(Note: Chapter 3 of the draft novel “El Nuclear Diablo” will be available on Thursday, April 25, 2024, as Albert Williams, his two important recently hand-picked employees, and the small military entourage arrive to join with the rest of the unique and private world of the huge “Pathfinder Ranch” family and its own kinds with its ultimate mission to help Mother Earth save her own kinds, including you and me . . .)
Previously and upcoming on “El Nuclear Diablo”
The Introduction (March 14, 2024)
Chapter 1 – Time is of the Essence (March 28)
Chapter 2 – The Adjustment (April 11)
Chapter 3 – The Pathfinder Ranch (April 25)
The critical Daily World Nuclear News today continues to be the conflict (and the two countries blaming each other) about the Drone attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that could lead to an international nuclear meltdown jeopardizing the lives of millions.
The other critical interest beyond the Russia/Ukraine war is in the incredible, but educational, pages of Annie Jacobsen’s new book (I urge you to buy it, if for nothing else to update you on what nuclear war means to the entire world) “Nuclear War (A Scenario), The book will very quickly set you straight on why picking out a safe town or city to live in in the even of a nuclear war is ridiculously stupid. You can’t hide from a nuclear war, nor even any given nuclear bomb. ~llaw
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(Note: Chapter 3 of the draft novel “El Nuclear Diablo” will be available on Thursday, April 25, 2024, as Albert Williams, his two important recently hand-picked employees, and the small military entourage arrive to join with the rest of the unique and private world of the huge “Pathfinder Ranch” family and its own kinds with its ultimate mission to help Mother Earth save her own kinds, including you and me . . .)
Previously and upcoming on “El Nuclear Diablo”
The Introduction (March 14, 2024)
Chapter 1 – Time is of the Essence (March 28)
Chapter 2 – The Adjustment (April 11)
Chapter 3 – The Pathfinder Ranch (April 25)
The critical Daily World Nuclear News today continues to be the conflict (and the two countries blaming each other) about the Drone attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that could lead to an international nuclear meltdown jeopardizing the lives of millions.
The other critical interest beyond the Russia/Ukraine war is in the incredible, but educational, pages of Annie Jacobsen’s new book (I urge you to buy it, if for nothing else to update you on what nuclear war means to the entire world) “Nuclear War (A Scenario), The book will very quickly set you straight on why picking out a safe town or city to live in in the even of a nuclear war is ridiculously stupid. You can’t hide from a nuclear war, nor even any given nuclear bomb. ~llaw
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PG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on Avila Beach near San Luis Obispo, CA
LLAW’s COMMENTARY, Thursday, (04/11/2024)
Today’s Post is dedicated to the original 1st draft of Chapter 2 of my new, in-progress, novel dubbed “El Nuclear Diablo”, which is being serialized here in a bi-weekly Post . . .
El Nuclear Diablo
(A novel by Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft)
(Review of Chapter 1 (Unedited Draft): Albert Lloyd Williams has been intercepted on Vancouver Island on his way to Juneau, where he had planned to take over the management and administration of the hastily organized North American operation in an attempt to save as many lives, human and otherwise, as possible while the nuclear power industry tried desperately to stop the radiation leakage at dozens of severely damaged nuclear power plants’ failure to operate without releasing constant radiation to the atmosphere. Rumors of reactor meltdowns were rampant, but because reliable communications were slim and none, knowing anything for certain was impossible.
The interception of Williams before he and his small group reached Juneau, Alaska, was the assignment given the two U.S. military Generals and their own small band of two pilots and a records compilation researcher/reporter assigned to take Williams to an unknown destination that would be disclosed while in transit on the military modified Boeing 737 to be used for completing their mission by the evening of the following day.)
