Research Reactor License Renewal Challenges
By Rod Adams The process for renewing research and test reactor (RTR) licenses in the United States has been subject to lengthy delays and periodic backlogs since the early 1980s. Continue Reading →
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Nuclear professionals: Establish standing now to improve operational radiation limits
By Rod Adams On August 3, 2014, the window will close on a rare opportunity to use the political process to strongly support the use of science to establish radiation Continue Reading →
What Did We Learn From Three Mile Island?
By Rod Adams Thirty-five years ago this week, a nuclear reactor located on an island in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suffered a partial core melt. On some levels, Continue Reading →
Is St. Lucie next on the antinuclear movement target list?
By Rod Adams The most informative paragraph in a lengthy article titled Cooling tubes at FPL St. Lucie nuke plant show significant wear published in the Saturday, February 22, 2014, Continue Reading →
How can we stop premature nuclear plant closures?
By Rod Adams During an earnings call on February 6, 2014, Exelon Corporation indicated that it may decide to shut down two or more of its nuclear reactors because of Continue Reading →
The Value of Energy Diversity (Especially In A Polar Vortex)
By Rod Adams Since the natural gas price collapse that started in summer 2008, many observers have become accustomed to using the adjective “cheap” when talking about natural gas. Like Continue Reading →
Excitement about U-235 as coal competitor–circa 1939 & 1940
By Rod Adams Conventional wisdom says that the general public was introduced to atomic energy by the explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to that version of history, the introduction Continue Reading →