President Trump signed executive orders today targeting nuclear energy. President Trump announced a host of regulatory reforms within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) aiming to generate new investment and new nuclear plants being built. The supportive Energy Department officials are particularly focused on developing small modular reactors as opposed to large-scale legacy reactors.
In addition to calling for a bureaucratic overhaul at the NRC, the executive orders also encourage the departments of Energy and Defense to build reactors on federal land to power data centers and military bases, speed up the process for testing new reactor technology and boost domestic supply chains for nuclear fuels. This directive comes after Congress passed legislation directing the NRC to modernize its operations and speed up the licensing process.
The Question-and-Answer session begins at 15:12 of the video. WATCH:
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Executive Orders HERE – HERE – HERE
Rushed nuclear reactors do not excite me. We don’t have a handle on the contamination from legacy nuclear sites, now. I am not excited about all of these gyrations to give Attempted Intelligence every shred of power on the planet just so it can wipe us out. Oh well.
France is doing well.
Some reactors use spent fuel.
Alpha Nur and Curio are two companies working on using spent nuclear fuel to generate electricity. With Trump lifting regulatory barriers, they will be able ramp up and be able to move a lot faster.
On nuclear reactors, the tech is already there. All the barriers are Our remarkably corrupt gov’t, Trump with this order removes a lot of barriers.
We need to make better use of the sun.
Not very energy dense, unlike oil or nuclear power.
The important thing about a nuclear reactor is that it generates reliable base load power.
If the idiots are going to rely on solar panels and wind farms, they’re gonna need a heck of a lot more base load power to stabilize the grid.
Ever been to Michigan? The sun hardly ever shines there.
Think bigger!
Space Technology!
Part of the discussion was harnessing
energy closer/from the Sun….
I was thinking when listening to it…
🤣 🤣 Beam it down Scotty!
Steve Kwast – Manipulating Time & Space | Shawn Ryan Show | Episode #202
This^
Bunch of horse puckey! 50 -100 years until a sun generated reliable source of power will be useful to the average American.
Solar works in discreetly defined small situations (like on your house to generate energy in sunny climates) or to generate energy in places that are consistently sunny, but away from the grid (like a pasture). It does not scale. It’s not for a serious build up of energy production.
Funding is an issue, predictability, legal costs…
France is not doing “well”.. they might be alright so far with these baby nukes but they are pretty far from ok.
France gets 65% – 70% of its electricity from nuclear power plants, and exports excess electricity to neighbors.
Small reactors are safe and efficient. Check out Oklo. They make modular reactors that can power a small city, or an AI computer, or an aluminum plant. It allows the power hunger entity to have their own power plant on their own property. No tie in to the grid. Beautiful.
Bought some stock at $8. Sold around 30 so I could buy a condo.
Wish I had some cash to buy back in.
OKLA.
I live not far from a leaky containment pond full of spent fuel rods from the Crystal River power complex which Duke Energy owns. They charge us to clean up the problem and so far haven’t done much of anything about it. They knew it was there when they bought it.
With such a sensitive spring and aquifer system already under siege in my region of Florida i seriously oppose the proposed data center ron! Was eyeing for my area. We already have the worst sinkhole issues in the Country.
That’s all we need is a gigantic building on paper thin karst polluting our groundwater waiting to fall into the aquifer with a running nuclear reactor. Forgive my apprehension.
So we’d name the new facility Face Palm Breach?
They are planning a four thousand acre home development a few miles down the road from this proposed site. The morons in charge of this State cannot help themselves. The more groundwater they pull the more unstable things become.
Perfect.
Face Palm Breach it is then.
If you go you’ll glow!
…- Mar-A-Dayglo’?…
Day and Night, Bro!
WORDMAN™! We’ve got one over here!
I read where Thorium reactors
will not require so much water.💁♀️
I do agree with you…I would never want
to live by any nuclear plant..😳
China Says It’s Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor – IEEE Spectrum
Aug 2021
Chinese scientists makes nuclear power breakthrough using abandoned US research | Live Science
April 2025
French scientists smash China’s ‘artificial sun’ fusion record by 25% | Live Science
Feb 2025
Spent fuel rods still contain about 95% of their energy. Molten salt reactors can use spent rods as fuel, generating power and also vastly reducing our current nuclear waste stockpile.
