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The Atomic Show #111 – Chat With Dan Yurman – Nuclear Developments October 2008

ByRod Adams

Dan Yurman of Idaho Samizdat and Rod Adams of Atomic Insights chat about nuclear power developments from the third week of October 2008.

Dan Yurman, who produces the excellent blog titled Idaho Samizdat visited the Atomic Show for a discussion about the exciting world of nuclear power developments. We talked for well over an hour and covered projects in locations ranging from Florida to Idaho, Vermont to India, Utah to Brazil, and Finland to Texas. Dan is a great source of detailed information that is difficult to find if you are not fully engaged in the industry.

Stick it through to the very end and you will find out just what Samizdat means.

Dan is going to be participating in a web seminar with some heavy hitters – Jim Rogers of Duke Energy and Aston Poole from Morgan Stanley – in a couple of weeks. If you can possibly fit it into your schedule, I highly recommend listening in.

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Rod Adams
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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2 Comments

  1. Rod,

    Please tell me I did not just hear (@64 minutes) you suggest that Bruce Power used enriched uranium for its current reactors. Not even 1.5%. The Bruce reactors are standard CANDUs that operate using natural uranium, no enrichment required. What you might have been thinking of was the proposed ACR-1000, which I understand will use 1.3 or 1.5% slightly enriched uranium.

  2. Brad:

    Oops – you caught me and outed me. You are correct, the existing CANDUs run on natural uranium and I was confusing them with the ACR designs that I have studied a bit.

    Sorry it took so long to approve the comment, I temporarily forgot the admin password.

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