Great visit to Michigan ANS chapter meeting – December 8, 2005

ByRod Adams

Last Thursday night I had the pleasure of spending the evening with the Michigan chapter of the American Nuclear Society. Despite the cold and snow, there was a good turnout and I had the chance to speak to a number of friendly and interested people during the pre dinner attitude adjustment period.

Following the dinner, I provided the evening’s entertainment. Judging by the fact that there were no early departures and several interesting questions, I think that the talk was well received. I recorded the session, but my sound guy (me) did not get the microphone located just right, so there is a bit of distortion caused by my tendency to try to project to the back of the room. Oh well, I think you can at least understand what I am trying to say.

The recording is available at: (Note: the file is a 22 MB MP4)
Fission is clean enough to run inside submarines.

I tried to smooth the talk a bit. There is nothing like a recorder to pick up all of those throat clearing “ums” and “okay’s”. There is also no reason to subject you to them outside of a live session. My mother would be proud, however; I did not find a single “you know” in the recording. For those of you that were at the session, you might also note that I cut out the section with the icebreaker clips – I do not have permission to share those on the web. I also did not manage to capture the Q&A session, much to my dismay. Oh well, I will keep practicing.

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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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