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We live in a bipolar world. Some people focus on the possibility that greenhouse gases could make the planet unlivable for humans. Others focus on the manifest need to lift some three billion humans out of energy poverty and avoid civilization shattering impoverishment for the rest of us. Here’s the real problem. Both sides are right. Should-cost nuclear is the only way out of this dilemma.

No bank can finance nuclear power plants in an NRC-like regulatory system.

The Gordian Knot Group argues that we must replace the current disastrous nuclear power regulatory regime with a system that balances societal benefit against individual harm. The GKG calls that system Underwriter Certification. This monograph, intended for policy makers and their staff, is a book length description of Underwriter Certification. It is essentially a how-to manual.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty acknowledges any country’s inalienable right to develop and regulate nuclear power in any way she sees fit as long as she allows IAEA inspections to determine that the program is for peaceful purposes.

An excellent way to prop up LNT is to claim there is a threshold dose below which there is absolutely zero harm.

The first country to adopt Underwriter Certification of nuclear power will become the richest country on the planet.

It’s pointless to even talk about green hydrogen until you have very low CO2, 24/7 electricity at less than 3 cents per kWh. Once you do methane pyrolysis will almost certainly be cheaper than water electrolysis on large parts of the planet.

This pieces uses 3-D bar charts to attempt to make the point that expensive nuclear will solve nothing.

The West can build nuclear power cheaper than the autocracies; but only if it puts the market in charge.

A sad example of everything thing that is wrong about the American approach to radiation protection.