Atomic Insights

Emmet Penney is an unlikely, but effective pronuclear advocate. He earned his degrees in fine arts and great books and worked for several years as a professional poet – along with working in a ...

https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-316-emmet-penny-pronuclear-poet/

Doug Sandridge is a lifelong oil and gas guy whose father was a geological engineer. While he was growing up, Doug lived a significant portion of his life overseas as his father’s job took the ...

https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-315-doug-sandridge-oil-and-gas-executives-for-nuclear-energy/

The Feb 6, 2024 Energy Gang podcast was titled “A pause in US gas export approvals: a big win for the climate?US hits the brakes on gas exports!” It was described as a gassy episode with a fo...

https://atomicinsights.com/why-is-nuclear-energy-an-important-influence-on-both-natural-gas-and-hydrogen-futures/

I wish I knew why some nuclear advocates feel that it’s worth their time to spread as much negative information as they can find about the potential utility and value of advanced nuclear power ...

https://atomicinsights.com/pro-nuclear-advocates-should-stop-bashing-advanced-nuclear/

Here is another instance of climate reporting that treats nuclear fission as if it barely exists. Before COP28, Cipher published an “Exclusive” that led off with “The United States is worki...

https://atomicinsights.com/why-would-climate-publications-disrespect-nuclear-fission/

The Energy Gang’s Dec 15 episode discussed the major outcomes from COP28. Ed Crooks (@Ed_Crooks), Dr. Melissa Lott @mclott, and Amy Harder (@AmyAHarder) completed the show without mentioning nu...

https://atomicinsights.com/why-did-the-energy-gang-overlook-the-newsworthy-impact-of-nuclear-energy-on-cop28/

James Krellenstein is a physicist, consultant and nuclear energy historian. He is currently employed as a senior advisor to Global Health Strategies. He started up their decarbonization practice ...

https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-314-economies-of-scale-for-micro-small-medium-large-reactors-with-jame-krellenstein/

I’ll start with a disclosure. I’m still long on NuScale in my personal portfolio and have no intention of changing that position in the near future. I believe that the company has a good prod...

https://atomicinsights.com/why-did-the-carbon-free-power-project-get-cancelled-what-does-that-mean-for-nuscale/

Stefano Buono is a physicist and the successful founder of Advanced Accelerator Applications, a multibillion dollar company that pioneered the use of several therapeutic medical isotopes. After m...

https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-313-stefano-buono-founder-and-ceo-newcleo/

Cross-posted from Nucleation Capital June, July and August of 2023 were the three hottest months the Earth has ever seen by such a large margin, it left climate scientists agog. Climate disasters...

https://atomicinsights.com/parnassus-versus-green-century-a-contrast-in-styles/

Commissioners on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are worried. They see a pending avalanche of license applications for new reactors, fuel production facilities, uranium mines, transportation co...

https://atomicinsights.com/unnecessary-rules-should-be-eliminated/

Craig Piercy, the Executive Director and CEO of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), sat down with Chair Chris Hanson of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to talk about the NRC’s role in n...

https://atomicinsights.com/nrc-chair-hanson-shares-his-thoughts-on-the-nrcs-mission-with-ans-executive-director-piercy/

Zeno Power makes cost-effective radioisotope power systems (RPS) for some of the most challenging environments in the solar system. Its systems use a proprietary package that allows a wider varie...

https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-312-tyler-bernstein-ceo-zeno-power/

Mary Jo Rogers is a trained clinical psychologist who developed her interest workforce safety cultures and leadership in the nuclear power sector while consulting and working for ComEd (later Exe...

https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-311-mary-jo-rogers-founder-rogers-leadership-group/

Each year since 1998, POWER Magazine has hosted a conference titled Experience Power that brings together utilities, suppliers, customers and energy leaders to discuss trends in the electric powe...

https://atomicinsights.com/experience-power-with-a-healthy-dose-of-microgrids-hydrogen-and-nuclear-energy-information/

One good reason to attend industry conferences is to be able carefully listen to the thoughts of industry leaders, especially during unscripted panel discussions. When the executives are among co...

https://atomicinsights.com/where-is-the-nuclear-industry-headed-four-top-executives-share-their-thoughts-at-ans-utility-working-conference-2023/

The theme at the annual American Nuclear Society Utility Working Conference (#ANSUWC) was resiliency, a term that applies equally well to the equipment and the people that make up the U.S. nuclea...

https://atomicinsights.com/sense-of-purpose-at-the-2023-ans-utility-working-conference/

Plutonium-239 (Pu-239) is a nuclear fuel source that should play an important role in a sustainable, rapidly growing nuclear power enterprise. It is a natural byproduct that is created inside eve...

https://atomicinsights.com/the-most-secure-place-to-store-plutonium-is-inside-an-operating-fission-reactor/

Non-attendees might dismiss it a just another nuclear industry conference full of talk signifying nothing, but the 2023 edition of the Advanced Reactor Summit (AR Summit) – hosted by the US Nuc...

https://atomicinsights.com/observations-from-the-us-nuclear-industry-councils-10th-annual-advanced-reactor-summit/

In the past few years, there has been a strong revival of interest in using nuclear fission energy to power space travel and planetary exploration. There have also been new developments in radioi...

https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-310-ron-fabish-on-space-nuclear-power/