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• Dr. James Hansen Explaining Why Cap and Trade Will Not Work

  Dr. James Hansen is one of the world’s leading climatologists. He recently wrote a book titled “Storms of My Grandchildren” explaining the need to take effective action to reduce the potential danger of building up CO2 in the atmosphere. He is opposed to international agreements for capping and trading emissions and offsets and instead recommends [...] Read More... Posted Feb 28 2010, 04:48 AM by TPN : The Atomic Show Filed under: General, Economics, Alternative energy

• The Atomic Show #150 – Presidential Announcement of Loan Guarantees, Small Reactors

  On Sunday, February 21, I gathered a group of well experienced nuclear professionals to talk about the impact of President Obama’s February 16, 2010 speech announcing loan guarantees for Southern Company to build two additional units at its Vogtle Nuclear Station. Margaret Harding, Kelly Taylor, John Wheeler from This Week in Nuclear, Dan Yurman from [...] Read More... Posted Feb 23 2010, 04:46 AM by TPN : The Atomic Show Filed under: Podcast, Economics, Atomic politics, Alternative energy, Advanced Atomic Technologies

• The Atomic Show #149 – Pro-Nuclear Bloggers Reaction to SOTU

  During the 2010 State of the Union Address, President Obama took the handcuffs off of the nuclear industry revival when he said: But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. On January [...] Read More... Posted Feb 01 2010, 03:12 AM by TPN : The Atomic Show Filed under: Podcast, Economics, Atomic politics

• The Atomic Show #146 – South Korean Nuclear Technology Development

  The United Arab Emirates has recently selected a consortium that includes Korea Electric Power Corp., Westinghouse Electric, Hyundai Engineering and Construction, Samsung C&T Corp and Doosan Heavy Industries to supply it with 5.6 gigawatts of electrical power capacity. The order includes four APR-1400 nuclear reactor power plants and all associated secondary equipment. I made contact with [..... Posted Dec 30 2009, 04:46 AM by TPN : The Atomic Show Filed under: Podcast, Economics, Atomic politics, Advanced Atomic Technologies

• The Atomic Show #144 – Lisa Stiles, Margaret Harding, John Wheeler, Dan Yurman – ANS Winter MTG

  On November 22, 2009, flush with good feelings about the recent American Nuclear Society (ANS) Winter Meeting, I invited four others who attended the meeting to get together for a conference call to talk about what we heard and learned. The show is a bit longer than average, but it is worth every minute! Lisa [...] Read More... Posted Nov 23 2009, 05:00 AM by TPN : The Atomic Show Filed under: Podcast, Economics, Atomic politics

• The Atomic Show #140 – Margolis – Oil 150, Light Water Converters, On-Demand Power

  Robert Margolis and Rod Adams engage in a panel of two (August is a slow month for news and a tough month to find guests) discussion about the 150 year anniversary of the first oil well in America, nuclear energy development plans in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, the responsibilities of a start up [...] Read More... Posted Aug 17 2009, 04:55 AM by TPN : The Atomic Show Filed under: Podcast, Atomic history, Economics, Alternative energy

• Atomic Show #139 – Dan Yurman, Charles Barton, Rod Adams discuss recent atomic envents

  It has been more than a month since the last show. Many apologies. Dan Yurman and Charles Barton agreed to help me get back into the rhythm by chatting for a while about current atomic events. We discussed a recent Moody’s special report on companies considering new nuclear power plants – not very positive, TVA nuclear [...] Read More... Posted Aug 10 2009, 07:26 PM by TPN : The Atomic Show Filed under: Podcast, Economics, Atomic politics, Alternative energy

• The Atomic Show #138 - Jaco Kriek, CEO PBMR Pty LTD

  Jaco Kriek has been the CEO of PBMR Pty LTD of South Africa for five years. On July 7, 2009 he spoke with me for nearly an hour about a wide range of topics. The topics we discussed included the following: History of PBMR as a stand alone company Change in technical direction Customer focused design [...] Read More... Posted Jul 08 2009, 09:28 PM by TPN : The Atomic Show Filed under: Podcast, Atomic history, Economics, Atomic politics, PBMR, process heat, Alternative energy, pebble bed reactors, helium, SASOL, gas cooled reactors

