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FFTF – What could a functional Fast Flux Test Facility do for the US?

December 10, 2012 By Rod Adams

A friend shared the above video about the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF). I thought it was worth sharing and discussing, though I am not sure how current it is. The FFTF was not a shining example of government efficiency; it was initially conceived in the 1960s, finally completed in the late 1970s, started up […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic history, FFTF, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors

B&W mPower™ Reactor Control Room Simulator Begins Operations

December 4, 2012 By Rod Adams

(CHARLOTTE, N.C. – December 4, 2012) – The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE: BWC) is pleased to announce that the production-standard control room prototype for its B&W mPower™ small modular reactor (SMR) is now operational. This engineering simulator is a key milestone in the B&W mPower development program. The B&W mPower control room prototype, […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Nuclear Communications, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors, Water Cooled Reactors

Terrific application for highly enriched uranium fuel – tiny NASA reactors

November 30, 2012 By Rod Adams

How many times have you heard politicians tell you that the only reason a nation with abundant oil and gas might want to enrich uranium is to build nuclear weapons. The United States has always been one of the top two or three oil and gas producers in the world, but we also have scientists […]

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

Musing about resilient power systems – natural gas, NGL (propane) and nuclear

November 6, 2012 By Rod Adams

Widespread power outages stimulate me to intense bouts of thinking about building resilient power systems, both when they happen to me and when they happen to someone else. During the summer of 2012, during one of the hottest weeks of the year, we lost power for a little more than a week as a result […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Fossil fuel competition, Gas Cooled Reactors, Natural Gas, Smaller reactors

Virginia ANS – Uranium mining, mPower, NGNP progress

October 19, 2012 By Rod Adams

Dr. Finis Southworth at VA ANS Oct 2012

Last night I participated in a well-attended meeting of the Virginia chapter of the American Nuclear Society. It was great to be surrounded by a bunch of nukes who were interested in learning about technical developments and in discussing the current local and national political situation from an energy perspective. Before dinner, I had the […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Gas Cooled Reactors, Graphite Moderated Reactors

John Horgan helps New Yorkers understand basic equation – No Nukes + No Gas = More Coal

October 18, 2012 By Rod Adams 14 Comments

John Horgan, a science writer who lives just a few miles north of the Indian Point Nuclear Power station, has published a pointed commentary in Scientific American titled No Nukes + No Fracking = More Coal? Indian Point Debate Highlights Green Quandary. As a converted former opponent of the Indian Point facility, Horgan has done […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Fossil fuel competition

Nuclear jobs, jobs, jobs

August 25, 2012 By Rod Adams

Table comparing energy technologies & job generation

As much as I like reading Bill Tucker’s generally pronuclear articles, I recognize that he sometimes gets the details wrong. In a recent American Spectator article titled Nuclear’s Dilemma: Few Jobs, Just Energy, Bill overlooked some important details about nuclear energy’s ability to generate good jobs in comparison to its competitors in wind, solar, coal, […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Fossil fuel competition, New Nuclear, Nuclear Cost Data

The Atomic Show #185 – Is Thorium Superior to Uranium?

July 24, 2012 By Rod Adams

On July 23, 2012, busy schedules aligned and I had the chance to talk with Richard Martin, the author of SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future and Kirk Sorensen, the co-founder and chief technology officer of Flibe Energy, a start-up company formed to “develop small modular reactors based on liquid-fluoride thorium reactor […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Advocacy, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Podcast

Atomic Show #178 – Nuclear Process Heat

January 23, 2012 By Rod Adams

One of the persistent myths left over from the first Atomic Age is that nuclear reactors can only be used to produce electricity in massive, central station power plants. That application is only one of many ways to use the heat from fissioning uranium, plutonium or thorium. In the US, fully 1/3 of the 100 […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Alternative energy, Podcast

Atomic Show #174 – Cal Abel – Atomic Inventor and PhD Candidate

September 26, 2011 By Rod Adams

I first met Cal Abel during a flurry of correspondence associated with actions he recommended after the Fukushima event. Cal, a former submarine Engineer Officer and current PhD candidate at Georgia Tech, had produced some rapid response papers with useful ideas for the people responding to the events. One idea in particular that Cal produced […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Podcast

The Atomic Show #167 – Jeff Merrifield – AP1000 Design Certification Application

May 28, 2011 By Rod Adams

The topic of this podcast is the status of the design certification application for the Westinghouse AP1000, the system that has been chosen for about half of all of the new nuclear power plant projects that are currently planned in the United States. Last week, the Chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic politics, Podcast

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

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