Chapter 2 (Unedited Draft)
“We understand that you are the owner, president, and CEO of “Albert Williams’ Energy Labs” with laboratories and offices in Palo Alto, California, and at your ranch in central Wyoming south of Casper and you have business offices in Carmel, California, and also the existence of major world-wide communication facilities of many kinds and capabilities at the Wyoming ranch. I believe the ranch is called “The Pathfinder” and covers well over a half million acres. Is that correct?”, the Army General asked after introducing himself as Scott Roane who was the general in charge of the military use of nuclear energy at the Pentagon, followed with a short introduction of his counterpart, the Air Force General, Marcus Aurilio, who was also involved in nuclear power management at the Pentagon. The men shook hands sitting in their seats aboard the airplane.
“Yes, that’s all correct,” I said. “I was contacted by the FBI about 30 minutes after the beginning of the incident at the PG&E nuclear plant disaster and was told that nuclear power plants were leaking and spreading radiation all over the country, many already facing meltdown. Fortunately, I was already aware of the containment failures, so I avoided going into shock when that call arrived yesterday afternoon. So where are we going now? And why the change in direction?”
“We’re not at liberty to disclose all that, Mr. Williams, but we can tell you it’s already about probable nuclear war as well as nuclear power plants being used as weapons of mass destruction.”, Aurilio said.
I sat pretending to be calm, while staring wide-eyed at the General across the aisle, considering what I’d just been told, finding myself not surprised even though I hadn’t given such a development even a moment’s thought during the last two days. “Well, I suppose there has to be at least sabotage . . . or terrorism”, letting my voice trail off into brow-curling thought. But, I reminded myself again, it really didn’t matter how or why it happened, because it had and our job now was to find a way to overcome it all.
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General Aurilio got up from his seat and walked toward the cockpit. In a few seconds he returned with the young lady dressed in fatigues who had said earlier she was the acting ‘stewardess’ on this flight. As she approached, I noted that she wore Captains’ bars on her shoulders, and that she had sparkling wide-awake curious eyes to go with her lovely face. “This is Captain Sabrisse Horvat. She will be your and our biographer and recorder for the foreseeable future, keeping detailed logs or records of communications that would not otherwise be memorialized.”
She held out her right hand and I grasped it gently, saying, “Well, you will fit right in with our several young women who work at the lab and the ranch. I am pleased to meet you, Sabrisse!”
“Well, Sir, I feel like I know you already, Sir,” Sabrisse said, a light cheerful lilt in her voice. “I’ve read every article I could find about you on the Internet, as well as what your companies are all about,” she went on. “I feel a little overwhelmed by who and what you are, what you’ve done, and though I’m probably guessing about what you will do in this situation, but I wouldn’t trade this opportunity for the world, Sir.”
“Okay, then,”, Williams said. “But you need to call me by my first name, Albert, and I hope I am allowed to call you Sabrisse rather than Ma’am or Captain. Are you of French decent?
No, my parents are Czechoslovakian. They still live in Prague. But I went to college here at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. I’ve lived here with my American relatives since I was about twelve years old, and so, of course, I am a citizen of America.”
“So now I have met all five of my hosts on this trip, but I still don’t know what it’s all about,” I said, turning to General Aurilio, with a question mark sort of inscribed look on my face.”
“You will know soon enough, Sir,” Aurilio responded, “We will land for the night at a small Airport near your laboratory at Stanford and ask you to bring your two most adept technicians along with you and then we will proceed on to your private airport at the Pathfinder Ranch. Once there we will tell your entire group how we feel we should proceed in this grave matter, but we will inform you in advance, of course, of our hopes and fears during the longer flight in the morning. You will soon understand exactly why we have kidnapped you, so to speak, and of the value we are most certain you can offer the world that no one else can – especially in such a time that seems like an impending doomsday.”
Earlier, even in the darkness, I had noticed the flight pattern was similar to our yacht trip north, retracing by air the over-sea route we’d taken along the Pacific coastline, because I had expected us to go directly east south east overland in a route toward Washington D.C. and a visit with President Biden and his White House staff. But along the way I had slowly figured this was not a ‘political’ trip, and recognized the urgency that showed from this highly intelligent and trained military personnel who exuded far more well-considered urgency than any political individual I’d ever met.
