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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

Atomic Show #245 – Building a prosperity program on used nuclear fuel foundation

October 8, 2015 By Rod Adams 9 Comments

I applaud reasoned, long term thinking that aims to use science, technology and deep understanding of human wants and needs — aka politics — to set a course for success. You can find one of my favorite current examples of an effort that meets my criteria in the expansive, lightly populated, rather dry state of […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Fuel Recycling, International nuclear, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Nuclear Waste, Podcast, Politics of Nuclear Energy

More financial motives for UBS’s effort to encourage nuclear plant retirements in Northeast

September 29, 2015 By Rod Adams

Yesterday, I wrote a quick post that linked a recently issued UBS report’s negative views about the economic viability of merchant nuclear power plants in the US to UBS’s large portfolio of troubled loans to companies involved in various aspects of the natural gas extraction technique known as “fracing” (alternatively spelled as fracking in many […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, Fossil fuel competition, Fracking, Natural Gas, Smoking Gun

Why would UBS root for Entergy’s Merchant Nukes to Close?

September 28, 2015 By Rod Adams 27 Comments

UBS Investment Bank holds a large portfolio of loans to companies involved in extracting natural gas using the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Because of the healthy fees associated with generating those loans initially, UBS, along with several other large investment banks, supported drilling programs for production that was not justified by the […]

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

Who said modular construction would save money on first of a kind units?

August 2, 2015 By Rod Adams 42 Comments

On July 27, 2015, the Wall St. Journal published an article written by Rebecca Smith titled Prefab Nuclear Plants Prove Just as Expensive. That piece has been widely shared and discussed on social media with more than 2700 shares on Facebook and more than 150 shares on Twitter as counted from the original article. I […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, AP1000 saga, Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear

Moving nuclear energy discussions forward

June 27, 2015 By Rod Adams

On Wednesday, June 24 Bloomberg BNA (Bureau of National Affairs) conducted a morning meeting titled A Chain Reaction: The Role of Nuclear Energy in New England’s Energy Mix at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. The timing was fortuitous for me, my wife and I were visiting family in Maine the weekend before the […]

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

Atomic Show #238 – StarCore Nuclear co-founders

April 7, 2015 By Rod Adams

StarCore Nuclear is a Canadian company whose co-founders, David Dabney and David Poole, are experienced engineers and businessmen. They have spent most of the past six years developing a technology and a business model aimed at providing reliable, emission-free electrical power and heat to remote locations. The basis of their technology is a high-temperature helium […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Business of atomic energy, Gas Cooled Reactors, Graphite Moderated Reactors, International nuclear, New Nuclear, Podcast, Smaller reactors

Today Show cheers nuclear power by chanting “Go Nuke!”

March 13, 2015 By Rod Adams

Before readers get too excited, I need to acknowledge that the Today Show in the below video is broadcast from Sydney, Australia, not New York City. However, it is still kind of exciting to have a TV newscaster chanting “Go Nuke!” The broadcaster’s excitement is based on an announcement by Liberal Party Senator Sean Edwards […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Pro Nuclear Video

Diseconomy of scale – world’s largest canned-motor reactor coolant pump

February 28, 2015 By Rod Adams

On February 16, 2015, an AP article by Ray Henry titled Nuclear plants delayed in China, watched closely by US firms contained a short paragraph that has contributed to a number of sleepless nights. I’m pretty sure there are plenty of other people affected in the same manner who have far more at stake than […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, AP1000 saga, Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear, Pressurized Water

Learn more about internationalizing market for SMRs at 5th Annual SMR Summit

February 22, 2015 By Rod Adams

Interest is growing in building right-sized reactors. In the relatively near future, there will be operating demonstration plants in China, Argentina, and Russia proving that the nuclear industry has learned that the one-size fits all model cannot work if the chosen size is in the range of 1,000 MWe. There simply are not enough customers […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, Conferences, International nuclear

What Aircraft Manufacturers Can Teach the Nuclear Industry

February 6, 2015 By Evan Twarog

Evan is a New Hampshire resident who will be graduating from high school in 2015 and plans to pursue a career in engineering. Few innovations have shaped the world as dramatically as the development of the airplane. In less than a century, mankind went from riding horses to flying non-stop half way around the world. […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear, Nuclear regulations

Rod Adams and Alex Epstein on Power Hour

January 14, 2015 By Rod Adams

On Atomic Show #230, I talked with Alex Epstein, the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. Some of the things I told Alex during that show intrigued him enough to ask me to be a guest on his Power Hour show. That show has now been published as Power Hour: Rod Adams on […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Fossil fuel competition

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