Do Nuclear Advocates Need to "Get Over" Themselves?

ByRod Adams

There is a thoughtful discussion going on at The Energy Collective about Robin Carey’s advice to nuclear advocates titled Message to the Nuclear Industry: Get Over Yourselves. As is often the case, Robin confuses the issue a bit by addressing “the nuclear industry” but then talking more about the activities of nuclear fission technology advocates as if they were one and the same. Never the less, the post is thought provoking and the comments that have already been submitted are at least two to three orders of magnitude more interesting than the run of the mill commentary on the Internet.

Heck, there are even people writing there who think in complete paragraphs and know how to spell!

(PS – Sorry for my lack of attention to Atomic Insights lately, but I just returned from a great vacation and have some pressing “day job” tasks to complete.)

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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