Paul P.H. Wilson⚛

Nuclear engr prof, S/W developer, energy analyst (he/him/his). My postings here are my own & do not necessarily represent my employer. @gonuke.bsky.social

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

@Jordan_W_Taylor This is not true. About 0.7% of the neutrons are emitted at times up to 80 s after the fission event. These delayed neutrons are the key! Fast reactor exist and can still be controlled for this reason.

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

@whatisnuclear France's history of reactor size is very similar to the US, except for increased standardization, and the EPR is about the same size as an AP1000.

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

@whatisnuclear Instead of saying "this is interesting", why don't we just say "this is wrong". Too many of his falsehoods, misconceptions are traded as "interesting".

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

I did my part to #FillTheHill this morning - come and help out our department with your own contribution https://t.co/vIkfQizI2m

[Wisconsin Alumni @WisAlumni]

WAKE UP and smell the FUNds! Pour yourself a cup of flamingo fuel and join the flamingo foolery! ☕️🦩https://t.co/RROddwDNaE

#UWflamingos

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

I had a great time covering a variety of topics in my visit to the @NuclearTitans podcast. Thanks for inviting me to talk about my own journey, my research, and my outreach interests.

[Titans of Nuclear @NuclearTitans]

Listen in to our latest episode featuring Paul Wilson, Chair of the Department of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This episode is another installment in our Titans of Teaching series, which highlights standout professors.

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

@JeffLinderoth #optibeer hasn’t evacuated to BlueSky yet?

[Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy @GovNuclear]

Things are getting real. Special props to @NA_YGN and @UWMadisonNEEP for getting nuclear energy front and center on @CollegeGameDay and @FOXSports Big Noon Kickoff 🏈⚛️

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

@Ember421 @Atomicrod I heard “15” pretty clearly

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

@Atomicrod @whatisnuclear I think the water ↔️ sodium mix up was @whatisnuclear ‘s first answer…

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

@carolineradaj @MichelleObama https://t.co/tPO5SYPIEL

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

So today’s convention theme is “men who married well.”

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

6 days, 2096 miles of driving (~45 hours behind the wheel), $283 in tolls, $317 in gas, 5 return trips across the GW Bridge, 1 meal with my sister/nephew in central Indiana... Operation Move Moira is complete without incident

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

New paper alert:
Contrastive Machine Learning with Gamma Spectroscopy Data Augmentations for Detecting Shielded Radiological Material Transfers https://t.co/JEvq0BSqKl #mdpimathematics via @MathematicsMDPI

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

@LaneNuclear Chocolate Shoppe has the best ice cream in Madison, and many vegan flavors

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

It was great to participate in the @UWMadison #175 celebration at @shinefusion in Janesville yesterday. We discussed how @UWMadisonNEEP played a role in the ideas that led to this new exciting technology

[WMTV 15 News @wmtv15news]

UW-Madison is celebrating its 175th anniversary Tuesday with an event that recognizes the launch of new technology to fight cancer. https://t.co/aT7MVzapXu

[U-M Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences @umichNERS]

Don't miss #FastestPathToZero's @deniadjokic, @AnnV_H & @ToddAllen5 at the #ANSannual session: Integrating Socially Led Co-Design into Consent-Based Siting of Interim Storage Facilities w/ @kuhika @gonuke & Hank C. Jenkins-Smith.

TOMORROW (6/19) at 8AM PDT in Banyan C.

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

@JSEllenberg You must be one of those upstart progressive newcomers

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

Do none of the commenters (or the OP) want to acknowledge that this a graph of the *SHARE* of generation and not the absolute generation? Nuclear energy, for example, generates roughly as much today on a global basis as it ever has

[Lion Hirth @LionHirth]

In terms of share of global electricity output, coal peaked in 1905.

Hydro peaked 100 years ago. Oil before the, well, oil crisis.

Nuclear peaked in the 1990s and gas, maybe, has just passed its peak.

And then there is the yellow line...

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

Super Bowl halftime analysis has the same guy sitting at both ends of the desk!

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

@nuclearbdgr @WisconsinOnBTN @SteffiDiem

[Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ @gonuke]

@nuclear94 But apparently you may be qualified to be chair of a department of biomedical AI 🤷‍♂️