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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Several days ago, in my initial post about the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute, I alluded to the fact that the European Union leaders must accept some of the blame for the Europe’s growing vulnerability to aggressive use of easily interrupted natural gas as a political weapon. I made a comment that deserves some follow-up. Here is…
Vu Weekly describes itself as “Edmonton’s independent arts and entertainment weekly magazine”. A quickly look at the current issue reveals that it is a rather open minded and liberal publication that dislikes “corporate media”, has a special “Sex and Love Issue” planned (complete with a rather provocative Flash based column ad on all pages), and…
The US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency has posted its early release of Annual Energy Outlook 2006. In recognition of major changes in the energy markets since last year there are several significant differences in what the agency calls its base case. World oil production is expected to grow at a slower rate than…
There were two contrasting announcements of decisions on the fate of silent, but potentially productive nuclear power stations in the past week. On the positive side, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board of directors included $248 million for engineering, evaluation, maintenance, preservation, establishing a regulatory framework, and long lead time procurement of items needed to finally…
Once again, the forces that are bound and determined to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and remove its 620 MW of reliable (90% capacity factor) electricity from the competitive supply of electricity in New England have found another hook. The incredibly detailed analysis that is being conducted of the soil next to…
According to a recent article in The State titled Groups gain ground in nuclear plant fight, two anti-nuclear groups have claimed victory in a recent appeal to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of previous decisions by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB). As is often the case in claims by people who adhere to the deceptive practice…