The Two Lies and Ukraine
The war in Ukraine poses a dilemma for promulgators of the Two Lies.
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The war in Ukraine poses a dilemma for promulgators of the Two Lies.
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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.
Underwriter Certification of Nuclear Power, 2.0 Read More »
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.
The Westinghouse Kepco Suit Read More »
Cooling towers are costly, ugly, energy hogs. So of course the EPA requires them on all new nuclear plants.
Cooling Towers are not Cool Read More »
Where should we be on the cost versus release frequency tradeoff curve, and how do we get there?
There are no solutions, only tradeoffs Read More »
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.
Remediation of uranium mill tailings is costing the taxpayer billions of dollars a year to move dirt from one place to another in an attempt to reduce dose rates which are already below background on large parts of the planet. The largest such effort is at Moab, Utah.
Moving the Moab Pile Read More »
Assuming fusion can solve a whole slew of daunting engineering problems, it will then face a monumental economic problem: you must recycle a large proportion to the electricity generated back to the reactor to keep the process going.
The Trouble with Fusion Read More »
Navy/NRC style regulation and quality assurance has no problem making did-cost ten or more times should-cost. The LPD is an example. And the quality stinks.
A Tale of Two Ships Read More »