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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.
One of the myths of the first Atomic Age was that safety fears following Three Mile Island halted new development. A more careful reading of history shows that the new development had already stopped well before April of 1979; the first major wave of order cancellations happened soon after the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973…
On Tuesday November 15, 2005, at the ANS Winter Meeting, Thomas Houghton, Senior Project Manager, New Plant Development, Nuclear Energy Institute talked about various aspects of the physical and industrial infrastructure that will be needed to support new plant development. He began his presentation with a rather startling slide for people that had not been…
I like the United Kingdom’s new approach to solving its future energy demand problem. It has done the studies, analyzed the options and determined that nuclear fission can play an increasing role in providing clean, reliable, indigenous, affordable, and sustainable electricity. It is an interesting thought exercise to compare its current state and its prospects…
One of the banes of my current existence is a long commute from Annapolis to Washington. There are some advantages of a daily opportunity to see a lot of people and pass by a lot of examples of how people live and work. I also am blessed by being able to pass by some inspirational…
Dr. Letty Goodman Lutzker – chief of nuclear medicine at the St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston NJ – published an opinion piece in the Ashbury Park Press online edition on 10 November 2005 titled Nuclear power use helps cushion natural gas price hike Please go and check out her informative commentary.
I read a lot of business focused publications including Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, and the Wall Street Journal. I also pay attention to print advertising in those publications – I blame (or perhaps a better word would be “credit”) Ms. Page, my tenth grade Semantics teacher. She taught us that the words used in advertisements are…
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