Rod Adams and Shane Brown discuss the properties of polonium. They move on to the hazards of mining and transporting coal.
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[audio:http://atomic.thepodcastnetwork.com/audio/tpn_atomic_20061128_039.mp3]
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Polonium talk is all over the news media because of the recent poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent living in the [...]

George Stanford talks about sodium cooled fast reactors
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[audio:http://atomic.thepodcastnetwork.com/audio/tpn_atomic_20061121_38.mp3]
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George Stanford earned his PhD in experimental nuclear physics from Yale University and then spent his professional career doing nuclear reactor safety research at the Argonne National Laboratory. One of his special interest was the sodium cooled [...]

Several months ago, I interviewed Ruth Sponsler, an amateur mineral collector. Ruth also runs a blog titled We Support Lee, which is named for a proposed new nuclear power station in Ruth’s home state of North Carolina, located in the southeast section of the United States.
Ruth recently wrote a rather detailed post titled The Ziggy [...]

Making Deserts Bloom – Nuclear Power in the Middle East
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[audio:http://atomic.thepodcastnetwork.com/audio/tpn_atomic_20061107_37.mp3]
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Shane and I chatted about recent announcements by Morocco, Algeria, UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia that they have been talking with the International Atomic Energy Agency about developing nuclear power programs. All of the [...]