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The Atomic Show #101 – Small nuclear power plants with Dan Yurman, Charles Barton, Kirk Sorensen

August 3, 2008 By Rod Adams

Small nuclear power plants. Round table with Kirk Sorensen, Dan Yurman, Charles Barton, Rod Adams

Show 101 is a bit longer than normal, but I think you will want to listen carefully to every word. I invited some innovative thinkers and observers of the nuclear scene to discuss small nuclear power plants and their potential impact on the energy market.

Kirk Sorensen blogs at Energy from Thorium and is nearly finished with his MS in Nuclear Engineering.

Charles Barton blogs at Energy from Thorium and Nuclear Green.

Dan Yurman blogs at Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes and also writes for Fuel Cycle Week.

Our conversation ranged over a number of topics including the NuScale Power 45 MWe reactor, Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, licensing issues, waste handling constructs, Dale Klein’s recent speech including his comments on small reactors, and radiation health effects.

Here are some links to articles or papers discussed:

Dan Keuter, Entergy Nuclear – The NGNP in Perspective

UPPU – Fifty Years of Plutonium Exposure to the Manhattan Project Plutonium Workers: An Update – Abstract.

If you want to find out more about nuclear energy career opportunities at Entergy Nuclear, visit nuclearenergycareers.com. The Atomic Show thanks Entergy Nuclear for its support of the show and for its forward leaning participation in new media endeavors.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/AtomicShowFiles/tpn_atomic_20080802_101.mp3

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Filed Under: Atomic politics, Economics, Podcast, Smaller reactors Tagged With: Entergy, small nuclear power plants, small reactors, thorium

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. DV82XL says

    August 4, 2008 at 2:06 AM

    Best hour and a quarter I’ve spent in some time, nice to hear you guys together.

  2. Reese says

    August 6, 2008 at 1:16 PM

    Yes, concur with Mr. 2XL. You all were inspiring.

  3. Bruno Garcia says

    August 13, 2008 at 1:15 AM

    hello,

    you guys talked about the idea of retrofiting old fossil fuel power plants to nuclear

    at the time that you said that i was googling the indias 300Mwe nuclear reactor.

    and i noticed the similarity betwen portugal and india power plant wise

    Portugal as 7 diferent fossil fueled power plants using, fuel-oil, diesel, coal to natural gas.

    in a total of 3000MW.

    if only we could convert it all to nuclear

  4. WES ANDERSEN says

    January 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM

    DR.SIR. IS IT AT ALL POSABLE TO RUN A LOCOMOTIVE TRAIN WITH AN ATOMIC REACTOR ? SURE WOULD HELP WITH ENERGY INDEPENDANCE. THANK YOU——–WES ANDERSEN IN LARGO FLA.

  5. Mark Lewis says

    June 1, 2009 at 3:16 AM

    good job on the pod cast and it helps my understanding of the subject.

    Mark Lewis, Councilman Salt River Project

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