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

Will heavy nitrogen become a widely used fission reactor coolant?

November 17, 2020 By Rod Adams 42 Comments

Heavy nitrogen has the potential to become as important to the future of atomic fission power system development as heavy water has been up until now. That’s a bold statement, so let me explain why I believe it’s true. Are any nitrogen cooled reactors being used today? One nuclear fission power system – the US […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies

Is there a conspiracy against nuclear energy?

November 14, 2020 By Rod Adams 45 Comments

I have been accused of being a conspiracy theorist for pointing out the blindlingly obvious fact that nuclear energy competes for markets against fossil fuels. There is abundant evidence showing how hydrocarbon interests have worked to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt about nuclear power. Since the stories are spread over the 80 year period since […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition

Atomic Show #287 – Darren Gale, VP Commercial Operations, X-Energy talks about Xe-100

November 12, 2020 By Rod Adams 2 Comments

X-Energy is the lead recipient for one of two industry groups selected to receive $80 M in Department of Energy (DOE) funding as part of a public-private partnership program to demonstrate advanced nuclear power plants on an aggressive time table. Its primary partner in the endeavor is Energy Northwest, which currently owns and operates the […]

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

Open Letter to Interim Storage Partners and Holtec – please find better locations for your CISF projects ASAP

November 7, 2020 By Rod Adams 19 Comments

Dear Holtec and Interim Storage Partners: Both of you are actively pursuing permission from the US Nuclear Regulatory to build consolidated interim storage facilities in an area of southwest Texas and southeast New Mexico that seemed well suited for the purpose at the time that you began the process. Times have changed since then. One […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Fossil fuel competition, Nuclear Waste

Atomic Show #286 – Chris Wright, CEO Liberty Oilfield Services

November 6, 2020 By Rod Adams

Chris Wright is the CEO of Liberty Oilfield Services, which recently became the second largest US company performing the work of drilling and completing oil and gas wells in shale formations. He is a leader in the field of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal well drilling, having been involved in the revolutionary technology development since the […]

Filed Under: Fossil fuel competition, Fossil fuel cooperation, Natural Gas, Podcast

Atomic Show #285 – MMR at Illinois

November 3, 2020 By Rod Adams 6 Comments

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a stretch goal of completing its next research and test reactor by the end of 2025. It has assembled a team that includes several other major universities, national labs, and industrial partners. It has selected the MMRTM, a product that is being developed by USNC (Ultra Safe Nuclear […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic education, New Nuclear, Podcast

Atomic Show #284 – Meredith Angwin, Author of Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid

October 16, 2020 By Rod Adams 14 Comments

Meredith Angwin has become an authority on the arcane topic of governing electric grids in the United States. She’s concerned and thinks others will may share her concern when they recognize there is a key missing element in grid governance. There is no organization or individual that is responsible for making sure that electricity is […]

Filed Under: Electric Grid, Podcast

Atomic Show #283 – The Good Energy Collective

October 10, 2020 By Rod Adams

Jessica Lovering, Rachel Slaybaugh, and Suzy Baker founded and lead Good Energy Collective, a policy research organization that is actively “building the progressive case for nuclear energy as an essential part of the broader climate change agenda.” Inspired by the dynamic leaders and new organizations that are successfully making the case that addressing climate change […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Clean Energy, Podcast

Atomic Show #282 – Chris Keefer, Decouple Podcast

October 4, 2020 By Rod Adams

Chris Keefer is the creator and host of the Decouple Podcast. He is an emergency room doctor whose activist bent and desire to make the world a better place has led him to become a nuclear energy proponent. Chris is the founder and a director of an organization called Doctors for Nuclear Energy. One of […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Clean Energy, Podcast

Atomic Show #281 – Paris Ortiz Wines – Global Coordinator for Stand Up For Nuclear

September 15, 2020 By Rod Adams 2 Comments

Paris Ortiz-Wines wants you to Stand Up for Nuclear Energy. She is the global coordinator for the annual, month-long event that includes actions in several dozen locations around the world. On this episode of the Atomic Show, Paris explains how she came to be a pro-nuclear activist, why she believes nuclear energy is an important […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Podcast

Economy of Scale?: Is Bigger Better?

August 14, 2020 By Rod Adams 21 Comments

Pick up almost any book about nuclear energy and you will find that the prevailing wisdom is that nuclear plants must be very large in order to be competitive. This notion is widely accepted, but, if its roots are understood, it can be effectively challenged. When Westinghouse, General Electric and their international competitors first learned […]

Filed Under: Atomic Insights May 1996, Nuclear Cost Data, Small Nuclear Power Plants

Shell executives should give themselves permission to discuss clean nuclear energy

July 19, 2020 By Rod Adams 29 Comments

Climate Action’s July 16 webinar announcement caught my attention and generated some surprised commentary among people who discuss energy and climate on Twitter. The headline for the event wasn’t all that special. “Rising to the Net-Zero Challenge.” Neither was the subtitle. “As we emerge from lockdown following the global health crisis, can leaders from across […]

Filed Under: Clean Energy, Fossil fuel cooperation

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