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The Atomic Show #80 – Charles Ferguson, Fellow for Science and Technology – Council on Foreign Relations

January 31, 2008 By Rod Adams 1 Comment

Interview with Charles Ferguson, Fellow for Science and Technology – Council on Foreign Relations. Warning – this is a long episode that ranges from topic to topic!

Charles Ferguson, Fellow for Science and Technology – Council on Foreign Relations paid a visit to The Atomic Show. We engaged in a wide ranging discussion. We started with some of Charles’s impressions of the views of Indian colleagues following his recent visit to the world’s largest democracy. Other topics included Japan’s Monju reactor, highly enriched uranium, using special nuclear material for small reactors, long term protection of distributed reactors, commerce in HEU and plutonium, South African views on HEU, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Plowshares and probably a lot more.

Hope you enjoy.

Here are some links that you might find useful after listening to the show:

Plowshare Project video from Atomic Energy Commission

Executive Summary: Plowshare Program

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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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  1. Jim Baerg says

    February 7, 2008 at 2:07 PM

    You talked about the desirability of using high enriched uranium in some reactor designs, which is difficult because of restrictions due to concerns over diversion to weapons use.

    In the website http://thoriumenergy.blogspot.com/ & the connected discussion forum, it has been mentioned that it is very difficult to breed U233 from thorium without also getting small amounts of U232. Also those small amounts of U232 make the U233 useless for bombs because of the gamma rays from U232 daughter products.

    Perhaps U233 with traces of U232 could be used in all these small reactor designs,that need high enrichment, without creating a danger of diversion for weapons use.

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