I couldn't agree with you more. But at the risk of being cast out, so long as we are not living under a totalitarian dictatorship, politics will always be part of this discussion because it is the only way we can decide what rules we are going to live by without killing each other. I can't stand either political party at this point, but that does not mean we should abandon politics. Political persuasion is the only way to better our world, something I think you know, or you wouldn't be doing this newsletter.
Two things. Firstly, the nuclear movement needs to walk away from the USA. Building reactors in factories in France, Korea and Taiwan, for example, removes a substantial amount of the political goo that's holding up the adoption of nuclear for the third world. The NRC doesn't deserve to have any status in the future of this technology. Secondly, modular designs can be more readily serviced in the third world - the molten salt reactors that Kirk and Jack are describing are no more complicated than a Toyota Land Cruiser and they're delivered and driven and serviced virtually everywhere in Africa and Asia. Something goes wrong? The unit shuts down and the factory sends a replacement module.
Jack. I'm a nuclear engineer and I just prescreened Oliver Stones soon to be released documovie Nuclear Now May 1 2023 premiers. i think it will go a long way toward correcting the politidal miscalulations however not the ALARA cost issues.
I couldn't agree with you more. But at the risk of being cast out, so long as we are not living under a totalitarian dictatorship, politics will always be part of this discussion because it is the only way we can decide what rules we are going to live by without killing each other. I can't stand either political party at this point, but that does not mean we should abandon politics. Political persuasion is the only way to better our world, something I think you know, or you wouldn't be doing this newsletter.
Two things. Firstly, the nuclear movement needs to walk away from the USA. Building reactors in factories in France, Korea and Taiwan, for example, removes a substantial amount of the political goo that's holding up the adoption of nuclear for the third world. The NRC doesn't deserve to have any status in the future of this technology. Secondly, modular designs can be more readily serviced in the third world - the molten salt reactors that Kirk and Jack are describing are no more complicated than a Toyota Land Cruiser and they're delivered and driven and serviced virtually everywhere in Africa and Asia. Something goes wrong? The unit shuts down and the factory sends a replacement module.
Jack. I'm a nuclear engineer and I just prescreened Oliver Stones soon to be released documovie Nuclear Now May 1 2023 premiers. i think it will go a long way toward correcting the politidal miscalulations however not the ALARA cost issues.