On episode 19 of The Atomic Show, Shane Brown and I chat about the prospects for new nuclear power plants in Canada, the choices that Ontario will be making for new nuclear power plants, and the possibility that CANDU reactors might be good choices for providing the steam and hydrogen needed to produce useful products from Alberta’s tar sands. Check it out at http://atomic.thepodcastnetwork.com/index.php?p=32
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I recently read a blog post titled The world’s first molten salt concentrating plant that introduced me to Archimede Solar, a subsidiary of the Angelantoni Industrial Group S.p.A., with Siemens as a participating partner. The first of a kind plant has a peak rating of 5 MWe and cost $60 million. That is a pretty…
Steve Darden at SeekerBlog.com has some thoughts worth a read in his post titled CBO Study: Nuclear Power’s Role in Generating Electricity. You might also want to visit the Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital Blog post titled Going Nuclear: Will Dems Support Nukes To Fight Climate Change?. That one contains some interesting comments that lead…
The NY Times Green Inc. blog recently asked readers to provide some suggestions for an image makeover for nuclear power. I did not like the published responses very much so I submitted my own: Dear Editor: In 1991, I took a cruise with my wife and noticed just how much smoke was pouring out of…
Being a pro-nuclear activist can cause occasional frustrations, especially considering how easy it is to get stuck in circular arguments with groups holding conflicting views about the same aspect of nuclear technology. One topic associated with nuclear energy production that can lead to frustrating arguments is the question of cost. People like Amory Lovins and…
There has been a lot of interesting news about atomic energy this past week, a fact that you might have missed if Atomic Insights is a major source of your news. I apologize – sometimes life interferes with blogging. One of the things that has taken up more time than it should have has been…
On March 1, 2007, the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT and MIT Student Pugwash hosted a three member panel to discuss The Future of Nuclear Energy. The panel members included Andy Kadak: Professor of the Practice of Nuclear Engineering, MIT Allison Macfarlane: Associate Professor of Environment Science and Policy at George Mason University and…