What little sleep we got, we got on the airplane at a small private airport that I had long previously used, finding a hangar to avoid the present small amounts of radiation that we had tracked as we traveled. I noted that it was only a minimal increase from the day before when I’d been near here, so there was little concern about radiation thus far, but we all knew there was only a minimal dosimeter samples of what was soon to come. But still, I was anxious to get to Pathfinder, a place where I was more comfortable than anywhere else on the planet, and unless there were soon to be warheads attacking our own nuclear missile silos and warheads, the death dosimeter rates of radiation would be several weeks away or even months in the future. Unbeknownst to most, including many of our own close-knit Pathfinder family we had communication capabilities with just about every little inhabited nook and cranny on Earth. I was pretty sure that this fact was a huge reason for what could well be a huge refuge as well as a headquarters area for a major effort to, for the first time in human history, try to save our planet and its gracious life-giving abundance, actually work on protecting our habitat rather than destroying it by slovenly misuse and greedily devouring its life-giving resources. The place was known as “Pathfinder” long before I came along, and I certainly had no inclination to alter the meaning of that truth . . .
After selecting the limited number of two assistants (had I had a choice, and if I was allowed, I would have taken them all, with their families and friends, with us to Pathfinder, but both of those I chose were imaginative and well-trusted experts in our extended nuclear effort to harness the nuclear energy that I was quite suddenly negatively affected with personal doubts about the nearly life-long dream to continue on with in our tiny, barely successful, recently with the first slightly positive transition of energy, and the obvious never-ending effort to develop the god-like ability of a conceited overacting brain of mankind to contain the nuclear reaction in such a way as to accomplish what we call fusion. We know it is possible, but we simply may not be mentally or intellectually capable of creating an under-control-like power that functions like our sun. I often believe the alchemy is simply beyond our ken. In more recent years I have been studying the concept of Tesla’s idea of creating and controlling electricity as nature’s product, spending less time, effort, and money on nuclear fission or the risks of nuclear fusion both. I do believe Tesla’s is the way to creating safely controlled and free electricity as necessary for all kinds of life. We do know how fission and fusion work, but in one case cannot control it at all with a reasonable effort and in the other case cannot control its waste product nor the containment of both. Whenever I see lightning randomly generated in the sky directed naturally at a controlling object such as the Statue of Liberty, a protective lightning rod for a building or someone’s home, or an old lonesome tree on a hill, I cannot help but know that Tesla was right, and had he been searching for a commercial product that could have been cheaply purchased by the multitudes he would have succeeded in creating his knowledge, therefore creating a world of free and absolutely controlled safe electricity. But without a financial reward for his supporters, he and his electrical concepts were worthless.
But now I am wondering if time has run out on us all, and that humanity has outdone its ability to sustain itself on all that Mother Nature has successfully offered to the human way, essentially free of charge such as air to breathe, food to eat, fire (a form of energy) to warm ourselves, animals to travel on, all of which we have in one way or another outgrown for reasons unknown as we reach for the stars without knowing exactly why, or what the reaching really is or if it’s achievable. I know in my heart it is not an intangible thing called money nor a more broad term called capitalism because somehow we can never seem to grow to new heights without ‘buying’ whatever it is we need — or think we need.
Now I have only a few years left personally to find the alchemical link, and because of our use of nuclear fuel that we fail to understand entirely how to use it, or how long our remaining time to find success may be, and I find myself wishing that I had followed in Tesla’s footsteps even if my death had come before success because we can never call nuclear power of either kind a success because they will both require money to buy and use. To me, that is not good enough, but I have spent nearly a lifetime trying to harness a kind of electrical energiy that cannot be controlled in either way.
