Guido Núñez-Mujica

HAPPY PRIDE! From my family to yours. To me being gay and being a nuclear/biotech advocate, an ecomodernist, have a lot in common. On the last day of Pride, let me tell you about the parallelisms, similarities and how being gay is inextricably tied to my activisms. 1/n

Der Atomausstieg brachte bis heute 6x Tschernobyl – neuer Bericht enthüllt erschreckende Zahlen Am kommenden Sonntag jährt sich zum 40. Mal Tschernobyl, die größte Katastrophe in der Geschichte der Kernenergie. Einmal mehr wird die Erinnerung allenthalben zum Anlass genommen, die Angsttrommel gegen die vermeintliche "Hochrisikotechnologie" zu rühren. Wir hingegen nehmen den Jahrestag zum Anlass, eine andere Rechnung aufzumachen. Unser neuer Bericht zeigt: Von 2011 bis heute starben fast 25.000 Menschen an den Folgen zusätzlicher Luftverschmutzung aus Kohlekraftwerken, die nur liefen, um den fehlenden Strom aus Kernkraft zu ersetzen. Laut den Schätzungen der WHO sind das sechsmal mehr Tote als durch Tschernobyl. 👉Die schlimmste Atomkatastrophe der Geschichte forderte weit weniger Todesopfer als Kohleverbrennung im normalen Betrieb! Hinzu kommen weitere Schäden durch CO₂-Emissionen und Schwermetalle, sowie weitere Kosten von über 74 Milliarden Euro allein für Emissionszertifikate. Und: In den kommenden Jahren werden diese Zahlen weiter steigen. – Es sei denn, wir schaffen einen Kurswechsel in der Energiewende inklusive Kernenergie. 👉Wir setzen uns deshalb für den Neustart der stillgelegten deutschen Reaktoren ein! Nur so können wir auch den Kohleausstieg vorverlegen. Link zu unserer neuen Webseite und zum Bericht im ersten Kommentar!

Govt urged to fast-track compensation, sensitisation on nuclear energy project nilepost.co.ug/news/329147/go…

@DelgadoforNY Kashiwazaki-Kariwa in Japan was built in 3.5 years. France decarbonized its energy sector in 15 years. Nuclear can be fast. It's part of the solution. Your continued attacks on nuclear make you seem a partisan more interested in political attacks to opponents than in solutions

The only thing Hochul seems willing to be “bold” about is nuclear, which is a waste of money and time. Nor does it meet the urgency of the climate crisis.

@isabelleboemeke To make such broad statements about something as complex and personal as having children is not helpful and considering how many people are struggling right now, tone deaf.

Fertility rates are down because we live in a society filled with pathologically self-centered, fragile, eternal adolescents who believe that the meaning of life is “discovering oneself” or fulfilling every little desire they have.

@isabelleboemeke I think our role as nuclear advocates should be to fight for energy and resource abundance that would allow people to have whatever number of children they wish while keeping our environmental footprint low.

@isabelleboemeke Also, all the violent attacks to immigrants, the persecution and vilifying aren't helping. Immigrants have a larger fertility rate most of the time. I am sure you know someone with enough influence to stop this horror...

@isabelleboemeke If you want to make a difference and help to increase the fertility rate, maybe you can use your privilege and influence to stop the current attack on the safety net of our nation. That'd be more meaningful than a tweet

@isabelleboemeke Also, there's nothing wrong with fulfilling every little desire we have. Life is hard and people need some joy. Some of your outfits (and mine) are quite out there and might seem frivolous to others. But you shouldn't be judged because of that

@isabelleboemeke It is extremely well documented that urbanization and increased income are associated with a lower Total Fertility Rate. This happened im Asia and South America and it's happening in Africa.

@isabelleboemeke You got nuclear right, so you can get demographics right as well, Isabelle. Fertility rates have been going down for decades, long before these attitudes you complain became mainstream.

