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Response To A Pro-Coal Troll Who Hates It When I Refer to Coal As Dirty

ByRod Adams

…esents.) Here is what Dave recently wrote on my post about Seminole Energy Cooperative’s decision to abandon a coal fired power plant project in my native state of Florida: Kit (that is the user name of my pro coal troll) – though many coal plants have figured out what to do with the SOx, and to a lesser extent, the NOx, and thus aren’t “dirty” in the conventional, pre-carbon limited sense, they still haven’t figured out what to do with the fly as…

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Atomic Show #229 – Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie, Transatomic Power

ByRod Adams

…mic Power, is reusable fuel. End Aside. Massie and Dewan were interesting, cooperative and open about their current status, the difficulty of the challenge that they have chosen to address, and the long road that they must traverse in order to achieve their goals. They admit that they are a bit on the idealistic side, but have admirable youthful optimism about the power of innovation to address the technical challenges. At the beginning of our dis…

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Energizing opportunity to meet with atomic entrepreneurs

ByRod Adams

…successful nuclear enterprise than just getting the engineering right. In cooperation with Bryan, Ward and Blee recognized the importance of making it possible for young innovators to attend and an established appropriate fee structure. Speaking of diversity, the students had a much greater variety in their backgrounds than many groups of established nuclear professionals. The first three I spoke to were all studying on student visas and were cit…

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Logical Basis For Sec. Rick Perry’s Resiliency Pricing Rule.

ByRod Adams

…es that have been developed and refined during the past 40 years through a cooperative effort between the Department of Energy and a few stubborn inventors, we can finally extract gas from shale reservoirs we have known about for a century or more. Coming after a decade in which natural gas was scarce enough to drive its price up by 600-700% (from about $2.00/Mcf to $12-$14/Mcf), the availability of refined techniques for extracting gas from shale…

Advanced nuclear energy systems are ready for investors who seek ground floor opportunities

ByRod Adams

…ut that wisdom is belied by the fact that parents and their children still cooperate in developing plans to invest in lengthy, costly college degree programs or such long-term investments as medical school. Major energy corporations still develop capital intensive projects that often need a decade or more of ever-increasing expenditures before they begin to generate any revenue at all. Successful people, including nuclear professionals, still make…

Jack Spencer Published a Must Read Paper About Misplaced Government Efforts to Support Small Reactor Development

ByRod Adams

…ts. According to one bill, S. 2812: The Secretary shall carry out, through cooperative agreements with private sector partners– (A) a program– (i) to develop a standard design for each of 2 small modular reactors, at least 1 of which has a rated capacity of not more than 50 electrical megawatts; and (ii) to obtain a design certification from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for each of the 2 standard designs by January 1, 2018; and (B) a program…

What Does Westinghouse Bankruptcy Mean To Nuclear Energy Innovators?
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What Does Westinghouse Bankruptcy Mean To Nuclear Energy Innovators?

ByRod Adams

…The situation cries for a higher level of understanding, blame sharing and cooperation. Without a serious effort to better recognize how the situation developed, it is fraught with the risk of every party to the project losing a great deal of money. It also presents the prospect of having four large, incomplete, and unproductive works of industrial art. Projects that last for as long as building nuclear reactors in the U.S. are roughly analogous t…

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