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

Nuclear Fuel Cycle

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

Concerns of the Opposition: Not Irrational

March 1, 1996 By Rod Adams

There are some legitimate questions raised by the opponents of Yucca Mountain. There are also some arguments that have little basis and are simply a continuation of the scare tactics that anti-nuclear groups have been using against the technology for nearly three decades. The opposing groups normally make the following claims in their papers and […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights March 1996, Nuclear Waste

Guest Column: Do Not Eat the Glass

March 1, 1996 By Rod Adams

The following letter was written by Mr. Rockwell to the Washington Post. It was not published. Your Sunday (Dec 31) page 1 story on nuclear waste was well researched and well written. But the headlines and some of the quotes imply this is a grim and urgent problem. Actually it’s a problem only in the […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights March 1996, Guest Columns, Nuclear Waste

Letter from the Editor: Delay Does not Indicate a Crisis

March 1, 1996 By Rod Adams

By nature, I am a procrastinator. I often live by the motto “Never do today that which you can put off until tomorrow.” In fact, I sometimes extend that idea to “Never do at all that which you can put off indefinitely.” Some of my associates vehemently disagree with my way of thinking, but I […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights March 1996, Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Waste Mountain: Unnecessary Sense of Urgency

March 1, 1996 By Rod Adams

There is a current sense of urgency that “something” must be done about spent nuclear fuel. The Nuclear Energy Institute, which represents the interests of the nuclear utilities and the nuclear plant vendors, has placed the issue of the front page of its bimonthly newsletter no fewer than six times in the past year. Short […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights March 1996, Nuclear Waste

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

Common Myths: Is Nuclear Waste a Huge Problem?

April 1, 1995 By Rod Adams

One of the main reasons for publishing this letter is to add a healthy dose of reality to the mythology that has surrounded the atomic energy field. There are so many of these myths that this column will be a regular feature of the Atomic Energy Insights. One of the most prevalent myths is that […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights April 1995, Graphite Moderated Reactors, Nuclear Waste

Welcome to: Atomic Energy Insights

April 1, 1995 By Rod Adams Leave a Comment

The Simple Facts One pound of uranium contains as much energy as 2 million pounds of oil. Releasing that energy from the uranium results in less than one pound of waste material that can be stored in a simple container for decades with no effect on the environment. Burning 2 million pounds of oil will […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights April 1995, Fuel Comparisons

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