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Atomic energy technology, politics, and perceptions from a nuclear energy insider who served as a US nuclear submarine engineer officer

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Smoking Gun research continuing in earnest

December 5, 2013 By Rod Adams

In 1993, after I had made a decision to resign my active duty commission and design a small atomic engine, a colleague warned me that “the oil companies will never let you succeed.” At the time, I was pretty naive, so I didn’t heed his warning. Over the years, I have gradually learned more about […]

Filed Under: Book, Energy density, Fossil fuel competition, Smoking Gun

Professional antinuclear greens resist; greens concerned about climate change embrace

November 22, 2013 By Rod Adams

Fissures related to nuclear energy are developing in the monolithic movement known as Environmentalism. The Breakthrough Institute has published a good introduction to the schism titled The Great Green Meltdown: How Economic Arguments Against Nuclear Highlight Environmentalist Delusions. Though this is a simplification, it is generally accurate to describe two sides of the movement that […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Book, Climate change, Economics, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, Fossil fuel competition, Natural Gas, Pro Nuclear Video

Is Bill McKibben really serious about climate change?

March 8, 2013 By Rod Adams

Andy Revkin recently published a post on his Dot Earth blog titled A Communications Scholar Analyzes Bill McKibben’s Path on Climate. In one of the videos that is embedded in the article, Matthew Nisbet describes Bill McKibben as a public intellectual and compares his activism on climate to that of Rachel Carson on the effects […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Book, Climate change, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Deadliest adversary of antinuclear movement – guiltless men and women proudly sharing nuclear knowledge

October 21, 2011 By Rod Adams

For the past few months, I have been rereading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. Though the book was first published more than 50 years ago, it is remarkably prescient about some of the risks that society can face when too many people forget how to produce items of real value and quality. It is a book […]

Filed Under: Book, Business of atomic energy, Editorials, For the Rest of Us, Fossil fuel competition

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