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Neutron Doodle – a 2002 Song Whose Time Has Come to Go Viral

November 20, 2009 By Rod Adams

Gail Marcus, who blogs at Nuclear Power Talk, shared a story on Saturday November 14, 2009 about a song contest that she supported during her tenure as president of the American Nuclear Society. It was inspired by memories of the artistic work produced during the Great Depression with government support that was designed not just to provide jobs to singers and song writers, but also to help educate the public about the long term benefits of investing government money into building new hydroelectric dams.

I have come to realize that hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants have a great deal in common. They both require a significant capital investment, they both provide a large number of construction jobs, they both produce electricity without any air pollution and they both raise the ire of the fossil fuel industry.

With the help of people like Gail, who shared this story and video on her blog and Kevin McCoy who wrote the song and produced the video with help from a company singing group called “Tritium”, perhaps hydroelectric dams and nuclear energy will have one more thing in common – the use of music to share their story.

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About Rod Adams

Rod Adams is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience, now serving as a Managing Partner at Nucleation Capital, an emerging climate-focused fund. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial discussion and analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology and policies for several decades. He is the founder of Atomic Insights and host and producer of The Atomic Show Podcast.

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