I have been catching up with posts produced during my trip to France. (We did not have much time for web surfing.) One that I noticed was a thank you gift from my friends at PopAtomic Studios. What do you think?
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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Looks cool. Why don’t you use it as an alternative icon for the site? I’d like to put that image up as a link on my blog to here.
It does look cool but the pun may be a little bit too insiderish, too cute by half. Just my $0.02.
I like it! Especially since it is “in your face” to the linear, no threshold radiation dose folks who seem to think that if we avoid all radiation, we can live forever. They will know who they are, even if others won’t.