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Recycling used nuclear fuel – Argonne research explained in 4 min video

February 22, 2013 By Rod Adams

One of the most frequently used arguments against using nuclear energy is “the waste issue.” When people ask me, “what do you do with the waste”, my standard answer is “recycle it.” The truly curious then ask for more information. A few days ago, Nuclear Street shared a video produced by Argonne National Laboratory that […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Fuel Recycling, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, Pro Nuclear Video

Ondi Timoner interviews Robert Stone about Pandora’s Promise

February 10, 2013 By Rod Adams

Ondi Timoner, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker in her own right, recently interviewed the directors of four documentaries that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. All of the interviews are worth watching, but I was especially taken with her chat with Robert Stone about Pandora’s Promise. That segment starts at minute 27:11. You should […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, Pro Nuclear Video

Robert Stone calls Pandora’s Promise his most important film

February 8, 2013 By Rod Adams

Elephant in the room. Nuclear is a solution.

Robert Stone calls Pandora’s Promise his most important work because it discusses our biggest collective challenge – how do we supply a growing world population with the reliable power it needs without slowing choking the Earth’s ability to support our civilization and all of its existing infrastructure. He and the people whose conversions he describes […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Nuclear Communications, Pro Nuclear Video

On the Atomic Insights radar – converts from antis to nuclear energy supporters

January 30, 2013 By Rod Adams

Here are some items worth watching or listening to when you have some free time: On January 28, the Colbert Report included an interview with Michael Shellenberger of The Breakthrough Institute. Colbert introduced Michael as “an environmentalist who believes in nuclear energy. Finally, liberals who glow in the dark.” On January 30, Mark Lynas, a […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Atomic Insights Radar, Pro Nuclear Video

What happened to the NS Savannah?

January 20, 2013 By Rod Adams

One of the more frequent inquiries I have received during my years operating Atomic Insights is “What happened to the NS (nuclear ship) Savannah?”. I just learned about a recently completed documentary film by Thomas Michael Conner, a former member of the ship’s crew, that is designed to answer that question in detail using sea […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Atomic ships, Nuclear Communications, Nuclear Ships, Pro Nuclear Video

LFTR story told from the perspective of a bright 7th grader

December 19, 2012 By Rod Adams

Though I believe that Katie has received some inaccurate technical information about solid fueled reactors, I cannot argue with the effectiveness of her presentation skills. Please enjoy the below series of videos about the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR). It is one of many alternative ways to use the incredible energy density available in the […]

Filed Under: Liquid Fuel Reactors, Pro Nuclear Video, Thorium

Used Nuclear Fuel Is Not Waste; It Can be Recycled – Argonne Video

December 19, 2012 By Rod Adams

The ANS Nuclear Cafe recently posted the above video in a post titled Nuclear Cafe Matinee: Nuclear Recycling in 4 Minutes. It is a useful example of the kind of information that needs to be made more accessible to the public. I hope you share it widely, but more importantly, I hope it inspires you […]

Filed Under: Fuel Recycling, Pro Nuclear Video

Power cheaper than coal – thorium AND uranium make it possible

December 12, 2012 By Rod Adams

Bob Hargraves, the author of Thorium: Energy Cheaper than Coal, recently traveled to Shanghai to present a 30 minute talk summarizing the main points of discussion that he covered in his book. The occasion of the trip was Thorium Energy Conference 2012. Bob is a professor with a good facility for numbers and a talent […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Economics, Fossil fuel competition, Nuclear Cost Data, Pro Nuclear Video, Thorium, Thorium Reactors, Unreliables

Winning a debate in Sydney – We have seen the future and it’s nuclear

August 8, 2012 By Rod Adams

Ben Heard of Decarbonise SA shared a teaser video clip from a recent Big Ideas debate titled We’ve seen the future and it’s nuclear. In this clip, Ben spends his allotted 9 minutes telling people how he became convinced that the only path to an abundant, reliable future energy supply system that minimizes CO2 and […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Atomic Advocacy, Climate change, Pro Nuclear Video

Exaggerated myths about nuclear accidents CAUSE negative health effects

May 29, 2012 By Rod Adams

This video was produced by the World Nuclear Association (WNA). It shows that the predicted health consequences of nuclear accidents are often orders of magnitude greater than the actual, measured health consequences of the accidents that have occurred. Instead of the “worst case scenarios” of hundreds of thousands to millions of people getting sick and […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Atomic Advocacy, Pro Nuclear Video

Reed College has a nuclear reactor operated by undergraduate liberal arts majors

May 9, 2012 By Rod Adams

Reed College is perhaps best known among technologists as the place where Steve Jobs learned about calligraphy – among a number of other useful topics. It is also the only liberal arts college that owns a research reactor that is operated primarily by undergraduates. I hope you enjoyed Will and Norm’s visit to the Reed […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Pro Nuclear Video, Technical History Stories

Pronuclear videos continuing to proliferate – The Nuclear Option

May 6, 2012 By Rod Adams

With a hat tip to Ben Heard at Decarbonize SA, I thought it might inspire you to see two videos side by side. These videos were created in geographic locations that are about as far apart as you can get and still be on Earth. As far as I can tell, neither creative team knew […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Climate change, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, New Nuclear, Pro Nuclear Video, Smaller reactors

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