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There will be no Atomic Show Podcast this week. I am making preparations to cover the 2007 American Nuclear Society (ANS)/European Nuclear Society (ENS) Winter meeting and the associated Young Professional’s Congress. The Young Professional’s Congress is a joint effort between North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NA-YGN) and the American Nuclear Society’s Young Member…
There will not be a new Atomic Show for the next couple of weeks. It is time for an unwired break from both my day job and my atomic avocation. We will have a lot of information to catch up on when I return. Talk to you next month.
As I talk with other “nukes” at conferences, on the web and in other social circumstances, I often get into political discussions. I know – you are supposed to avoid politics, religion and sex in social circumstances, but I guess I never really accepted the idea that one should avoid all interesting topics as a…
George Chapman, an entrepreneur, developer, cattle rancher and former nuclear power plant welder is building a formidable team to help him build one of the first new nuclear plants in the United States in more than a decade. The most recent of several stories about the project was written by Karen Welch Smith and published…
The Atomic Show received a mention on DSC 539 – check it out at the 42:30 minute point! I think I will include a clip on the next show – I am childishly excited by this event. Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code (DSC) is one of the most popular podcasts on the web. One of…
As mentioned a few days ago, I spent the first three weeks of July teaching Nuclear Science to a group of interested, bright, open-minded teenagers who have the inherently questioning attitude that makes working with them so rewarding. We got to know each other pretty well during the nearly 100 hours of class time that…
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Since posting my previous comment on this thread, I’ve learned about another property of MOX fuel that poses a problem…