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Atomic Show #250 – Being nice nukes

January 25, 2016 By Rod Adams 3 Comments

On Sunday January 24, I invited some of my pronuclear colleagues to chat about the building phenomenon of people outside of the nuclear industry becoming more interested in its advantages and advocating for its increased use. We discussed Meredith’s book project, Gwyneth’s recent speaking engagement at NC State, organized events at COP21, the increasing interest […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Podcast

Atomic Show #249 – All-Electric America by Freeman and Parks

January 22, 2016 By Rod Adams 17 Comments

S. David Freeman and Leah Y Parks have published a book titled All-Electric America: A Climate Solution and the Hopeful Future. There are a number of visionary sections of the book that appeal to me. However, I was not surprised to find out that the book takes a strong position in opposition to nuclear energy. […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Atomic history, Atomic politics, Podcast, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Atomic Show #248 – Dr. Pete Pappano, VP Fuel Production X-Energy

November 20, 2015 By Rod Adams 2 Comments

On Thursday, November 19, 2015, I interviewed Dr. Pete Pappano, vice president of fuel development for X-Energy. As described in X-Energy introduced its company and first product to Virginia chapter of ANS, X-Energy is a start-up company based in Maryland that is developing a modular high temperature gas cooled reactor. Each module will produce 50 […]

Filed Under: Gas Cooled Reactors, Pebble Bed Reactors, Podcast

Atomic Show #247 – Jigar Shah, founder SunEdison and Generate Capital

October 19, 2015 By Rod Adams 33 Comments

Jigar Shah is the founder of SunEdison, a former CEO of the Carbon War Room, and is currently the President of Generate Capital. He is also a member of The Energy Gang on Greentech Media. Jigar and I have been engaged in some lively discussions on Twitter about the future of solar and nuclear energy […]

Filed Under: Alternative energy, Climate change, Economics, Podcast, Solar energy

Atomic Show #246 – Carmen Bigles, Coqui Pharmaceuticals Update

October 16, 2015 By Rod Adams

In November 2014, I spoke with Carmen Bigles, the founder of Coqui Pharmaceuticals, a company that is preparing to build a $330 million medical isotope production facility near Gainesville, FL. Since that discussion 11 months ago, Coqui has made steady progress in completing their construction and operating license application to the NRC for a class […]

Filed Under: Atomic Entrepreneurs, isotopes, New Nuclear, Podcast

Atomic Show #245 – Building a prosperity program on used nuclear fuel foundation

October 8, 2015 By Rod Adams 9 Comments

I applaud reasoned, long term thinking that aims to use science, technology and deep understanding of human wants and needs — aka politics — to set a course for success. You can find one of my favorite current examples of an effort that meets my criteria in the expansive, lightly populated, rather dry state of […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, Fuel Recycling, International nuclear, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Nuclear Waste, Podcast, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Atomic Show #243 – Cara Santa Maria

September 7, 2015 By Rod Adams 20 Comments

Cara Santa Maria is an Emmy award-winning journalist who studied and taught neuroscience and psychology before deciding that her primary interest was in communicating about science. She was born and raised in Texas, but now lives in Los Angeles. She told me that she has found a terrific community of scientists, communicators, and other creative […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Fossil fuel competition, Nuclear Communications, Podcast, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Atomic Show #242 – Moltex Energy – Ian Scott and John Durham

August 31, 2015 By Rod Adams 78 Comments

Moltex Energy has developed a unique conceptual design for a molten salt reactor called the Stable Salt Reactor. In this design, the fuel salt is loaded into tubes that resemble the standard cladding tubes into which solid pellets are loaded in a conventional water cooled reactor. The tubes are arranged into assemblies that resemble the […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, International nuclear, Liquid Fuel Reactors, New Nuclear, Podcast, Thorium Reactors

Atomic Show #241 – Rachel Pritzker, philanthropic problem solver

August 20, 2015 By Rod Adams 8 Comments

Rachel Pritzker is a philanthropist motivated to solve problems, even if they require rethinking long held notions. She is the founder and chairman of the Pritzker Innovation Fund, which she operates along with her brother, Roland. The tagline used by her organization is “Supporting the development and advancement of paradigm-shifting ideas to address the world’s […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Advocacy, Atomic Entrepreneurs, atomic philanthropy, Climate change, Podcast

Atomic Show #240 – Prof Gerry Thomas radiation health effects

June 29, 2015 By Rod Adams

Gerry Thomas, Professor of Molecular Pathology of the Imperial College of London, has a subspecialty in the study of the health effects of radiation. She strongly believes that “public involvement and information is a key part of academic research,” and she is “actively involved in the public communication of research, particularly with respect to radiation […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Health Effects, hormesis, LNT, Podcast

Atomic Show #239 – Sarah Laskow and the LNT model

April 16, 2015 By Rod Adams

In March 2015, Foreign Policy magazine published an article by Sarah Laskow titled The Mushroom Cloud and The X-Ray Machine. The article described the controversy over the radiation protection model known as the linear, no-threshold dose response. Ms. Laskow conducted some admirable literature research and talked with a number of well-known people. The ones that […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Health Effects, hormesis, LNT, Podcast, Radiation

Atomic Show #238 – StarCore Nuclear co-founders

April 7, 2015 By Rod Adams

StarCore Nuclear is a Canadian company whose co-founders, David Dabney and David Poole, are experienced engineers and businessmen. They have spent most of the past six years developing a technology and a business model aimed at providing reliable, emission-free electrical power and heat to remote locations. The basis of their technology is a high-temperature helium […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Business of atomic energy, Gas Cooled Reactors, Graphite Moderated Reactors, International nuclear, New Nuclear, Podcast, Smaller reactors

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