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Atomic Show #218 – Ed Calabrese – Researching Dose Response

August 13, 2014 By Rod Adams

Dr. Ed Calabrese is a professor of toxicology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. For the past twenty years, he has focused his research on understanding the response of a variety of organisms and tissues to a variety of chemicals and radiation as doses vary from extremely low to quite high. He is […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Health Effects, hormesis, LNT, Podcast

Opportunity to use science to establish radiation standards

July 10, 2014 By Rod Adams

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to solicit comments from the general public and affected stakeholders about 40 CFR 190, Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations. The comment period closes on August 3, 2014. The ANPR page includes links to summary webinars provided to the […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Atomic politics, Health Effects, LNT, Nuclear regulations

Shell Oil and Gas Company’s Perspective on Energy Future

July 7, 2014 By Rod Adams

There was a time when the Royal Dutch Shell corporation demonstrated strong interest in nuclear energy. In 1973, it was approached by Gulf Oil Company, the owner of Gulf General Atomics, as a capital partner for an aggressive expansion program. GA had spent the better part of two decades developing an innovative high temperature gas-cooled […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Business of atomic energy, Fossil fuel competition, Natural Gas

Mark Cooper is wrong about SMRs and nuclear energy

May 17, 2014 By Rod Adams

Mark Cooper of the Vermont Law School has published another paper in a series critiquing the economics of nuclear energy; this one is titled The Economic Failure of Nuclear Power and the Development of a Low Carbon Electricity Future: Why Small Modular Reactors are Part of the Problem and Not the Solution. It is not […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Atomic history, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Economics

Effective government involvement essential for many innovations

April 23, 2014 By Rod Adams

The Breakthrough Institute has published a thought-provoking piece titled Reinventing Libertarianism: Jim Manzi and the New Conservative Case for Innovation It is highly recommended reading. Here is a comment that I left on the piece, focusing on my particular interest area of clean nuclear energy development. Interesting observations. I agree with just about everything other […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Atomic history, Energy density

NS Savannah tours May 18, 2014

April 18, 2014 By Rod Adams

NS Savannah, dressed out for 50th Anniversary celebrations

Press Release Historic Ship N.S. Savannah Open for Tours May 18, 2014 in Observance of Maritime Day N.S. Savannah Association, Inc. 4/17/2014 The unique, nuclear powered ship N.S. Savannah will be opened for tours at her pier in Baltimore, Md. on Sunday, May 18, 2014 as a part of the annual commemoration of Maritime Day. […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Atomic Pioneers, Atomic ships, Nuclear Ships

Some lessons were learned from TMI. Others were not.

April 5, 2014 By Rod Adams

Three Mile Island from the air

On March 28, 1979, a little more than thirty-five years ago, a nuclear reactor located on an island in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suffered a partial core melt. On some levels, the accident that became known as TMI (Three Mile Island) was a wake-up call and an expensive learning opportunity for both the […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Atomic history, Nuclear Communications

Nuclear Energy: Past, Present, and Future

March 30, 2014 By Rod Adams

Peter Bradford and Rod Adams

On Friday, March 28, 2014, I had the privilege of attending a symposium at Dartmouth College titled Three Mile Island 35th Anniversary Symposium: The Past, Present, and Future of Nuclear Energy. If you are curious and have a free nine hours, you can watch an archived copy of the main event on YouTube. The thing […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Atomic history, Atomic politics, Conferences

Atomic Show #214 – Age of Radiance Author Craig Nelson

March 25, 2014 By Rod Adams

The Age of Radiance is good read that adds personality and details to a story I know pretty well – the history of the Atomic Age from the discovery of radiation, to the discovery of fission, to the Manhattan Project to apply the newfound power to the task of creating a war-ending super weapon, and […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Atomic Pioneers, Podcast

Atomic Show #213 – TMI Memories

March 24, 2014 By Rod Adams

At 4:00 am on March 28, 1979, the accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 began. That day, 35 years ago this coming Friday, is seared into the memory of most of the people who were working in the industry, who regularly watched the evening news, or who lived in the northeast US. Most can […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Atomic history, Podcast

Alvin Weinberg’s liquid fuel reactors

February 6, 2014 By Guest Author

Figure 6. Senators John Kennedy and Al Gore Sr flank Alvin Weinberg on a visit to ORNL

A nuclear pioneer’s work on safer, cheaper, inexhaustible nuclear power is still inspiring nuclear environmentalists. by Robert Hargraves Physicist Alvin Weinberg worked on the Manhattan Project and later co-invented the pressurized water nuclear reactor. As Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory he led development of liquid fuel reactors, including walk-away-safe liquid fluoride thorium reactors with […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Atomic Pioneers, Atomic politics, Climate change, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, Guest Columns, Liquid Fuel Reactors, Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Muller influenced the BEAR to adopt the Linear No Threshold (LNT) assumption in 1956

January 28, 2014 By Rod Adams

Hermann Muller, the 1946 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology and Medicine, insisted that there was no threshold of risk from ionizing radiation. His opinion has had a long lasting influence on standards for radiation dose. He was wrong. History is complicated. Influential people often impose their will with long-lasting results. The stories can be difficult […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Health Effects, LNT, Radiation

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