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Terrestrial Energy – Molten Salt Reactor Designed to Be Commercial Success

September 2, 2014 By Rod Adams

There is a growing roster of innovative organizations populated by people who recognize that nuclear technology is still in its infancy. Terrestrial Energy is one of the most promising of those organization because of its combination of problem solving technology, visionary leadership, and strong focus on meeting commercial needs. Nearly all of the commercial nuclear […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Business of atomic energy, International nuclear, Liquid Fuel Reactors, New Nuclear, Smaller reactors

Armond Cohen: Looks at Lovins’s claims with questioning analysis

August 10, 2014 By Rod Adams 30 Comments

A few hours ago, I posted a blog titled Amory Lovins-speak: Three misleading statements in a 15 second sound bite. That post included a video embed of Lovins presentation during a March 28, 2014 symposium sponsored by the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth titled Three Mile Island 35th Anniversary Symposium: The Past, Present, and […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Atomic politics, Climate change, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, New Nuclear

Amory Lovins-speak: Three misleading statements in a 15 second sound bite

August 10, 2014 By Rod Adams

I had the opportunity to be in the audience during the above talk. You might notice my impolite interjections; I have often been accused of being very poor at hiding my real reactions and feelings. There is a reason why I stopped playing poker during game nights on the USS Stonewall Jackson. I was losing […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Amory Lovins, Antinuclear activist, Economics, New Nuclear

Russia continues sustained fast breeder reactor effort

June 30, 2014 By Rod Adams

On June 26, 2014, the 60th anniversary of the start of the 5 MWe Obninsk reactor that was the first reactor in the world to routinely supply electricity to a commercial power grid, Russia started up the latest in a series of sodium-cooled fast reactors, the BN-800. This new nuclear plant is an evolutionary refinement […]

Filed Under: Breeder Reactors, Fuel Recycling, International nuclear, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, New Nuclear

HTR-PM – Nuclear-heated gas producing superheated steam

June 27, 2014 By Rod Adams

The first HTR-PM (High Temperature Reactor – Pebble Module), one of the more intriguing nuclear plant designs, is currently under construction on the coast of the Shidao Bay near Weihai, China. This system uses evolutionary engineering design principles that give it a high probability of success, assuming that the developers and financial supporters maintain their […]

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

Modest proposal to Chris Crane, CEO of Exelon

June 22, 2014 By Rod Adams

Dear Mr. Crane: According to Exelon’s power struggle, your company is searching for a strategy that will restore the glowing prospects that it faced in the period from 2004-2008. That is the period that an Exelon leader called “the boom years for nuclear.” During that time, Exelon’s stock price reached an all time high of […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear

EPA Carbon pollution emission guidelines – New and preserved nuclear capacity

June 2, 2014 By Rod Adams

The EPA has released a 645 page draft document titled Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units for comment. Though several newspaper commentaries about the rule fail to mention the word “nuclear” the EPA draft document includes 76 instances of the word, often in terms of describing it as a […]

Filed Under: Climate change, New Nuclear, Nuclear regulations, Politics of Nuclear Energy

NuScale and DOE finalize the agreement announced six months ago

May 28, 2014 By Rod Adams

On December 12, 2013, the US Department of Energy announced that it had selected NuScale as the winner of a cost share program to develop small modular reactors. This morning, NuScale distributed the following press release announcing that the agreement with the DOE had been finalized for up to $217M over the next five years. […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear, Smaller reactors

B&W mPower cover story about lack of interest is bogus

May 9, 2014 By Rod Adams

McDermott Int. stock price 2010-2014

Update: (June 20, 2014) Here is the chart of B&W’s stock price during the past year. It is interesting to note the 10% drop between May 9, 2014 and May 18, 2014 and the fact that the stock continues to trade in a range centered around the new, lower price established after that drop. End […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Fossil fuel competition, New Nuclear

Floating off-shore nuclear power plant

April 23, 2014 By Rod Adams

MIT researchers are working on a modern version of floating nuclear power plants using concepts derived from the off-shore oil and gas industry. The facilities would be built in a shipyard and towed to their destination. The concept does not seem to be specific to any particular reactor design, but is more of a siting […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear

Vogtle Construction Update Video

April 2, 2014 By Rod Adams

This video provides an encouraging view of the positive impact that the Vogtle expansion project is having on the local community. It’s 4,000 – 5,000 construction jobs is just one part of the economic impact; that $23 million dollar property tax check shown during the video is another part that apparently brings smiles to the […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear, Nuclear Communications, Pro Nuclear Video

NEI Small Reactor Forum Report – Part 2

March 5, 2014 By Rod Adams

The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) hosted its biannual Small Reactor Forum on February 25, 2014. The agenda for the one day event included six well-organized sessions with presentations from three small reactor vendors, the industry trade group, the regulatory agency, and several outside observers with a significant interest in the technology from a variety of […]

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

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