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LNT survives in part because anti-LNTer often suggest Linear With Threshold as the replacement. Here’s why that does not work.

NRC style regulation is a one way contract. No one would sign such a contract unless they think they can use it to ripoff the ratepayer.

More proof that Americans can be stupider than Japanese, even when the Japanese are being far stupider than usual.

The war in Ukraine poses a dilemma for promulgators of the Two Lies.

Underwriter Certification is slowly evolving. We now have a 100 page manual. But I don’t expect many to read it. This paper is a 12 page distillation. It supersedes earlier short documents on this regulatory system.

Westinghouse cannot compete on cost, so, with the help of the DOE, they concoct a bogus legal argument to try to avoid competition from the Koreans.

What would your town need to host a nuclear plant?

Cooling towers are costly, ugly, energy hogs. So of course the EPA requires them on all new nuclear plants.

Where should we be on the cost versus release frequency tradeoff curve, and how do we get there?

Any attempt to blame nuclear plant builders for the prohibitive cost of nuclear power plants has to explain why these same people can throw up coal plants on time and on budgets. Why these same people could build nuclear plants for nearly the same cost as a coal plant in the 1960’s.