Show number 26 of The Atomic Show has been posted. Shane and I engage in a geeky conversation with topics ranging from helium in Russian natural gas wells to cost competition with coal. Somehow we manage to include some information about deep sea diving, The Fountainhead, and the assumptions underlying the 2003 MIT study titled “The Future of Nuclear Power.”
I hope you listen and enjoy.
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At the risk of overloading you with new posts from Atomic Insights – three in one day is a bit much – I have to share one more story that kind of caught me by surprise. Apparently there is going to be a major announcement staged at Piketon, Ohio, the site of a former enrichment…
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