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Prevention is Easier and Less Painful Than Cure – Keep Vermont Yankee Operable
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Prevention is Easier and Less Painful Than Cure – Keep Vermont Yankee Operable

ByRod Adams

…Why Closing Vermont Yankee Won’t Raise New England’s Power Bills,” by Mark Cooper, doesn’t make much sense. Cooper starts out attacking a claim that home heating bills will rise 40 percent, but then drops that without explanation and talks about electricity prices instead. He asserts that “Having Vermont Yankee online did not help New England achieve lower winter electricity prices and closing it won’t make an appreciable difference.” He cites two…

PBMR Status Update – Memorandum of Understanding With Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)

ByRod Adams

…egotiate to identify a project or projects with the potential for possible cooperation. When such areas have been agreed, MHI will conduct part of the research and development activities for the 200 MWt plant design. Possibilities for further collaboration will be probed, including construction of the first plant. The 200 MWt design is aimed at steam process heat applications operating at 720°C, which provides the basis for penetrating the nuclear…

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Protecting our shared environment is a conservative value and a liberal responsibility

ByRod Adams

…nes that seem to have been hardened in recent years are preventing us from cooperating, even in areas where we share many aspirations. There is a scene in Robert Stone’s Pandora’s Promise, a documentary made by a life-long liberal in support of a new look at nuclear energy, a powerful energy technology has somehow gained the reputation of being supported by conservatives and frowned on by liberals, in which Margaret Thatcher is seen giving a speec…

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Fission advocates should cooperate to dispel misinformation about radiation health effects

ByRod Adams

I correspond regularly with advocates for various nuclear fission technologies; there are many disagreements about the best way forward. The advocates can get pretty passionate about what they believe to be the weaknesses of competing technologies. There are times when I need to step in to remind them that their competitive target should be the fossil fuels that supply about 85% of our current energy markets. Most of my reminders end up reaching…

AECL and NPIC announce cooperative research and development project

ByRod Adams

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and the Nuclear Power Institute of China (NPIC) have issued a joint press release announcing the signing of an agreement to work together to further develop nuclear power technologies focused on low uranium consumption. The heavy water moderated CANDU reactors are able to use slightly enriched uranium and consume less uranium per megawatt hour of power output than reactors that require higher levels of enric…

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U. S. should strengthen and export its atomic energy capabilities

ByRod Adams

…ld hunger. In August of 1997 Apple Computer and Microsoft joined forces to cooperate and compete in a move negotiated between two confident, competitive and friendly creators – Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The resulting explosion of creativity has irreversibly provided previously unimaginable technical capabilities. If the United States and Russia could forge a similar cooperate and compete partnership in nuclear energy, the possible technical advan…

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Building a powerful pro-nuclear coalition

ByRod Adams

…up in September 2014 to advance implementation of bilateral civil nuclear cooperation has met three times in December and January, the Leaders welcomed the understandings reached on the issues of civil nuclear liability and administrative arrangements for civil nuclear cooperation, and looked forward to U.S.-built nuclear reactors contributing to India’s energy security at the earliest.” Along with various other announcements related to nuclear w…

Pebble Bed Reactor MOU Between China and South Africa

ByRod Adams

…developments achieved by both countries to date, is designed to facilitate cooperation on identified areas of common interest. South Africa and China hope to pursue collaboration in a number of strategic and technical areas relating to high temperature reactor (HTR) projects in both countries. Prof Zhang Zouyi, Director of INET, says the MOU will create a strategic environment for the two parties to work together. He added that the MOU was the res…

Coal Plant Pollution – Sierra Club Endorses Jim Hansen Solutions With a Notable Exception; They Ignore Nuclear, He Does Not

ByRod Adams

…tives for clean energy and stable climate, and they will welcome technical cooperation aimed at rapid development of a reproducible safe nuclear reactor. Potential for cooperation with developing countries is implied by interest South Korea has expressed in General Electric’s design for a small scale 4th GNP reactor. I do not have the expertise to advocate any specific project, and there are alternative approaches for 4th GNP (see enclosure). I am…

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NuScale and DOE finalize the agreement announced six months ago

ByRod Adams

…S RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 28, 2014 NuScale and DOE Complete SMR Cooperative Agreement Initiates Up To $217M Funding Of NuScale SMR Development PORTLAND, Ore. – NuScale Power announced today that it has finalized the cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy (DOE) as an awardee under the program for “Cost-Shared Development of Innovative Small Modular Reactor Designs.” NuScale was selected as the sole awardee of the DOE roun…

Energized by young nuclear enthusiasts
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Energized by young nuclear enthusiasts

ByRod Adams

…various programs within the labs. There was information about internships, cooperative programs like the National Science User Facilities and post doc opportunities. Here is a reminder for students – by April, most internship programs for the coming summer are full. Student conferences are a great time to find out about programs for NEXT summer. Some of the more active tables at the fair were those of the companies looking to meet good candidates…

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