It is with a feeling of regret that I now feel forced to try to save humanity from themselves because we, us, and them didn’t know any better. My depression shows as we drive to my own Williams Energy Lab Limited I have long called WELL, but knowing all is not. So, I say to myself as I sit in the right front passenger seat of the rental car while we drive to the Lab, “I have one last chance to help save a few of us.” I will use the next few months as my personal WELL-being. And if I find what Tesla would have had he had the same financial resources I have, I will name my success after him rather than use his hams for acquiring something called ‘money’.
We find my Lab at full force, working hard to solve a mathematical problem that will never be solved. Unbeknownst to my companions my life has changed by a polarity of 180 degrees in the time it has taken to fly from Vancouver Island to my nuclear laboratory with its billions of dollars of nuclear reactors for both fission and fusion, neither of which should have ever been considered for use by mankind. I feel foolish.
I quickly choose two young unattached female post-graduate PhDs, with mathematical backgrounds from my own alma-mater, tell the others to continue to come to work until they are no longer allowed to travel to and from their homes and after that they are on their own “until I return; if I return.” The tears are the eye-liners of the day. The hugs are what I believe will be the final goodbye.
We take the short ride (all eight of us) in a limo to the small airport, climb the staircase, find our places, and are soon taxiing down the runway on our way to my favorite possession of all, the “Pathfinder Ranch”.
End of Chapter 2
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The following link is to an article evaluating what it will take for the world to triple its nuclear energy output by by 2050, which, by the way, does not solve the CO2 problem anyway even if we succeeded. The business-like approach points out all the typical ‘gentlemen’s’ points and how difficult accomplishing the pledge will be. But at the summary, there is some blurb about even if we don’t get there, it could make us more aware of the problem. I doubt that ‘awareness’ has ever been the problem, and I also doubt it ever will be. The only way to stop it from asphyxiating ourselves is to quit discharging it. But, for sure, nuclear power is not the answer and never will be.
Personally, I can tell you the day, as loosely planned, will never arrive, which is no different than any other kind of pact that is made at these various and sundry international get-togethers to tell the world how “they” will ‘save the world’ from global warming and climate change by some magical ‘alchemy’ that will allow nuclear power to somehow ‘blow’ CO2 away or dilute it enough, to thin the air of greenhouse gases (GHG), at least to some degree, by pretending that CO2 sort of just evaporates and disappears, but in reality they constantly accumulate for as long as it’s they’re being exhausted into the air we breathe. The nightmare will never be resolved with such a plan — especially by adding nuclear energy (which is even more deadly than CO2) to the mix. ~llaw
Here is the link to Bain & Company’s article. If anything, it is thoughtful and concerned . . .
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Iranian officials in charge of the plant, meanwhile, had begun talking openly about achieving “deterrence,” suggesting that Tehran now had everything …
The world-wide nuclear news is almost solely about the latest attacks on the attacks (this time with armed drones) on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine. Both Russia and Ukraine are blaming each other for the attack, but, to my own mind, it makes no sense that Ukraine would attack itself and its people even though Russia has long controlled the operation of the nuclear power plant. But the facts seem to be that whichever country is attacking the plant, it is putting Ukraine and surrounding countries in serious nuclear radiation danger.
At this point, since virtually all of the media stories are on this story today, I suggest that we all pick and choose the source of our information from our preferred media sources below, and hope this problematic situation plays out without a European nuclear catastrophe, that could rapidly spread around the world, including America.
The ultimate fact, regardless, is that the entire world is in dire danger of this territorial war between Russia and Ukraine could very easily spark WWIII if both the political and military disputes are not resolved poste haste — especially with NATO, other counties, and major watchdogs from around the world casting long shadows about the growing difficulties of resolving this grave standoff that is fast becoming an international potential powder keg of world-wide nuclear powers, including not only nuclear war, but of nuclear power plants becoming enemies of the very countries they were originally designed to comfort. ~llaw
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… emergency meeting of the watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors over what it says are Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP)
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, is seen in the background of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir after the dam collapse, in Energodar, Russian-occupied Ukraine, on June 27, 2023. LIBKOS/AP
LLAW’s COMMENTARY, Sunday, (04/08/2024)
As I have said numerous times in earlier Posts on this nightly blog, the Russia/Ukraine war has long ago gone nuclear, and the threat of a nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and surrounding countries grows closer to a reality with every Russian attack on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest and obviously most threatened nuclear power plant in Europe.
