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The Atomic Show #019 (MP3 – 16.3MB – 47min)

June 23, 2006 By Rod Adams 4 Comments

This week Shane and I talked about recent nuclear developments in Canada, about the Ontario energy plan, and about technical choices and opportunities in the nuclear energy business in Canada.

We discuss the potential use of CANDU technology for tar sands oil production and the potential use of SLOWPOKE reactors for district heating systems.

During the show we promised a link to the recent Living on Earth segment on new nuclear power plants. You can find it under the title of Living on Earth: New Nukes for North America.

We welcome your comments. As a matter of fact, the topic for this show was a direct result of a request by one of our listeners following last week’s show about nuclear power in Europe.

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About Rod Adams

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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  1. Shane Brown says

    June 23, 2006 at 11:45 AM

    I knew I goofed up some numbers somewhere. The Slowpoke-3 had a designed time between refuelings of 3 years, not 10 or 20. Still pretty cool.

    http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/cnf_sectionH.htm#g3

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  2. Julien says

    June 24, 2006 at 1:03 AM

    Hey Rod, I’m plugging your podcast at my speech, as we mentioned in our last email. Take care!

    Reply
  3. Shane Brown says

    June 26, 2006 at 7:53 AM

    By the way everybody, here’s a link to “The One-Hoss Shay” that I mentioned, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    http://www.williamson-labs.com/one-hoss-shay.htm

    Reply
  4. Randal Leavitt says

    June 27, 2006 at 1:00 PM

    Pretty good summary of the Canadian situation. Good work. The upcoming decision in Ontario about what technology to use for new systems will be significant. They have to choose CANDU if they want AECL to survive. It will be interesting.

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