This explains why Apple isn’t bringing manufacturing to the USA. India has the work, but they are building a mega data center.
Understand, but in the end nobody gets out alive.
When someone asks my old white haired honky a$$ how I’m doing the response is…
Above ground and breathing all the rest is a bonus!
You have to add the breathing part due to they don’t plant the dead in NOLA.
If I were 20 years more seasoned, I wouldn’t care as much, E. I am still planning for the Death Cult to burn all this down around our ears before we get a chance to realize these amazing technological leaps because they hate themselves more than they hate us.
I tend to believe I have that 20 on you.
I took my check out dive at Crystal River in the 70’s, it was so nice back then.
Back then had 40 acres on Suwanee by Manatee Springs what a great time to be in that area.
Most of my friends are 10 to 30 years my senior these days. Better company.
Rushed? Rickover perfected the 1st operational reactor with the USS Nautilus , attack boat from the late 50’s early 60’s. FAR from rushed. The engineering has been in use for decades. Wipe us out? You do not understand the safety measures installed in today’s modern designs. Sorry, do your homework and come back and make some valid comments.
Sounds like Jinxy has done homework at the real-life level to me.
Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) can be configured to use spent fuel or waste by dissolving it in molten salt.
Fast Neutron Reactors (Fast Reactors) can fission not only the usual uranium-235 but also other isotopes found in nuclear waste, like plutonium and minor actinides (neptunium, americium, curium). By doing so, they consume long-lived radioactive isotopes, reducing the volume and toxicity of nuclear waste.
Since certain corporations plan to build modular reactors on the site of facilities that require large amounts of energy, it doesn’t seem unreasonable for the military to utilize that technology. Nuclear power has a long history of comparative safety. The exceptions have been either outdated and poorly maintained or located in an area where they were subjected to weather events they were not built to withstand.
I am cautiously optimistic about this development. But I do share your skepticism about AI.
I hear you. The development sounds good to me, it’s the “hurry up, we need it for our AI” part, from a bunch of people I trust as far as I can throw them, that concerns me.
Perfect summation, C.
The US Navy uses nuclear energy on Carriers and Submarines (new ones with no refueling) with confidence.
have been/ for decades
My mother worked at the Idaho National Engineering And Environmental Laboratory. I know many of the ins and outs of legacy nuclear.
From what I know, NuScale has been working on Small Modular Reactors, the kind that power aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines. Haven’t heard of any leaks or bad happenings there (although I admit the gov’t would try to cover it up). These types of reactors can sit on the bed of several tractor trailer rigs. If you wanted to keep them safe, locate them on military installations where the public can’t get in. It would also open up new potential for employment, operations and security. This is a great idea. A friend of mine who is head of a local electrical cooperative told me about this 3 years ago. Said it was a great idea but there were too many regulations. Maybe this EO will solve that.
Nuclear energy’s safety issues exploited by globalists like John Kerry who use it for leverage while globalists like Bill Gates tinker with new and improved tech that makes backyard boutique mini sodium-reactors a nearing reality is quite instructive, serf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower
To say nothing about other tech out there basically ignored because, God help us, the lesser beings would otherwise have access to energy literally pulled from the air…freely available to every human on the planet
https://www.britannica.com/science/zero-point-energy
The CIA loves tinkering with exotic weapons
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000500230003-5.pdf?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1vBFielEjFbTU9DeqL6W42ySkuiiCrMhuwugTazrUaYQwbSodWFUq0-sA_aem_9HYlSCOQydc744c9BeJF2Q
https://www.vacuumnanoelectronics.org/kneneth-radford-shoulders/
You beat me to it.
I have personally witnessed the kind of damage that comes from political pressure being applied, leading to cutting corners.
Not in nuclear power, but in areas that affected health and safety.
Big Tech is large and in charge, though, in every area from immigration and education to foreign policy (mineral deals).
There is nothing rushed about this proposal. Small nuclear reactors have been available and used by the military since the 1960s. The oil lobby has prevented their use by the public.
