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Nuclear power is spending over a billion dollars per death avoided. This means nuclear cannot compete with fossil fuel. The net result is millions of premature deaths per year from fossil fuel pollution. Nuclear power is far too safe.

Nuclear should-cost is about 3 cents/kWh in today’s money, which happens to be its did-cost in the late 1960’s.

This paper outlines how the Gordian Knot Group would implement prototype testing.

Hawaii has a perfect spot for a nuclear protopark. Will they take advantage of it?

It is hard to imagine a more ideal location for a nuclear protopark than Hanford, Washington.

New nuclear technologies cannot be prudently licensed without extensive prototype testing. But we can’t test without a license. Catch NRC.

Many more people are killed in commercial airplane crashes than in nuclear power plant releases for far less benefit. But flying commercial is safe and nuclear power is dangerous. Why?

LNT is the theory that radiation harm is additive. Harm is a function of cumulative dose and nothing else. Exposure period and dose rate are irrelevant. LNT effectively denies our ability to repair radiation damage. LNT has been the foundation of our radiation protection regulation, with pernicious results, except for our radiation minders. A rising chorus has called for replacing LNT with a model that does recognize our repair ability. But the Empire is now fighting back. A recently released INWORK study reasserts the validity of LNT. Should we be convinced?

The Gordian Knot of our time is the closely coupled problems of energy poverty and global warming. From time to time, we need to remind ourselves that energy poverty is the more pressing side of the Gordian Knot. You cannot solve energy poverty with expensive electricity.

Linear No Threshold (LNT), the radiation harm model which is the foundation for our radiation protection regulation is nonsense. It denies our undisputed ability to repair radiation damage. As a result it over-predicts harm in low dose rate situations, such as a nuclear power plant release by many orders of magnitude. But LNT survives. One reason is anti-LNT forces have not coalesced behind a single alternative. Another is that the most commonly suggested alternative, Linear With Threshold (LWT), has much the same problems as LNT.