Rethinking Nuclear Power – Lesson 4 is now posted

ByRod Adams

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned Robert Hargraves’s Rethinking Nuclear Power course and pointed out how to find it. In the intervening weeks, I have taken on a new job within the Navy and have also taken a short Florida vacation. Quite frankly, I had forgotten about the course until I noticed a reminder about the progress over at Dan Yurman’s Idaho Samizat: Nuke Notes titled – appropriately enough Rethinking nuclear power ~ Class 4 is up.

Bob is doing a fine job putting together a useful and interesting curriculum. I am hoping he is going to let me steal – oops, borrow – it once it is completed. Go on, you know you need a refresher – take the course. I am catching up on my missed lessons now and hope that the teacher is not disappointed in my lack of progress so far.

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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