About a month ago, I wrote about a large uranium deposit in Virginia located under a family farm named Coles Hill owned by Mr. Walter Coles, a retired US government employee. (Coal mining versus uranium mining in Virginia) One aspect of the story that intrigued me was the fact that even studying the deposit was…
The Houston Chronicle serves a reader base that includes a high percentage of people in the energy business. The city’s prosperity has risen and fallen and risen again as the energy markets have fluctuated during the past 100 years. The primary focus of Houston’s energy business has been oil and natural gas, but there are…
In my last post I asked about your reactions to the long running story of the security guards who were caught napping in the ready room at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station. A reader’s question led me to make it easier for you to find the video of that illustrate the basis for the…
Late last year there was a lot of hype about a series of cell phone videos recorded by a new security guard at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station of fellow guards dozing off while in a room identified as a “ready room”. Having never actually been on the commercial side of the nuclear business,…
One of the reasons that I am so enthusiastic about atomic fission is the fact that it is an extremely concentrated form of energy production. When all effects are considered, it often provides the very lowest impact on the environment because the amount of land affected is minimized, the amount of air and water pollution…
Geoffrey Gunn has written a summary article about energy options in the ASEAN countries titled Asian tigers eye nuclear future that provides an interesting perspective. He has a cautious attitude about the technology and its potential for project failures, but he also provides a lot of useful information about the energy supply situation in countries…
Karen Street produces a thoughtful blog titled A Musing Environment. In a recent post, she makes a case for increasing energy R&D – Increase R&D, don’t cut it. I generally agree that there is a need for more development of high payoff energy technologies with certain focused research efforts to solve known problems. Unfortunately, most…
Okay, my title is a bit of a paraphrase of the below exchange from Five Questions for Vinod Khosla posted on January 30, 2008 on Mendo Coast Current. E2T: You’re well known for having big macro views as to how these things have to change. What do you think is the single biggest failure of…
Jill Buck, Founder of the Go Green Initiative, joins Rod Adams for a discussion of the environmental benefits of nuclear power You are going to enjoy this show! Jill Buck is an energetic community leader with a vision for a cleaner world and she has been working for a number of years to make that…
Jill Buck is the mother of 3, a former Naval Officer, a conservationist and the founder of the Go Green Initiative. She is also a strong supporter of the need to build new nuclear power plants. I interviewed her for Atomic Show 082 and found her to be a very articulate and passionate source of…
It is getting increasingly obvious to oil exporting nations that nuclear power plants offer an intriguing investment opportunity. Russia recently inked a deal with Bulgaria to build a couple of new nuclear power reactors, investors in Alberta have been looking hard at using nuclear power in the oil sands region, and this morning I came…
I just finished reading a fascinating article on Bloomberg.com titled Prius Designer Says Industry Must Lose Oil Addiction (Update1). The focus of the article is the challenge facing the world as we move further into an age where oil extraction gets more and more difficult. The writers did a great job of personalizing the story…