Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Taking a break for Thanksgiving The blog will be dark for the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Blogging on nuclear energy news will resume the following week. See my 4th annual publication of Dan’s 2nd Day Idaho Nuclear Chili below. In the spirit of the holiday, I’d like to thank a lot of people for their full engagement in a continuous dialog about nuclear energy. It would be a very long blog...
Energy from Thorium (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
That's what the media is reporting. But no context. Nobody says how much radiation is released, nobody knows what the isotopic species are, and whether there is any danger. My strong suspicion is that it is a small amount of radiation coming from predominantly noble-gases that pose very little risk to the people who have been exposed and none at all to the general public. More details would help bring...
Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
News media coverage and blog posts take different paths towards the same destination At the American Nuclear Society winter meeting taking place in Washington, DC, this week, two sessions highlighted efforts to remove the veil of confusion on three critical issues affecting the public debate on nuclear energy. These issues are that development of civilian nuclear energy leads to proliferation of nuclear...
Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
John Wheeler links to a Nature Conservancy study: “Energy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts on Natural Habitat for the United States of America”. I posted back in October on the study when it was first released. John has some useful comments on the study, so please read the whole thing. [...]
Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
John Wheeler demonstrates very clearly the huge cost to society imposed by the anti-nuclear movement. Here is just a single example of that cost, the closing of the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant. (…) By looking at the utility’s current energy mix and by comparing the relative costs and environmental impacts, it is fairly [...]
Show Notes for "This Week In Nuclear" Podcast (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Fast Fission Podcast #16 – mp3 file Renewable energy supporters were spreading the word today that this past Sunday wind energy in Spain produced 53% of the country’s electrical demand. The Spanish wind power industry broke a record on Sunday morning, when turbines nationwide met 53% of the nation's demand for electricity with production of around 10,170 megawatts (MW), according to La...
Energy from Thorium (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
John Wheeler's got his latest podcast up and it's a recording of Col. Paul Roege's talk from the first Thorium Energy Alliance Conference . Slides are available for Col. Roege's talk too .
Show Notes for "This Week In Nuclear" Podcast (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
This Week in Nuclear #79 – MP3 File A Special note from John Wheeler: Today is Veteran’s Day in the United States - the day we stop to reflect about the men and women of our armed forces, to acknowledge their many sacrifices, and to thank them for their service to our country. The day holds special significance for me personally because of the many, many members of my family and close friends...
Show Notes for "This Week In Nuclear" Podcast (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Fast Fission Podcast #15 – MP3 File This story will come as no big surprise for my pro-nuclear blogger friends, but for those of you who are not quite as engaged with the online energy debate, you really need to know about this. Since I was a teenager I’ve enjoyed the magazine Scientific American . I’ve viewed them as informative and a good source of credible, accurate information...
Show Notes for "This Week In Nuclear" Podcast (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Get the MP3 Here Who says blogging and podcasting has to be all work and no play? Come and join your favorite nuclear bloggers, reporters, writers and podcasters at an "underground meet up" on Tuesday, November 17 , 2009 at 6:00 PM at the Omni Hotel. Participants will include more than a dozen of today's most influential pro-nuclear voices on the Internet and in print. My sources tell me...
Show Notes for "This Week In Nuclear" Podcast (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Get the MP3 Here Sitting in the audience at the 1st Thorium Energy Alliance Conference, I could not help but think about the people who stood around that pile of uranium and graphite in a squash court almost 70 years ago at the site of the first man-made self-sustained nuclear c hain reaction. Most were visionaries, brilliant scientists, some engineers, and a few reporters. I wondered how many of them...
Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Excellent! John Wheeler just posted a very clear explanation of why there is no such problem - only opportunity. Let us hope that Obama reads this as he likes to use “nuclear waste” as his reason for ignoring nuclear energy. Get the MP3 Here Download printable version here I have a family member that I love [...]
Energy from Thorium (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
John Wheeler's been with us at the Thorium Energy Alliance Conference, podcasting and twittering about the proceedings and we've had a great time! Episode #76: A Gathering of Visionaries Follow the updates on Twitter with the tag #thorium .
Uncertain Principles (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter with Eric Weinstein yesterday, starting with his statement: Ed Witten has no Nobel Prize. Now tell me again how this era's physics just feels different because we are too close to it. Basically, he appears to feel that Witten is sufficiently smart that he ought to have a Nobel. My feeling is that if you look at the list of Nobel laureates in physics , you won't...
Show Notes for "This Week In Nuclear" Podcast (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
"Live" from the 2009 ANS Conference in Atlanta, GA. Download the Video File Here John Wheeler and guest co-host Rod Adams of " The Atomic Show " meet with a group of students from the University of Michigan to discuss the ANS Student Conference. The student conference will be held in April 2010 at the University of Michigan. For more info go to the conference web site at http://www.studentans2010.org...
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