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Atomic thoughts best heard today @atomicrod on Twitter

May 5, 2012 By Rod Adams 9 Comments

Though many of you appreciate the long form blogging on Atomic Insights, there are just too many different topics worth mentioning today to try to put together a reasonably coherent post.

If you want to engage and see just how many different issues have captured my attention today, I suggest that you watch the Twitter feed over in the right hand column on this site. Better yet, consider this the “round TUIT” that motivates you to sign up for a Twitter account and start by following @atomicrod.

Doing that will expose you to a lot of additional characters worth following including, but not limited to, @arclight, @ionactive, @atomikrabbit, @NuclearTraining, @nukeroadie, @energyparks, @dillonangus, @JoScoMac, @pro_nuclear, @nuclearcom @TalkNuclear, @WomenInNuclear, @YesNuclearUK, @EntrepreNuclear, @loveandscience, @JesseJenkins, @N_E_I, @Nuclear_policy, @TheBTI, @ans_org, @djysrv, @nuclearfriends, @AmeliaFrahm, @Ben_Heard_DSA, @nuclear_britain, @nucleartruth, @whatisnuclear, @CoolHandNuke, @nuclearliz, @pronuclear, @BraveNewClimate, @WorldNuclear, @NuclearStudent, @chicagonuke, @cybernuke, @nuclear_cowboy, @NuclearStreet, @mark_lynas, @GeorgeMonbiot, @popatomicstudio, @SteveAplin, @EnergyFromTh, @yes_VY, and @atomicnews.

Do you notice any recurring themes in that list?

PS – It’s Saturday, not Friday (#FF), and my list would never fit into even a lengthy series of tweets. Oh well, I never was very good at following the crowd.

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About Rod Adams

Rod Adams is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience, now serving as a Managing Partner at Nucleation Capital, an emerging climate-focused fund. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial discussion and analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology and policies for several decades. He is the founder of Atomic Insights and host and producer of The Atomic Show Podcast.

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  1. AvatarWhoopie says

    May 5, 2012 at 6:56 PM

    3/11 is the ‘New 9/11″, the Nuclear Cheerleaders are The New Chickenhaw­ks.
    “Never serving in a NUCLEAR CRISIS like Daiichi Japan.
    Quoting you Rod
    “Ostrich response. Simple steps reduce radiation doses – Time, Distance, Shielding. Only needed in HIGH dose rate areas”
    What about the people of Japan!? Have you no compassion, no SHAME!?!?
    EVACUATE THE CHILDREN @ the very least! You are one sick puppy sitting where you are FAR AWAY from the crisis. SHAME ON YOU!

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    • AvatarDaniel says

      May 5, 2012 at 9:37 PM

      Whoopie,

      Read the news and look at some pictures. 2 weeks after the industrial accident at Fukushima, IAEA workers wearing nothing short of thin plastic gears were there to observe. About 40 of them.

      Of course, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s sole mission is to do harm to their full time employees and send them in dangerous areas.

      We won’t mention the fact that 2 months after the event, the IAEA stopped reporting on the subject. Nothing much to add they thought.

      Reply
  2. AvatarWhoopie says

    May 5, 2012 at 6:57 PM

    What Rod, you dont allow comments?

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    • AvatarRod Adams says

      May 5, 2012 at 7:45 PM

      On topic comments, with no profanity are always welcome. Personal attacks must be aboided, though I am a little more lenient when the attacks are directed at me. I have a thick skin.

      There is an annoying delay before comments become visible. We have tried hard to find the problem without success. Regular visitors are getting used to the delay.

      One more thing – comments with more than one link have to be moderated to protect against spammers.

      Reply
  3. AvatarDaniel says

    May 5, 2012 at 10:07 PM

    Rod,

    Delays are one thing. However, I do not get all the comments after subscribing to a story. This feature does not work well either.

    Ciao

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  4. AvatarWill Davis says

    May 6, 2012 at 4:56 PM

    Rod, did you forget @atomicnews ? 🙂

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    • AvatarRod Adams says

      May 6, 2012 at 5:07 PM

      What are you talking about? It’s right there at the end of the list – in a place of honor and notice. 🙂

      (Sorry, Will. I’ll do better next time.)

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  5. AvatarRooks says

    May 15, 2012 at 8:47 AM

    Rod, I am not a subscriber yet until I see an objective debate on why we cannot focus on the true victims (children forced to be expose to radiation that has never been allowed for artificial radiation (man made)). The task at hand is to get these people out of there. 5 to 10 years we will see these people in Tohoku/Kanto with increased cancer rates because the Japanese government is doing exactly what it did during WWII. There is a huge difference between ordering people to war and those that have to experience. If you want true insight, I will be happy to discuss it. Seeing all of this on a daily basis has taken its toll on me. What I do not appreciate is bloggers that decided from the onset that there are no plumes. If we cannot help the Japanese nuclear power is out of the question.

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    • AvatarRod Adams says

      May 16, 2012 at 5:59 AM

      @Rooks

      One of the many reasons that I am involved in the battle royale over energy supply choices is that I love children and want to do everything I can to protect them.

      The best science I know says that there is nothing hazardous about the low levels of radiation that remain in the evacuated areas outside of the power plant fence. The UNSCEAR report of the effects of Chernobyl tells me that nearly all of the very real negative effects of that accident came about as a result of irrational fear of radiation and irrational government ordered responses to alleviate that fear.

      If your time is limited, please at least go and read the summary page. If you have more time, read some of the detailed reports that are linked there.

      http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html

      Here are the final words of the summary:

      “Although those exposed as children and the emergency and recovery workers are at increased risk of radiation-induced effects, the vast majority of the population need not live in fear of serious health consequences due to the radiation from the Chernobyl accident. For the most part, they were exposed to radiation levels comparable to or a few times higher than annual levels of natural background, and future exposures continue to slowly diminish as the radionuclides decay. Lives have been seriously disrupted by the Chernobyl accident, but from the radiological point of view, generally positive prospects for the future health of most individuals should prevail.”

      If you really are in the thick of things, please consider the fact that reducing stress caused by fear of something that is not harmful might be the most positive contribution that you can make.

      Reply

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