Mary Mycio – Wormwood Forest

A random web search led me to a BBC interview with Mary Mycio, author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl. The interview, titled Chernobyl, twenty years on aired on 29 March 2006 on Woman’s Hour. The interview was fascinating and informative. Here is a sample exchange from the interview: Q: So what is…

Amory Lovins's academic career

Editor’s Note: This post started as a quick response to a question asked at Potential Energy: Defibrillating the corpse. The author of that post – Caspar Henderson – asked readers “Is Amory Lovins wrong when he says “even huge subsidies [to nuclear power] will be the same as defibrillating a corpse: it will jump, but…

Atomic Show Number 15 – Using nuclear power to help control gasoline prices

During episode 15 of The Atomic Show, Shane and I discuss the economic pain of every increasing gasoline prices and ways that nuclear power can work to alleviate some of the supply pressures that are driving those prices. Please check it out! PS – Though the magic of Google AdSense might make this comment hard…

NEI Nuclear Notes: Continuing The Myths and Facts Debate

NEI Nuclear Notes: Continuing The Myths and Facts Debate Eric McErlain has published a post that contains excerpts from a recent speech by Skip Bowman, the NEI President. The speech outlined the case for continuing to move forward with Yucca Mountain as the nation’s answer to the long term storage of used nuclear fuel. Though…

The Atomic Show #015 – Can more nuclear energy affect rising gas prices

During show number 15 of The Atomic Show, Shane and I discuss the effects of ever increasing gasoline prices on people that need to drive light trucks as part of the way that they earn their living. We then discuss how nuclear power, specifically smaller nuclear reactors designed to compete in markets currently dominated by…

Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski – CHERNOBYL: THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN?

Zbigniew Jaworowski (Professor Emeritus of the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw Poland) has written an excellent column titled Chernobyl: The Fear of the Unknown? It was commissioned by a group that received the draft from Dr. Jaworowski in February, 2006 and then took so long to review it that they missed the deadlines imposed…

Florida passes laws that will encourage nuclear development

The Florida state senate passed a new energy roadmap with some provisions that may encourage electric power utilities in the state to speed up their development of new nuclear power plants. The bill passed through the senate on a 39-0 vote after having been approved by the House on Wednesday, 3 May on a vote…

Atomic Show – Interview with Ted Rockwell

On May 4, 2006 my buddy Shane Brown and I spent an enjoyable hour chatting with Ted Rockwell, author of The Rickover Effect: The Inside Story of How Adm. Hyman Rickover Built the Nuclear Navy and Creating the New World: Stories and Images From the Dawn of the Atomic Age. The interview is posted on…

The Atomic Show #014 (MP3 – 17.5MB – 51min)

Show number 14 is something special. It is the first time that Shane and I invite a guest for an interview. Though we have a little difficulty with sound quality, we believe that this is one of our best efforts so far. Our guest, Ted Rockwell is a true nuclear pioneer, having been a part…

Interesting discussion on AlterNet

Joshua Holland of AlterNet has posted an article titled Bush’s Nuclear Madness in which he postulates that the coming nuclear renaissance is just a creation of the evil Bush administration. As a long time independent nuclear advocate, I took issue with the assertion and posted a long comment on the article. You can find it…

AlterNet article – "Bush's Nuclear Madness"

Joshua Holland at AlterNet has posted a thought and comment provoking article titled Bush’s Nuclear Madness in which he postulates that the only reason that nuclear power is making a comeback in the public eye is that there has been a focused, long term effort by a shadowy group of industry lobbyists making key political…

Atomic Guests: CHERNOBYL: THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN?

This column was written by Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski (Professor Emeritus of the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw Poland). It was commissioned by a group that received the draft in February and then took so long to review it that they missed the deadlines imposed by traditional media outlets for publication during the “attention period”…