that dislike the use of nuclear power, it never takes long before they ask the often heard question “What about the waste?” As anyone that has ever really looked around the world and visited industrial facilities, it is pretty obvious that most human creative activity produces waste materials…
Dave Erickson is a strong advocate of measures to protect the climate and blogs at Re/Action on Climate Protection. Here is the header for his blog: Welcome to the Climate Protection blog, created and guided by Dave Erickson. This is not the official voice of the Climate Protection Campaign. Dave invites all viewpoints about the…
I have decided to offer my November 2005 interview with Kelly Taylor, an active member of the North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NA-YGN) to a new audience by posting it on The Atomic Show as show number 8. If you have never heard this interview and you still think that nukes all look and…
This is a special edition of The Atomic Show. In November, 2005, I attended the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting in Washington, DC. While there, I recorded an interview with Kelly Taylor, an active member of a group called North American Young Generation in Nuclear. Kelly has been in the nuclear industry since she graduated…
Recent government discussions in Ontario about future energy supplies have indicated a significant interest in building new nuclear power plants. Ontario has a growing power demand due to an increasing population, but it also has a strong desire to eliminate the need to burn coal to supply that power. In the past, Atomic Energy of…
Several readers over the past few months have written to me to let me know that anti-nuclear advertisements often appear on my blog and on the Atomic Insights web site. Those ads are placed based on the context of the post or article by the Google Adsense service, which allows people and organizations to purchase…
Shane and Rod talk about some announcements related to new nuclear power plant construction in the US, South Korea, and Bulgaria. We also move off topic on occasion and touch on the following subjects: The Dupic process of recycling nuclear fuel from a pressurized water reactor into a CANDU reactor Recycling fruit waste into rabbit…
The Atomic Show episode 7 talks about several announcements related to new nuclear power plant projects, and it also digresses in to discussions about The Dupic process of recycling nuclear fuel from a pressurized water reactor into a CANDU reactor Recycling fruit waste into rabbit food and back to fruit tree fertilizer Milorganite Safety improvements…
Back on 14 January 2006, I posted a comment titled “Smoking gun – part 1” in which I told you that I would be on the look out for nuclear opposition that can be directly tied to the desires of competitive industries to maintain their market share. Though there is enough circumstantial evidence out there…
Dave Erickson blogs at Re/Action on Climate Protection. Dave makes it clear in his blog description that he is speaking for himself in this forum and is not representing the Climate Protection Campaign. Recently, he has posted several comments about energy economics that make it pretty clear that he likes wind, tolerates coal, and believes…
I found a couple of articles in recent days rather interesting when mashed up. One article was published in the Wall Street Journal last week – sorry, but I have lost the paper copy and cannot reference it directly. The article talked about the difference in tone of muti-national oil executives when they are talking…