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Means, Motive and Opportunity – Who Discouraged US Nuclear Developments?

Conventional wisdom tells us that “Environmentalists” worried about one or more of the below complaints have influenced world opinion and encouraged the current negative investment perception that surrounds new nuclear power plants: Nuclear plants are not completely safe Nuclear energy technology leads to dispersal of nuclear weapons capability Nuclear energy plants are massive and lead…

Christian Parenti Believes That Established Nuclear Plants Are "Zombies" – Don't Tell The Customers, Who Seem To Love Using The 800 Billion Kilowatt Hours Per Year That Those Plants Produce

CBSNews.com – a company whose lineage includes a period when its corporate name was Westinghouse and its basic nuclear plant design was the basis for approximately 2/3 of the plants built in the United States – has published an opinion piece by Chrisian Parenti titled What To Do With Zombie Nuke Plants. The piece originally…

Quick View of Atomic Insights Visitor Map

I got distracted this morning with doing some Analytics work on Atomic Insights, trying to figure out more about who reads this publication. If you have not tried Google Analytics and you have a web site or blog, you should. Fascinating and somewhat addicting to page through all of the different ways to look at…

Established Environmental Groups Are Grudgingly Accepting Nuclear Energy

In the November 23, 2009 issue of the Washington Post, there is an article titled Nuclear Power Regains Support that describes how some established Environmental groups and individuals have decided that nuclear power can be part of a set of tools that will enable a transition away from fossil fuels. A major reason given for…

Three Mile Island Minor Airborne Radioactivity Incident Explanation

On Saturday, November 21, 2009, at about 4:00 pm installed radiation monitors inside the containment building at Three Mile Island Unit One showed higher than normal readings. The normal actions for such indications were taken. People in the area were directed to leave the building while the source of the radioactivity was located. Once they…

Sorry for the silence – will correct soon

Some of you have graciously let me know that you are impatiently awaiting the next episode of the Atomic Show after a long period of silence. Please rest assured, there will be a new show soon. My goal is to get it produced and posted by Tuesday morning – US east coast time.

Bingaman Promises a Bill Requiring The Department of Energy To Develop and License Two Modular Reactor Designs

On November 16, 2009, at the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) gave a speech titled Nuclear Energy in a Carbon Constrained World that included the following intriguing paragraph: “I plan to introduce a second bill, to complement Senator Udall’s bill. My new bill would require the Secretary of Energy to develop…

Update on Babcock and Wilcox mPower Modular Reactor

During the ANS Winter Meeting, I stopped by the B&W booth and had a chat with some of the booth representatives about the progress that the company is making on its mPowerTM modular reactor. We had a good conversation about steady progress and a project that is meeting its planned milestones. I received a promise…

Clean Skies News Coverage of American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting

I have had a busy week trying to time share between a day job and at least some attendance and coverage of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting. While searching for other views of the event that I might have missed earlier in the week, I found the below segment titled Nuclear Industry Holds Winter…

Neutron Doodle – a 2002 Song Whose Time Has Come to Go Viral

Gail Marcus, who blogs at Nuclear Power Talk, shared a story on Saturday November 14, 2009 about a song contest that she supported during her tenure as president of the American Nuclear Society. It was inspired by memories of the artistic work produced during the Great Depression with government support that was designed not just…