Map of recent Atomic Insights visitors
I thought you might be interested in seeing a map overlay representing the visitors to Atomic Insights during the past 30 days.
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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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The Ukraine is almost singular in absence of commentary? Could they possibly have “Other Energy” options than everyone else? Perhaps Vladimir Vystotskii in Kiev has some new ideas at the shevchencko University. Maybe it is just that Ukrainians know their comments might question how a democratic society like ours can’t manage the resources we have more efficiently? After all, they know all about scarce energy as the result of government regulation.
I think the big blank area is Kazakhstan. Ukraine is smaller and further West.