You can tell that the nuclear renaissance is entering the mainstream when personal finance journals like Kiplinger.com start talking about the companies and their projects and letting people know where some of the investment opportunities lie. I came across an interesting article titled Miniplants to Pave the Way for Nuclear Renaissance that comes with the…
I know that Atomic Insights is starting to have some of the impact that I want it to have because the blog is getting more and more commentary from outside of the community of people that already like the idea of using atomic power. One of the main reasons I do this is to try…
On October 14, 2008, I watched CNBC’s premier of “The Nuclear Option”, a 35-40 minute video documentary about using nuclear fission as a power source. The show was squeezed into a 60 minute television time slot shared by many minutes worth of commercials, but that is par for the course and part of the cost…
I would hate to be called a “shill” for the established media, but I am very interested in seeing what CNBC’s Melissa Francis will be showing us tonight when The Nuclear Option airs at 9:00 pm eastern time. After watching the show, I hope to provide some commentary. It might go up early tomorrow morning…
John Kotek, Executive Director, American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness chats with Rod Adams about the Council’s recently released jobs study. John Kotek, Executive Director, American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness and I chatted for a while about the Council’s recently released state by state study of the potential job creation in the coming Nuclear…
I received a comment on a recent post letting me know about a new CNBC Original production titled – The Nuclear Option. It will be shown starting October 14, 2008. Check your local schedule for a listing, but the web site says it will be shown at 9 pm Eastern Time in the US. I…
HTR 2008 included a press conference with Regis Matzie, Linden Blue and John Grossenbacher. Rod Adams provides additional commentary. On September 29, 2008 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) hosted the 4th International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology. Following the plenary session, there was a press conference attended by a grand total…
I have a new hero, even though I have not yet read his book. Joe Shuster is a retired entrepreneur who is spending $200,000 of his own money to promote the idea that the United States needs to build about 800 new nuclear power plants in order to stretch supplies of fossil fuels far into…
Yesterday morning I noticed a scary story on the front page of the Baltimore Sun. David Murrin, and Marcellous Butler are working to build a wind farm with 10 large turbines on Greenbury Point, just upwind from the Annapolis harbor. Them’s fightin’ words, as they used to say in my Dad’s part of the country…
Atomic Show #108 is an edited version of the press conference held after the opening session at ASME’s 4th International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology. (Note: The conference is also known as HTR 2008.) Unfortunately, I am having a tiny technical challenge with the Atomic Show blog right now, so I cannot complete…
Craig Severance recently wrote a commentary that he calls analysis titled The Case Against Nukes. The piece has been picked up by EcoWorld.com and is currently prominently featured on the home page. Though the author blurb that follows the article claims that Severance was the co-author of a book published in 1976 titled “The Economics…
Again, I have an uncharacteristically off-topic comment/question for your consideration. In nearly every article I have read in the past couple of weeks, the lending/credit crisis in America has been blamed on home mortgages made under less than stringent lending rules and on complex financial instruments designed – ideally – to package those mortgages into…