These attacks, war or no war, have to stop because they represent a never-before-considered threat of what a nuclear war is or can be. Is there any doubt that every military with access to nuclear weapons is no drooling at the mouth to essentially double their nuclear weapons of mass destruction by turning every nuclear power plant against the very same nation that built it? Russia, who controls and operates the plant, (although they blame Ukraine for the drone attack) appears to be experimenting with the various ways to do just that, including such a thing as creating meltdowns without so much as firing a shell at the plant itself, but by destroying, for instance, the incoming power lines that help to control the nuclear reactors (the ZNPP has four of them).
This situation leads to another overlooked issue of nuclear arms and their numeric availability relating to the so-called nuclear arms’ reduction in the amount of nuclear warheads that every news media ignorantly points out as a ‘good thing’. They couldn’t be more wrong.
The fact is, whatever nuclear armed nations have “honorably” given up in numbers they have more than gained in the sheer destructive power of each and every nuclear bomb itself.
(If you want an introduction to what a single one megaton nuclear bomb can do today, all you have to do is read nothing more than the “Prologue” to Annie Jorgensen’s new book on nuclear war called, “Nuclear War: a Scenario”. Your blood will run cold as you read only those few pages The world may have fewer nuclear weapons, but that does not equate to less nuclear mass destruction, nor does it included the massive possibility of death by radiation poisoning from nuclear power plants complementing nuclear bombs.)
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Spending a relaxed, calm, and personally peaceful Sunday — a pleasant day — yet one filled with alternating thoughts of dark reality, and then consciously forcing my thoughts back to bright hopeful daydreams with repeated wishes that I was thankfully thinking and writing today and every day about a common world filled with a peacefully united human population enjoying a calm and quiet Sunday everywhere, without conflict.
But instead my thoughts keep flashing back to the reality of the everyday way on our lovely life-giving planet Earth, somehow filled with misguided, divided, and angry individuals who ought to know that a life of love and peace, rather than one of constant dissension and anger, will be the only way of life that will take us all the way to where we need to go . . . ~llaw
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In today’s world a nuclear war would be the end of the world as we have known it . . .
LLAW’s COMMENTARY, Saturday, (04/06/2024)
I can save you a lot of research and stress about this old map and the discussion:: There is no place of refuge in the event of a WWIII style nuclear war. Perhaps you could find a temporary niche (in your basement or a cave) to live for a few days longer in a place where there were no direct strikes, but the inevitable radiation sickness might well be worse than, say, instant death . . . ~llaw
(Once again I have posted the “article” here rather than the link because the story is short, as it should be, since the map is useless.) The link is available in the World Nuclear News, Nuclear War Category 4 below.
Map reveals best places to live in the US if nuclear war breaks out
A map that has repeatedly circled on social media shows areas in the US that could be subjected to a nuclear strike
Key strategic areas in the US could be targets. A map shows the areas of the US that could be the most likely to be hit by a nuclear strike.
Areas like New York City, Washington, D.C. and key cities on the west coast are potential targets to an enemy attack. Americans wary of the potential threat from above may wish to look towards the rural Midwest for refuge instead.
The map appears to date back to 2015 and an article in CBS, but it has resurfaced a number of times on social media since.
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PG&E’s Diablo Canyon Power Plant just north of Los Angeles on the Map, the only nuclear power plant left on the entire Pacific Coast from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego
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For the following article, I have decided to Post the article itself instead of the link to it. You can see more similar propagandized nuclear power articles by clicking the link in the “Nuclear Power” Category in the nightly nuclear news section of this Post.