These nuclear reactors won’t be “rushed.” The industry has designs that have waited for decades for approval. And frankly these designs are way safer than current designs. These designs shut down automatically, without any extra power or assistance. Unlike old reactor designs, their default state is shutdown and safe and if you don’t actively manage them, they go back to that state. These designs have been waiting for approval for a long period. When he says that we’re going to speed up approvals, he’s really saying we’re going to take the process from completely stopped to moving again.
Our aircraft carriers & submarines seem to be the gold standard of nuclear power.
These aren’t Grandpa’s reactors from the 70’s (3-mile Island) or Great Grandpa’s (1940’s design) Chernobyl.
Thorium – Market-Ticker nails it.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2491667
Thorium fueled reactors make too much sense for it not to have powerful opponents to it.
Thorium is at least a whole order of magnitude more plentiful then Uranium is for one. Custom (uranium) fuel assemblies for one-off reactor designs does not help the economy of scale. Online refueling with a standardized molten salt design would be a game changer.
It would also change the calculus for rare earths refining where some of these valuable elements are mixed with thorium in naturally occurring minerals. Normally a byproduct that costs money to dispose of somewhere.
Of course, the opportunities for using more affordable nuclear energy for industrial thermal processes would be more than promising. That, and developing the infrastructure to eventually use it in space.
Not currently widely used?
Agree!!
I thought of Thorium too.
Chinese scientists makes nuclear power breakthrough using abandoned US research | Live Science
April 2025
China Says It’s Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor – IEEE Spectrum
The MSRE was designed at Oak Ridge in the 1960’s and it worked.
I’m sure that was why they abandoned it.. Some people think when an idea works we must fix it or it might become helpful.. Or at the least they themselves will lose control..
I am sure companies like GE oppose thorium because they make most of their money in refueling current reactor designs, not designing innovative reactor systems.
YEP
Long gone physicist and inventor Dr. Bill Wattenburg suggested we needed to standardize on one or two NPP designs – like France.
France, at that time, had one standardized design, spare parts and skilled, knowledgeable operators were easy to deploy.
We’ve got multiple designs, with the problems that go along with it.
And Liberals will sue day and night, even though this source provides 100% ‘green’ reliable energy 24 / 7.
as long as the USG doesn’t put its filthy ape paws on the scales, ANY KIND OF PRIVATE COMPETITION is really what we want to have.
France did not choose one standard for NPP for pure simplicity …it weighed heavily on what bids would be awarded and that’s the dirty French secret (they don’t want you to know about).
there is a REASON why Airbus and boeing are BOTH captive markets in wide body commercial aviation…and it most certainly has nothing to do with innovation and simplicity.
we should welcome a wide diverse nuclear power proposals and let the “market” chose what will be possible with the highest safety, most reliability and practical simple engineering and maintenance designs.
the fact is that for a very very long time, one of the main reasons why nuclear has not become more common are the regulatory “rules” which make the entry into market prohibitive not only in terms of money and finance, but of course the good old boy network of lobby power that kills off any oxygen to any new designs proposed…
tldr: there are literally dozens of very efficient, supremely safe and practical engineered and low maintenance nuclear power designs. Almost all of the are small scale, modular.
God Bless America
Modular’s benefits seem likely to favor it in a sane non-corrupt regulatory environment.
I hope PDJT follows through on a suggestion I heard in an earlier bit where new plants would be required to have additional ground secured at the time of building in order to facilitate the incorporation of new technologies on site, like emerging fusion concerns; that would greatly cut the costs for new fusion entities seeking a foothold in the energy sphere marketplace.
Government backing (insurance, legal) would help.
More plentiful, reliable, modestly priced energy will help us to thrive.
FYI, there are places like Diablo Canyon in California that were designed for more reactors. They have the land, security, and transmission lines in place. They then need the political will.
I’ve always wondered if a local NPP wouldn’t thoughts? US steel andcl aluminum production here more competitive. Any thoughts?
I used to listen to Dr. Wattenberg regularly. The man was genius and did not suffer fools lightly.
