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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Creamer Media Engineering News Online has recently published several articles about the PBMR and the project status. One article titled How PBMR’s Work provides good information about the history and design choices made during the lengthy refinement period since the late 1950s when Rudolf Schulten first developed the concept of enclosing nuclear fuel into graphite…
Suzy Hobbs at PopAtomic.org has released a series of new pieces of original art that will add depth and visual interest to discussions about energy. The drawings are suitable for inclusion into presentations or as components of an advertising/information campaign. I particularly like the “Uranium, Not Just Another Rock” poster. It has the vibrant orange…
One of the debate challenges that pro-nuclear advocates face is that the forces opposed to using nuclear energy have some glib spokesmen who have been able to insert so much chaff into the argument that casual observers get completely befuddled. One of the more difficult rhetorical tools to overcome is the idea that nuclear power…
Gail Marcus, who blogs at Nuclear Power Talk, shared a story on Saturday November 14, 2009 about a song contest that she supported during her tenure as president of the American Nuclear Society. It was inspired by memories of the artistic work produced during the Great Depression with government support that was designed not just…
Four companies, two with headquarters in the United States – General Electric and Shaw Group – and two with their headquarters in Japan – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Toshiba – are viewed as the front runners in the growing bidding war for Westinghouse. Westinghouse is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNFL, an integrated nuclear plant…
According to a recent news release and press conference held by the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), an organization that has been fighting against nuclear power for several decades, the nuclear renaissance is a fiction that only seems visible inside the Washington, DC Beltway. By their score card, the tally is 6 runs against…