Calvert Cliffs III – Upcoming PSC Public Meeting Schedule

A couple of days ago I mentioned that the Maryland Public Service Commission would be holding a series of meetings in southern Maryland for people interested Unistar’s proposal to build a third nuclear power plant at Calvert Cliffs. Here are the details for the time and place of those meetings: What: Maryland Public Service Commission…

More small reactor discussions

Apparently my meeting radar was off recently and I missed learning about the Global Nuclear Renaissance Summit in Alexandria, Virginia on 24 July until it was too late. I would have taken time from my day job, especially if I would have known that Dale Klein was going to spend some time talking about the…

Call for translation assistance

I have a Google Alert set to inform me whenever there is a news article that includes the string PBMR – which is a unique string that means someone is talking about Pebble Bed Modular Reactors. For the last couple of days, I have been frustrated by the fact that all of the articles returned…

Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) Deep Burn capability

One of the big reasons that I continued to be fascinated by coated particle (TRISO) in graphite matrix fuel is the fact that it is possible to adjust the fuel to moderator ratios to obtain a variety of neutron spectra. By choosing to add less moderator, it is possible to harden the available neutron spectrum…

NuScale’s small reactor project in Popular Mechanics

I have mentioned NuScale’s small light water reactor project several times in the past few months. Growing buzz about small reactors that can be built in series production schemes Cookie cutter plants may reduce initial costs of new nuclear power Endurance and resilience – key attributes of an atomic power system Now, the company is…

Uranium resources increase by 17% last year

I have forgotten to mention an article in World Nuclear News from June 2008 that you might want to keep handy as a reference. It is titled Exploration drives uranium resources up 17%. Here is the lede from that article: Current economic uranium resources will last for over 100 years at current consumption rates, while…

I Never Drink Kool-Aid and Never Serve it Either

After Amy Goodman interviewed Amory Lovins for Democracy Now, she wrote a blog post on TruthDig.com titled Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid. I do not think that Amy is one of those bloggers who notices when others have something to say about their posts; she apparently is not even one who participates in the discussion…

Anti-nuclear activists lining up some protests for Calvert Cliffs public meetings

According to a Thursday July 17 article in the Baltimore Business Journal titled Clean energy advocates rally against Constellation Energy’s proposed nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs the Maryland Public Interest Research Group and the Chesapeake Safe Energy Coalition are advocating a focus on energy conservation and non-nuclear renewable electricity sources instead of investing in the…

Wall Street Journal Environmental Capital Blog discusses small reactors

One of my favorite readers – you know who you are – let me know that the Wall Street Journal Environmental Capital Blog is talking about small reactors today. You can find the article at Proliferate! Are Many Small Nuclear Plants the Energy Answer?. They are not the only ones mentioning this idea in the…