The 189th Carnival of Nuclear Energy has been posted at Atomic Power Review.  You can click here to access this latest edition of a long-running tradition among the top pro-nuclear authors and bloggers writing in the English language.

Futuristic illustration from 1955 Progress Report, Atomic Power Development Associates, published March 1956. This would become the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant.

President Eisenhower's momentous Atomic Power for Peace speech to the United Nations in December 1953 included the bold statement: "It is not enough to take this weapon [a metaphor for atomic energy, specifically as weaponized only] out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace." With that, he effectively launched the civilian nuclear power business as we know it today-of course, it having since undergone many changes and evolutions. What's little spoken of today is what happened before and after this speech.

The 187th Carnival of Nuclear Energy is here - the weekly compilation of the best of the internet's pro-nuclear authors and bloggers.  This time-honored feature appears on a rotating variety of the top English-language pro-nuclear blogs every weekend, and is a great way for readers of any persuasion or approach to find out what the people who write about nuclear energy all the time think are the most important or most resonant issues for that week.  With that, here are this week's entries!

The 186th Carnival of Nuclear Energy has posted at Next Big Future.  You can click here to see the latest installment of a time honored tradition which brings you, the reader, the best and most prominent pro-nuclear authors and bloggers each week.

Previous articles in this series were published on November 8 and November 14; this is the third and final installment of the series, which concludes just prior to the 60th anniversary of President Eisenhower's famous "Atoms for Peace" speech.  That speech, whose official title was "Atomic Power for Peace," was delivered to the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 8, 1953 and its ramifications for the future of civil nuclear energy the world over were immense.

The 185th Carnival of Nuclear Energy has been posted at Atomic Power Review.  You can click here to see this latest installment of a long-running tradition among the top pro-nuclear bloggers and authors.

The 184th Carnival of Nuclear Energy has been posted at The Hiroshima Syndrome.  You can click here to access this latest edition of a long-running tradition among the world's top English-language pro-nuclear authors and bloggers.

It's time for the 183rd Carnival of Nuclear Energy - the weekly rotating feature that brings you the best pro-nuclear authors and bloggers, and their viewpoints on what matters in the fields of nuclear energy and nuclear technology.

Lenka Kollar

Readers of the ANS Nuclear Cafe blog will have seen, from time to time, the work of Lenka Kollar, educating and informing about a wide variety of nuclear issues.  Kollar, formerly of Argonne National Laboratory, has made the bold decision to make her own way as a nuclear advocate and consultant. We had a chance to catch up with Ms. Kollar during the 2013 American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C. and ask her a few questions about her just-launched and exciting new initiative Nuclear Undone.

Small Modular Reactors are below 300 MWe output and typically have all components located within the reactor vessel or attached directly to it, as with the South Korean SMART SMR design here

2nd American Nuclear Society SMR Conference

Moniz on Nuclear

NS Savannah

Next week, the American Nuclear Society (ANS) will be hosting a Technical Tour of the only nuclear powered commercial vessel ever built in the United States: the NS Savannah.  Will Davis and Paul Bowersox will report from the tour in word and photos. 

The 181st Carnival of Nuclear Energy has been posted at Atomic Power Review.  You can click here to access this latest entry in a long running tradition among the world's top English-language, pro-nuclear bloggers and authors.

The 180th Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers is up right now at The Hiroshima Syndrome.  You can click here to see this latest contribution to a long-standing tradition among the top English-language pro-nuclear authors and bloggers.

ANS Nuclear Cafe is proud to host the 179th Carnival of Nuclear Energy this week.  This long running tradition features top posts and stories by pro-nuclear authors and bloggers each week, and provides a window into the foremost issues in nuclear energy and nuclear science in a single convenient post.  Here are this week's entries!

ANS Nuclear Cafe recently took the opportunity to ask a number of nuclear professionals and ANS staff members some questions about attending the organization's annual meetings - the ANS Annual Meeting held in the summer, and the ANS Winter Meeting held in late autumn.  The answers we received help us understand not only the benefits of attending these meetings, but also the work that goes into preparing large events with over a thousand attendees.

The 178th Carnival of Nuclear Energy has been posted at Next Big Future.  You can click here to access this latest edition of a long-standing tradition in the world of English-language, pro-nuclear bloggers and authors.

The 177th Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers has been posted at Deregulate the Atom.  You can click here to read this latest installment of a long-running tradition among nuclear bloggers, and pro-nuclear authors.

The 176th Carnival of Nuclear Energy is now posted at The Hiroshima Syndrome.  You can click here to access this latest edition of a long-running tradition among the world's English language pro-nuclear bloggers and authors.

Fukushima Daiichi Units 5 (left) and 6 (right) seen in October 2012 behind the newly completed breakwall.

Earlier this month, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe conducted a visit to Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station to examine conditions at the site and to gauge TEPCO's response to numerous ongoing problems. When Abe spoke to reporters after the visit, he mentioned (for reasons still unknown) that he had suggested to TEPCO that it decommission Unit 5 and Unit 6 on the site, so that it could focus its efforts squarely on the work required to recover from the nuclear accidents at Units 1, 2, and 3. This was reported with some surprise in many quarters.