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?
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a Limited Work Authorization (LWA) to Southern Nuclear Operating Company to begin preparing for the construction of two Westinghouse AP-1000 nuclear power plants. The LWA came on the heels of the NRC’s decision to issue an Early Site Permit (the fourth ESP for a nuclear power plant issued so…
I have been getting into conversations with people about nuclear energy for several decades now, and nearly every one of them eventually gets around to “the waste issue”. It happened to me again on Monday night during an interesting conversation with a politically active federal government employee. Here is the scene. I was at a…
On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small team started, controlled and stopped the first fission chain reaction in a graphite/uranium pile in a squash court under the stands at a defunct football stadium at the University of Chicago. On December 2, 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Plant began full power operation. It was…
A couple of days ago, I mentioned Jack Spencer’s analysis of the need for nuclear power if there is going to be a real effort to change the amount of CO2 entering the atmosphere. Yesterday, FoxNews published an opinion piece titled Heritage Foundation: Road to Clean Air Runs Through Yucca Mountain that Jack wrote with…
I received an email a few minutes ago asking if I had heard about the recent movements of the NS Savannah, the first nuclear powered commercial ship in the world. The email quoted a story from the Charleston, SC News and Courier, and piqued my interest. (I would provide a link, but the News and…
In an article published in the New Zealand Herald’s 2 November 2005 on line edition, Senator Ian Campbell (also identified as Australia’s environment minister) stated: “Any politician who stands in the way of providing uranium to the world is committing an outrageous act of environmental vandalism.” As is often the case for a politician, he…
I look forward to seeing and promoting Nuclear (and you in it).
How much work is it to move the fuel from those huge ungainly casks to a central location in US?…
@Rob Brixey The project you mention were not the kind of commercial prototypes I am suggesting. As far as I…
Vallecitos BWR was a prototype in its day. But that was built during the AEC (collaboration) vs NRC (regulation) paradigm.…
That makes sense. I suppose that as long as the storage system allows for relatively easy access to the casks,…
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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.