Financial Times – Gas dispute may encourage nuclear developments

ByRod Adams

On 2 January 2006, the Financial Times published an article by Thomas Catan titled Dispute likely to boost arguments for nuclear power.

It looks like I am not the only one who thinks that the development of favorable opinions about new nuclear power projects is a logical result of the controversy over Russian natural gas supplies.

If your country has power supplied by locally operated nuclear reactors, it is very hard to be forced into action because of a threat to your fuel supplies.

The same can be said for smaller decision making bodies than countries; it is certainly possible to build reactor power systems that are small enough for individual cities, villages, industrial parks and even buildings.

Time for another shameless plug of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc.

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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