Clean Skies News Interviews Rod Adams About Nuclear Energy

ByRod Adams

On August 21, 2009, Susan McGinnis of Clean Skies News invited me to come to the company’s downtown Washington studio for an interview about nuclear energy. I enjoyed the opportunity to converse with some of the network’s reporters – my car picked me up a few minutes earlier than absolutely needed – and then to sit down with Susan for a longer than expected interview. I hope that means I was not boring.

The studios are top notch and manned with experienced professionals. Margaret Ryan, for example, spent more than 25 years with Platts and wrote for Nucleonics week while Dan Goldstein is also an experienced energy reporter with stints at Bloomberg and Platts.

I hope you enjoy the discussion. Feedback is always welcome – I am still learning and expect I will be for quite some time to come.

Update: (Posted August 21, 2009 at 1936) The Clean Skies afternoon energy report included a segment about the US-UAE nuclear cooperation agreement. While at the studio, I got asked why oil producing states would be so interested in nuclear energy. You can watch the story starting at about minute 18.

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.

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