The Atomic Show Podcast has reached a small milestone by posting its 50th show. Shane and I chatted about the new radiation danger symbol, a new MOX plant in Japan, France’s interest in selling large generation 3 reactors to South Africa, personal conservation methods, and the importance of electricity in aluminum production. In other words, it was a fairly typical chat for a couple of atomic geeks.
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The recent Atomic Insights post discussing the cost of FPL’s proposed new nuclear plants in South Florida generated quite a discussion thread that provides a lot of food for thought. I noticed an article in the New York Times published on March 19, 2008 titled An Export in Solid Supply (registration required – sorry) that…
Back in February 2007, I noted that there was a lot of interest among businesses that saw an opportunity to make some money by replacing the power output from the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania. That plant currently supplies 70% of the electricity consumed in Lithuania. It is a valuable anchor for the Soviet…
A couple of weeks ago, I met with Marc Gunther, a journalist who is a contributing editor at Fortune magazine and author of four books, at a local coffee shop for a conversation about energy. He has just posted an article describing our meeting and summarizing the conversation. Please forgive my vanity, but I recommend…
Raser Technologies has recently started up a geothermal power plant in Utah that produces 10 MWe using a collection of identical, 200 kwe binary cycle units manufactured by UTC Power. It takes 50 of those units to produce the combined output, but by using these small, off the shelf machines, Raser was able to put…
Marysville California is about 20 miles due north of Sacramento, the state capitol. Not surprisingly – based on the paper’s name and location, it is a publication that notices when politicians speak, especially when they say something newsworthy. In a recent editorial, the paper talked about the changing public perception regarding nuclear power and the…
I am learning to play with a new tool – Google Book Search Beta. Though I have some concerns about Google’s treatment of authors and their copyrights, I am excited by the prospects of being able to do serious research from my home office. Until today, I did not realize just how many obscure, but…
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