Don Beardy

Gay 🏳️‍🌈 nuclear ⚛️ engineer, here to fight against pseudoscience and stigma. Focused on mitigating anthropogenic climate change with nuclear 🌈☢️ (he/him)

[Don Beardy @Zavalab13]

🌹🌹🌹 are red
Cherenkov radiation is blue 🟦☢️🟦
Build more nuclear power ⚛️🔌⚡️
To limit CO₂ 🏭🏭🏭

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

this is the techno pastoral future we need!

at mochovce nuclear power plant in slovakia 🇸🇰 this one plant alone makes 20% of the country’s electricity

[Voices Of Nuclear @voicesofnuclear]

The "nuclear power is too slow" argument suffers from a slight myopia problem - An example ⬇️🧵

Graphic by Steve Loftus @LoftusSteve

[Jeremy Gordon @jrmygrdn]

I gave in to temptation

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

GERMANY REACTOR NEWS: ADDITIONAL REACTORS CAN BE RESTARTED

Our new report's out with a shocking find:

8, not 6, reactors can be saved!

Krümmel, big enough to power a million people, still has an operating license despite closing 2011: saved by antinuclear politics, ironically

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

in which i talk about france 🇫🇷

[Grace S. Vanderhei @GraceMVanderhei]

Hey @Barbie and @OppenheimerFilm, I’m a nuclear engineer and Miss America. There’s gotta be a crossover feature I can attend somewhere.

[LowCarbonPower.org⚡ @lowcarbonpower]

Germany generated less low-carbon electricity in June this year than the same month six years ago #GlobalWarming

[Frédéric Simon @FredSimonEU]

EU's 2022 coal stats from @EURACOAL are out.

- Germany is still the undisputed #1 coal country in Europe, not the green champions they're claiming to be 🤥
- Much of it is not even locally produced, it's imported 😬

👉Full report: https://t.co/mGT1uesjX9

[Josh @JDStringfellow]

@Melanie_Vogel_ @TerryReintke Celebrating shutting down nuclear while coal and gas plants are still running 🤡

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Germany’s nuclear shutdown is like Brexit: a needless act of self-harm, driven by misinformation and the irrational allocation of blame.
https://t.co/3etHkbFQ95

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

France vs Germany 2022: electricity by the hour.

In 2022, France's $200 billion nuclear fleet had its worst year of production.

Simultaneously, Germany's $500 billion Energiewende had its best year of production yet.

Here's how they compared hour-by-hour on carbon intensity.

[Chi Urbanist @chi_urbanist]

Every Chicago cop is about to throw away their “Let’s go Brandon!” signs

[Paris-Ortiz-Wines @ParisOrtizWines]

This is peak transit🚆

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

It's 2023 in Germany and the reactors still run.

We're now past Merkel's 2022 deadline, with three of the world's best nuclear reactors still cranking out enough electricity for five million people.

We were told this could never happen. Yet here we are.

This fight isn't over.

[Madi Hilly @MadiHilly]

Rosatom: we broke ground on two more nuclear plants

Westinghouse: we got a little contract to rip apart two research reactors

[Katie Mummah, PhD @nuclearkatie]

Nobody will remember:
-Your salary
-Your fancy title
-How ‘busy’ you were
-How many hours you worked

People will remember:
-this place is not a place of honor
-no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here
-nothing valued is here
-what is here was dangerous and repulsive to us

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

cue in everyone saying

“too late. too expensive.”

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

but wait there’s more!

according to recent polling commissioned by @CarbonFreeCA:

✔️ 74% of san luis obispo residents and 54% of californians approve of the plant remaining open