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Should-cost Nuclear and Human Ignorance 2.0
I have received a chorus of complaints about the recent CO2 versus grid cost piece. For once, the uppity choir is on solid grounds. The key point that…
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Should-Cost Nuclear and Human Stupidity
In an earlier piece we discussed the tradeoff between nuclear power's cost and plant radiation release frequency, and how the NRC's valuation of the two…
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Underwriter Certification and the Banks
The cost of nuclear power is critically dependent on three factors: 1) Overnight Capital Cost or CAPEX 2) Build Time 3) Cost of Capital The GKN has…
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March 2024

A Desecrated Pledge: the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
...the United States pledges before you, and therefore before the world, its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma - to devote its…
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Site Glossary
This attempt at a glossary was a bust. The idea was to create a set of what HTML calls anchor links, links that lead to a specific section in a…
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Zero risk or Negligible Risk
One of the gripes that pro-nukes have about SNT is that it accepts the no-perfectly-harmless-dose hypothesis. These people think the public is too…
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Turquoise Hydrogen
Part of a Plan that Adds Up?
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Is there a Cotwus out there?
I have a dream. Suppose one of the poor nations of the planet, maybe even the poorest, adopted Underwriter Certification, as the system by which she…
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Underwriter Certification of Nuclear Power, 2.0:
Underwriter Certification is slowly evolving. We now have a 100 page manual. But I don't expect many to read it. This post is a distillation. It…
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New Site Directory
I got tired of scrolling through over 100 posts to find the one I was looking for. Tried the substack tags feature; but that did not really work either…
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Underwriter Certification of Nuclear Power
Manual, Version 6
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Thinking through Linear With Threshold
Linear No Threshold (LNT), the radiation harm model which is the foundation for our radiation protection regulation is nonsense. It denies our…
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