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Future of energy must include nuclear

February 27, 2014 By Rod Adams

On Monday, Feb 24, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) unveiled its Future of Energy advertising campaign with a press conference at the National Press Club. The campaign will stress four major aspects of nuclear energy that are not as well understood as they should be. It will talk about the importance of nuclear energy in […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Waste, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Pro Nuclear Video, Pronuclear ads

CNN agrees – Harry Reid violated federal law by killing Yucca Mountain

November 8, 2013 By Rod Adams

CNN has investigated and agrees with Atomic Insights regarding the political games that resulted Greg Jaczko being appointed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with the assignment to kill off the Yucca Mountain project. The following quote from the above video could have come directly off of one of the many articles about Greg Jaczko published […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Nuclear Waste

“Waste issue” is part of antinuclear movement strategy of constipation

September 17, 2013 By Rod Adams

During the 1970s, the antinuclear movement made a collective decision to use “the waste issue” as a weapon to help force the eventual shutdown of the industry. Though the strategy has not succeeded in forcing any plants in the US to shut down, it has prevented a number of plants from being built. Ralph Nader, […]

Filed Under: Fuel Recycling, Health Effects, LNT, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Nuclear Waste

Allison Macfarlane and Pete Lyons receive a dressing down for actions by predecessors

September 12, 2013 By Rod Adams

On September 10, 2013, the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Allison Macfarlane and the Department of Energy’s Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, Peter Lyons, spent almost two hours testifying in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. They had been invited to the hearing room to tell the committee what their organizations were […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Nuclear regulations, Nuclear Waste, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Chairman Macfarlane refuses to recuse herself, saying she is impartial about Yucca Mountain

September 10, 2013 By Rod Adams

Nye County, NV, the local community that would host the Yucca Mountain used nuclear fuel repository if is completed, really wants the facility to be built. The leaders of the county and the people that continue to select them as their representatives recognize that the facility would generate hundreds of well-paying jobs without imposing an […]

Filed Under: Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Waste

Moniz attempts to credit Obama Administration with supporting nuclear energy

August 3, 2013 By Rod Adams 41 Comments

The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy held a hearing on July 31, 2013 titled Oversight of DOE’s Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste. It has taken me a couple of days of intermittent watching to work my way through […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear, Nuclear Waste, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Demonizing existing nuclear technology is a poor communications tool

July 10, 2013 By Rod Adams

A good friend shared a link to a blog titled Taking physics to new audiences: a realisation. It is a wonderful story about a particle physicist who has a twin sister who is a professional historian. Following a conversation about nuclear energy, the physicist has avoided talking to her sister about what she does at […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Nuclear Communications, Nuclear Waste

Atomic Show #201 – Better Way to Clean Up Hanford Tanks

April 12, 2013 By Rod Adams

Darryl Siemer is a professional chemist who spent his career in nuclear waste remediation at the Idaho National Laboratory. While there, he developed a reputation as someone who will not go along to get along and apparently made quite a few waves by suggesting improvements in processes or technical decisions that might have resulted in […]

Filed Under: Contamination, Nuclear Waste, Plutonium, Podcast

Too Hot to Touch – Matt Wald’s review of new book on nuclear waste issue

March 2, 2013 By Rod Adams

Matt Wald of the New York Times recently reviewed a new book on America’s nuclear waste storage saga titled Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste. Aside: Sadly, Matt’s post was one of the last posts ever published on Green, which just announced its demise due to budget constraints. It’s a crying […]

Filed Under: Nuclear Waste, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Atomic Show #194 – What do you do with the waste?

January 7, 2013 By Rod Adams

The first Atomic Show of 2013 is a geeky, chemistry laden discussion aimed at helping to answer the question that many people who fight nuclear energy try to use as their trump card “What do you do with the waste.” It often makes their head spin or makes them put their fingers into their ears […]

Filed Under: Fuel Recycling, isotopes, Nuclear Waste, Podcast

Transcript of Atomic Show #61 – Allison Macfarlane, Atomic Agnostic (June 15, 2007)

June 12, 2012 By Rod Adams

On June 13, 2012, Allison Macfarlane will be a witness in her confirmation hearing as a new commissioner and the prospective Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Commissioner Kristine Svinicki will also be a witness in her quest to be confirmed for a second term as a commissioner. In June 2007, I had the opportunity […]

Filed Under: Fuel Recycling, New Nuclear, Nuclear Cost Data, Nuclear regulations, Nuclear Waste, Plutonium, Politics of Nuclear Energy

TEDx New England – Nuclear entrepreneurs aiming to use waste for fuel

November 16, 2011 By Rod Adams

Two young graduate students describe their plans to develop something called the Waste Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor (WAMSR). The biggest applause line in the talk was the following: Right now in the world there are about 270,000 metric tons of high level waste that exists. We can take that waste, put it into our reactors […]

Filed Under: Fuel Recycling, New Nuclear, Nuclear Waste

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