Professor & Chair of Physics, Cal Poly SLO, Nuclear physicist: low-energy neutron-induced fission #NIFFTE and relativistic heavy ion collisions #ALICEExperiment
🧵: A new @ENERGY reports finds nuclear waste production from small modular reactors are comparable to today’s commercial reactors and don’t present any major challenges in managing its spent nuclear fuel. (1/8)
https://t.co/VAeTdtW4hG
@GretaThunberg Greta, you read in the 2018 IPCC special report, that nuclear is part of the solution. You already said its madness, that Germany uses coal instead of existing nuclear!
Please help us save our last 6 german nuclear power plants, the safest in the world!
https://t.co/d3yHBabF7V
Happy birthday to the 8 billionth human! 🎂 You’ve been born into a world with decreasing rates of extreme poverty & child mortality, & increasing access to education. There is still much work to do, but some things are better then they’ve ever been. Welcome 🎉
Thx to @Mining_Atoms, my earlier Ontario, Canada (non-) vs. dispatchable radar graphs are getting a second look, including from outside Canada & USA.
One recurring question is choice of scaling… for example, original graph shows nuclear and wind on different scales.
A 6/6 🧵
@Suzwarto All energy infrastructure is vulnerable in war time and needs protection.
Safety plans are good and they work. What is the plan when solar and wind farms are destroyed/unusable in extreme weather? Oh right, fossil fuels. There goes your climate action. 🤷🏻♀️
Ok super weird photo overlap on my phone makes the right hand column look like a completely different message. Click the image to expand for true sentiment!
@SenatorHick I want more clean electricity to charge my electric car, and it needs to be available WHEN I need to charge. That means more nuclear. Now please!
#socialjustice