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Atomic Show #192 – Zero Carbon Options for South Australia

December 17, 2012 By Rod Adams

Zero Carbon Options

Ben Heard is one of the growing number of environmental professionals who have seriously evaluated all options for reducing mankind’s annual production rate of carbon dioxide and discovered that the best tool available is nuclear fission energy. As a part of his continuing journey of discovery, he worked with Brown and Pang to produce a […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Economics, Nuclear Cost Data, Podcast, Unreliables

CO2 blobs that ate New York – Emissions visualization

December 6, 2012 By Rod Adams 3 Comments

Even with decades worth of passionate discussions about CO2 emissions, it is difficult for some people to comprehend the scale of the problem. This video graphic takes a big step in the right direction. The creator has helped us to see what it would mean if we packed fossil fuel waste from a single large […]

Filed Under: Climate change

Time for rational risk evaluation of energy sources – natural gas versus nuclear

November 14, 2012 By Rod Adams

It is way past time to begin the long process of helping people understand how to rationally weigh the risks versus benefits of available power or fuel systems. For far too many years, promoters of immensely profitable products like natural gas have been loudly and frequently telling society about its benefits while glossing over the […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Climate change, Contamination, Fossil fuel competition, Natural Gas

Zero Carbon Options for Australia – Support the Report and Help Promote Nuclear Energy Development

November 2, 2012 By Rod Adams

Ben Heard, one of the most effective nuclear energy communicators I know, has produced a report titled Zero Carbon Options – Seeking an economic mix for an environmental outcome in partnership Brown & Pang. It has been peer reviewed by energy and climate experts Professor Barry Brook (Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change at […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Climate change

Nuclear plants performed well during Sandy – as expected by professionals

October 31, 2012 By Rod Adams

One of the best things about nuclear energy is that the fuel is cheap and densely concentrated. That characteristic enables facilities to be hardened against external events, and has the potential to reduce the vulnerability of nuclear energy facilities to infrastructure damage that happens outside of the facility. The low cost fuel also enables a […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Climate change, Natural disasters

Theo Simon and George Monbiot – Rational discussion about nuclear energy development

October 12, 2012 By Rod Adams

During the past week or so, I have been spending quite a bit of time following a discussion about nuclear energy between Theo Simon and George Monbiot. It is a deeply philosophical engagement between two literate and concerned people who view nuclear energy through different lenses and have, so far, reached different conclusions about its […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Climate change, Smaller reactors

The Establishment Wants Us All To Overreact To Fukushima

August 19, 2012 By Rod Adams

Photoshopped Fukushima bullseye

A recurring theme on Atomic Insights is that nuclear energy is a disruptive technology that has the potential to reshuffle the wealth and power underpinning what my generation called “The Establishment”, which is essentially the same as what some now call the 1%. Though it may be a bit of an exaggeration or over simplification, […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Climate change, Coal

James Hansen explains climate risk and proposed carbon fee – dividend tool

August 10, 2012 By Rod Adams

James Hansen has been warning the world since the 1980s about the risks we are imposing on ourselves. Unfortunately, not enough people have listened so we are continuing to increase the rate at which we are dumping CO2 into the only atmosphere we have. In the above video [no longer available], Hansen uses clear, unemotional […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Fossil fuel competition

Winning a debate in Sydney – We have seen the future and it’s nuclear

August 8, 2012 By Rod Adams

Ben Heard of Decarbonise SA shared a teaser video clip from a recent Big Ideas debate titled We’ve seen the future and it’s nuclear. In this clip, Ben spends his allotted 9 minutes telling people how he became convinced that the only path to an abundant, reliable future energy supply system that minimizes CO2 and […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Atomic Advocacy, Climate change, Pro Nuclear Video

Atomic Show #186 – SMRs, Climate Change, and Natural Gas Competition

July 30, 2012 By Rod Adams

On the evening of July 29, 2012, Suzy Hobbs-Baker, Director of the Nuclear Literacy Project and founder of PopAtomic Studios, Dan Yurman, who blogs at Idaho Samizdat and writes for Fuel Cycle Week and the ANS Nuclear Cafe, Margaret Harding, an independent nuclear energy consultant who blogs at 4 Factor Consulting, and Cal Abel, a […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Fossil fuel competition, Natural Gas, Podcast, Smaller reactors

European Climate Foundation Has a Dangerous Blind Spot Regarding Nuclear Energy

July 17, 2012 By Rod Adams 10 Comments

The European Energy Review (free subscription required) recently published an interview with Arne Mogren, Director of the Power Programme of the European Climate Foundation (ECF) titled Everyone agrees on where we need to be in 2050, but not on how to get there. The ECF is billed as one of the more influential climate lobby […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Climate change, Fossil fuel competition, International nuclear

Analogy – Steroids & Home Runs vs CO2 & Extreme Weather

July 16, 2012 By Rod Adams

I like the above video, though I would make a few changes if I could draw. For example, I would more carefully choose dimensions in the scene that shows the earth surrounded by what is apparently supposed to be the atmosphere. The earth’s diameter is roughly 8,000 miles, but its atmosphere is only a few […]

Filed Under: Climate change

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