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Our current nuclear regulatory system is resulting in millions of premature deaths and effectively halting any progress on global warming. It must be changed. But to what? The GKG proposes that nuclear power be regulated by a variant of the same system by which we regulate other hazardous but beneficial activities. We call that system Underwriter Certification (UCert). This slide deck is the first of two part presentation on UCert. It attempts to explain why we must scrap the current regulatory system in which there is an enormous chasm between an omnipotent regulator’s incentives and societal welfare.

This paper pulls together all the arguments against LNT that have been made in the GKG papers, focusing on the time dimension and repair. The intended audience is teachers, policy makers, and missionaries; but it requires no specialist background. The basics of radiation damage and repair are laid out in some detail.

Comparison of LNT and SNT. Makes some interesting points, but largely supplanted by SNT for Dummies.

This document describes the GKG (Gordian Knot Group) Grid Model. It is not a user’s manual. Rather it attempts to outline the model’s assumptions and limitations, and serve as a reference to which the GKG analyses based on this model can refer. This allows us to avoid repeating this description in each of those studies.

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 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.