Shane Brown and I recently had fun talking about nuclear power in space exploration. You can listen in by downloading Atomic Show #029 – Nuclear Power in Space. We just had time to scratch the surface of this fascinating topic – please visit and leave us some comments and suggestions for future directions to explore.
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NEI Nuclear Notes recently published an intriguing blog titled Walking Toward Nuclear on Tip Toe about Energy Northwest’s interest in new nuclear power development. Energy Northwest has an interesting history – it used to be called the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) and it once got involved in a massive project to build 5…
If I was a print journalist, I would be limited in my ability to describe the vast difference between the presentations of Areva, GE Hitachi, Westinghouse, and EnergySolutions and that of the Union of Concerned Scientists during the first session of the Reactor and Fuel Cycle Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear…
Duke Energy has been planning to build a couple of large coal fired power plants near Charlotte. The project, which Duke officially calls the Cliffside Steam Station Modernization includes building two “state of the art” 800 MWe coal fired steam plants and decommissioning four small plants with a total capacity of 198 MWe that are…
USAToday has the reputation of producing lightweight content for an audience that is generally just interested in keeping up with the headlines, often while traveling. I was pleasantly surprised a couple of days ago to find a well researched story titled Tech could reduce coal facilities’ emissions about the potential and the challenges facing a…
I found the following letter to the editor encouraging. Hope you enjoy it. Nuclear energy is safest, cleanest solution for the poor
A recent story by Emily Lambert in Forbes titled Nimby Wars caught my eye while doing some dead tree reading. (I confess; I have subscriptions to a fairly large number of print publications and sometimes leave my computer screen to read them.) The story is about an experienced political operative with the misnomer of Mike…
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