This particular article is short and to the point about telling us how well-run and ‘clean’ power is provided by ‘nuclear’ power plants, which is a definition that annoys me beyond belief. The article also mentions the multi-billion dollar resurgence of other nuclear plants, including (a gift provided by the Federal and California taxpayers) of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California, which is the lone commercial power plant left in all of California or on the Pacific Coast from the Aleutian Islands to the tip of Terra del Fuego. The plant and its owner (PG&E) are also the subject of scorn that I and hundreds of thousands of others have been publicly complaining about along with other PG&E power plants and operations that have created years of grief for customers and the general public in California and other bordering states for years. I have posted governmental documents of their incredibly poor and dangerous record over the years elsewhere in this Blog. But suffice to say that they ‘blew up San Bruno’ and ‘burned down the small city of Paradise’ in California among literal dozens of other huge operational errors, mistakes, and perhaps sabotage, yet the author of this article to infer that the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is in the category of “well run”, mentioned in the same paragraph.
The PG&E nuclear power planet was scheduled, because of its infirm old age, to be decommissioned, shut down and mothballed next year (2025), but was given new life by potential power demands in California recognized by both state and federal governments.
Nuclear power is not only not clean, it is the dirtiest and most dangerous power providing substance on the planet, and yet our governments and the nuclear industry want nuclear power to become the world’s dominant source of commercial electricity, when, if we knew what we were talking about, ‘all things nuclear’ would not exist now or in the future. And here we are ignorantly pumping billions and trillions of dollars into something that will likely create the 6th Extinction the Earth, over it’s 4+ billions of years of existence is, but is now facing for the 1st time an extinction caused by its own inhabitants called human beings.
I am one of them, and I spent a good part of three decades working in the nuclear industry, and, though it took me several years to figure out what I was happily supporting, ‘all things nuclear’ is what financiers would call a ‘scam’ if they understood the background of the industry. As for the rest of us, if we were properly informed, we would be furiously protesting, demanding that ‘all things nuclear’ be forever removed from any and all associated existence with humanity and all other life on our beautiful green, blue, and brown planet that has sustained life for millions of years. ~llaw
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Nuclear Energy Seeing a Resurgence Unlike Any Other
Nuclear energy is surging back in a big way. Case in point: Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s comments last week on plans to restart the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan. To bolster the effort, she announced a $1.5 billion conditional loan guarantee to cover work required to restart the plant after a two-year shutdown. And this is just the latest example of the nuclear energy industry’s re-emergence as policymakers and energy industry leaders again recognize its value in supplying reliable, scalable carbon-free energy.
COMMENTARY
Only a few years ago, well-run nuclear plants were shutting down across the U.S. Now, plants like Diablo Canyon in California that were headed toward shutdown have gotten a reprieve, and Palisades has been granted a chance for new life.
Meanwhile, the first new American nuclear plant in decades, Vogtle 3, came online last year, and Vogtle 4 is being finalized to come online this year. Apart from that, a plethora of advanced small reactor designs are in the offing, promising new ways to site plants and provide clean energy to power everything from server farms to steel plants.
Nuclear energy’s comeback is the result of several factors. There is rising demand for reliable clean energy and a desire to move away from fossil fuels. Nuclear energy checks all the boxes—nuclear power plants are carbon-free, they operate 24/7, and they form the backbone of a reliable electricity grid.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused spikes in natural gas prices and prompted countries, especially in Europe, to stop relying on imported fossil fuels, especially Russian gas. Countries looked again at their energy policies, recognizing nuclear power’s value to overall energy security. Suddenly, France’s reliance on nuclear looked prescient, compared to Germany’s shunning nuclear in favor of coal and gas.
