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The nuclear power establishment has fed us two lies. This paper argues that for nuclear electricity to be successful, both these lies must be renounced.

The history of Yankee Rowe encapsulates the promise and tragedy of US nuclear power.

After the nuclear establishment had priced US nuclear out of business, it turned to fleecing the taxpayer for clean up, interminable spent fuel studies, etc. It’s crowning achievement is the Hanford ripoff https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/you-want-nuclear-waste-ill-show-you There was one member of the establishment who saw what was going down and had the guts to try and do something about it. His  credentials were impeccable. He was Rickover’s right hand man, Ted Rockwell. Not only was Rockwell a world class engineer, he could write. This is one of his pieces. Rockwell has been pretty much ignored. The planet’s poor and the planet itself will …

Nuclear energy, not a Faustian bargain, but a near-providential gift. Read More »

After the nuclear establishment had priced US nuclear out of business, it turned to fleecing the taxpayer for clean up, interminable spent fuel studies, etc. It’s crowning achievement is the Hanford ripoff https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/you-want-nuclear-waste-ill-show-you There was one member of the establishment who saw what was going down and had the guts to try and do something about it. His  credentials were impeccable. He was Rickover’s right hand man, Ted Rockwell. Not only was Rockwell a world class engineer, he could write. This is one of his pieces. Rockwell has been pretty much ignored. The planet’s poor and the planet itself will …

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This slide deck is designed to be used in conjunction with the substack piece, Talking to People about Nuclear Power, Stage 2.

This slide deck is designed to be used in conjunction with the substack piece, Talking to People about Nuclear Power, Stage 1.

The DOE plans to spend about a half trillion dollars of our money on clean up of the Hanford plutonium production facility. The worst case radioactive dose rates at the site are below background in parts of the planet. The clean up will not change the radioactivity of the material one whit. The program is a monumental ripoff of the taxpayer, supported by LNT and the Catastrophic Harm Lie. It is only the largest of such boondoggles.

The most extreme example of the unnecessary problems the nuclear power establishment has created for itself — and humanity and the planet — is tritium. This paper outlines how tritium has been elevated from a common, innocuous radioisotope to a major burden for nuclear power.

The Gordian Knot Group is not in the climate modelling business. But we are supposed to be solving the Gordian Knot, half of which is global warming. It behooves us to understand the latter. This paper investigates how well the climate models have done in replicating planet heating to date. Based on that performance, the average of the model temperature projections in any given emissions scenarios is probably 40% too high.

The conflicting roles of Big Oil and the Rockefeller Foundation in the early days of nuclear power.