What’s in Your Reader: Atomic Insights

Back in May, while attending a reception for the Nuclear Energy Assembly at the Newseum in Washington DC, I had the pleasure of meeting Rod Adams, founder and author of Atomic Insights and Atomic Insights Blog.

Rod began designing small nuclear reactors called Adams Atomic Engines in 1991. By small, I mean used to propel some of the largest commercial ships in the world. Rod knows, among other things, the seemingly limitless supply of energy at our disposal. He spent months at a time under water in a United States Navy submarine that was entirely powered by nuclear energy.  Remarkably, Rod is not dying of cancer and has not grown an 11th finger after living in close proximity to a nuclear reactor for months on end (note sarcasm).

This, of course, is nothing new. The technology was designed in the 1930s and has been in use since the 1960’s. So why has the United States still not achieved energy independence after all this time?

Fear, that’s why.

But Atomic Insights, Atomic Insights Blog, and The Atomic Show Podcast are all helping to change that.  Atomic Insights contains a wealth of information about the past, present, and future of atomic energy.  His blog and podcast cover policy, technology, and international news. There you can get an honest and informed report that is designed to make you more intelligent, not scare you into submission.

Since 9/11 the world has grown sick and tired of oil and has begun looking a nuclear energy as an alternative. When combined with plug in electric cars, and small scale reactors in remote locations, nuclear technology has shown itself to be adaptable and versatile enough to meet any requirement. Rod and his websites are among the few pro-nuclear sites (Babeled among them) that is willing to take a stand on the internets where misinformation and fear mongering from the radical minority of environmentalists runs rampant.

Below is a video shot by Rod as a rebuttal to a popular video made by various musicians and artists falsely claiming to know something about anything. Rod’s video is not very entertaining. It’s not flashy. It’s awkward at moments with little continuity and does next to nothing to maintain the viewers attention. Rod will be the first one to admit that he is no entertainer. But he does drive home one very important point that gets lost in most discussion about energy these days: “If you want to get your energy from a musician, don’t go to my site.”

There are more self proclaimed scientists and experts than we know what to do with. The one thing they all have in common is none of them know what they’re talking about.  It’s the guys like Rod Adams you should be listening to.  He may not be a slick politician or a flashy musician, but he’s forgotten more then those idiots could ever know about nuclear energy.

So, you can get your information from lawyers like Richard Webster, or actors like Alec Baldwin, or you can get your information about nuclear energy from a guy who has designed and operated nuclear reactors for years. You decide.  Do yourself a favor, head over Atomic Insights and check out what Rod has to say, and while your at it, hit up his feed and add it to your reader.

~Man Overboard

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Atomic Insights image courtesy of Rod Adams published  with permission.