New Energy and Fuel has published a post titled Another New Small Fission Reactor Joins the Group. It is a perceptive post whose author uses a well proven technique to attract my attention. I recommend reading the piece and the comment thread.
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Last week, while the world was very busy with a current tragedy, the United Nations released a report on a study lasting nearly 20 years about a long-ago tragedy at a place called Chernobyl. The study is rather long and full of technical detail, which makes it unlikely that the report will be read by…
Patrick Moore is doing great things in terms of getting people to reconsider their position on the use of nuclear energy. I continue to remain a bit jealous of the attention that he is able to command as a “founder of Greenpeace” and “former anti-nuclear activist” who has changed his mind. I know that there…
I have been calling myself a geek for many years, but many of my acquaintances have probably thought of me as a nerd. All of the signs are here – I never played football or baseball, I have worn eyeglasses since I was in the 4th grade, I got good enough grades in high school…
As Atomic Insights readers may remember, I have a lifelong association with FPL (Florida Power and Light). My Dad worked as an engineer for the company for 35 years – starting well before I was born. Dad passed away just one month after he retired, so it is almost completely accurate to say that the…
Just before Christmas I wrote a post titled The Rapid-L reactor – designed by Japan’s CRIEPI for JAERI – is getting a lot of blog attention This morning I added the following update to that post which I am putting both here and as an insert into the original post. (Some people read blogs linearly,…
During the ANS Winter Meeting, I stopped by the B&W booth and had a chat with some of the booth representatives about the progress that the company is making on its mPowerTM modular reactor. We had a good conversation about steady progress and a project that is meeting its planned milestones. I received a promise…
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