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The Atomic Show #118 – Steve Kirsch, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Converted Fan of Integral Fast Reactor (IFR)

December 10, 2008 By Rod Adams

Two years ago, Steve Kirsch, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist, was sure that the US did not need nuclear power. Now he thinks it can save the planet. Find out what changed his mind. More and more people who are sincerely concerned about the impact that human activity is making on the planet are […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Atomic politics, Fuel Recycling, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, Podcast

The Atomic Show #106 – NNadir discusses ruthenium, rhodium, palladium plus other valuable “nuclear wastes”

September 17, 2008 By Rod Adams

NNadir is a diarist at Daily Kos. He is a Democrat who encourages support for clean, safe nuclear power. He is also a chemist who is enthusiastic about materials found in used nuclear fuel. I recently posted a blog on Atomic Insights about nuclear fuel recycling that broke a record for the number of comments […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Waste, Podcast Tagged With: NNadir, palladium, recycle, rhodium, ruthenium, used nuclear fuel

Recalling the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) passive safety experiments

August 19, 2008 By Rod Adams

I got notified via a Google Alert on “small nuclear power plants” about a post on a blog that I had not previously visited. The post was titled The Environmentalists Nuclear Debate (2) Mark Lynas. The post provided a link to a very interesting article by Mark Lynas in the New Republic titled How nuclear […]

Filed Under: Breeder Reactors, Fossil fuel competition, Fuel Recycling, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, Natural Gas

The Atomic Show #003 – Nuclear fuel recycling

March 11, 2006 By Rod Adams

Shane and Rod talk about nuclear fuel recycling and ways to reduce the amount of waste that nuclear reactors produce. We also talk about the fact that there are rare materials with unique physical properties locked inside the fuel assemblies that have been removed from nuclear fission reactors. With a proper eye towards converting trash […]

Filed Under: Fuel Recycling, Podcast

Ask Atomic: Can fission by-products make steam?

September 30, 2001 By Rod Adams

John Mahler holds an almost invisible, but extremely important job. He is in charge of the physical plant operations for a major California hospital. He and his team of workers keep the water running, the electricity flowing, and the air at a comfortable temperature. He has a detailed knowledge of practical thermodynamics and energy that […]

Filed Under: Ask Atomic, Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Waste

Plutonium: Valuable Fuel or Costly Waste?

January 1, 1997 By Rod Adams

For more than forty years, the United States and the Soviet Union built nuclear weapons and aimed them at each other’s heartlands. The process of building those weapons was expensive in strict monetary terms and in terms of sacrificing investments in more productive enterprises. Now, however, the confrontational attitude between the two countries has been […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights Dec 96/Jan 97, Fuel Comparisons, Fuel Recycling, New Nuclear, Nuclear Waste, Plutonium

Minimize Waste: Focus on Recycling

June 1, 1995 By Rod Adams

One of the most successful ways to conserve valuable raw materials is to pay careful attention to manufacturing and use processes so that less of the material is wasted. There is ample opportunity for process type improvements in the nuclear power industry, even though many improvements have already been made. There are also institutional hurdles […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights June 1995, Fuel Recycling

Opposition to Reprocessing Are the Reports Always True?

June 1, 1995 By Rod Adams

One of the reasons this letter focuses on the issue of recycling and waste minimization is that there has been a recent full court press in the opinion sections of major newspapers and in Congressional hearing rooms to stiffen the U. S. government’s already extreme policy limiting the use of plutonium in energy generating plants. […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights June 1995, Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Fuel Recycling: Getting Down to Business

June 1, 1995 By Rod Adams

Although the United States has chosen to focus on a throw-away fuel cycle, many of our allies have decided that recycling nuclear fuel fits their national interests. France and Great Britain, have built large, modern, and very expensive facilities to extract useful metals from used fuel rods to provide raw material for new fuel assemblies. […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights June 1995, Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Waste

Waste to Energy: Learning to Recognize Waste as Value

June 1, 1995 By Rod Adams

In the 1980s, many municipalities built facilities to convert garbage into energy. Some of those plants, in order to keep the garbage burning at a high temperature, also burned natural gas or oil. The machines were designed to solve a problem in providing adequate facilities for garbage disposal by burning it to produce electricity. The […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights June 1995, Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Waste

Letter from the Editor: Recycling: Practice What You Preach

June 1, 1995 By Rod Adams

Recycle, reuse, reduce. These are the watchwords of people who are concerned about reducing the impact that man and his activities have on the world’s natural resources. The ideas that the words embody are logical and can be reasonably applied to making the world a more prosperous place to live. I was introduced to the […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights June 1995, Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Waste

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