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Atomic Show #156 – ANS Annual Meeting, Platts SMR, NRC’s shrinking budget

July 9, 2010 By Rod Adams

Lisa Stiles and Rod Adams met for a chat about recent nuclear industry meetings including the American Nuclear Society annual meeting that Lisa attended in San Diego in early June and the Platts – DOE Small Modular Reactor meetings that Rod attended in Washington, DC in late June. After signing off with Lisa, Rod asked […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic politics, Podcast

The Atomic Show #154 – Atomic Round-up With Five Experts

June 1, 2010 By Rod Adams 1 Comment

Rod Adams got together with Margaret Harding, Dan Yurman, Meredith Angwin, and Charles Barton for a round up of recent atomic industry and technology developments. Topics discussed included new enrichment facilities, enrichment technology, public meetings about new nuclear power plants, and small reactor plant developments. Meredith Angwin is a physical chemist with long experience in […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Podcast

The Atomic Show #150 – Presidential Announcement of Loan Guarantees, Small Reactors

February 23, 2010 By Rod Adams 5 Comments

On Sunday, February 21, I gathered a group of well experienced nuclear professionals to talk about the impact of President Obama’s February 16, 2010 speech announcing loan guarantees for Southern Company to build two additional units at its Vogtle Nuclear Station. Margaret Harding, Kelly Taylor, John Wheeler from This Week in Nuclear, Dan Yurman from […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Alternative energy, Atomic politics, Economics, Podcast

The Atomic Show #148 – Hyperion Power Module Update

January 22, 2010 By Rod Adams

On January 21, 2010, I caught up with Forrest Rudin and TJ Trapp of Hyperion Power Generation. Forrest is Hyperion’s Chief of Staff; TJ is the Vice President of Engineering. They were on the road meeting with various stakeholders to explain more about their product. They took the time out of their schedule to provide […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, Podcast, Smaller reactors

The Atomic Show #146 – South Korean Nuclear Technology Development

December 30, 2009 By Rod Adams

The United Arab Emirates has recently selected a consortium that includes Korea Electric Power Corp., Westinghouse Electric, Hyundai Engineering and Construction, Samsung C&T Corp and Doosan Heavy Industries to supply it with 5.6 gigawatts of electrical power capacity. The order includes four APR-1400 nuclear reactor power plants and all associated secondary equipment. I made contact […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic politics, Economics, Podcast

The Atomic Show #145 – NGNP Fuel Testing Success

December 6, 2009 By Rod Adams

On December 4, 2009, I spoke with Dr. Madeline Feltus, the Department of Energy technical program manager assigned the responsibility of coordinating the efforts of a team of scientists and engineers working on the refinement and testing of TRISO fuel particles for high temperature gas cooled reactors. During the interview, Dr. Feltus mentioned a few […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic history, Podcast

B&W’s mPowerTM Reactor – Who Says America is Behind in the Nuclear Renaissance?

June 11, 2009 By Rod Adams

Sometimes, games really do change while few people are watching. That is what happened yesterday when Babcock and Wilcox announced their mPowerTM modular nuclear power plant. The big difference is not the basic technology – after all, the mPower reactor is a pressurized water reactor using the same kind of coolant, the same kind of […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, New Nuclear, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors

Beyond Electricity – Fission as a Source of Process Heat

March 7, 2009 By Rod Adams

One of the great things about working in a city like Washington is the occasional opportunity to attend fascinating gatherings of forward thinking people. Yesterday I was able to take a few hours off in the middle of the day to attend a lunchtime talk sponsored jointly by The Heritage Foundation and Third Way titled […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Process heat

Atomic Show 81 – More than 100 years of nuclear experience on a phone call

February 12, 2008 By Rod Adams

On Sunday, February 10, I got together with four of my favorite nuclear industry correspondents for a chat about the current state of affairs in the electric power industry. You can listen to the show at The Atomic Show #081 – Five friendly atomic geeks. The guests on the show included: John Wheeler – host […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Advocacy

The Rapid-L reactor – designed by Japan’s CRIEPI for JAERI – is getting a lot of blog attention

December 22, 2007 By Rod Adams

If you Google “toshiba personal reactor” you will find hundreds of recent blog posts. Here is one example from dvorak.org/blog titled Toshiba’s Personal-Sized Nuclear Reactor. I have had several readers send me links asking what I thought about the design and wondering whether or not the system is real. I have taken some time this […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Technical History Stories

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