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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…
Apr 16
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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…
Apr 13
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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…
Apr 1
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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…
Mar 28
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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…
Mar 27
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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…
Mar 26
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Turquoise Hydrogen
Part of a Plan that Adds Up?
Mar 23
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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…
Mar 18
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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…
Mar 16
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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…
Mar 12
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Underwriter Certification of Nuclear Power
Manual, Version 6
Mar 3
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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…
Mar 2
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