by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 27, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
The news this week that NASA has contracted for as many as 12 of the new Orion manned space flight capsules brings again to focus the fact that the US is returning to manned space flight in a big way. While orbital flights will be first, it’s clear that a return to...
by Nuclear Street | Sep 22, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
Climate Strike Tarpon Springs Sep 20 2019 On Friday, September 20, I took to the streets with a couple dozen other locals as part of the Student Climate Strike. I’m pleased to note that this political action seems to be part of a movement that is capturing attention...
by Nuclear Street | Sep 22, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
Climate Strike Tarpon Springs Sep 20 2019 On Friday, September 20, I took to the streets with a couple dozen other locals as part of the Student Climate Strike. I’m pleased to note that this political action seems to be part of a movement that is capturing attention...
by Nuclear Street | Sep 20, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
A couple of weeks ago, I heard Dr. (Isabel) Lauren Jackson talking to Bill Nye on his Science Rules podcast. At the end of his discussion with her, Nye seemed to have changed his mind in the positive direction regarding the importance of nuclear energy. He seemed far...
by Nuclear Street | Sep 20, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
A couple of weeks ago, I heard Dr. (Isabel) Lauren Jackson talking to Bill Nye on his Science Rules podcast. At the end of his discussion with her, Nye seemed to have changed his mind in the positive direction regarding the importance of nuclear energy. He seemed far...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 19, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis In a move that has relieved some observers but angered others, a Tokyo District court has found three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) not guilty on the charges of not having prepared the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant against the...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 18, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
Happy birthday to RadioNuclear! The podcast, sponsored since 2019 by ANS, turned two years old earlier this month. The host, Doug Hardtmayer, and the Society would like to thank everyone who continues to listen and support the show! Discussed this week:The events that...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 12, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
By James Conca In a news briefing in Tokyo earlier this week, Japan’s Minister of the Environment, Yoshiaki Harada, told reporters that Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will have to dump radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plants into the...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 5, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
By James Conca With very serious issues like health care, gun control, Russian tampering, and prison reform, it’s unlikely that a narrow issue like a candidate’s stance on nuclear power will sway anyone about voting for them. However, since all the leading climate...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Aug 26, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
Thank you for joining us on Episode 24 of RadioNuclear! In this episode, we briefly discuss the passage of H.B. 6 in Ohio, effectively saving the two nuclear plants in Ohio for the time being. This week we also talk about a recent article detailing the true cost of...
by Nuclear Street | Aug 23, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
A cruise missile with a nuclear reactor heated turbofan engine and a liquid fueled booster rocket is the most likely description of the Russian developmental weapons system that exploded while being tested on August 8. It’s likely that the explosion occurred during...
by Nuclear Street | Aug 23, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
A cruise missile with a nuclear reactor heated turbofan engine and a liquid fueled booster rocket is the most likely description of the Russian developmental weapons system that exploded while being tested on August 8. It’s likely that the explosion occurred during...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Aug 20, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
By Dr. Matthew Jasica and Alyse Huffman What does it mean to be a leader? That question is at the heart of the Young Professionals Congress 2019 (YPC19). YPC19 is a one-day event, organized by the ANS Young Members Group (YMG) and the North American Young Generation...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Aug 16, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
By Daniel Yurman What role can nuclear power play in getting humans to Mars or eliminating climate change? Nuclear energy has an increasing role in medicine and safety and security. Industry leaders, policymakers, and innovators will convene at Purdue for a three-day...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Aug 5, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
By Vedant Mehta On August 5, 2012, at 10:17 p.m. PDT, NASA’s giant rover Curiosity landed on Mars, the fourth planet in our solar system from the Sun. Curiosity rover is 3 meters long, 2.8 meters wide, and 2.1 meters tall weighing 900 kilograms (around 2,000 lbs)....
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 26, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
By Craig Piercy, ANS Washington Representative “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” We will never know whether Thomas Aquinas actually pondered this specific question during the Middle Ages, but today the metaphor has shed its religious overtones to be a...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 24, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
By Doug Hardtmayer Ready for RadioNuclear 23? In this episode, we discuss the landmark achievement at Purdue’s research reactor, PUR-1, on going to a fully digital I&C System, the increasing support for nuclear power from Japanese courts, and the recent increase...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 18, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
By Dr. Catherine Riddle Remember when you were a child on a long road trip to grandma’s house before cars were equipped with televisions? My dad would tell us to imagine that we were watching an episode of Star Trek, and my sister and I would run through every nuance...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 12, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
The nearness of the completion of Rosatom’s Akademik Lomonosov floating two-unit nuclear power plant is apparently raising interest in, of all places, the Philippines. This island nation, which very nearly had a nuclear plant but which halted its operation when fully...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 10, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
By Dr. James Conca I just knew it! I was hoping I’d be wrong, that HBO would have the courage and integrity to do their homework and consult even one actual nuclear scientist or radiobiologist. Or even just read the United Nations Chernobyl Forum Report, the best...
by Nuclear Street | Jul 10, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
Forgive me. It’s been almost three months since I last wrote a long form blog or article about the importance of atomic energy as a useful tool for solving many of the world’s most complex and pressing problems. I’ve been stimulated to take a partial break from my...
by Nuclear Street | Jul 10, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
Forgive me. It’s been almost three months since I last wrote a long form blog or article about the importance of atomic energy as a useful tool for solving many of the world’s most complex and pressing problems. I’ve been stimulated to take a partial break from my...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 4, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis We continue now our look at Appendix III of WASH-1250, the unpublished (except in final draft form) AEC study on reactor safety from 1973. This appendix describes the rise of the anti-nuclear movement in the United States; the previous installment...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 1, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis We are quite aware today that a major force in delaying nuclear plant licensing has been the action of “intervenors” – persons, or more often groups pretending to act as concerned individuals, who attend open meetings, file motions, and start all sorts...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jun 27, 2019 | Nuclear Energy
By Doug Hardtmayer Episode 22 of RadioNuclear is now available. In this episode, we discuss the recent miniseries “Chernobyl”, which recently concluded on HBO. We debunk some of the more egregious articles written in the wake of the show (see links to these articles...
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