KGO out of San Fran transmitted the entire west coast and to the mid west in the evenings – when they could boost the wattage.
Sadly they cut his show to “reformat ” their lineup.
I would bet the “reformat” was done just to cut his show for the reasons you mentioned.
Wattenberg was talking about the need to clear dead wood in the forests of California 30 years ago. He’d spent some of his youth in forestry and lumber and had seen the wacko changes in the industry.
Yes indeed. I believe, sadly, that after his passing his family compound in Plumas County in Northern California perished in one of our super fires.
He was the best. He was a good old boy, was on the faculty at UC Berkeley at 26, worked on the Apollo Mission, partied w Clint Eastwood, had a thing for airline stewardesses (in his youth), and came up with some key experiments for our nuclear program at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories.
When our military failed to develop a mine-clearing invention after decades, he developed a helicopter-pulled ‘chain matrix’ for the Gulf War within a few months. Later, he helped strategize on how to put out the oil well fires more quickly than the expected five-year expectation. He also initiated dropping food rations from 25,000′ to protect the planes, but provide food to starving refugees (maximum velocity issue).
President George Bush and others had him on speed dial, he came up with elegant, simple solutions to complex problems.
Forestry was another of his passions. Sadly, one of our recent California super fires reportedly burned down his family compound in Plumas County after his death. He hated the Swamp, and he would use colorful language to describe their incompetence and inertia.
P.S. There are some short clips from his radio show on YouTube.
KGO really screwed themselves.
In fact, I remember my dad would tune him in on the radio when I was a kid…some 50 years ago ( if memory serves) late 60’s . Does that seem possible?
Standardizing several designs is the correct way to approach nuclear power. The nuclear theory / engineering / heat transfer materials is pretty much the same.
Bravo President Trump!
It is the only way of the future to supply AI with the fuel they need. We have to expand our AI faster and more secure than the rest of the world.
Attempted intelligence is going to get us dead, sir.
You can’t stop it; might as well embrace it.
Just because you can’t stop something, doesn’t mean you have to like it! Were that the case, we all would have adored Biden!
Nope.
That’s the propaganda slogan they put out.
On the other hand, we could all be speaking Chinese and living in concentration camps.
The camp part could happen anyway if the criminals get back in power and don’t kill us all. We need to work on stopping that. For example, people who plan to vote against MAGA in the midterms are idiots.
But the certainty is that if we don’t work to lead in AI, including military, we for sure will be speaking Chinese to our guards.
That’s not a certainty.
Heaven is my home Jinxy…bring it!
There is also this:
The Chinese Chang’e 5 mission has returned a new mineral from the lunar surface. Chinese scientists call the mineral “Changesite-(Y).” The mineral has been described by the state-operated news agency Xinhau as a “kind-of colorless transparent columnar crystal.” Also, the Chinese claim that the new mineral contains helium-3, an isotope that many scientists have touted as a potential fuel for future fusion reactors.
The crystal mineral was exceedingly tiny, about one-tenth the size of a human hair. The new mineral is of immense interest to lunar geologists. The helium-3 that it contains has the potential to change the world.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/3647216-china-has-returned-helium-3-from-the-moon-opening-door-to-future-technology/
Dilithium!
Warp-drives in our time!!
Not in my time, I’m 87
Couple decades on me but I still might beat you out the door.
Always love seeing the hopeful signs for our posterity.
HE3…
yikes…heard about that yesterday!
He was discussing HE3 in interview
and I will not even try to explain what
it is…..and capable of!
Steve Kwast – Manipulating Time & Space | Shawn Ryan Show | Episode #202
mRNA was “the wave of the future”.
I’m Jonesing for fusion power too, and there are some interesting pursuits that have the potential to go online much sooner and much less costly than the massive phenomenally expensive Tokomak reactors that have long been the sole aim of researchers and industry.
These are my favorite fusion concerns at the moment:
Boron fuel, super clean, compact, efficient:
https://hb11.energy/
This is what I call Steam-Punk Fusion, it uses steam powered pistons to compress liquid metal to compress the fuel:
https://generalfusion.com/
TAE Technologies’ fusion reactor is so small and simple it’s amazing:
https://tae.com/
I love this stuff!
