Will Davis

Nuclear Energy History, Analysis. Typewriter, Calculator Collector. Navy Submarine Veteran. Conservative, Union member. SKYWARN spotter. NS SAVANNAH expert.

[Will Davis @atomicnews]

What a fool.

[Rod Adams @Atomicrod]

The nuclear ship propulsion conversation is heating up.

It amazes me how many armchair quarterbacks make the assertive statement that the NS Savannah experience "proves" that commercial nuclear powered ships are a bad idea.

I'd wager that none of those opinionated posters have actually done any investigation to find out WHY the NS Savannah was taken out of service after ONLY 9 years of service, 78 port visits, 450,000 nautical miles of travel, one core reshuffling with 4 elements replaced and zero core refuelings.

She also needed to support a specialized support infrastructure all by herself, she was designed as a showboat hybrid that could berth and entertain about 60 dignitaries in reasonable comfort.
She even had a swimming pool.
She operated on LEU with enrichment less than 5%.
She was taken out of service at a time when oil cost less than $3/barrel. Just 3 years later, the cost skyrocketed to $12/barrel. Within 10 years after she was taken out of service, it had risen as high as $40/barrel.

What a colossal one of a kind failure, right?

I believe she was a raging success and that lack of follow through was a matter of poor timing and happened through no fault of her own.

@atomicnews and I visited NS Savannah together in 2014.

[Will Davis @atomicnews]

@whatisnuclear If I can help, let me know.

[U.S. Department of Energy @ENERGY]

.@SecretaryWright: “We spent too many years sending all of our manufacturing overseas, and now we're going the other way. We got to build stuff in America.”

[Will Davis @atomicnews]

Yes. Of course he is.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Yesterday, he shook hands with an Al Qaeda linked terrorist leader. Today, Buckingham Palace confirmed King Charles will not give an Easter message.

Is he completely compromised?

[HIN News🇬🇧🇺🇸 @HerdImmunity12]

✝️Buckingham Palace have tried to BAN this video.

Watch as his Majesty King Charles III 'attempts' to lecture us to abandon Western values and Christianity for "the wisdom of Islam".

For the love of GOD abdicate and go live in Iran.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

King Charles announces he won’t deliver any Easter message this year.

Back in 1993 he stated: "Islam is part of our past and present. It created a modern Europe. Islam teaches us all lessons that Christianity has lost.”

I think it’s safe to say he converted to Islam long ago.

[Will Davis @atomicnews]

@NASAArtemis I would take Wally Schirra given anyone ever

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: The dictator of Cuba, Miguel Díaz Canel, announces to the nation that they have given in to the pressure and are officially in negotiations with the United States

The Cuban regime is about to fall!

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

Islamic teens in Canada seen throwing fireworks inside of a retirement home occupied with elderly folks.

Import the third world, become the third world.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

U.S. forces aren't holding back on the mission to sink the entire Iranian Navy. Today, an Iranian drone carrier, roughly the size of a WWII aircraft carrier, was struck and is now on fire.

[Will Davis @atomicnews]

@whatisnuclear Yes.

[NRC @NRCgov]

#NRCNews: We've issued the first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station in Wyoming. https://t.co/p3RBPYj3qu

[Will Davis @atomicnews]

I on the other hand am not at all shocked that no startup ever built a reactor. The biggest failure ended up not being able to design one that worked. Too many believe in the “started in a garage” software model in a world that needs large corporations and government money.

[Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad]

Why do must nuclear energy startups fail?

"I think it's actually been a mindset problem," says @valaratomics founder Isaiah Taylor (@isaiah_p_taylor).

"I was totally shocked to find that no nuclear startup had ever built a reactor and turned it on."

Catch the fully kinetic convo on The Upstarts Podcast:

YouTube: https://t.co/boj7iIGnto
Apple: https://t.co/PqbZJynx8D
Spotify: https://t.co/OMCNun6tuQ

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Hi @GretaThunberg 👋
You were silent when the regime massacred tens of thousands of Iranians. But now, you are grieving the deaths of regime terrorists 👇

The masks are off. You are indeed an activist, for terrorism!

[Daniel Lacalle @dlacalle_IA]

Spain sold Iran detonators, type A, B and E explosives, laboratory reagents and control software.

This is Spain's PM "neutrality" and "rejection" of the Iran regime.

https://t.co/5sYTAjfSqr

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Read that again: the Muslim Brotherhood is rebroadcasting @TuckerCarlson

It speaks volumes.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

When I was a few weeks postpartum with my second child, I bundled us both up and waddled into the Fairfax County Circuit Court to testify against a man who had accosted my then-toddler daughter and I in a public bathroom while I was heavily pregnant.

When I arrived I was brought into a room with his other victims and found out he had assaulted a woman in the same bathroom. I suddenly felt I had been lucky.

The arresting officer who had also interviewed me weeks prior was clearly eager to do everything right to keep this guy off the street—he found additional witnesses, pulled surveillance footage, followed every step to the letter.

It was physically painful and difficult for me to even be there—trying to discreetly feed and soothe my two week-old for 6 hours on hard benches when we should both be home in bed. It was also terrifying discreetly breastfeeding in the same room as this monster.

When I finally took the stand, the attorney for the Commonwealth asked me if the man who was in the bathroom that day was in the room.

I paused, confused—because I knew what was going to happen next.

The courtroom had been packed all day but as case after case was handled, ours was the last one—now it was just the judge, court reporter, bailiff, the defendant, his lawyer, the Commonwealth attorney, and I.

The arresting officer wasn't in the room. The other victim and her husband had been given a new court date and sent home.

I adjusted my baby against my chest and looked at her as she repeated the question: Do you see the man you reported to police in this room today?

Why was she doing this? What was she doing?

I was sweating in my oversized cashmere nursing sweater and I felt prickles down my back. Everyone was staring at me. I'm not a lawyer. She asked me a question... and she was “on my side” so I should answer it, right?

I adjusted my baby again to give myself a free hand—and I pointed to him.

And just as I expected, his lawyer immediately pointed out there was nobody else present in the courtroom who it could be and therefore we had violated his constitutional right to due process.

The judge agreed. Hell, *I* agreed—but then I asked WHY hadn't the Commonwealth given me a photo array to choose from? Why did she ASK that?

Too late. It didn't matter that he was on surveillance footage entering the bathroom before us and pushing past us as we fled.

He was set free.

As I walked out of the court room the arresting officer spotted me from down the hall and ran over to me “Is it back in this courtroom? Is it starting?”

No, I told him, it's already over. He had been sent to another courtroom “by mistake.” He didn't even get a chance to testify. He looked horrified.

The Commonwealth attorney and “victims advocate” that morning assured us they were going to fight for us. They were SO SORRY this had happened to us. They were SO GRATEFUL that I had come to testify in my condition.

Instead they seemingly intentionally let the monster walk free.

It's been two years.

Yesterday he was released on bail for yet another crime—one of at least THIRTEEN he's committed since that day in court—including sexual abuse of a child under 15.

His arrest record from just the last 5 years spans four pages on the Virginia court website.

Look at how many women—and CHILDREN—he's victimized since that day.

Look how many times his victims have gone to court just as I did only to see him set free again and again and again.

This is NOT happening by accident.

This is deliberate.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Grand Ayatollah al-Haydari just declared Jihad on the United States and Israel.

Deport all Muslims from America.