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• Stewart Brand on NPR Describing How Wrong He Was About Nuclear Energy

  Scott Simon interviewed Stewart Brand, an icon of the US environmental movement on Weekend Edition for Saturday, February 20, 2010. He asked some probing questions and Brand gave some clear responses that are worth listening to and understanding. Brand is an excellent communicator and has a savvy media presence that is worth emulating. He does not delve into excessive detail, he is willing to laugh... Posted Feb 21 2010, 06:28 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: nuclear, Stewart Brand, environmentalist, NPR, 2010

• Clean Skies News - Discussion of Senate Committee Hearing on Small, Modular Reactors

  Yesterday the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee held a hearing on the potential for small, modular nuclear power plants that I really wanted to attend, but could not due to schedule conflicts. A loyal reader, however, sent me a link to a video summary of the hearing produced by Dan Goldstein and Tyler Suiter of Clean Skies News that provided some useful insights and reactions to the discussion... Posted Dec 16 2009, 04:27 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: small nuclear power plants, nuclear, small nuclear, Bingaman, hearing, talks, congress

• Is Natural Gas A Bridge To A Utopia Driven By The Wind And Sun, Or Is It A Pier That Cannot Go More Than Halfway

  A very common theme in works or speeches by Joe Romm, Amory Lovins, T. Boone Pickens, and Tim Wirth (and a whole chorus of other like minded people) is that natural gas, which is mostly methane (CH4), is a bridge to a utopia that can be powered by natural flows from the sun and wind. The problem with that view is that burning methane inherently produces a large volume of waste products that include... Posted Dec 15 2009, 04:55 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: natural gas, CO2, nuclear, wind energy, solar energy, renewables, methane

• Time Magazine Says "Nuclear Power Is Hot Again"

  On August 5, 2009 Time Magazine's online arm published a story Areva's Field of Dreams that begins with the following lede: This should be Areva's time in the sun. As governments search for clean, renewable energy sources and consumers worry about volatile oil prices, nuclear power is hot again. (Emphasis added) I am certain that the response to that statement in some offices in Cambridge... Posted Aug 07 2009, 03:45 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Areva, nuclear, interest, pop culture, time magazine