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Env. & Nat. Res. Lawyer. Nuclear Power = the best solution for humanity's geopolitical, economic, & environmental problems.

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

This is what 45 years of spent nuclear fuel looks like safely stored at Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant.

Each cask generated around 5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity — enough to power nearly half a million homes each year.

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@MattLoszak It was the development of Powder River Basin coal - that’s what had the largest single impact in the 1970s.

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@GovPressOffice False equivalence score = 100

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“Nuclear power takes too long” 👇

[Matt Loszak @MattLoszak]

In the 1980s, the world added ~230 GW of nuclear capacity. (in 10 years).

A new reactor connected to the grid every 17 days on average.

Insane.

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@energybants @AlexCKaufman 👏👏👏👏

[Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab]

You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it's made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.

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@BernieSanders That we can prove

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@SpencerHakimian No way 68% of Republicans approve

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@Dr_Keefer Chris you’ve educated and persuaded my thinking on this and related topics—especially the fuel-related content you’ve created lately. Lots of great content. Let’s hope we can keep the shiny keys in the right space and focus on proven tech.

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@jonburkeUK Night? Clouds? You misspelled uranium.

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@7Kiwi Clouds?

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@Electroversenet @Dodders75 LCOE false equivalence score = 100

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@MackinacCenter So what net benefit is wind - solar? Saving uranium fuel is absurd. The resources are mutually exclusive.

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@jonburkeUK False equivalence score = 100

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@Clarsonimus It's a giant Rube Goldberg machine

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@BladeoftheS Random energy = garbage energy.

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@sebbi @mattrandle42 @7Kiwi Study the Second Law of Thermodynamics and energy density. Electrical energy is a service not a commodity. It cannot be stored.

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@Dr_Keefer @DecoupleMedia @jbkrell @nuclear_robb Well deserved - you’ve done such remarkable work! Keep it up!

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@SenatorHeinrich Baseload? Seriously? Not by miles. False equivalence score = 100

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@McFaul Because of the laws of thermodynamics.