Atomic Show Logo Seen On iTunes Screen (That is a Pretty Big Deal for Me.)
A good friend sent me the below screen shot of iTunes on June 16, 2009. Pretty cool, don’t you think?
A good friend sent me the below screen shot of iTunes on June 16, 2009. Pretty cool, don’t you think?
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I received a reminder via email this morning to register for a Platts sponsored meeting titled Small Modular Reactor: Time Frame for Development and Outlook for Commercial Viability that will be held in Washington, DC on June 28 and 29. I plan to be there to find out more about what I think is one…
Foreign Policy has published an article by senior Time Magazine correspondent Michael Grunwald titled Seven Myths About Alternative Energy that reinforces the Amory Lovins inspired myth that nuclear energy is too expensive and too slow to be considered a useful tool in fighting fossil fuel addiction and global climate change. Here is a quote from…
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…
I have long struggled to understand my country’s views on Iran. Throughout my career as a professional naval officer, the official position has been demonization, with words and actions roughly equal to those applied to Cuba. I have done a lot of reading over the years about our involvement in the country dating back to…
David Bradish at NEI Nuclear Notes has produced an insightful series of blogs about Amory Lovins and His Nuclear Illusion. The posts enter into a rather detailed analysis of some of the assumptions, deceptions, fuzzy mathematics and ill-founded conclusions reached by my least favorite energy prognosticator. There is something close to lying about a two…
Several months ago, I heard about a web service called Rapleaf from Cameron Reilly, the host of the G’day World Podcast and the CEO of The Podcast Network. (He is one of the reasons why there is a podcast called “The Atomic Show”.) The essence of the Rapleaf service is that it allows people to…