Roger Blomquist

Retired U.S. Navy Captain, Nuclear submarine emgineer

[Roger Blomquist @captain_rogerb]

@nuclear94 How well does the public understand air travel?

[Roger Blomquist @captain_rogerb]

@MalcolmRaw99915 @Atomicrod The largest eigenvalue of the neutron transport equation is the critical eigenvalue. When it is = exactly 1, the reactor is said to be critical. So it comes from the maths.

[Roger Blomquist @captain_rogerb]

@Dr_A_Stein @BulletinAtomic @PeterJamesSeel That is a fine article. Bulletin readers especially need to read it.

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Illinois’s nuclear “bailout” keeps giving people money back on their electricity bills

Does it still count as a bailout when nuclear ends up doing the bailing out?

[Roger Blomquist @captain_rogerb]

@shellenberger Wait! Didn’t Republicans bash Biden for abandoning these guys in Afghanistan?

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@moms4nuclear The U.S. has been using nuclear go electricity for over 60 years without hurting a soul. No other power source e comes close.

[Roger Blomquist @captain_rogerb]

@moms4nuclear I also served on a nuclear sub for several years. My bunk was about 35 feet from the reactor. Great experience. I’m in my late 70s, and very healthy. A few of my shipmates are in their 80s. Nuclear is a great technology — very effective and clean.

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@NuclearPowersIL Looking at atypical ComEd bill, it seems that nuclear is now subsidizing win, solar, batteries, and efficiency. Do I have that right?

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@energybants Walking the talk, Mark!

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@AngelicaOung @Tannhaeuse23919 That’s mostly our current leaders. But they do have lots of support. As Reagan said of the USSR: “Trust, but verify.”

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@sanerefrain @MLiebreich Irrelevant analogy. Give us the physics, not analogies or arguments with the relevance of “because ice cream has bones”

[Roger Blomquist @captain_rogerb]

@MLiebreich Exactly what is the source of energy that enables inverters to stabilize grid frequency?

[Roger Blomquist @captain_rogerb]

@Ember421 One option: return to the system that once worked. State-regulated vertically integrated investor-owned public utilities. Maybe not the best, but far better than today’s fake wholesale markets. 1-800-where is my electricity?!

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@Dr_Keefer This guy needs to join the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Motto: “You First”

[Roger Blomquist @captain_rogerb]

@Dr_Keefer Yes —we’re all guilty of genocidal chemical warfare against the bugs! The shame! ;-)

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@PaulBongiorno @abcnews The did not have to.

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@Swissiws1 @energybants @skdh Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa all operate reactors

[Roger Blomquist @captain_rogerb]

@Gingerneer2 @energybants @EnergyJvd @skdh They’ve been good enough

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@energybants @skdh 8 of the 11 reactors on Japan’s NE coast were not crippled by the quake. Some were damaged, but most suffered no immediate consequences.

[Roger Blomquist @captain_rogerb]

@Dr_Keefer Pebbles are replaced periodically. If the stay in the core less than the time to graphite damage, damage won’t matter.