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The Atomic Show #123 – European View of Russian Gas Cutoff

January 24, 2009 By Rod Adams Leave a Comment

On January 20, 2009 Rod Adams spoke with Alexandra Prokopenko to get a local view of the effects on Eastern Europe of the Ukraine/Russia natural gas supply dispute. Alexandra is a citizen of Belarus who currently lives and works in Sweden. Her husband is living in Kiev, Ukraine and she speaks to him each day. Alexandra is a journalism instructor, writes an energy focused blog and learned to speak Swedish during her multi-year evacuation from the Chernobyl area as a 4 year old.

In other words, she has a very interesting perspective that I find fascinating.

During this discussion, we talked about Russian gas price ambitions, explanations for the EU’s policy on nuclear power plants owned by former members of the “Eastern Bloc”, energy supply security, the thirst for independence and even a bit about the European reaction to the inauguration of a new US president – since our discussion took place just hours after President Obama took office.

I will apologize in advance if some of the conversation sounds a bit disjointed. I once again forgot my nuke training and neglected to use a checklist when setting up to record our discussion. I forgot to tell WireTap to record both the system audio and the incoming mike, so I had a great recording of what Alexandra said to me, but dead silence on what I said to her to cause her responses.

Oh well – sometimes it is hard to get good help.

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Filed Under: Atomic politics, Economics, Fossil fuel competition, Natural Gas, Podcast Tagged With: Belarus, Bulgaria, electric heat, energy independence, natural gas, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine

The Atomic Show #114 – Dan Yurman Russia-India Reactors, GNEP meeting, Kentucky nuclear, RWE, Vermont Yankee

November 22, 2008 By Rod Adams

Dan Yurman of Idaho Samizdat and Rod Adams chat about nuclear news from India, Idaho, Kentucky, Germany, Scotland, and Vermont

Dan Yurman and I had a great time on November 21 talking about a number of different nuclear news items including a large new power plant deal in India for Russian reactors, Dan’s first hand report of a GNEP meeting held in Idaho Falls, Kentucky’s energy plan that includes nuclear power and coal to liquids, RWE’s interest in new nuclear plants for the Baltic states and Eastern Europe, and Vermont Yankee controversies.

Here are some links that you might find useful if you want to do more research on the topics covered:

  • Lithuania nuclear shutdown information
  • Gerhard Schroeder’s Sellout
  • Gerhard Schroeder wikipedia page
  • Gerhard Schroeder’s Answers.com biography
  • Old King Coal’s Comeback in Scotland
  • RWE nuclear expansion projects
  • Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear’s energy plans
  • LiquidCoal
  • International Herald Tribune – NRG rejects Exelon takeover bid
  • Vermont Yankee Protest clears Public Service Board offices
  • Feasibility study for new nuclear power plant in New Brunswick

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Filed Under: Alternative energy, Atomic politics, Economics, International nuclear, Podcast Tagged With: coal to liquid, Germany, Idaho, India, Kentucky nuclear, NuClear, Russia, Vermont Yankee

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