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UAMPS stepping forward to serve customers

October 19, 2014 By Rod Adams

The established nuclear energy industry has taken a wait-and-see approach to the idea of developing and deploying smaller, simpler fission power stations that can take advantage of the economy of series production. The industry’s trade organization, the Nuclear Energy Institute, has expressed cautious optimism and has engaged in a moderate effort to identify regulatory obstacles […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Atomic Pioneers, New Nuclear, Pressurized Water, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors

Prospective customers lining up at NuScale

October 16, 2014 By Rod Adams

A few days ago, Dan Yurman at Neutron Bytes published a blog post that is now titled Flash: NuScale executive says firm may build SMRs at Idaho lab. It was a follow-up to an earlier post in which Dan speculated about the Idaho National Lab’s potential as a good site for a new nuclear power […]

Filed Under: Atomic Entrepreneurs, Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear, Pressurized Water, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors

Terrestrial Energy – Molten Salt Reactor Designed to Be Commercial Success

September 2, 2014 By Rod Adams

There is a growing roster of innovative organizations populated by people who recognize that nuclear technology is still in its infancy. Terrestrial Energy is one of the most promising of those organization because of its combination of problem solving technology, visionary leadership, and strong focus on meeting commercial needs. Nearly all of the commercial nuclear […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Business of atomic energy, International nuclear, Liquid Fuel Reactors, New Nuclear, Smaller reactors

Nuclear-Powered Trans-Ocean Shipping – 3rd place in New York Advanced Energy contest

May 10, 2014 By Rod Adams

Fuel cost for ships compared to land-based power plants

I received an update from Benjamin Haas, the SUNY Maritime student who has been working on nuclear powered ship designs from a complete systems perspective for the past three semesters. He and his team have not just focused on the technical aspects of designing a power plant and a ship that could take full advantage […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Atomic ships, Business of atomic energy, Nuclear Ships

Update on American Atomics

September 20, 2013 By Rod Adams

In July 2013, I published a post titled Can nuclear energy save Detroit? about a tiny company with an audacious plan to develop mass produced nuclear power plants. The company was pitching itself to Detroit as a potential nuclear industry that might help to turn the city’s financial situation around. Here is a quote from […]

Filed Under: Atomic Entrepreneurs

Can nuclear energy save Detroit?

July 24, 2013 By Rod Adams

Update: (August 2, 2013) – American Atomics is now claiming that there is no site in Detroit that is large enough to house the infrastructure that they are planning to build. Here is a link to their post. http://safereactor.org/post/57104636966/no-room-in-detroit It is a pretty incredible claim for a company that currently has no facilities. Supposedly the […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, New Nuclear, Smaller reactors

Dieter Helm – Nuclear saga cannot go on (Leaders must push to a happy ending)

March 27, 2013 By Rod Adams

Dieter Helm has generously shared an April 2013 article written for Prospect Magazine titled Stumbling towards crisis. In that article Helm points to US energy decision making as a good example that serves as a contrast to UK energy policy making. He sees chosen path in the UK as almost guaranteeing a crisis. In his […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Climate change, Coal, Energy density, Fossil fuel competition, New Nuclear

Is an employee buyout a win-win-win solution for Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station?

March 10, 2013 By Rod Adams

Dominion’s October 2012 announcement that it is closing the Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant took the nuclear industry by almost complete surprise. My friends who write about nuclear topics on a regular basis had no clue about the possibility before it was announced. None of the contacts that I have developed over the past few decades […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Nuclear professionals, Nuclear workforce

Impact of Pandora’s Promise

January 25, 2013 By Rod Adams

One of the benefits of being “out there” in the social media world – which includes old fashioned email lists – is the opportunity to meet like minded souls without being limited to people who happen to be in your neighborhood or your physical social circle. I recently saw an exceptional commentary about Pandora’s Promise […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Nuclear Communications, Politics of Nuclear Energy

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 #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 #153 – Suzy Hobbs Founder PopAtomic.org

April 29, 2010 By Rod Adams

Suzy Hobbs is a talented artist with a passion for atomic energy. She has created an organization of fellow artists whose mission is to create images that help people understand why there are intelligent, talented engineers, technicians, scientists and teachers who love the idea of using fission to replace fossil fuel combustion in as many […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Podcast

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