Clean Skies News Coverage of American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting

ByRod Adams

I have had a busy week trying to time share between a day job and at least some attendance and coverage of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting. While searching for other views of the event that I might have missed earlier in the week, I found the below segment titled Nuclear Industry Holds Winter Meeting on Future on Clean Skies News.

One thing that might stick in the craw of long time members of the ANS is the incorrect characterization of the meeting as an “industry” gathering. The American Nuclear Society is a technical society made up of people from academia, industry and national laboratories. It has members who are interested in nuclear medicine, isotope measuring devices, and particle physics. Though people with an interest in nuclear power play a role in the society, it is NOT an industry group.

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

Similar Posts

  • Rethinking Nuclear Power

    ByRod Adams

    Robert Hargraves, the man behind the Pebble Bed Reactor Blog, has been putting a lot of time and energy into developing an adult continuing education course for Dartmouth College’s ILEAD program. The course is titled Energy Policy and Environmental Choices: Rethinking Nuclear Power. Bob started teaching the course last week and will be posting his…

  • Turning coal ash into energy

    ByRod Adams

    As many nukes know, there is a certain amount of uranium and thorium present in most coal. The China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) is taking a look techniques for treating coal ash piles to release the uranium that should be concentrated there, since uranium oxide is not combustible. (See, for example CNNC looks for new…

  • Wasserman is Wrong – video response

    ByRod Adams

    The “No Nukes” crowd continues to spread their misinformation. On Tuesday, 23 October, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and Graham Nash traveled to Washington, D.C. to deliver a petition to Congress. Their demand is the removal of language in the 2007 energy bill that would provide funds to back up loan guarantees for energy producing projects…

  • Is my mulching mower a greenhouse gas emitter?

    ByRod Adams

    As I was reading an article about carbon taxes from the New York Times web site (nytimes.com) titled The Carbon Calculus that I found via a link from A Musing Environment, I realized that I had to ask myself – is mulching a source of greenhouse gas emissions that should be avoided or is it…

  • Personal aside – remember Movember & donate generously

    ByRod Adams

    Please remember that this is the month of Movember, a time to help raise funds for organizations that are fighting health issues that are not often discussed – prostate and testicular cancer. Please honor the men in your life. If you have ever wondered how you can say thank you for the information and value…