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Atomic energy technology, politics, and perceptions from a nuclear energy insider who served as a US nuclear submarine engineer officer

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Photos of Sanmen 1 pressure vessel arrival

August 11, 2011 By Rod Adams

Sanmen 1 reactor pressure vessel upload

The pressure vessel for Sanmen unit 1, which will most likely be the world’s first Westinghouse AP1000 in operation, arrived on site in late July. I thought you might like to see some photos of the component. One thing that never ceases to impress me is the fact that the pressure vessel fully contains the […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear

Build baby build – new nuclear power plants

July 25, 2011 By Rod Adams

CBS News aired a short piece titled US heat wave causes new look at nuclear energy that is worth a look. Though it includes the obligatory appearance of a professional antinuclear activist – in this case, Dr. Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists – the story provides some encouraging clips of the massive […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear

Battling nuclear means fighting for more climate change and ocean acidification

July 23, 2011 By Rod Adams

“In These Times” published an article that was slanted in favor of the groups that have organized themselves to fight against the licensing and construction of Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power plants throughout the southeast United States. The article, titled After Fukushima, New Fears in U.S. quotes people from NC Warn, the Friends of the Earth, […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, New Nuclear

Fighting for nuclear energy

July 11, 2011 By Rod Adams

The Atlanta Progressive News published an article titled Georgia PSC Can’t Silence Nuclear Power Debate describing how dedicated antinuclear activists disrupted a recent meeting held by the Georgia Public Service Commission. The scheduled topic of the meeting was a discussion about risk sharing in the case of potential cost overruns for Vogtle units 3 & […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Fossil fuel competition, New Nuclear

If cost and schedule is the real hinderance to new nuclear, there are available solutions

February 6, 2011 By Rod Adams

More and more articles about nuclear energy are appearing to reach the conclusion that the technology is safe enough, reliable enough, and competitive enough except for the fact that the plants take too and cost too much. Some people in the pronuclear camp have determined that the only way to solve that problem is to […]

Filed Under: Economics, New Nuclear

Small Modular Reactors Could Be An American Export – But We Need to Move Faster

March 23, 2010 By Rod Adams

In the March 23, 2010 issue of the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Steven Chu published an op-ed piece titled America’s New Nuclear Option that describes the Administration’s growing interest in smaller nuclear energy systems that can be produced in factories and delivered nearly complete to sites around the country and around the world. Here is […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear, Nuclear regulations, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors

B&W’s mPowerTM Reactor – Who Says America is Behind in the Nuclear Renaissance?

June 11, 2009 By Rod Adams

Sometimes, games really do change while few people are watching. That is what happened yesterday when Babcock and Wilcox announced their mPowerTM modular nuclear power plant. The big difference is not the basic technology – after all, the mPower reactor is a pressurized water reactor using the same kind of coolant, the same kind of […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, New Nuclear, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors

The Atomic Show #127 – New Nuclear Plant Public Meetings

February 9, 2009 By Rod Adams 2 Comments

On February 3, 2009, I attended a public meeting regarding the future construction of North Anna Unit 3. Several of the people who attended that meeting gathered via Skype last night to share notes. I will add some more notes to this post later today, but now it is time to get ready for my […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, New Nuclear, Nuclear Communications, Podcast Tagged With: new nuclear plants, nuclear plant public meetings, pro-nuclear activism

The Atomic Show #109 – John Kotek, American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness

October 9, 2008 By Rod Adams Leave a Comment

John Kotek, Executive Director, American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness chats with Rod Adams about the Council’s recently released jobs study. John Kotek, Executive Director, American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness and I chatted for a while about the Council’s recently released state by state study of the potential job creation in the coming Nuclear […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear, Podcast Tagged With: ACGNC, Kotek, nuclear competitiveness

The Atomic Show #092 – Chuck DeVore, California State Assemblyman for 70th Assembly District

May 8, 2008 By Rod Adams

Chuck DeVore is a rarity – he is a California State Assemblyman actively working to pass legislation overturning the state’s de facto ban on new nuclear power plants. Chuck DeVore is a California State Assemblyman representing the 70th Assembly District. Among a number of other issues, he has recognized that the state desperately needs more […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, New Nuclear, Podcast

Building New School Energy Wells

June 26, 2005 By Rod Adams 1 Comment

Petroleum – that term includes oil, gas and derivatives – wells have been going dry for more than 150 years. Until now, the solution to that problem of resource depletion has been to find a new place to drill. Though there is still a lot of oil left inside the Earth, there is a significant […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights 2005, Fossil fuel competition, New Nuclear

Atomic Intro

May 26, 2005 By Rod Adams Leave a Comment

My friends know me as Rod, but some of them call me Atomic. I have a habit that I want to share with you – I am a preacher of the benefits of atomic energy. I have been writing about this topic for more than a dozen years, starting on the USENET when my Internet […]

Filed Under: Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy, Editorials, Fossil fuel competition, New Nuclear

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