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• Scott Peterson, VP of Communications for Nuclear Energy Institute, Discusses Used Fuel Commission

  Scott Peterson, the Vice President of Communications for the Nuclear Energy Institute visited with Clean Skies News to talk about his organization's reactions to the formation of the blue ribbon commission on used nuclear fuel policy. It is heartening to hear an industry spokesman so clearly stating that the industry has accepted the responsibility for storing used fuel for a very long time, that... Posted Feb 01 2010, 04:38 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NEI, Clean Skies News, used fuel

• Clean Skies News Coverage of American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting

  I have had a busy week trying to time share between a day job and at least some attendance and coverage of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting. While searching for other views of the event that I might have missed earlier in the week, I found the below segment titled Nuclear Industry Holds Winter Meeting on Future on Clean Skies News. One thing that might stick in the craw of long time members... Posted Nov 21 2009, 03:41 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Clean Skies News, ANS Winter Meeting

• Entertaining and Informative Look Back On Energy Development Decisions Since 1973

  Llewellyn King, founder of "Energy Daily" is one of the more knowledgeable and entertaining commentators on energy issues. He recently sat down with Margaret Ryan of Clean Skies News to talk about some of his observations of American energy policies and investments during the years since the Nixon Administration. He has interesting comments on natural gas, nuclear fusion and nuclear energy... Posted Oct 17 2009, 03:09 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Margaret Ryan, Llewellyn King, Clean Skies News

• A Visual Example of Why There is Growing Interest In Smaller Reactors

  Over the past 15 or more years of trying to talk to people in the nuclear industry about smaller power systems, I have frequently confronted with the "economy of scale" argument. When I try to explain that there are also "diseconomies of scale" that can make very large items more costly than an equivalent capability made up of a number of smaller items, the response is often some... Posted Oct 13 2009, 04:33 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: TMI, Clean Skies News, steam generators