Heritage Foundation – Jobs and the Nuclear Renaissance

ByRod Adams

Jack Spencer at the Heritage Foundation is hosting a Capitol Hill event on September 15, 2008 called American Jobs and the Nuclear Renaissance.

Nick Loris has posted the details on the Heritage Foundation Blog – The Foundry.

I think it might be time to take a few hours of leave from my day job to visit and chat with others who are interested in the nuclear industry’s job creation ability. In our current economy, we need all of the jobs we can get for skilled engineers and manufacturing technicians.

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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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