Archive for October, 2006

The Atomic Show #034 - Aimless atomic chatting

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Mixed bag of atomic (and a few non-atomic) topics - enjoy!
(MP3 - 17.3MB - 50 min)

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Shane and I have had a few busy days in our day jobs, so this show is a zero prep show with a variety of topics including long term storage of used nuclear fuel, [...]

Podcast listener survey

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Cameron Reilly has posted the early results from a survey of TPN listeners. You are an interesting bunch of people with some useful thoughts on the value of podcasts. Check out the results at Early results of the TPN October 2006 survey. If you have not yet taken the survey, you can find by going [...]

The Atomic Show #033 - Pebble Power (pebble bed reactors)

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Pebble bed reactor history and future
(MP3 - 19.1MB - 56 min)

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At the request of several listeners and blog readers, Shane and I decided to focus this podcast on the graphite and heavy metal “pebbles” that form the basic fuel element for a number of currently proposed reactor types.
We talk [...]

The Atomic Show #032 - Uranium mineral collector - Ruth Sponsler

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Chat with a uranium mineral collector and nuclear power supporter
(MP3 - 17.9MB - 52 min)

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Ruth Sponsler is an amateur mineral collector, a resident of the beautiful mountains of North Carolina and an active supporter of the use of nuclear energy. She blogs at We Support Lee.
Shane and I invited [...]

The Atomic Show #031 - Uranium resources and mining techniques

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Uranium resources and mining
(MP3 - 15.5MB - 45 min)

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Uranium is a relatively common metal. The quantity that is readily available for human use is far larger than the quantity that would be required to fuel a vastly larger base of nuclear reactors than the one that is in operation [...]