With sufficient electricity, we can create virtually any boutique liquid hydrocarbon fuel tailored for specific uses, as energy dense as we wish to make it, using elements drawn from the atmosphere and water and even from existing industrial processes where lovely lovely carbon is currently considered a negative waste product.
A future of hope and abundance awaits all who have the courage and hope to embrace and empower it.
Yes!
We live but we only learn by paying attention and exploring and continuing to find ways to improve our existence.
The globullusts are a death cult, a cult of the devil, because they do not understand the beauty of the human spirit. The intelligence and amazing energy in that room showcased the very best of humanity. We do and learn and grow if we have the courage to go forward.
President Trump is in no way a self-centered person only out for his glory! Just look at what he has created in just a few months in so many areas of our common life. He is a man who lives to achieve and he surrounds himself with and rewards people who do the same.
The least all of us can do in our ordinary lives is to follow our President’s lead: care about people and keep finding ways to make things better.
Fusion? 75 to 100 years off into the future.
Nope.
The three technologies whose links I provided are legit and not a century out.
Good to see. Chris Wright is well qualified to lead this effort. Good also to see DOD involved. They’ve been powering with nuclear safely and effectively for years (decades?).
Modular small reactors, some using waste nuclear fuel, make a lot of sense. We picked up some NNE and Oklo last fall. No regrets. Lots of possible uses.
On the 23rd January ’25 in the Inauguration ‘flood the zone’ week President Trump spoke via video to the annual Davos (Berchtesgaden v2) rally about his US energy and power station policies… then there was a Question session:
video on X: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1zqKVYYYnzAxB
fast forward to 31mins 40seconds to hear this…
“Double the electrical power capacity”
[paraphrasing] approvals for new AI tech to have private pwr stations and overall strengthen resistance to grid destruction via attack. Also, agreed coal is great, coal is ultra reliable regarding attacks -you can bomb the infrastructure but the heaps of coal are still coal… vs gas pipelines and pumps.
This was the same day Pres. Trump made his first phone call to a foreign leader; it was Crown Prince MohammEd Bin Salman who has an interest in the energy sector.
Russia has been building small modular nuclear reactors for 10 years now and the USA is just starting to figure out these may be a good idea. Russia can put up one of these in 1 year. Great for Siberia. They have been installing quite a few of these along with large scale plants all over the world. Russia is the nuclear expert country now. USA is way way way behind. USA cannot even make it own reactor fuel. They buy most of it from Russia. Never sanctioned it.
So this new effort is a great idea and long overdue. But if they have any questions about this they should ask Russia. Russia should be our friend not our enemy.
Cut the New Silk Noose and board the ReOrient Express!
Ride the rails straight to Moscow; what Lincoln was planning when they killed him.
We do still run nuclear submarines.
powered with Russian nuclear fuel.
The nuclear waste long term storage problem has to be resolved before I’d agree with expanding the number of nuclear plants above 5 or 10 more. I believe Fusion power plants are the only safe way forward. We only spend a trivial amount on fusion research. A trillion dollar investment or prize for successful Fusion power plant make it a reality.
Jimmy Carter set us back decades when he essentially blocked the operation of nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities on US soil. And multiple administrations failed to complete the construction and commissioning of the Yucca Mountain spent fuel storage site.
Fusion has a LONG way to go. Storage? Yucca mountain near Las Vegas in Nevada.
Thorium does not produce ultra-long lived radionuclides and for a small, modular, buried reactor, the waste can be entombed in the reactor at end of life. Thorium produces no bomb-masking radionuclides, so there is no danger of someone digging one up to build a bomb.
MCSFRs can use “waste” fuel from LWRs to generate power.
The funny part will be the anti-nuclear nuts reemerging from the soil like cicadas to protest clean energy…
…the fact that it is emissions free will be ignored faster than you can ignite the lithium batteries at a Tesla dealership.
…- I’m *Totally* cool with this if they’re going to promote molten salt/pebble bed modular reactor tech (you can also reliably produce *Abundant* gasoline/kerosene/jp, and the like, from that, as well as burn up long term, high half-life waste, into the bargain, btw…) however, just one word of warning:…
…- AI data centres a-go go!?… – Don’t want ’em, *Don’t Need ‘Em*… – *Please And Thankyou*.
