Originally published by Power Online On Tuesday, Jan. 9, the U.S. President Clinton is going to hold a meeting at which he plans to try to figure out what to do about the electricity supply situation in California. I have not yet received my invitation to the meeting, but when asked (fat chance), this is […]
Bandwagon Gas Market
The “me too” philosophy common in the power generation business is again beginning to take its toll. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, power industry predictions showed that most new plants would be nuclear powered with the technology achieving a 50% market share by the early part of the 21st century. In the 1990s, […]
Nuclear Confusion, anti-nuclear collusion
I’ll admit it. There are some confusing things happening in the energy business, especially concerning nuclear power. I promised to translate information about the business and the technology into something you could use. I have been struggling for several days to digest and synthesize a wide range of recent developments. Last week, the Finnish company […]
A Report on the RSH Symposium on the Medical Benefits of Low Dose Radiation
Reprinted with permission of the author by Dr. Jerry Cuttler, Cuttler and Associates A symposium on this subject was held in Washington, November 15, near the ANS/ENS Winter Meeting. It was sponsored by Radiation, Science and Health (RSH), an international non-profit organization, and the Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), […]
A Vision for Nuclear Power
In 1984, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, starting what became a tsunami in the computing world. No longer were screens limited to displaying cryptic messages that only a geek could love. Instead, the new Mac displayed a welcoming “Hello” rendered in cursive writing large enough to fill the tiny, high-resolution screen. With the pleasant greeting […]
The United States Should Lead the Way by Michael Fox
As a scientist whose career includes the management of a plutonium laboratory, I am keenly aware of the many attributes of plutonium. Over the years I have also learned that advice from nuclear critics about plutonium is consistently unreliable. The critics are again offering unreliable information to the Secretary of Energy about the disposition of […]
Why Throw Away a Priceless Resource by Theodore Rockwell
In a press release carefully coordinated with mass internet mailings to all the old anti-technology political action groups, Nader’s well-funded Critical Mass organization tries to create the impression of “a growing coalition of national, international and grassroots groups” joined by “many scientists, experts and the public.” But there is nothing spontaneous or grass-rootsy about this […]
Quoted Press Release Anti-MOX Coalition Statement
Please note: This press release is directly quoted from the listed organizations. It does not in any way reflect the position of Atomic Energy Insights or Adams Atomic Engines, Inc. ******* CRITICAL MASS ENERGY PROJECT ******* Nuclear Power Reactor Fuel GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH MILITARY PRODUCTION NETWORK NUCLEAR CONTROL INSTITUTE NUCLEAR […]
Plutonium: Valuable Fuel or Costly Waste?
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 […]
Letter from the Editor Plutonium Politics Leads To Unusual Logic
On December 9, 1996, the United States Department of Energy issued a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement that advocated an investigation of two possible alternatives for handling plutonium from decommissioned nuclear weapons. One option is to combine the plutonium with uranium to produce mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel that can be used in conventional nuclear reactor plants. The […]
In the News: Oct/Nov 1996
Cost of Nuclear Power Phase Out (September 13, 1996 Source- NucNet) – The authors of a recent study titled, “The Importance of Not Phasing Out Nuclear Power in Sweden” estimate that the direct cost of prematurely shutting down all 12 nuclear power units would be about 250 billion crowns (more than $35 billion). The figure […]
Sources for Atomic Energy Insights Oct/Nov 1996 (PM-3A)
Sources for Atomic Energy Insights Oct/Nov 1996 (PM-3A) Foster, M. E.,Jones, G. M., History of the PM-3A Nuclear Power Plant McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Naval Energy and Environmental Support Activity, Port Hueneme, CA Final Operating Report for PM-3A Nuclear Power Plant, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Prepared by U. S. Naval Nuclear Power Unit, P. O. Box 96 […]