All of this has led to greater support for nuclear energy worldwide. The most recent UN climate conference, COP28, held in December in Dubai, has become known as the “Nuclear COP.” While nuclear has traditionally gotten the cold shoulder at international events such as COP, today, nuclear has gone mainstream as a generally accepted way to address climate change.
The U.S. government has been more supportive offering incentives to nuclear energy in the Inflation Reduction Act, Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, and other recent legislation. Amid political polarization, there is bipartisan support in the U.S., perhaps the only topic gaining strong support among both Democrats and Republicans.
Over its more than 60-year commercial history, nuclear energy has seen its fortunes rise and fall, but what is different this time is the wave of innovative ideas aimed at overcoming some of nuclear energy’s most vexing challenges. Small modular reactors are designed to be built faster and easier to finance. New nuclear plant designs may be used to meet applications beyond power generation, such as industrial heat for producing chemicals, hydrogen, and steel, helping to decarbonize new sectors.
New advanced fuels are being developed to improve the economics of existing as well as new reactors, introducing major innovation to gain greater efficiencies. Companies are also developing new approaches for effectively managing waste.
The nuclear energy sector has always focused on constant improvement. This focus led the U.S. fleet from capacity factors in the 50% to 60% range in the 1970s and early 1980s to above 90% today. Improved operations have made existing reactors more economical with vast efficiency improvements, with plants routinely safely exceeding their original design capacity.
There are examples of improving costs and timelines for building new plants when multiple units are built in a series. Now, with innovative new designs, approaches, and technologies, together with government support, we will begin to see improvements in the U.S.
The U.S. has long provided world leadership in nuclear energy technology, and now it is positioning itself to reassert that legacy. And next-generation nuclear technologies are in a good position to capitalize on the growth in demand we are seeing worldwide. Nuclear energy’s proven track record together with fresh thinking and rapidly growing demand has cleared the way for an era of unprecedented growth.
—Seth Grae chairs the International Council of the American Nuclear Society, serves on the board of directors of the Nuclear Energy Institute, and is CEO of Lightbridge Corp., a company focused on developing advanced nuclear fuel technology.
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Beshear said he supports an “all-of-the-above” energy policy that includes nuclear energy. … The debate about attracting nuclear energy … Analysis|The …
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This commentary concerns the following “Freethink” opinion/article today with this headline and link: Retired coal plants can aid the energy transition — by going nuclear. The article is at:
My thoughts: Why is it that a certain faction of humanity is so anxious to “cut off their noses to spite their faces”, which is, of course, a needlessly self-destructive overreaction to a problem?
The very idea that using nuclear power to replace old coal mines, followed eventually by replacing other fossil fuel power plants (gas, oil, etc.) is one of the stupidest and most ignorant “brainstorms” to come along since mankind discovered fire but didn’t know how to control it. And we still have no idea how to control the very worst kind of fire ever: nuclear radiation, quickly followed by CO2, and then the wildfire of nuclear war itself. We are, and have been for a long long time, on the verge of becoming the first “semi’-intelligent” animal to inflict itself with immanent extinction — the 6th Extinction on our incredible life-sustaining and giving planet, Mother Earth.
The first five extinctions were caused by what could be called today as “acts of god”, meaning uncontrollable by human standards, events such as meteorites from outer space, which likely killed off most all life, including cold-blooded dinosaurs, in the most previous 5th Extinction around 65 million years ago, probably long before some, but not all, warm blooded creatures like humans arrived, but we believe that a few, such as saber-toothed tigers, existed here on planet Earth at the time of the 5th Extinction. To me, the arrival of mankind on planet Earth is full of intrigue, mystery, and curiosity. ~llaw
(I have a theory about human arrival on planet Earth, already hinted at in the Preface or Introduction, but more clearly explained during the progress of my upcoming novel itself, “El Nuclear Diablo”, draft-written on a bi-weekly basis right here on “All Things Nuclear”. Chapter 2 will be available on Thursday, April 11th, with Post #s and dates about how to find the previous installments.)
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