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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 energy makes a cameo appearance in Jeff Gibbs’s Planet of the Humans

April 24, 2020 By Rod Adams 38 Comments

Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs teamed up to produce a piercing, controversial, gut punching documentary titled Planet of the Humans. Partly as a result of the global closure of theaters, and partly as a result of wanting to make an impact on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, they released their film for free on […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Biomass, Clean Energy, Climate change, Solar energy, Wind energy

Atomic Show #273 – Liz Muller, Deep Isolation

April 23, 2020 By Rod Adams 7 Comments

Liz Muller is a co-founder and the CEO of Deep Isolation, a company that makes the modest claim of having invented a solution to nuclear waste. The politically unsolved waste issue has plagued nuclear energy development since the mid 1970s. That was when it became abundantly clear that the original plan to recycle used fuel […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Innovation, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Nuclear Waste, Podcast

Atomic Show #272 – Karnfull Energi

April 18, 2020 By Rod Adams 4 Comments

Karnfull Energi is a young company that is successfully proving that nuclear energy is more popular than politicians believe. They have created the world’s first 100% nuclear energy offering. Customers have responded with their wallets, showing they are willing to pay a modest premium for higher quality electricity. People are shopping at Karfull’s online store. […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, Podcast

Atomic Show #271 – Improving Nuclear Cost and Schedule Performance

April 15, 2020 By Rod Adams 5 Comments

One of the most persistent arguments against the rapid deployment of nuclear energy is that projects are too expensive and take too long to complete. Based on the performance of the few nuclear plants that have begun construction in the West during this century, it’s hard to disagree. But there is solid evidence from projects […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, Economics, Podcast

X-300 Blazing a Different Kind of Trail in Smaller Nuclear Reactor Development

April 1, 2020 By Rod Adams 18 Comments

GEH spent about half a billion dollars designing, testing and certifying the ESBWR. Despite that investment, the 1,520 MWe Enhanced, Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) design documents are just gathering dust with no active projects in sight. GEH is a joint venture between US-based GE, a $95 billion annual revenue conglomerate and Hitachi, a Japanese […]

Filed Under: Boiling Water, Smaller reactors

Atomic Show #270 – Fastest Path to Zero

March 27, 2020 By Rod Adams 5 Comments

Fastest Path to Zero logo

Suzanne (Suzy) Hobbs Baker serves as the Creative Director for Fastest Path to Zero. I recently spoke with Suzy and Steve Aplin, a consultant to the Canadian nuclear industry and frequent Atomic Show guest, about the work that Fastest Path to Zero has done and plans to do in the near future. Fastest Path to […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Alternative energy, Clean Energy, Climate change, Podcast, Smaller reactors

Atomic Show #269 – Robert Bryce, A Question of Power

March 24, 2020 By Rod Adams 5 Comments

Cover of A Question of Power

In the modern world, countries need a reliable electricity grid to prosper. Globally, demand for electricity is growing as a result of population growth, new ways to use electricity, and the effort to spread access to electrical power to a greater portion of the world’s population. For the past four years, Robert Bryce has been […]

Filed Under: Clean Energy, Grid resilience, Podcast

Atomic Show #268 – Jigar and Jake

March 22, 2020 By Rod Adams 3 Comments

Oklo Power recently announced that it had filed the first non-light water reactor combined license application ever submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Their 1.5 MWe fast spectrum, passively safe reactor represents a complete paradigm shift for nuclear energy. It’s not a big, slow to build, hugely expensive project requiring complex financing structures. It’s a […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear, Podcast, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Smaller reactors

Oklo has filed first combined license application (COLA) with the NRC since 2009

March 18, 2020 By Rod Adams 15 Comments

Oklo, Inc. announced yesterday that its combined license application (COLA) to build and operate an Aurora at INL was undergoing acceptance review at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Key project specifics Oklo’s Aurora is a 1.5 MWe liquid metal fast reactor with heat pipes to move fission heat out of the reactor core and into the […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, New Nuclear, Smaller reactors

Fission can improve mental health by alleviating climate doomsday thinking

March 12, 2020 By Rod Adams 12 Comments

White heron taking wing

There are countless stressed people who have been convinced that we are facing an existential crisis as a result of global heating driven by increased concentrations of carbon dioxide. In contrast, I get more excited and enthusiastic with every passing day. And, no, I do not take drugs or live a cloistered life. I’m deeply […]

Filed Under: Climate change, New Nuclear

Investing in atomic fission to make world a better place

February 25, 2020 By Rod Adams 17 Comments

An increasing number of major corporations and famous individual investors have announced plans to make their money work harder to address environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. These plans are not about philanthropic giving. The individuals and organizations believe that careful targeting of their money can produce both financial and social returns. By investing in […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Alternative energy, Business of atomic energy

The Fearless Green Deal

October 22, 2019 By Guest Author 66 Comments

By Robert Hargraves Democratic president Franklin D Roosevelt proclaimed at his 1933 inauguration, “…the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”  In years past Republican presidents were conservative stewards of the environment. Theodore Roosevelt started National Parks. Nixon created the […]

Filed Under: Clean Energy, Climate change, New Nuclear

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