Bravo to you and The Hub team and all the colleagues that persistently and smartly nudged this issue forward with data and strong arguments. Really really huge win in the fight for economic and energy abundance for all.
Great. Now the human species can choose between frying itself and irradiating itself. What could go wrong with nuclear proliferation to every country on earth? I mean, we all get along so well, right? I liken it to earthquakes in Nepal. There's an earthquake in Nepal every 35 or 40 years, and it kills thousands. Then everybody rebuilds and forgets about it. Same with nuclear. Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima. Then we forget and go another generation and get whacked again, right? Trump's subsidies will be huge. And why? Solar and wind and batteries are obviously better and proven. There are no SMRs that work and they cannot work profitably since by definition they lack economies of scale. The one in Idaho and others planned have already gone belly-up. The author and Andy seem to forget it's Bill Gates' $ behind most of the lobbying. Rate-payers will pay for all the boondoggles as they have in Georgia and Southern California. One point is to simply keep nuclear technology going for the war/defense establishment. And last but not least, there is no solution to the waste, the most dangerous poison on the planet. Consider the 3.6 million pounds of radioactive waste stored in 5/8 inch thin-walled canisters 100 feet from the Pacific at San Onofre between San Diego and Los Angeles--Yet another Trump boondoggle. As Amory Lovins puts it, "A lot of people should know better."
In your readiness tally for South America, the following needs to be noted: yesterday, the Colombian Assembly passed the Ley Nuclear (Nuclear Law), which established a regulatory agency that will be called the Agencia Nacional para la Seguridad Nuclear - ANSN.
The Ley Nuclear received strong support from the nuclear medicine and engineering communities in Colombia.
Even the world bank realizes that the world won’t be much to bank on if the climate continues to deteriorate 😁 wind and solar are not the answer everywhere 😎
Bravo to you and The Hub team and all the colleagues that persistently and smartly nudged this issue forward with data and strong arguments. Really really huge win in the fight for economic and energy abundance for all.
Great. Now the human species can choose between frying itself and irradiating itself. What could go wrong with nuclear proliferation to every country on earth? I mean, we all get along so well, right? I liken it to earthquakes in Nepal. There's an earthquake in Nepal every 35 or 40 years, and it kills thousands. Then everybody rebuilds and forgets about it. Same with nuclear. Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima. Then we forget and go another generation and get whacked again, right? Trump's subsidies will be huge. And why? Solar and wind and batteries are obviously better and proven. There are no SMRs that work and they cannot work profitably since by definition they lack economies of scale. The one in Idaho and others planned have already gone belly-up. The author and Andy seem to forget it's Bill Gates' $ behind most of the lobbying. Rate-payers will pay for all the boondoggles as they have in Georgia and Southern California. One point is to simply keep nuclear technology going for the war/defense establishment. And last but not least, there is no solution to the waste, the most dangerous poison on the planet. Consider the 3.6 million pounds of radioactive waste stored in 5/8 inch thin-walled canisters 100 feet from the Pacific at San Onofre between San Diego and Los Angeles--Yet another Trump boondoggle. As Amory Lovins puts it, "A lot of people should know better."
In your readiness tally for South America, the following needs to be noted: yesterday, the Colombian Assembly passed the Ley Nuclear (Nuclear Law), which established a regulatory agency that will be called the Agencia Nacional para la Seguridad Nuclear - ANSN.
The Ley Nuclear received strong support from the nuclear medicine and engineering communities in Colombia.
https://www.camara.gov.co/ley-nuclear
Thank you Ruth!
Was the intent to stop nuclear, or to delay it?
Great work! I think the high cost argument would be mitigated by regulatory reform in many countries, the United States being one of them.
Cracking. Congratulations. Sometimes big things get much better.
Congratulations! <3
Todd, Interesting World Bank history. Your reference to SE Asia and Indonesia is out of date. You can catch up about Thorcon at https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A27145325&keywords=thorcon%20international&origin=RICH_QUERY_SUGGESTION&position=0&searchId=1dc26e1b-eff1-493a-b53c-55c0007419ea&spellCorrectionEnabled=false
Even the world bank realizes that the world won’t be much to bank on if the climate continues to deteriorate 😁 wind and solar are not the answer everywhere 😎