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RT @simonwakter: 🚨 This is your reminder that if you help a nuclear plant run just one hour extra it equals offsetting all the emissions in…

RT @CSPopoff: TFW you see a @DecoupleMedia episode drop feat @choppen5 😍 youtu.be/PkeqshLmR4I

@wholisticguy @SinineHarakas @JigarShahDC If you take that logic, doesn’t the existence of renewables also make the addition of more renewables on the grid a liability? Even if nuclear did not exist, the problem of renewables playing havoc with wholesale energy prices is a problem that has to be managed.

@SinineHarakas @JigarShahDC @DecoupleMedia The reliable output of nuclear is often touted, but that’s a liability when zero marginal cost renewables are pushing the wholesale price of energy in the middle of the day into the negatives. The grid demand needs to adapt to better absorb that dump load energy at zero cost.

RT @Dr_Keefer: Thrilled to have been joined by Charles Oppenheimer @choppen5 for a soon to be released @DecoupleMedia episode about his gr…

RT @cornoisseur: All those folks clamoring for transmission lines from Quebec could have a pleasant surprise on the other end of those wire…

@Tpsmyth01 I don’t think so. If anything their biggest potential is probably the BWRX-300.

@DecoupleMedia I suspect it would be kind of hard to get EDF to say develop an AP1000 someplace outside of France. Instinctively they are going to always want EPR's. Would OPG be seen as too tied to CANDU?

A remarkable point from @JigarShahDC: In offshore wind, developers like Orsted specializes in development. They don’t make the turbines, they are not the local utility. They can concentrate on development. 1/3

I wonder if there’s a role for OPG to grow into a nuclear developer in this vein. A capable developer would be reactor-agnostic and not tied to a location. They will go where the best projects are and bring their know-how. Anyhow, can’t wait to actually hear the episode! (3/3)

Interestingly, many offshore wind developers grew from utilities. I’m thinking of RWE, Iberdrola and EDF, all are mega utilities at home but operate as pure play offshore wind developers in markets like Taiwan. (2/3)

@FreemyerGreg @JigarShahDC @opg Should have called Bechtel first!

@JigarShahDC @DecoupleMedia @opg Look to the LNG space. Since 2015, dozens of multi-billion dollar projects have been built in the US. Bechtel built many of them, and as I'm sure you know Bechtel took over Vogtle about 5 years ago when Westinghouse fell down.

@PauldyMenser 😂That he did

AMERICAN ATLAS: If Oppenheimer was the American Prometheus, you might describe Hyman G. Rickover as the American Atlas. He carried the US Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program on his shoulders AND ushered in the age of the Peaceful Atom. Let’s rewind: 🧵

@swimbikecrawl Ahh…thanks for the correction! Wow.

@DecoupleMedia Not quite . Nautilus is nearly 100 metres long and had a complement of 105.

Rickover set the standard of what really SHOULD be possible in atomic development. We are in another war, not against the Soviets but against the existential threat of global warming. Where is the urgency? Let’s not forget Rickover and his commitment to excellence. 🧵

It’s frustrating that even if somehow we got another Rickover, it’s hard to tell how effective he would be. In the intervening decades since Nautilus and Shippingport, regulation has proliferated to an unimaginable degree.