Shane Brown and I recently had fun talking about nuclear power in space exploration. You can listen in by downloading Atomic Show #029 – Nuclear Power in Space. We just had time to scratch the surface of this fascinating topic – please visit and leave us some comments and suggestions for future directions to explore.
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On Sunday, February 21, I gathered a group of well experienced nuclear professionals to talk about the impact of President Obama’s February 16, 2010 speech announcing loan guarantees for Southern Company to build two additional units at its Vogtle Nuclear Station. Margaret Harding, Kelly Taylor, John Wheeler from This Week in Nuclear, Dan Yurman from…
Earthtimes.org allows members to post materials of interest on its site. One of its members, listed as Geothermal Energy Association, posted a press release from PRnewswire on October 31, 2007 under the titled of Extending Tax Credits This Year ‘Vital’ Over 100 Renewable Energy Companies and Organizations Tell President Bush and Congressional Leaders. The news…
William Tucker has written a new book titled Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Energy Odyssey. On Atomic Show #112, I spoke with Bill on November 2, 2008 about why he thinks of nuclear power as “terrestrial energy”, why he wrote a book about nuclear power, his efforts…
I am haunted this early morning (0230) by a phrase seen on a blog comment yesterday. Joe Shuster, author of “Beyond Fossil Fools”, was once asked WHO he worked for (implying that he was a paid mouthpiece for some evil concern). His reply was simple, true and spot-on! He replied, “For my grandchildren.” (You can…
Over the past 15 or more years of trying to talk to people in the nuclear industry about smaller power systems, I have frequently confronted with the “economy of scale” argument. When I try to explain that there are also “diseconomies of scale” that can make very large items more costly than an equivalent capability…
While there has been a tremendous level of attention paid to the small leaks of tritiated water discovered at some US nuclear power plants, a much larger magnitude source of radioactive material has been largely ignored in public discourse. Rock formations that contain fossil fuel resources also contain uranium, thorium and their decay products in…
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