Dr. A. David Rossin is a former President of the American Nuclear Society, an Engineering Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a career nuclear engineer. He has deep experience in private industry, with the national laboratories and in energy policy as a former Assistant Secretary of Energy. We spoke on…
Dr. A. David Rossin is a former President of the American Nuclear Society, an Engineering Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a career nuclear engineer. He has deep experience in private industry, with the national laboratories and in energy policy as a former Assistant Secretary of Energy. A few weeks…
I confess – I like atomic fission power. It is far superior to the competition, so much so that they gang up on it to try to give it a bad reputation. Part of fission’s PR problem is analogous to the way that sports fans and commentators treat people like Alex Rodriguez, Tiger Woods, Barry…
A friend shared a link to a blog post titled An Author’s Incredible Environmental Journey After a Coal Company Destroyed His Family’s Ancestral Home and Land. That post led me to find out about a book titled Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland and also led me to find…
In the past couple of days, I have read a number of articles that fire up my competitive juices. BNET – China Seeks Nuclear Industry Domination Industrial Fuels and Power – Russia aims to capture 25 per cent of global nuclear reactor market Christian Science Monitor – South Korea pushes to recycle nuclear power plant…
There is a great deal of buzz coursing through the “pipes” on the Internet regarding talks between Toshiba and Bill Gates’s TerraPower, the company that is developing the Traveling Wave Reactor (TWR). That is not terribly surprising – when Bill Gates talks, the web (and the business press) listens. Here are some links to example…
The brief, recently produced video below does a reasonably good job of explaining a complex subject in a way that is understandable and digestible. Unfortunately, there are a couple of minor points that are not accurate. They detract from the video’s value, but should not spoil the overall point. Perhaps the originator will take the…
In the March 23, 2010 issue of the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Steven Chu published an op-ed piece titled America’s New Nuclear Option that describes the Administration’s growing interest in smaller nuclear energy systems that can be produced in factories and delivered nearly complete to sites around the country and around the world. Here is…
Dr. Dale Klein is departing the US NRC after having served for nearly 4 years. Before his departure, his Chief of Staff made contact with bloggers who are working to share information about nuclear energy and offered the opportunity for an interview. We took up the offer. In this episode, you will hear questions from…
On Sunday, March 21, 2010, US NRC Commissioner Dale Klein chatted for about an hour with John Wheeler, This Week in Nuclear, Margaret Harding, The Energy Collective, Meredith Angwin, Yes Vermont Yankee, Dan Yurman, Idaho Samizdat and Rod Adams, Atomic Insights. He talked about his experiences on the Commission, the challenges that his successors will…
Jason Ribero at Pro-Nuclear Democrats embedded the below video on his site a few days ago. I thought Atomic Insights readers might also enjoy watching it. It is no wonder why tireless fossil fuel marketers like T. Boone Pickens, Joe Romm, John Podesta, Ted Turner, and Tim Wirth are such fans of wind energy. It…
Sometimes I pine for the days when America’s decision making bodies included more engineers. If that is too far a stretch, perhaps we can at least get back to a situation where there are more people in decision making positions who have been exposed to some of the training associated with building and manufacturing high…