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The weekend of Saturday and Sunday, September 3th and 4th, at both 11 am (EDT) and 8 pm (EDT) on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY radio program on America Out Loud Talk Radio, Michael D. Campbell was interviewed by Dr. Jay H. Lehr, who was one of Mr. Campbell’s geology professors at Ohio State in the 1960s. They discussed the future of nuclear power in the U.S. and around the world.

For details, see the introductory article on nuclear power, the Radio Interview link, and the supporting references discussed during the interview (here).

The podcast version of the interview has been listed on the I2M Consulting YouTube Channel (here).

I2M Management and I2M Associates announced today that the I2M Group and contributors have come together to create The I2M Institute of Energy & Critical Resources.

MISSION:

To conduct formal and informal discussions and independent evaluations via virtual meetings on issues relating to:

1. Energy resources, their availability and selection for the generation of electricity and impact on the environment, and
2. Critical resources, their availability, use, cost to produce, and the geopolitical framework in the supply chain.

OBJECTIVES:

Institute members & contributors will collaborate on topical evaluations, publications, and reports to formalize findings & recommendations via Zoom panel meetings and will be available to industry, government, and news media for consultation on subjects that one or more members of the Institute may have expertise / experience, such as in energy-selection policy, uranium exploration, nuclear power, nuclear waste, critical resources, especially rare earth elements, etc., mining, associated environmental aspects of these areas, and in many subfields of geology, i.e., geochemistry, geophysics, hydrogeology, etc.

FACILITATION OF SUPPORTING INFORATION:

To maintain and continue to expand the I2M Web Portal database, containing as of October 27, 2021: 11,315 records, focused on papers, reports and technical news items relating to the Mission and Objectives of the Institute, some of which have been reviewed by applying a modified version of the protocol developed by Campbell, et al., (2018).

See The I2M Institute of  Energy […]

I2M’s Chief Geologist/Hydrogeologist, Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., CPG, presented a 20-min summary on the title subjects during the IMAGE 21 International Conference for Applied Geoscience & Energy on September 28, Afternoon Section of Theme 9 (Abstract).

The full presentation was released on the I2M YouTube Channel after the conference presentation as a PDF of the full presentation with reference links.  The narrated version is available via the link on the first slide of the PDF version.

For Conference Technical Program,  “Tuesday Afternoon Online Oral Presentation: Theme 9: Session Chairs: Michael D. Campbell and Silvia Gerado.”

A plaque was presented in absentia during the 2021 IMAGE Conference on September 29th, Noon DEG-EMD Luncheon in Denver:

Inscribed:  “The AAPG Energy Minerals Division’s 2021 Distinguished Service Award (here).

He is a Founding Member of  EMD (1977), was elected EMD President (2010-2011) and has led the Uranium (Nuclear & REE) Committee as Chair over the past 17 years since being appointed in 2004 along with related publications, presentations, and in providing support to the EMD Critical Minerals Committee and the AAPG  Astrogeology Committee.

Michael D. Campbell, I2M’s Chief Geologist advised members of the Energy Minerals Division of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) that after 17 years as the Chairman of the Uranium (Nuclear & Rare Earth) Committee (UCOM), it is time to step down effective July 1, 2021 to allow other geologists to experience the developing new growth in nuclear power and the coming resurgence of uranium exploration that is now clearly on the horizon. The timing is good for such a move because he indicated that he has been getting offers to consider joining corporate boards of some uranium companies over the past few months. When, and if, he accepted such a position it would make his leadership position in the Uranium Committee difficult, if not untenable. He also indicated that he has been discussing the likelihood of such a move with his Vice-Chairs and his Advisory Group for some time so his move now should not be a surprise to them.

In his announcement to EMD and AAPG, he also indicated that during the transition he would be pleased to assist the incoming Chairperson and Vice-Chairs in making the uranium, nuclear power and rare earth databases of the I2M Web Portal available for their use in monitoring the activities in industry, universities, and in government. His

Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., I2M’s Chief Geologist, and Chairman of the AAPG’s Energy Minerals Division’s Uranium (Nuclear & Rare Earth) Committee presented the summary annual report during the EMD Zoom Conference on June 10, 2021 (here). The full report will be listed on the EMD UCOM website soon (here). He emphasized that the new SMR designs are gaining traction in new nuclear power construction in the US ( such as in Idaho and Wyoming) and in the UK, China, etc. (more).

Mr. Campbell’s contribution begins at the 40 min 42 seconds run-time into the above video. The associated PDF of Mr. Campbell’s presentation (here) contains links to references cited as well as a link his YouTube presentation.

The rest of the Webinar video presentations are also quite interesting (link above).

For additional YouTube videos sponsored by the AAPG/EMD, see (here).

The I2M Consulting, LLC YouTube Channel contains a new release by I2M’s Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H. (Here). It contains a brief, introductory discussion of the uranium and rare-earth supply chains.

This presentation was contributed as part of the AAPG Webinar: “Pivoting 2021: Energy Industry Supply Chains” Moderated by Susan Nash, Ph.D., Director, Innovation & Emerging Science and Technology, AAPG, Tulsa, OK

For the Webinar program, see: (Here)  ​

For the PDF version of this presentation with hyperlinks, see: (Here)​

The rest of the presentations from the Webinar will be released soon.

This Mini-Webinar explains the purpose, the function, and how to use the I2M Web Portal. It now contains a database of more than 10,500 records consisting of: enhanced hyperlinks in abstracts, comments and hyperlinks to industry and government reports, technical papers, and technical news releases, all involving geoscience topics selected by the I2M management team, and now made available to the geoscience community in industry, university, and government. Members of the general public might also find the I2M Web Portal contents of interest.

The I2M Web Portal reflects our client-research activities over the years and our research in support of the AAPG Energy Minerals Division’s Uranium (Nuclear & REE) Committee.

We now begin many of our projects by search-checking the Web Portal for what information is available in the Portal even before we check Google. The I2M Web Portal is uploaded weekly with new reports, technical papers, technical news items, which are summitted for review by the I2M editors that meet focused criteria in some 30 categories. These range in topical coverage from astrogeology (yes, even on UFOs) to uranium with an overall emphasis on matters related to offworld (Moon, Mars, Venus, etc.), energy resources (O&G, coal, nuclear power, hydroelectric, wind, solar, and other renewables), climate change (issues, data, reports, politics, etc.), critical minerals and […]

The AAPG’s EMD’s Uranium (Nuclear & REE) Committee has just released an update to its annual report to the AAPG membership and to the general public. It will also be available one day on the AAPG website in Search & Discovery of their Data Pages publication in late 2021 (because of a Pandemic). In the meantime, the World Nuclear News has reported on the UCOM report (here).

Michael D. Campbell, I2M’s Chief Geologist and Chairman of UCOM said in a recent conference that serious competition is now underway to determine which energy source will dominate the power-grid of the foreseeable future. With coal declining rapidly, only natural gas, uranium (and nuclear power), hydroelectric power, and renewables (wind and solar) are in the running. Both natural gas and nuclear power are providing back-up to the power grid because of the inherent drawbacks of wind and solar, (where the former does not blow all the time and the latter is intermittent because there are cloudy days and the sun only shines during the day, of course). Because California has retired many of their nuclear power plants, natural gas has taken their place in the power grid in supporting California’s renewable energy systems and others around the U.S.

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