Archive for March, 2007

The Atomic Show #053 - Commercial Nuclear Ships

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Shane and I discuss commercial nuclear ship history and future opportunities
(MP3 - 17.1 MB - 49:28 M)

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Commercial nuclear powered ships were tried in the 1960s and 1970s with little follow on units. The United States built the NS Savannah, Germany built the Otto Hahn, and Japan built the Mutsu. […]

More information about uranium minining

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

As mentioned in a previous Atomic Show, the uranium market is full of speculators and get rich quick opportunists.
The International Herald Tribune published a story on March 28, 2007 titled High price of uranium prods U.S. mines to life that gives some indications about the natural response from mining companies and independent explorers. A […]

More on the climate change controversy

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

An Atomic Show listener pointed me to an interesting article published in the Guardian in September 2006 titled Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial.
It is articles like this one that makes me put up my defenses against a headlong rush to a dogmatic belief that human activity that produces CO2 is […]

The Atomic Show #52 - Climate change controversy

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Shane and I discuss our understanding of human activity’s effects on global climate. As two geeks not trained in climate science, but comfortable with complex systems, our approach is unique.
(MP3 - 20.6 MB - 59:39 M)

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Unless you live under a rock, you have an opinion about whether or not […]

The Atomic Show #51 - Uranium - interesting history and politics

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

We’re back after a couple of weeks off. The atomic geeks chat about uranium, which has an interesting history in politics, discovery and economics.
(MP3 - 19.3 MB - 56 M)

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Uranium is as common as tin and can be found in measurable quantities almost anywhere in the world. Its price […]

Supporting podcast music power

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Though The Atomic Show does not play music - yet - I am a big fan of independence and the idea that artists do not benefit much from big music labels. One way to show the power of independent music artists is a promotion called Bum Rush The Charts. The idea is that podcast listeners […]

Apologies for the hiatus

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Shane and I have missed you all the last couple of weeks. One week it was illness - it is hard to do an audio show with laryngitis - and then this week we had an operator error by the show’s producer - me.
We had a great chat about uranium and the hazards of investing […]