• Atomic Show #137 - Michael Kurzeja - President - North American Young Generations in Nuclear

  Michael Kurzeja is the President of North American Young Generation in Nuclear - NA-YGN. He is a dynamic leader, an excellent emissary and an excited professional who loves what he does. He also respects and enjoys the people he works with and is developing some long term professional friendships during the long hours that he [...] Read More... Posted Jun 25 2009, 09:01 PM by TPN : The Atomic Show Filed under: Podcast, Atomic history, Economics, Atomic ships, new nuclear plants, nuclear renaissance, NA-YGN, nuclear operating performance, nuclear career opportunities

• The Atomic Show #131 - View from the Left on Atomic Energy

  David Walters from Left Atomics and Daily Kos joins Rod Adams for a discussion about atomic energy from a far left point of view. It is well known that much of the opposition to nuclear power in the US, Europe, and Australia comes from people who are normally considered to be on the political left. [...] Read More... Posted Apr 14 2009, 05:23 AM by TPN : The Atomic Show Filed under: Podcast, Atomic history, Economics, Atomic politics, Alternative energy, liberal view of nuclear power, Al Gore Sr., nuclear renaissance, left atomics, public power

• The Atomic Show #130 - Better Uses for Fissile Material

  Kirk Sorensen, Charles Barton and Rod Adams got together for a long distance conversation inspired by President Obama’s speech about his commitment to reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles. That action will free up valuable material useful for many power plant applications. It is important to understand - the president’s call is for a world free from nuclear [...] Read More... Posted Apr 06 2009, 09:51 PM by TPN : The Atomic Show Filed under: Podcast, Economics, Atomic politics, small reactors, Alternative energy, LFTR, fissile material, pebble bed reactors

• The Atomic Show #126 - Wasserman v Moore moderated by Goodman and Adams

  On Thursday February 5, 2009, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! moderated a brief debate about nuclear power between Harvey Wasserman and Patrick Moore. The forcing function for holding the debate on that date was the fact that the Senate has included an additional authorization for $50 billion in loan guarantees for clean energy as part of [...] Read More... Posted Feb 07 2009, 09:56 AM by TPN : Atomic Filed under: Podcast, Economics, Atomic politics, used nuclear fuel, nuclear fuel recycling, stimulus package, loan guarantees, Harvey Wasserman, Patrick Moore

• The Atomic Show #125 - Economic Interests in Environmental Politics

  It not shocking news to discover that “recovering” politicians often lobby their former colleagues. This show about Gore’s testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is just an example. This week I spent a several hours listening to the first hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of the current congressional session. Former Vice President Al [...] Read More..... Posted Jan 31 2009, 09:56 AM by TPN : Atomic Filed under: Podcast, Economics, Atomic politics, nuclear, Alternative energy, nuclear fuel recycling, atomic energy, Isakson, Corker, Gore, Kerry, Ausra

• The Atomic Show #123 - European View of Russian Gas Crisis

  On January 20, 2009 Rod Adams spoke with Alexandra Prokopenko to get a local view of the effects on Eastern Europe of the Ukraine/Russia natural gas supply dispute. Alexandra is a citizen of Belarus who currently lives and works in Sweden. Her husband is living in Kiev, Ukraine and she speaks to him each day. [...] Read More... Posted Jan 24 2009, 04:33 AM by TPN : Atomic Filed under: Podcast, Economics, Atomic politics, Russia, natural gas, Belarus, Sweden, Ukraine, energy independence, Bulgaria, Slovakia, electric heat

• The Atomic Show #122 - Steven Chu - Confirmation Hearings for Secretary of Energy

  Steven Chu is a well respected scientist, national laboratory manager and biofuels focused researcher. He has been nominated by President-elect Barack Obama to be the Secretary of Energy, a position that puts him in charge of approximately 30,000 people and an annual budget of approximately $25 billion. As Dr. Chu stated in his testimony, the [...] Read More... Posted Jan 18 2009, 10:23 AM by TPN : Atomic Filed under: Podcast, Economics, Atomic politics, nuclear, Alternative energy, recycling, nuclear fuel recycling, clean coal, Carter energy policies, Chu, reprocessing