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Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/1853102/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/1853102/</a> Trump administration tries to rehire fired nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DanielKimball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DanielKimball</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doge</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EdwinLyman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdwinLyman</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EnergyDepartment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyDepartment</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JobCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JobCuts</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NSA</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWeapons</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnionOfConcernedScientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnionOfConcernedScientists</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/1852796/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/1852796/</a> DOGE reversal: Firings of US nuclear weapons workers halted <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/amarillo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amarillo</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/APTopNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#APTopNews</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DarylKimball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarylKimball</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doge</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EdwinLyman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdwinLyman</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GeneralNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralNews</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GovernmentAndPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentAndPolitics</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JobsAndCareers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JobsAndCareers</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labor</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MarcyKaptur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarcyKaptur</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWeapons</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PattyMurray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PattyMurray</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RobPlonski" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobPlonski</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/shootings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shootings</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TeresaRobbins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeresaRobbins</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TXStateWire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TXStateWire</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStatesGovernment</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WashingtonNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WashingtonNews</a>

DoomsdaysCWNot to mention all the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterConsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterConsumption</a>! There are plans to restart aging nuclear reactor as well as untested SMR reactors! Will <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a>’s huge energy demands spur a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> renaissance? By Davide Castelvecchi 25 October 2024Do small modular reactors carry extra risks? "In some cases, small modular reactors 'could actually push nuclear power in a more dangerous direction', says <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdwinLyman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdwinLyman</a>. 'Advanced isn’t always better.'"In particular, Lyman points out that the pebble-bed designs drawn up by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/XEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XEnergy</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kairos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kairos</a> would rely on high-assay low-enriched <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uranium</a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HALEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HALEU</a>), which comprises 10–20% uranium-235 — compared with the 5% enrichment level required by most existing reactors (and by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuScale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuScale</a>’s reactor). HALEU is still classified as low-enrichment fuel (as opposed to the highly enriched uranium used to make nuclear bombs), but that distinction is misleading, Lyman says. In June, he and his collaborators — including physicist Richard Garwin, who led the design of the first hydrogen bomb — warned in a Science article that a bomb could be built with a few hundred kilograms of HALEU, with no need for further enrichment. "Smaller reactors are also likely to produce more nuclear waste and to use fuel less efficiently, according to work reported in 2022 by Macfarlane and her collaborators. In a full-size reactor, most of the neutrons produced by the splitting of uranium travel through a large volume of fuel, meaning that they have a high probability of hitting another nucleus, rather than colliding with the walls of the reactor vessel or escaping into the surrounding building. 'When you shrink the reactor, there’s less material in there, so you will have more neutron leakage,' Macfarlane says. These rogue neutrons can be absorbed by other atomic nuclei — which would then themselves become radioactive."Original article: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03490-3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03490-3</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.ph/mODpF#selection-952.0-991.164" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/mODpF#selection-952.0-991.164</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cryptocurrency</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DataCenters</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearHype</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeutronEmbrittlement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeutronEmbrittlement</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NotCarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NotCarbonFree</a>

DoomsdaysCWReport Finds That ‘Advanced’ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> Reactor Designs Are No Better Than Current Reactors—and Some Are WorseProposed Non-Light-Water Reactors Not Clearly Safer and Will Likely Take Decades to Achieve Reliable Commercial OperationPublished Mar 18, 2021 Union of Concerned Scientists"One of the proposed sodium-cooled fast reactors, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TerraPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TerraPower</a>’s 345 megawatt <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Natrium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Natrium</a>, has received considerable media attention recently because TerraPower founder <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BillGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BillGates</a> has been citing it during interviews about his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. In mid-February, Gates told 60 Minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Natrium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Natrium</a> reactor will produce less waste and be safer than a conventional light-water reactor."In fact, according to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCS</a> report, sodium-cooled fast reactors such as the Natrium would likely be less '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uranium</a>-efficient.' They would not reduce the amount of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> that requires long-term isolation in a geologic repository. They also could experience safety problems that are not an issue for light-water reactors. "Sodium coolant, for example, can burn when exposed to air or water, and a sodium-cooled fast reactor could experience uncontrollable power increases that result in rapid core melting.“'When it comes to safety and security, sodium-cooled fast reactors and molten salt-fueled reactors are significantly worse than conventional light-water reactors,' says Dr. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdwinLyman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdwinLyman</a>. 'High-temperature, gas-cooled reactors may have the potential to be safer, but that remains unproven, and problems have come up during recent fuel safety tests.'"Read more: <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/about/news/report-advanced-nuclear-reactors-no-better-current-fleet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ucsusa.org/about/news/report-advanced-nuclear-reactors-no-better-current-fleet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MSRHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MSRHype</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNewNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmallModularNuclearReactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallModularNuclearReactors</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigEnergy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SMR</a>

DoomsdaysCWNuclear Expansion Sparks Concerns from Scientists of '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CatastrophicFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatastrophicFailure</a>' Story by Jordan King June 19, 2024"A group of scientists has spoken out against a new bill that aims to accelerate the development of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> energy."The U.S. Senate passed the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ADVANCEAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ADVANCEAct</a> on Tuesday, which, among other things, makes it easier and quicker for companies to apply for permits and creates new incentives for advanced <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> reactor technologies."It was passed with bipartisan support (88-2 votes), with Democrats getting behind it for environmental reasons and Republicans seeing it as a way to ensure electricity supply and create jobs."An example of how the bill could be applied is with the Bill Gates-backed company <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TerraPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TerraPower</a>, which has so far been unable to secure a permit to build a $4 billion <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Natrium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Natrium</a> Reactor on an old <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coal</a> plant site in Wyoming, Reuters reports."But the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science advocacy nonprofit, is worried about the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#safety</a> implications of the bill, which is now on its way to President Joe <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biden</a> to sign into law."The organization's director of nuclear power safety Dr. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdwinLyman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdwinLyman</a> compared the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NRC</a>] relaxing of rules to the Federal Aviation Administration doing the same with air transport."<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nuclear-expansion-sparks-concerns-from-scientists-of-catastrophic-failure/ar-BB1ovdL7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nuclear-expansion-sparks-concerns-from-scientists-of-catastrophic-failure/ar-BB1ovdL7</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenwashing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNewNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnionOfConcernedScientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnionOfConcernedScientists</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlant</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenwashing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearIsNotCarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearIsNotCarbonFree</a>

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