At the time of Three Mile Island, in 1979, and the WPPSS bond market fiasco in the early 1980s, most accepted the rationale that nuclear fission was unsafe, but nuclear fusion was just around the corner, so it didn’t matter. Investment in nuclear fission reactors essentially stopped at that time in the west.
We waited for the scientists to develop fusion technology. And we waited. And we waited. The fusion tokamaks kept blowing up, needing years to rebuild each time. But there was always the promise that next time the fusion reaction would sustain beyond a few millionths of a second and not blow up the premises. It didn’t pan out.
So the basic research to make nuclear fission safer was never pursued adequately. Research funding all but dried up. Projects started in the 1960s and 1970s to make fission safer, like the Fast Flux Test Facility, were cancelled. For example, there still isn’t any alternative to zirconium fuel rods that will catch fire and spill the fuel, if cooling water is lost in an accident. Or stainless steel fuel rods, which will crack open and spill the fuel pellets in just such a case. The basic research in materials science to make safer fuel rods has not been done. That may finally change.
Many of us have waited over 40 years to hear President Trump describe what must be done to rejuvenate the nuclear power industry. We waited until there were only four remaining aluminum smelters in operation nationwide; because the country outgrew the supply of electricity and the capacity of the grid to distribute it, and there is not now enough electricity available to restart manufacturing. We must make more.
Infrastructure, it isn’t a dirty word. We can’t restart industry without rebuilding power systems, water systems, sewerage systems, oil and gas distribution systems, roads and bridges, railroads, mines, steel plants, smelters, foundries. This is all good. It means millions of jobs, paying middle class wages for decades. And the rest of the world will beat a path to our doorstep to learn how we did it.
Not in California, where Governor Newsom has driven two, possibly three oil refineries out of business. And he doesn’t like Elon Musk. FWIW, I ran into a manager from Tesla, and he said the Fremont CA plant isn’t as productive as other plants, so it seems tye writing is on the wall.
Newsom is also siding with dams being removed, and fresh water being flushed out to the ocean, not to farmers and citizens. Loco.
He also only extended Diablo Canyon nuclear power plants lifespan five years, not 10 or 20.
Every customer of Southern California Edison is paying a monthly fee on their electric bill for the ridiculous decommissioning of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant which was shut down after 40 years of providing clean, safe, reliable electricity to nearly 5 million customers.
California is getting away with this, because the Bonneville Power Administration is sending electricity from the Pacific Northwest down to California. This lets California fool around with the Green New Scam and still keep the lights on.
If BPA were redirected by the Administration, to restart the aluminum mills by writing uninterruptible power contracts with Reynolds and Alcoa, for example, like it did for decades, then California would go dark. There is a good argument for keeping the power in the Northwest, close to where it is generated by the Columbia River dams mainly. Let California figure it out.
Wind farms everywhere to capture the Santa Ana 🤡🤡
What is near criminal is the lack of followup development on the working molten salt reactor prototype(s) at Oak Ridge National laboratory between the 60’s and 70’s.
Such a waste of opportunity for decades.
Plant operators uncovered the core at TMI for several reasons. Among them, not analyzing the entire parameter spectrum resulting in the drawing of a bubble in the core….very bad indeed. You just gotta trust your indicators.
How many of the legacy nuclear power sites that were never finished due to three mile island, could be salvaged and finished?
Great question.
Fluorine thorium reactors or LIFTR holds promise in place of nuclear reactors. They are smaller and without the dangers of nuclear.
https://www.bing.com/fd/ls/GLinkPing.aspx?IG=42D04B9462144D90B3A642A21B397582&&ID=SERP,5397.1&SUIH=cR7dW4il706optp_fJbOow&redir=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbmVyZ3lmcm9tdGhvcml1bS5jb20vbGZ0ci1vdmVydmlldy8
Great time for Navy nukes to enter the commercial nuke industry.
I got out in 1979, right after TMI.
