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The Jacobson Roadmap
Figure 1. Bonneville looking east. The new dam is to the left of the spillway. The bit of land between the spillway and the new dam is the original…
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Jack Devanney
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Czechs buy 2+ APR1400's.
Correction to correction: it now appears the 8.6 billion is for a single 1000 MW plant. Mea maxima culpa.
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Thinking Quantitatively about CO2 Uncertainty
Anyone who claims to know what the social cost of carbon is, is a liar or a fool.[Infallible Preacher] If we don't know what the Social Cost of Carbon…
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The Mother of All Tragedies
This sermon builds on and depends on the Expensive Nuclear's Dirty Secret piece, which you must read first. The explanatory stuff in Dirty Secret is NOT…
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The NuScale Scam
The GKN is a firm believer in competition, most importantly among nuclear vendors. Let a 1000 flowers bloom. As such we avoid commenting on specific…
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June 2024

A Zero Fossil Grid Makes Sense for Nobody
At times, the choir can be a trifle, dare I say, obtuse. Several of the more honest members have challenged my statement that, if the marginal capacity…
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Expensive Nuclear's Dirty Secret
In this piece, we delve into the GKG Grid Model's results for Germany in a bit more detail.
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[COPY] Accelerating Versatile Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy Act of 2023
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Correction to Spent Nuclear Fuel Post
Figure 12 in the recent spent nuclear fuel post does NOT show decommissioned submarine reactor cores stored at Idaho National Lab as I claimed.
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Jack Devanney
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600 year old spent nuclear fuel is just another poison, 2.0
I've been bemused by the response to the slide decks. People open the email multiple times, but don't view the slides??? Apparently this is standard…
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Underwriter Certification of Nuclear Power Slides
I have finally uploaded a draft set of slides on Underwriter Certification to the Flop book site. I've split the 50+ slides into two decks. Part 1…
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Spent Nuclear Fuel Slides
Figure 1. Dutch High Level Waste Vault
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