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U-Battery – Micronuclear power with intriguing business model

February 14, 2016 By Rod Adams 19 Comments

U-Battery was one of the more intriguing presenters at the Advanced Reactor Technical Summit (ARTSIII) held at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory last week. Even though this was a technical summit, the segments of the presentation that captured my attention were the business model and the funding source. However, certain technical choices are vital to […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, ARTSIII Feb 2016, Business of atomic energy, Gas Cooled Reactors, Graphite Moderated Reactors, New Nuclear, Nuclear Batteries, Reactors, Smaller reactors

Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh “It’s an exciting time to be in nuclear engineering.”

February 1, 2016 By Rod Adams 30 Comments

During the Advanced Nuclear Summit and Showcase, there was a terrific conversation about a growing level of excitement among university students who are studying nuclear engineering, among more established members of the nuclear community and among other people who are passionate about helping to save the world. Some of that enthusiasm stems from the fact […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear

Richard Lester’s “A Roadmap for U.S. Nuclear Energy Innovation”

December 31, 2015 By Rod Adams 60 Comments

Dr. Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor and Associate Provost for International Activities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), published a thought and discussion provoking piece titled A Roadmap for U.S. Nuclear Energy Innovation in the Winter 2016 edition of Issues in Science and Technology, the quarterly policy journal of the National Academy […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Advocacy, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Atomic politics, New Nuclear

Growing support for innovation as path to increase clean energy production

December 6, 2015 By Rod Adams 13 Comments

Last week was one in which the words nuclear, energy and innovation came together in more places and in more contexts that in any other week I can readily recall. On Monday, November 30, President Obama, President Hollande and several other world leaders introduced Mission Innovation, which is a non binding pledge by the leaders […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Fusion, New Nuclear

Nuclear Innovation Alliance formally launched

November 21, 2015 By Rod Adams 53 Comments

On November 19, 2015, the Nuclear Innovation Alliance formally announced its existence. The group, based in Cambridge, MA, has the following mission description: The NIA’s mission is to lead advanced nuclear energy innovation. The NIA assembles companies, investors, experts, and stakeholders to advance nuclear energy innovation and enable innovative reactor commercialization through favorable energy policy […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Advocacy, New Nuclear

Labor and Business perspectives from White House Summit on Nuclear Energy – Liz Shuler (AFL-CIO) and Danny Roderick (Westinghouse)

November 7, 2015 By Rod Adams 32 Comments

On November 6, 2015, a Friday afternoon, the White House hosted a Summit on Nuclear Energy. The seats in the conference room had been filled before much information about the event had been released, but the organizers provided a live stream on the web. That turned out to have been at least as informative as […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Climate change, New Nuclear, Nuclear Communications, Nuclear professionals

X-Energy introduced its company and first product to Virginia chapter of ANS

October 30, 2015 By Rod Adams 48 Comments

On Tuesday, October 27, three leaders from X-Energy spoke to the Virginia ANS chapter about their company and the Xe-100, the high temperature, pebble bed gas reactor power system that they are designing. During the presentation, meeting attendees learned that X-Energy is an early phase start-up with a total staff of a few dozen people, […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Gas Cooled Reactors, Graphite Moderated Reactors, New Nuclear, Pebble Bed Reactors, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors

Several important nuclear energy developments from the Westinghouse press office

October 29, 2015 By Rod Adams 24 Comments

On October 28, 2015, Westinghouse issued a press release titled AP1000® RCP REACHES FULL QUALIFICATION confirming a rumor I heard during my visit to Knoxville last week. The release contained wonderful, sigh of relief, news indicating that the hard-working, under-the-gun engineers and technicians at Curtiss-Wright’s EMD division had achieved their task of building and successfully […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, AP1000 saga, New Nuclear

Atomic Show #246 – Carmen Bigles, Coqui Pharmaceuticals Update

October 16, 2015 By Rod Adams

In November 2014, I spoke with Carmen Bigles, the founder of Coqui Pharmaceuticals, a company that is preparing to build a $330 million medical isotope production facility near Gainesville, FL. Since that discussion 11 months ago, Coqui has made steady progress in completing their construction and operating license application to the NRC for a class […]

Filed Under: Atomic Entrepreneurs, isotopes, New Nuclear, Podcast

GE-Hitachi and DTE announce additional ESBWR detailed design work

October 7, 2015 By Rod Adams 32 Comments

GE-Hitachi issued a press release on October 5 indicating that they will be working with DTE to determine the resource requirements and schedule for performing the detailed design work necessary to build an ESBWR (Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor) as Fermi Unit 3. Though DTE has not announced a decision to build the facility, it […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Boiling Water, New Nuclear

Licensing demonstration reactors in the United States

September 8, 2015 By Rod Adams 73 Comments

During the joint DOE-NRC workshop on advanced non-light water reactors held last week (Sep 1-2, 2015), John Adams of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation gave a presentation on reactor license classification terminology. It made me squirm in my chair with the desire to interrupt. Probably because he has read and […]

Filed Under: Atomic history, Atomic politics, New Nuclear, NRC, Nuclear regulations

Atomic Show #242 – Moltex Energy – Ian Scott and John Durham

August 31, 2015 By Rod Adams 78 Comments

Moltex Energy has developed a unique conceptual design for a molten salt reactor called the Stable Salt Reactor. In this design, the fuel salt is loaded into tubes that resemble the standard cladding tubes into which solid pellets are loaded in a conventional water cooled reactor. The tubes are arranged into assemblies that resemble the […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, International nuclear, Liquid Fuel Reactors, New Nuclear, Podcast, Thorium Reactors

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