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In May, I attended a gathering of the North American Young Generations in Nuclear (NA-YGN) and had the opportunity to spend a good deal of time talking with a group of engineers from Charlotte, NC, which is quickly becoming a bustling hub of activity in fields associated with atomic energy development...

Kirk Sorensen, a good friend of mine, brought his three daughters and lovely wife to the American Nuclear Society annual meeting. During a session focused on education and public communications, there was a scheduled talk about a program in Texas aimed at encouraging high school aged girls with excellent...

Atomic Show 134 - Five Atomic Geek Lunch has been posted. In related news, a good friend also sent me the below screen shot of iTunes on June 16, 2009. Pretty cool, don't you think? ...read more

One of the mantras often repeated by the anti-nuclear community during the nadir of the nuclear industry was that any company announcing a nuclear project would see its stock price hammered on Wall Street. That argument has actually been quite effective at slowing down corporate interest in investing...

There is a thoughtful discussion going on at The Energy Collective about Robin Carey's advice to nuclear advocates titled Message to the Nuclear Industry: Get Over Yourselves . As is often the case, Robin confuses the issue a bit by addressing "the nuclear industry" but then talking more...

The Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blogged about Phil Radford, the 33 year old activist who has taken over the reins at Greenpeace USA . Not suprisingly, Mr. Radford affirmed his opposition to clean coal, asserted that renewables could do the job of supplying all needed electricity ...

David Walters, who blogs at Daily Kos and Left Atomics joined me for a discussion about the benefits that a revived nuclear power industry could bring to the working class and to aid in economic development in states like North and South Carolina. Part of the inspiration for the show was an interview...

As part of my rambling effort to catch up with events and commentary about nuclear power, I found an article about "new" whistleblower accusations of a massive cover up following TMI. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the Steven Wing studies that claim that the health records of people who...

Yesterday, the Vermont Legislature warmly received a non-nuclear energy salesperson and allowed her to continue her traditional tactic of emotionally telling negative stories about the competition. I know, that is a purposely provocative way to describe the event, but that is certainly one way of looking...

Axil mentioned that Alan Boyle at MSNBC's Cosmic Log had linked to my skeptical blog about fusion hype in his March 31, 2009 post titled Fusion catches fire . So far, there is no commentary posted, though I have no way of knowing whether or not there are others in the moderation queue. I submitted...

The Boston Globe has a tightly written opinion piece by Jeff Jacoby titled The Coming Nuclear Renaissance . Here is a small sample from that article to encourage you to go and read it. The problems with nuclear energy have not vanished. To build a nuclear plant is an expensive undertaking, the disposal...

I have been getting more and more press releases as organizations begin to figure out that bloggers are valid media contacts. Normally, I do not simply take those releases and republish them, but occasionally I will make an exception. On this date, March 28, 2009, thirty years to the day after the events...

The Energy Collective has an article titled Why We Must Make Clean Energy Cheap that has generated a thoughtful discussion. I encourage you to read through the comments and perhaps add your own contribution to the exchange. ...read more

Here is another excellent product that reinforces my belief that we can learn something from our past. When you watch the first few minutes of this video please think for several moments about some of the commentary that you might have heard recently about the New Deal. According to some pundits, the...

A good friend sent me the link to this well produced video that makes some excellent points. I am fully aware that the source of this video may call into question its veracity, but I have been doing a lot of research for the past year or so and have come to the conclusion that FUD (fear, uncertainty...

The Center for Media and Democracy - PRwatch.org has a well-researched piece about the nuclear industry's public relations actions partially aimed at overturning the outright ban on new nuclear power plants in Wisconsin. It warms my heart to realize that there are some serious efforts underway to...

The fusion press release machine is still in business after all these years. I just completed reading an article in Forbes titled Reinventing Nuclear Power that provides some amazing details about the fusion experiments that will be taking place at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore...