The Atomic Show Podcast has reached a small milestone by posting its 50th show. Shane and I chatted about the new radiation danger symbol, a new MOX plant in Japan, France’s interest in selling large generation 3 reactors to South Africa, personal conservation methods, and the importance of electricity in aluminum production. In other words, it was a fairly typical chat for a couple of atomic geeks.
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For a variety of reasons, I was not very productive for most of the month of July. I have finally gotten around to adding another installment to the Adams Engine™ story titled Seeking Simplicity, Finding Complexity. Hope you enjoy learning – slowly – a little more about simple cycle gas turbines connected to high temperature…
Sometimes I forget just how many people have recognized that there is a potential market for smaller nuclear power plants. A friend of mine sent me a link recently to an excellent summary of the publicly available information about a myriad of projects from more than a dozen different countries. You can find the article…
My years as an operating engineer has turned me into a contrarian and a pessimist who is constantly looking for signs of trouble, especially as others get excited and focused on temporary good news. My years as a critical consumer of commercially sponsored media has also made wary of sales pitches disguised as news stories….
My reading list is getting longer by the day. I was just pointed to Rad Decision a novel in the format of a blog. I have not yet begun to read, but it sure looks interesting. The about the book page is certainly entertaining enough that it would catch my attention as a hardcover “flap”…
Freedom for Fission pointed me to a thought provoking article on the BBC web site deceptively titled Nuclear veterans vow to fight on. Normally, I have at least some sympathy for the fact that writers cannot cover every aspect of a story, but in this case, I have to challenge what the author left out….
I read a lot of business focused publications including Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, and the Wall Street Journal. I also pay attention to print advertising in those publications – I blame (or perhaps a better word would be “credit”) Ms. Page, my tenth grade Semantics teacher. She taught us that the words used in advertisements are…
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