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The Atomic Show #129 – Atomic Gas Turbines

April 1, 2009 By Rod Adams 3 Comments

On March 30, 2009, I had the privilege of presenting a talk at my alma mater on the topic of nuclear heated Brayton cycle machines – also known as atomic gas turbines or Adams EnginesTM.

This episode of The Atomic Show is my first attempt at an enhanced podcast using chapter markers and trying to add a slide presentation. The constraints of the file format truncates the edges of the slides, but I think you will get the gist of what they are trying to show. Here is a link to the presentation in PDF format (warning – it is a 12.4 MB file), just in case you are interested in seeing the full size slides.

As always, feedback and constructive criticism is welcome. Of course, if you have something nasty to say, feel free to add that as well – I can always used the delete button if necessary.

Promised link to Australia Broadcast Corporation (ABC) Catalyst program about China’s HTR-10

NUCLEAR CHINA (22/02/2007)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/AtomicShowFiles/tpn_atomic_20090401_129.m4a

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Filed Under: Adams Engines, Alternative energy, Atomic Entrepreneurs, Podcast Tagged With: Adams Engines, Atomic gas turbines, high temperature gas reactors, HTR-10, inherently safe, N2 coolant, PBMR

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About Rod Adams

Rod Adams is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience, now serving as a Managing Partner at Nucleation Capital, an emerging climate-focused fund. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial discussion and analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology and policies for several decades. He is the founder of Atomic Insights and host and producer of The Atomic Show Podcast.

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  1. AvatarRichard Batty says

    April 5, 2009 at 4:04 AM

    Very good explaination of AAE. Dialog from the class really helps someone understand how AAE works. It should be add to the AAE website.

    While I enjoyed this podcast for what I had learned. I find the most entertaining podcasts have a lot of dialog between you and your guests. People would rather hear smart people joke around and interact with each other than with techology. Mix the human interaction with with education, and people will learn. People are also more likely believe a group of people who agree on a theme than one person giving a well thoughtout arguement.

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  2. AvatarBrad F says

    April 7, 2009 at 12:32 PM

    Rod,

    Have you seen this yet?

    http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1993

    “The Potential for Air-cooled High Temperature Nuclear Reactors”

    The comments are interesting too…

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  3. AvatarHarrison Bergeron says

    May 4, 2009 at 10:58 AM

    Rod,

    This podcast was arguably one of your best. Because it explained your reactor. The use of nitrogen to be able to use an off the shelf turbine is wise. Simple is better. K.I.S.S. Nice job.

    And the slides were good too — although I could only look at them a red traffic lights.

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