High Temperature Reactor (HTR) Conference 2006

ByRod Adams

It has been a crazy, busy week for me – so much has been happening that I almost missed the news coming out of South Africa at the HTR Conference 2006. It is still a busy time, so I will simply point out that Google News indexes South African news web sites. Searching with “pebble bed reactor” or “high temperature reactor” provides links to some interesting articles.

There were several items that deeply interested me:

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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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