On August 12, 2008, Hyperion Power Generation issued a press release announcing the receipt of a letter of intent (LOI) from TES Group, an investment company that is developing energy projects in Central Eastern Europe. (Update posted August 12, 2008 – I found a web site for a TES Group that seems to match up…
Geoff Styles at Energy Outlook has an interesting post about the ever increasing cost and reduce availability of marine fuel oil. He suggests that efforts like kites and sails are simply supplements and that the only real alternatives are a return to coal or a turn to nuclear ship propulsion. As you might imagine, am…
During the past couple of weeks, I have engaged in several discussions with Joe Romm, who, among many other activities, maintains the blog Climate Progress: An Insider’s View of Climate Science, Politics and Solutions. If you click on his name and read his Wikipedia entry, you will find that Joseph has a long history of…
After reading Nick Loris’s comment about nuclear waste, I decided to read some more of his observations. I don’t know about you, but I find it very useful when a site has an author link that leads to a page with an archive of other work by that same author. One of the recent blogs…
Heritage Foundation blogger Nick Loris produced a blog entry dated August 5, 2008 and titled Nuclear Energy’s Great, But What about the Waste? that includes several passages that might have been influenced by the same thinking that has resulted in my used nuclear fuel strategy. For example, Nick wrote: Let’s start with some basics. What…
On Monday, August 4, 2008 I joined a large and generally supportive crowd attending the first of three evening public hearings on the matter of Unistar Nuclear, LLC’s application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to construct a third nuclear power plant at the Calvert Cliff’s site in Lusby, Calvert County Maryland. I…
Small nuclear power plants. Round table with Kirk Sorensen, Dan Yurman, Charles Barton, Rod Adams Show 101 is a bit longer than normal, but I think you will want to listen carefully to every word. I invited some innovative thinkers and observers of the nuclear scene to discuss small nuclear power plants and their potential…
On Saturday, August 2, I gathered a group of well informed bloggers to talk about the growing interest in small nuclear power plants. Kirk Sorensen blogs at Energy from Thorium and is nearly finished with his MS in Nuclear Engineering. Charles Barton blogs at Energy from Thorium and Nuclear Green. Dan Yurman blogs at Idaho…
Paul Lorenzini and Jose Reyes of NuScale Power chat about their company’s 45 MWe natural circulation light water reactor. This episode sponsored by Entergy Nuclear. Imagine – a traditional utility company far sighted enough to invest advertising dollars in the Atomic Show Podcast! One of the more exciting developments in the nuclear industry is the…
NuScale Power has been the topic of several recent Atomic Insights posts and also has been mentioned on Idaho Samizdat and on CleanTechnica.com. IMHO this company is big news – it is a venture-funded company with a small nuclear plant design that just may be able begin operating in the commercial market in less than…
Amory Lovins likes to deny the fact that private money is very interested in nuclear technology, while Al Gore is convinced that reactors only come in one size – extra large. Two companies have recently formed that put a lie to both of those theories. NuScale Power and Hyperion Power Generation are both venture funded…