Episode number 7 of The Atomic Show is available

ByRod Adams March 23, 2006July 21, 2020

The Atomic Show episode 7 talks about several announcements related to new nuclear power plant projects, and it also digresses in to discussions about

The Dupic process of recycling nuclear fuel from a pressurized water reactor into a CANDU reactor
Recycling fruit waste into rabbit food and back to fruit tree fertilizer
Milorganite
Safety improvements at currently operated RBMK reactors
Peter Beattie’s comments about coal versus uranium
Mining uranium from coal
Transporting coal from Australia to China
Starving polar bears
NRC fees for nuclear plant licenses
Professionalism of the NRC
Enriched silicon for microprocessor production
Iran’s enrichment program

Enjoy!

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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