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The Atomic Show #020

ByRod Adams

I hope some of you missed us last week. If not, we must be doing something that needs improvement. Just in case you noticed that we did not post a new show last week, we simply were not able to match up our schedules. I had a series of meetings about Adams Atomic Engines and those interfered with production of the show. The good news is . . . (blacked out by censors waving NDA’s.)

Anyway, back to this week’s show. Shane and I start off by sharing some of our thoughts about engineering educations versus liberal arts. We then talk a bit about the large Japanese engineering firms – Toshiba, Hitachi, and Mitsubishi – that are all developing ways to enter the US market for new nuclear power plants.

We talk about NRG Energy’s announced plans for new reactors at the South Texas project site and about the fact that those new nuclear facilities only represent about 25% of NRG Energy’s new building plans.

We then digress a bit into some commentary about how new air emissions standards in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach might help to encourage the use of atomic engines for large commercial ships. As always, we welcome your comments and feedback. Enjoy!

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Rod Adams
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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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