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Columnists declare nuclear to be uncompetitive

May 2, 2016 By Rod Adams 55 Comments

On Saturday, April 30, Leonard Hyman & William Tilles published an opinion column on Oilprice.com headlined Lets (sic) Stop Pretending Nuclear Power Is Commercially Viable. Aside: Leonard Hyman is an accomplished electricity industry analyst and historian. I have a dog-eared copy of his 1983 work titled America’s Electric Utilities: Past, Present and Future on my […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, Economics, Fossil fuel competition

House Energy and Commerce seeks to enable advanced nuclear energy

April 30, 2016 By Rod Adams 37 Comments

On Friday, April 29, 2016, the Energy and Power subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing to discuss H.R. 4979 and a draft discussion bill with the unfortunate acronym of NUKEPA (Nuclear Utilization of Keynote Energy Policies Act). Though at different stages of the legislative process, both documents are efforts to […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Atomic Show #253 – Delivering the Nuclear Promise

April 25, 2016 By Rod Adams 29 Comments

The US nuclear industry has decided that it’s time to take aggressive action to improve its operational efficiency. Leaders have looked hard at the competitive landscape. They’ve clearly recognized that while they produce a valuable, desirable commodity, their production costs are not competitive. Many of them aren’t willing to give up their markets and valuable […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, Nuclear Performance, Podcast

Bechtel will “pursue” accelerated mPower development

March 8, 2016 By Rod Adams 18 Comments

I’ve relearned a valuable lesson — read press releases and other PR material closely, paying special attention to wiggle words. On Friday, March 4, Bechtel issued a press release titled Bechtel, BWXT to Pursue Acceleration of Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Project. In my excitement, I missed the key word in the headline and in the […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors, Water Cooled Reactors

U-Battery – Micronuclear power with intriguing business model

February 14, 2016 By Rod Adams 19 Comments

U-Battery was one of the more intriguing presenters at the Advanced Reactor Technical Summit (ARTSIII) held at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory last week. Even though this was a technical summit, the segments of the presentation that captured my attention were the business model and the funding source. However, certain technical choices are vital to […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, ARTSIII Feb 2016, Business of atomic energy, Gas Cooled Reactors, Graphite Moderated Reactors, New Nuclear, Nuclear Batteries, Reactors, Smaller reactors

Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh “It’s an exciting time to be in nuclear engineering.”

February 1, 2016 By Rod Adams 30 Comments

During the Advanced Nuclear Summit and Showcase, there was a terrific conversation about a growing level of excitement among university students who are studying nuclear engineering, among more established members of the nuclear community and among other people who are passionate about helping to save the world. Some of that enthusiasm stems from the fact […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear

Why James Hansen might be underestimating nuclear energy’s growth potential and why Joe Romm is wrong

January 8, 2016 By Rod Adams

Joe Romm, an energy industry and climate change pundit who was once mentored by Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute, recently sat down at his keyboard to produce a piece providing the basis for his opinion that James Hansen, Ken Caldeira, Tom Wigley and Kerry Emanuel — and hundreds to thousands of other nuclear […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Atomic history, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy

Virginia Loves Nuclear But Hates Uranium – Why?

December 30, 2015 By Rod Adams 1 Comment

Virginia may be the only state in the U.S. with a law creating a public-private partnership structure whose mission is to strengthen and promote its nuclear energy and technology industries. There are two components of the partnership, the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority (VNECA) and the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium (VNEC), which is a private, […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Uranium mining, VA Nuclear

Addressing remaining concerns about nuclear energy

December 23, 2015 By Rod Adams 58 Comments

In recent years, critical thinkers who have habitually objected to using nuclear energy have conceded that it has a good safety record and that its CO2 and other air pollution emissions are a tiny fraction of produced by the most efficient natural gas power plants. They also recognize that nuclear power plants, unlike power sources […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Economics, Fossil fuel competition, Nuclear Cost Data

Plausible explanation for Indonesia’s abrupt turns in nuclear energy announcements

December 16, 2015 By Rod Adams 20 Comments

For the past several weeks, Indonesia has been a hot topic on some of the mailing lists to which I subscribe. It’s also been the subject of frequent news items in some of the trade-focused journals that I read. I’ve been developing a theory that might explain some of the confusing developments. Background For those […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Fossil fuel competition, International nuclear

Learning more about Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium

December 12, 2015 By Rod Adams 3 Comments

On Thursday (December 10, 2015), the Virginia chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) held its traditional annual joint meeting with the Virginia chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The evening’s invited speaker was Marshall Cohen, who became the first full time director of the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium (VNEC) in July […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Business of atomic energy, VA Nuclear

Labor and Business perspectives from White House Summit on Nuclear Energy – Liz Shuler (AFL-CIO) and Danny Roderick (Westinghouse)

November 7, 2015 By Rod Adams 32 Comments

On November 6, 2015, a Friday afternoon, the White House hosted a Summit on Nuclear Energy. The seats in the conference room had been filled before much information about the event had been released, but the organizers provided a live stream on the web. That turned out to have been at least as informative as […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Climate change, New Nuclear, Nuclear Communications, Nuclear professionals

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