It will make you truly depressed on how far ahead we could have been had R&D kept up. A lot of the "hot topics" in nuclear really haven't come far since the 1970s and 80s.
I would have written more about the geopolitical impact, but that would have been a 10k+ word article which is a slog. I might do some more guest pieces if they let me and there is demand.
Quite a lot is an understatement. The demand for power by AI data centres is gross. But thanks to the demand, we're actually at the point where private companies such as Meta, Alphabet etc are doing 100% PPAs for nuclear power plant output or even building their own dedicated reactors.
This was floated in the 1970s as a way to provide power to steel mills and aluminium works to make them competitive and partly to screw the Germans over the chicken tax.
Just think, had the US built many hundreds of reactors, Americans could have had Kei trucks and Land Cruisers all the while!
Hear, hear.
Let us not even discuss Chinese thorium salt reactors.
Fast Chloride, my good sir, Fast Chloride.
It will make you truly depressed on how far ahead we could have been had R&D kept up. A lot of the "hot topics" in nuclear really haven't come far since the 1970s and 80s.
I would have written more about the geopolitical impact, but that would have been a 10k+ word article which is a slog. I might do some more guest pieces if they let me and there is demand.
I understand from a nuclear engineer that we are now investing, quite a lot of money in miniature nuclear reactors
Quite a lot is an understatement. The demand for power by AI data centres is gross. But thanks to the demand, we're actually at the point where private companies such as Meta, Alphabet etc are doing 100% PPAs for nuclear power plant output or even building their own dedicated reactors.
This was floated in the 1970s as a way to provide power to steel mills and aluminium works to make them competitive and partly to screw the Germans over the chicken tax.
Just think, had the US built many hundreds of reactors, Americans could have had Kei trucks and Land Cruisers all the while!
Lol, SUFFAH BAPNigger! You Ain’t Never Getting Off This Rock!
HANG IT THE FUCK UP!
They'll let anyone publish in the American Tribune these days!
We were on our way:
https://www.amazon.com/End-Solar-System-Nuclear-Rocket/dp/0813122678