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Prevention is Easier and Less Painful Than Cure – Keep Vermont Yankee Operable

December 27, 2014 By Rod Adams

One of the well known techniques for minimizing the impact of an important report whose news some people don’t want to hear is to hold it for release until late Friday evening. That way, conventional journalists will not pay much attention until Monday morning and there will be some amount of decay in interest level […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Economics, Vermont Yankee

Putting excitement back into nuclear technology development

December 13, 2014 By Rod Adams

Josh Freed, Third Way‘s clean energy vice president, has published a thoughtful, graphically enticing Brookings Essay titled Back to the Future: Advanced Nuclear Energy and the Battle Against Climate Change. It focuses on Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie of Transatomic Power, but it also makes it abundantly clear that those two visionary entrepreneurs are examples […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Atomic history, Atomic Pioneers, Business of atomic energy, Fossil fuel competition, Pro Nuclear Video

Power In New England: Why are Prices Increasing so Rapidly?

November 19, 2014 By Evan Twarog

On October 20, IBM announced that it was spinning off its chip division by paying GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion. GlobalFoundaries appears to have won the deal with its geographic position of owning fabrication facilities in New York as well as in Germany and Malaysia. The move didn’t surprise many, as there have been rumors that IBM […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, Economics, Fossil fuel competition, Natural Gas, Vermont Yankee

Prospective customers lining up at NuScale

October 16, 2014 By Rod Adams

A few days ago, Dan Yurman at Neutron Bytes published a blog post that is now titled Flash: NuScale executive says firm may build SMRs at Idaho lab. It was a follow-up to an earlier post in which Dan speculated about the Idaho National Lab’s potential as a good site for a new nuclear power […]

Filed Under: Atomic Entrepreneurs, Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear, Pressurized Water, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors

Terrestrial Energy – Molten Salt Reactor Designed to Be Commercial Success

September 2, 2014 By Rod Adams

There is a growing roster of innovative organizations populated by people who recognize that nuclear technology is still in its infancy. Terrestrial Energy is one of the most promising of those organization because of its combination of problem solving technology, visionary leadership, and strong focus on meeting commercial needs. Nearly all of the commercial nuclear […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Business of atomic energy, International nuclear, Liquid Fuel Reactors, New Nuclear, Smaller reactors

Another Blogger For Nuclear Energy – Power for USA

August 17, 2014 By Rod Adams

Update: (Posted 08/21/2014 at 7:35) Donn Dears and I have continuing exchanging comments on his blog post about the destruction of nuclear energy. Atomic Insights readers might be intrigued by the way that the experienced, retired GE executive is responding to the “smoking gun” type stories I have shared with him. End Update. I was […]

Filed Under: Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Fossil fuel competition

Shell Oil and Gas Company’s Perspective on Energy Future

July 7, 2014 By Rod Adams

There was a time when the Royal Dutch Shell corporation demonstrated strong interest in nuclear energy. In 1973, it was approached by Gulf Oil Company, the owner of Gulf General Atomics, as a capital partner for an aggressive expansion program. GA had spent the better part of two decades developing an innovative high temperature gas-cooled […]

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

Modest proposal to Chris Crane, CEO of Exelon

June 22, 2014 By Rod Adams

Dear Mr. Crane: According to Exelon’s power struggle, your company is searching for a strategy that will restore the glowing prospects that it faced in the period from 2004-2008. That is the period that an Exelon leader called “the boom years for nuclear.” During that time, Exelon’s stock price reached an all time high of […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear

Hollande’s proposed “cap” on nuclear electricity capacity

June 21, 2014 By Rod Adams

France’s President Francois Hollande and his Socialist Party ran on a platform that included scaling back France’s dependence on nuclear energy. It was not a very popular part of his campaign pitch, but Sarkozy was such a flawed candidate that Hollande won anyway. Hollande is trying to follow through on his promise, but there are […]

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

Mark Cooper is wrong about SMRs and nuclear energy

May 17, 2014 By Rod Adams

Mark Cooper of the Vermont Law School has published another paper in a series critiquing the economics of nuclear energy; this one is titled The Economic Failure of Nuclear Power and the Development of a Low Carbon Electricity Future: Why Small Modular Reactors are Part of the Problem and Not the Solution. It is not […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Atomic history, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Economics

Existing nuclear plants are valuable and worth saving

May 15, 2014 By Rod Adams

Monthly Average Gas Prices for US Electric Generators

Many currently operating nuclear plants are in danger of being permanently shut down due to temporary conditions including low, but volatile natural gas prices, improperly designed markets that fail to recognize the value of reliable generating capacity, quotas and mandates that result in certain types of electrical generators receiving direct monetary payments in addition to […]

Filed Under: Aging nuclear, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Climate change, Economics, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Nuclear-Powered Trans-Ocean Shipping – 3rd place in New York Advanced Energy contest

May 10, 2014 By Rod Adams

Fuel cost for ships compared to land-based power plants

I received an update from Benjamin Haas, the SUNY Maritime student who has been working on nuclear powered ship designs from a complete systems perspective for the past three semesters. He and his team have not just focused on the technical aspects of designing a power plant and a ship that could take full advantage […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Atomic ships, Business of atomic energy, Nuclear Ships

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