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…
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…
Rob McNealy is the host and producer of StartupStoryRadio.com. Rob and Rod Adams chatted recently about Rod’s efforts as atomic entrepreneur who wants to change the world. Rob McNealy of StartupStoryRadio.com and I had an interesting chat on Tuesday about Adams Atomic Engines, Inc. (AAE). We discussed the 15-year effort to build an independent, atomic…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mark J. Perry is a professor of finance and economics at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. He recently published an opinion piece titled Should Congress OK new nuclear power plants? Yes: We must replace natural gas that I found on Bradenton.com. (Bradenton is a city on the west coast of Florida between…
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…
I am off to my day job now, but I need to point out that Amy Goodman at DemocracyNow.org interviewed Amory Lovins on July 16. He was once again introduced as the “Chief Scientist” of Rocky Mountain Instituted and he once again went through his standard litany of deceptions including a denial that nuclear can…
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…
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…