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Nuclear facts and feelings in pink and green by Sunniva Rose

September 4, 2015 By Rod Adams 5 Comments

Sunniva Rose is a nuclear engineer working on her PhD at the University of Oslo. She is also a talented public speaker who likes to capture her audience’s attention, partially by choosing colors like pink and green to highlight facts about nuclear energy, deaths per terawatt hour, and growth in human population. In Nov 2013, […]

Filed Under: Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy, Pro Nuclear Video, Thorium

Sad-ending story of EBR-II told by three of its pioneers

August 24, 2015 By Rod Adams

During the period between 1961 and 1994, an extraordinary machine called the Experimental Breeder Reactor 2 (EBR-II) was created and operated in the high desert of Idaho by a team of dedicated, determined, and distinguished people. In 1986, that machine demonstrated that it could protect itself in the event of a complete loss of flow […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic history, Atomic Pioneers, Atomic politics, Breeder Reactors, Fuel Recycling, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Pro Nuclear Video, Technical History Stories

Norbert Rempe – Radiation Superstitions discusses costs of LNT and ALARA in DOE cleanup activities

August 22, 2015 By Rod Adams

Atomic Insights is not standing alone in the effort to push people and agencies to take a hard look at the basis for current radiation assumptions and regulations. Please watch Norbert Rempe, a retired professional geologist who spent much of his career performing work associated with the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, describe some of the […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Contamination, LNT, Pro Nuclear Video, WIPP

Go Nuclear site is now live

April 16, 2015 By Rod Adams

Go Nuclear, Inc. has released a massively enhanced version of its website that is filled with informative videos, presentations, and articles about nuclear energy and radiation science. It is a place where one can easily lose track of time while exploring. Here is just one sample to whet your appetite. I hope Alan Waltar’s passionate […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Nuclear Communications, Pro Nuclear Video

Professor Gerry Thomas explains radiation health risks

April 6, 2015 By Rod Adams

A friend whose Twitter handle is @ActinideAge just posted a link to Gerry Thomas Highlights Misconceptions over Health Impacts of Nuclear Accidents. (Embedded below.) Even though it was published in November 2014 on the UN University YouTube channel, it had received a grand total of 189 views at the time I visited on April 6, […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, Nuclear Communications, Pro Nuclear Video

Wear green today in honor of St. Patrick and nuclear energy

March 17, 2015 By Rod Adams

Later today, March 17, 2015 (St. Patrick’s Day), Californians for Green Nuclear Power will be donning the green and holding a rally at the plaza in front of the San Luis Obispo County building at 1055 Monterey from noon until 1:30 PM (PDT). They want to show that the groups fighting to shut down the […]

Filed Under: Diablo Canyon, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, Pro Nuclear Video

Today Show cheers nuclear power by chanting “Go Nuke!”

March 13, 2015 By Rod Adams

Before readers get too excited, I need to acknowledge that the Today Show in the below video is broadcast from Sydney, Australia, not New York City. However, it is still kind of exciting to have a TV newscaster chanting “Go Nuke!” The broadcaster’s excitement is based on an announcement by Liberal Party Senator Sean Edwards […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Pro Nuclear Video

Nuclear Energy – Tool to Empower Society and Address Atmospheric Chemistry Changes

March 7, 2015 By Rod Adams

On Tuesday March 3, 2015, I gave an invited talk to Sweet Briar College’s Engineering Club. The presentation I chose from my library as being the most appropriate for what I hope will be the introduction to a continuing series of talks for a growing audience at that school was Nuclear Energy: Important tool for […]

Filed Under: Pro Nuclear Video

Putting excitement back into nuclear technology development

December 13, 2014 By Rod Adams

Josh Freed, Third Way‘s clean energy vice president, has published a thoughtful, graphically enticing Brookings Essay titled Back to the Future: Advanced Nuclear Energy and the Battle Against Climate Change. It focuses on Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie of Transatomic Power, but it also makes it abundantly clear that those two visionary entrepreneurs are examples […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Atomic history, Atomic Pioneers, Business of atomic energy, Fossil fuel competition, Pro Nuclear Video

Ben Heard and Gordon McDowell collaborate to produce Nuclear Power for Australia

December 12, 2014 By Rod Adams

Ben Heard is one of the most articulate, skilled presenters working for the expansion of nuclear energy. Gordon McDowell is a skilled videographer who has produced a number of useful, informative videos about nuclear fission, normally with a focus on the potential of thorium fueled reactors. The two talented advocates have recently produced and published […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Pro Nuclear Video

Wade Allison at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan

December 4, 2014 By Rod Adams

On December 3, 2014, Dr. Wade Allison was invited to give a speech to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. The title of that talk was The Fukushima nuclear accident and the unwarranted fear of low-dose radiation. After Dr. Allison gave his talk explaining why he believed that our current treatment of radiation is governed […]

Filed Under: Contamination, Health Effects, LNT, Pro Nuclear Video

Paul Wilson & Bret Bennington vs Arnie Gundersen & Heidi Hutner on Nuclear Sustainability

November 20, 2014 By Rod Adams

On Nov 20, 2014, Hofstra University hosted its annual Pride and Purpose Debate. This year’s proposition was the following – “Should nuclear energy be expanded to help create a more sustainable future?” The debate included the following panelists: For – J Bret Bennington, professor of geology, Department of Geology, Environment and Sustainability at Hofstra University.Against […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, New Nuclear, Nuclear Communications, Pro Nuclear Video

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