'California showcased leadership in climate action at COP30, highlighting achievements and calling for federal commitment to support clean energy needs.' @OSGuido, Director of Data Science at the @anthrop_inst Institute, writes. agreenerlifeagreenerworld.net/2025/11/25/opi… #COP30 #California

@ParisOrtizWines Amazing work from @OSGuido! California obviously needs to hear more of this perspective. We don’t want to be the followers in this arena, or more likely, completely left behind. The 5th largest economy in the world should LEAD on clean energy! @CAgovernor

Among the most interesting (and encouraging) analyses of climate I've seen in years: Quico Toro on How to Save the Climate open.substack.com/pub/yaschamoun…

Nuclear power needs to come out of the closet. Yes, we need Nuclear Pride. @OSGuido @Gen_Atomic @anthrop_inst linkedin.com/posts/osguido_…

@Samuel_Gibson_ @nuclearny @Gen_Atomic @anthrop_inst I think it will have when we have visitor centers and tours in every single plant, when we have art on the casks and towers, when we hear more about the possibilities than about safety. We are on the way, for sure, but we are not there yet.

@nuclearny @OSGuido @Gen_Atomic @anthrop_inst I like to think it already has

God forbid we worry too much about Uyghur forced labor in China and end up making the world a better place by accident, including for low-skilled manufacturing workers in China as a whole? Like many of those mobilized online to counter criticism of China’s policies in Xinjiang, Angelica attacks only one dimension of this extensive new reporting (targeting only their open source social media investigations) and tacitly avoids engaging with other lines of evidence. @AngelicaOung omits that published government policies explicitly intend for labor transfer programs as a tool to forcibly assimilate Uyghurs culturally. Angelica omits to mention that NYT and Der Spiegel directly visited factories identified in social media footage and confirmed that Uyghurs frequently live separated from other workers, monitored by government minders, working as much as 12-14 hour days. Angelica omits to address leaked police documents indicating that refusal to participate in government work programs is tracked as a risk factor warranting added surveillance, or evidence that recruitment is intense and pressuring, with repeated door-to-door visits. Angelica omits to discuss why the Uyghur region’s policy sets a goal of full employment of all able members of ethnic minority households, as opposed to a houshold being allowed to have only one working member. Angelica omits to discuss the context of internment camps, with every Uyghur person in the region knowing a friend or relative who had been detained, looming over the administration of these state-run work programs.

@TheUltimateSean तुम एक चूतिया है. There is fractal stupidity here, for sure.

Sitting in the DC airport, listening to three gate agents speaking Hindi behind me. Tell me why we need Indians to work the gates at airports again? H1B is a complete fraud.

@AngelicaOung @4hotchyx @wang_seaver No, they are not right at all. This has been abundantly documented. There is plenty of evidence, Angelica.

@4hotchyx @wang_seaver I think it’s because it’s increasingly clear they’re right on this issue and it’s become increasingly difficult to defend

Clarification: your photo @AngelicaOung is from a module plant, the last solar supply chain step. Uyghur forced labor risk is at early more labor-intense steps (metal silicon, poly-Si). Onsite coal plants, aluminum smelters, coal mines are also labor-intense + vital to facility.

@AngelicaOung @louayk924 Angelica, this has been abundantly documented by organizations like International Amnesty, for many years. That it doesn't show up on Tik Tok is a deeply unserious argument. amnesty.org.au/australia-prom…

@louayk924 Hmmm…I feel like if that was happening at any scale we would have seen a TikTok about it by now or other social media stuff

Are the solar panels coming out of China made by Uyghur slaves? I found a photo of a Chinese PV factory in China. The level of automation appears to be extreme. I would assume this factory to use relatively few workers with high human capital. It’s true that the Chinese cracked down on Xinjiang quite hard after a spate of terrorist attacks. Maybe there were some labor camps as a part of that crackdown. But now in 2025 Xinjiang is relatively open. It’s hard for me to imagine large numbers of Uyghurs still trapped in labor camps. And if they are, they are almost certainly not making solar panels. If goods made in Xinjiang are repeatedly boycotted internationally because they could be made by slave labor, an unfortunate side-effect could be taking valuable jobs and business opportunities from Xinjiang residents…including the very Uyghurs people say they are trying to help.

@choppen5 There is plenty of cogent criticism coming from people who are better informed on energy issues.

@OSGuido I think his criticisms of US foreign policy are valid.

You should watch Jeffery Sachs address to the European Parliament. A realist takedown of US foreign policy for the Euros who certainly haven't been thinking this through for themselves. It was so brutal they clapped.