Rode the nuke industry tiger until 1992 in a planned/unplanned career move.
Me too, made bank for sure…after retiring from Navy…
Like the 1975 movie “Jaws” ridiculously scared people from swimming in the ocean, the same occurred in 1979 with the junk science movie “The China Syndrome”, which was released two weeks BEFORE the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant incident which was determined to have had no detectable effects on public health. Nuclear Plant development in the US basically ended after that movie was released, much to the delight of Greenpeace.
And in that movie the only person who died was the guy who tried to warn them about the bad welds.
Being a student of nuclear power in general and SMR’s specifically, its my opinion that they are as inevitable as gravity. Trump is just trying to position the U.S. as the global leader; makes sense to me. There are risks of course and we should manage them carefully. It only gets dangerous when politics gets involved, example: Harry Reid blocking the storage of waste at the national site built at Yucca mountain. Its now stored locally, stupid politics….
Thus, proving that the Green New Scam has been in the works for 50 + years. Imagine the brainwashing of kids from birth that had to happen for this to be dreamed of being achieved. Thank goodness a lot of these evildoers are dying off, and their offspring’s offspring (if they had any) found out the Green Agenda was not as profitable as they thought, and they, quite frankly, got bored with it. Irony alert: The Green New Scam adults gave their prodigies hand-held computers, where the prodigies expect/demand instant gratification.
The Great Awakening! 😊
I have tried to pitch a neighborhood thorium molten salt reactor to Elon, which would power (electric) and heat (water and space) 20 homes for 20 years at an estimated net cost (minus HVAC) per home of $20,000. Thorium reactors can, I believe, scale from individual homes to city block and subdivisions.
It’s time to stop thinking in terms of grid and instead think of modular, small reactors ( about the size of 2 refrigerators side by side.). They are self-regulating and can be buried, so that their residual radioactivity is less than background at the surface.
Time for a new, safe and small nuclear future.
The video of PDJT was not attached in the post, leaving a blank white space.
This is happening in several posts today and for the last few days.
Ckicking around and reloading things doess not seem to help.
Hope you can fix but it appears things are being blocked.
“Speed up the licensing process”. Will that be “warp speed”?
This man was the “brains” behind Operation Warp Speed:
I am a fan of the MCSFR concept and have a lot of respect for Ed Pheil. I don’t know why Elisium and Exodys have not been more successful. The oil lobbyists and their enablers in our government have sabotaged the SMR industry since the ’50s, for one thing.
All electrical power could be generated by small nuclear reactors widely distributed through a de-centralized grid (think EMP) throughout the world (thousands), reducing the need for fossil fuels by two-thirds. Could have happened a long time ago. We have had SMRs in active use by the military since the early ’60s and could have been deployed them from that time on if wanted. Electrical power (lack of) is another method of CONTROL of the world population.
IMO, SMRs should be manufactured in volume for electrical generation throughout the world, conserving fossil fuels for internal combustion engines, chemical processes, and fertilizer. Were this plan to be implemented the world economy would explode overnight. (However, the power of politicians would suffer. Prosperity is the enemy of the political cabal.)
Remember how for 50 years we have been told that nuclear power is too dangerous to proliferate? Also that conventional electric generation is very bad and Gaia condemns both conventional and nuclear power? The elites spent two generations sabotaging nuclear and conventional power generation. Well now the powers that be understand that they will need massive amounts of electrical power for their AI control grid. Well apparently, with that understanding, Gaia has changed her mind and now nuclear power is perfectly acceptable.
So now we can just declare that nuclear energy generation is ok now since we can never hope to build up conventional power generation in the timeframe that the elites think they need. It is not as dangerous as we thought you see. Please just understand this is all about the tech bros AI control grid, to include all of their robots.
Thorium reactors are not new reactor technology and they are the easiest, safest nuclear technology we have available. Thorium is plentiful. It’s in coal and coal ash. The downside is no path to weapons-grade material, or is that an upside?
If those are not part of the push towards nuclear power, then they aren’t really serious about it.
Yep. They were deemed a waste of time due to no means of enriching material for weapons.
MAGA!
Whoever has the cheapest energy wins.