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Licensing demonstration reactors in the United States

ByRod Adams

…will be issued, to an applicant who qualifies, for any one or more of the following: to transfer or receive in interstate commerce, manufacture, produce, transfer, acquire, possess, or use. … (c) A production or utilization facility, which is useful in the conduct of research and development activities of the types specified in section 31 of the Act, and which is not a facility of the type specified in paragraph (b) of this section or in § 50.22….

How did leaders of the Hydrocarbon Establishment build the foundation for radiation fears?
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How did leaders of the Hydrocarbon Establishment build the foundation for radiation fears?

ByRod Adams

…the New York Times. Several additional articles were published during the following weeks. The selection of pieces included a lengthy article that started at the top of the right hand column of the paper and continued with another 20-25 column inches on page 17. The June 13 edition also included a full text copy of the text of the Genetics Committee report that was specifically written for public consumption. That article filled nearly three page…

Nucleating our carbon-managed future
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Nucleating our carbon-managed future

ByValerie Gardner

…’s another advantage of fast molten salt reactors, they are suited to load following. Isn’t that a property of molten-fuel reactors in general?  A strong negative temperature coefficient makes them essentially self-regulating? IMO, load-following is a mistake.  The reactor costs about the same if it’s running flat-out or just idling.  It would be far better to find alternative loads to make productive use of power that would otherwise not be gener…

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Risks to American nuclear workers from “nonproliferation” excesses

ByRod Adams

…just some participants in the market, they distort the market. I added the following comment to Grossman’s piece. I am not a former “defense leader”, just a retired US Navy commander with a Naval War College diploma whose research focus area was the impact of energy policies on national security policies. I am also a working level lead engineer/analyst at a company that is developing small modular reactors, which we hope to export in larger number…

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Smoking gun – Antinuclear talking points coined by coal interests

ByRod Adams

…the New York Times dated September 25, 1964, NCPC’s Joseph Moody made the following statement: The Government should stabilize residual oil imports at or near present levels, stop subsidizing civilian nuclear power which, as now subsidized, competes in coal’s major growth market — electric utilities — and negotiate aggressively to remove barriers which prevent coal from achieving its full potential in the export market. Coal is Appalachia’s large…

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The golden age of nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…y to significantly vary their output to match changing demand (called load-following). Other PWRs, as well as CANDU, BWR have load-following capability, which will allow them to fill more than baseline generation needs. Some newer reactors also offer some form of enhanced load-following capability. For example, the Areva EPR can slew its electrical output power between 990 and 1,650 MW at 82.5 MW per minute. More here: Can Nuclear Power Be Flexibl…

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Naval Reactors should be empowered to show the way – again

ByRod Adams

…an Eisenhower, Ike’s granddaughter, who closed her excellent talk with the following thoughts: Eisenhower: The Intergovernmental Panel of the United Nations (referring to IPCC) concluded that the world is hotter, the seas are rising and that is unlikely to be occurring naturally. So we should stop continuing this debate and just do it. Isn’t it Nike that says “Just do it?” We need to set about taking on the carbon issue again and getting climate l…

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Why did Greg Jaczko hold a press conference on Friday, April 20?

ByRod Adams

…f Ms. Svinicki. It was more than a little disingenuous for him to make the following statement during a Friday afternoon press conference at the end of a week in which the only news reports containing his name were in reference to the Svinicki nomination process. Jaczko, a Democrat who once worked for Reid, attempted to distance himself from the nomination process on Friday at the hastily called news conference. “There is a process certainly for a…

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Fission Fast! – New Slogan Idea For Effective Energy Revolution

ByRod Adams

…n) February 26, 2013 After reading Olson’s thought piece, I fired back the following tweets in rapid succession: @revkin @thebenshi Something mature about a society that recognizes that change will not be led by folk singers & negative slogans — Rod Adams (@Atomicrod) February 26, 2013 And @revkin @thebenshi Making a real difference in battle against CO2 emissions requires use of best available tool – Pro Nuke. Fission – Fast. — Rod Adams (@Atomic…

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Another day, another model “proving” capabilities of weather-dependent power

ByRod Adams

…site specific, whether they are allowed to load follow or not. Now, a load following hydro can work well in tandem with a wind farm, but if it is “run of river” then it looks like non-load following baseload capacity. As far as Rods comment with regard to hydro retirements, I believe most of them are smaller facilities, although some large ones may be under environmental pressures. The bigger issue is the droughts out west. Have you seen the pond…

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Nuclear proponent versus free market advocate for natural gas

ByRod Adams

…keted natural gas production was about 1.9 trillion cubic feet per month or 22.5 TCF per year. In 2010, monthly US marketed natural gas production was virtually identical to those numbers. (http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9050us2m.htm) I realize that there was quite a bit of variation over the intervening years, but a “best fit” line through the production data would show that production has been essentially constant, with increases from newly de…

Greenpeace recommends following the energy investment lead of Warren Buffett. That would lead to burning more coal.

ByRod Adams

…ge that comes from burning coal. Rod Adams @EL WRT HVDC – if you have been following what I keep saying – I do not believe that building a large number of very large facilities on a single site along with a new and expensive transmission infrastructure makes all that much sense. I believe that we have a pretty well established grid that is based on relatively well distributed power plants located fairly close to the customer loads. What we need to…

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