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The Atomic Show #022

ByRod Adams

During episode number 22, Shane and I begin with a rant about people like George Monbiot, the author of a recent article titled Sure, nuclear power is safer than in the past – but we still don’t need it. Our big beef is that he accepts a fossil fuel industry supported notion that it is somehow going to be possible to capture and bury CO2 from their facilities. At the same time he states that it would be a mistake to believe that it is possible to safely store nuclear fuel by-products.

We make reference to some ideas from an article about waste titled The Energy Challenge and the special edition of The Atomic Show when I interviewed Mary Mycio, the author of Wormwood Forest.

Hope you enjoy the passion; we got a little excited during this show. Shane even used the term “BS”. Wow!

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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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