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From 120 years of evidence, and despite 80 years of myth, we know all we need to know to be sure of nuclear sone.org.uk/establishing-c…

@ziontree One day the BBC will rejoin the real world based on evidence not ideology

Latest in “letting campaigners write headlines” from the BBC. This article is about campaigners who do their own “research”, which is covered as if it’s good data, and published under Science News

It sounds like the Georgia Public Service Commissioner (no less) has some serious corrections for the #4Corners claims about his state's power prices, already credulously spread by @Bowenchris, @TristanEdis & others. I'll be tuning in next week. #auspol #NuclearEnergy

Duke Energy footage of Lake Placid Solar Power Plant. When anti-nuclear activists prematurely retire operating #nuclear power plants, this is what they are accomplishing: destroying clean-energy infrastructure. Pro-nuclear advocates don't to this to solar.

The San Diego Union Tribune asked 14 economists, professors and economic advisors "Was California too quick to abandon nuclear power?" The unanimous answer was YES. sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/10/10/was…

@ChristosA89 Thanks but I retired long ago. What I do now is better than a job, it is explaining what we need. Problem is that many do not want to listen.

@radiationreason Cost/benefit it must even out, fission slightly more efficient. You have the best job in the world as a nuclear physicist. Man has bent nature at his will twice in history. Artificial selection in the Neolithic (level of genes). Nuclear fission (level of subatomic particles).

Fission is easy, organising humans is the hard bit

@ChristosA89 tritium decays in 12 years so that has to be made too.

@radiationreason Enriching common Uranium 238 to 235 via centrifuge must be pretty costly though. Very interesting regarding Thorium.

@ChristosA89 All quite easily obtained except plutonium. Uranium dissolves in water and lots in the sea. Thorium is even more plentiful. Very little needed

@radiationreason I do hope they catch on sooner, Hydrogen isotopes Deuterium and Tritium are far more easily obtained than Plutonium or Uranium 235.

@ChristosA89 Fusion reactors are not likely to be competitive for many decades

@radiationreason Are you working on potential fusion reactors?

@Atomicrod By staying silent they ARE the problem.

"Why haven't we built more nuclear plants? I've always thought they were the way to go." I had 20-30 conversations last week at a meeting of investors, business owners and executives. None of them had any connection to the nuclear industry. The above question and comment was repeated by almost all of them. @nucleationvc

While reading the DOE's September 2024 update to its Pathways to Commercial Liftoff; Advanced Nuclear I felt the need to stop and share a figure included in the report. It's one of my favorite illustrations for supporting my assertion that nuclear fission produces uniquely valuable electrons and BTUs. Valuable products generally command a premium price in the market. @GovNuclear Its on page 13 of the report.

"The EPA said that for too long Ireland has merely aimed to "get by", aspiring to only minimum environmental standards and that in many instances, those standards are not reached" It is past time the Irish government considers #NuclearEnergy , the EUs largest clean energy source

New photos show China building America's best nuclear reactor design at record speeds to become #1 in nuclear power. Here's Lianjiang nuclear plant 12 months after Unit 1 construction start. Only 24 months after first dig. AP1000s on a 4-year schedule. We should be doing this.

@energybants Or America buying Danish reactors? The assumed primacy of nuclear by US since the 1950s? Let's get beyond that

The real answer is that Denmark needs to accumulate dollars for when they buy American nuclear reactors starting 2030 or so The bookmark button is right below this tweet, feel free to use

@energybants No to BASELOAD. Provide for Peakload with nuclear and use offpeak for desalination, hydrogen, heating, indoor agriculture - all the other energy needs. NO to renewables and DISCONTINUE fossil fuels as fast as possible. Rollout nuclear to all nations ensuring adequate education.

Welp we're not even two days into Climate Week here in New York City and we already know the word of the year: BASELOAD 😬 Lots of anxiety and even panic.

I just adding my name to this new campaign from @weplanetint calling for global financial institutions to deliver on their pledge to finance new nuclear energy. Will you add your name? act.weplanet.org/financenewnucl…

Cumulatively, the 14 financial institutions have committed to over $6 trillion in Sustainable Financing by 2030. Say 10% goes to nuclear, as per nuclear's share of the mix in the IEA's NZE scenario. Say Nth-of-a-kind Western construction brings costs down to $6 billion per GW of new capacity. This would equate to the potential to finance the construction of roughly 100 new GW-scale reactors. Well on track to reach the 3x nuclear pledge. Bring it on!

@18for0 Ireland is so backward, it doesn't even have a closed reactor to re-open! But it's a chance to get ahead. Build new now!!

"Policymakers are increasingly looking to #nuclearenergy to bail out a fraying electric power supply, help avoid the worst effects of climate change and meet rising power demand driven by data centres" The Irish government needs to catch up with the times breakingnews.ie/world/infamous…

Is hope in Australian nuclear re-opening? Or is it just shutting down permanently? Like the anti-prometheans a million years ago that denied the benefits of fire? Or the saboteurs who said the Industrial Revolution was too expensive and destroyed jobs? There is always one society too blind to engage its own best interest!

the truth is that, if you have enough nuclear, renewables are superfluous - a waste of money!