B.F. Randall ⚛ ⛏ ⚡
@Mining_Atoms
Env. & Nat. Res. Lawyer. Nuclear Power = the best solution for humanity's geopolitical, economic, & environmental problems. http://bfrandall.substack.com
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When Rube Goldberg is your Systems Engineer👇
Before the outage hit, Spain was running its grid with very little dispatchable spinning generation, and therefore no much inertia. Solar PV/thermal + wind: ~78% Nuclear: 11.5% Co-generation: 5% Gas-fired: ~3% (less than 1GW) Snapshot at 12.30pm local time (outage was 12.35pm)
There's a lot of misinformation coming from the BBC, ITV and others claiming renewables are cheap. This short video shows that renewables are much more expensive than gas. Please share widely.
Holtec plans to build 4 GW of SMR capacity in the 2030s, with much of it being in Utah and Wyoming. They also agreed to build a permanent training facility in Utah by 2028. The prefer Utah as the site for SMR fabrication facilities. Article link in reply. Utah has expressed…
"Wind and solar are the cheapest source of energy" update.
Word👇Used fuel is not waste. It’s a resource we can use profitably including creating safe perpetual heat batteries.
oh the irony... Swiss and German scientists may have found a PROFITABLE! way of disposing nuclear waste by transmutating it into Uranium, Ruthenium, Rhodium, Xenon and Krypton, among others. @VeroWendland @energybants @ChristophCanne @MoormannRainer
TN's ambition to lead in nuclear innovation is much bigger than just competing with other states - it's about securing America's future. Our nuclear strategy includes $10M for the Nuclear Energy Fund & $50M for SMR development on the Clinch River.
Now that’s a battery👇
⚡ Innovative Energy Storage, Powered by the Natrium® Reactor⚡ TerraPower’s patented molten salt energy storage sets the Natrium® technology apart. As the first advanced nuclear technology to be deployed in the U.S., Natrium features: 🔹 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor 🔹…
Americans invented nuclear power. Americans dominated nuclear power. But we lost our edge. Time to dominate again. Great piece on how by retired engineer Joseph Somsel.
Economics of BWRX-300 to best of our knowledge of early 2025.
Real value of nuclear power plant over lifetime, compared to cost of construction. 1:12 ratio of return even considering opex over 80y of 7bn eur.
When people ask us the impact of the plant on the environment… This was filmed by our biologists 100 yards (91.44 meters) from the intake.
Truth can be hard to swallow sometimes
This has to be one of the biggest ideas I've ever seen: a nuclear-powered Agro-Industrial complex. ✅ 1 billion gallons of fresh water / day from the sea ✅ 2 GW of electricity ✅ 300k-acre food factory ✅ phosphorous via electric furnace for fertilizer ✅ food for 6 million…
Hi, US refinery worker here! Most US refineries are not set up to run only US crude oil, which consists of mainly very light shale oils. If you remove CAN crude oils from US refining crude diets, many would not be able to operate, leading to a supply shortage and high prices
"We don't need their oil and gas, we have more than anybody." Incorrect. The United States is completely energy dependent on Canada. We supply 60% of the US oil imports at a significant discount. That discount allows US products to be more competitive on the world market.
By relying on nuclear power, France achieves a record of 95% carbon-free electricity production in 2024. Meanwhile in Germany….
En s'appuyant sur le nucléaire, la France atteint un record de 95% d'électricité produite décarbonée en 2024 l.francetvinfo.fr/8ur
TVA de-risking FOAK reactors (of any scale) is big news. Bookmark this--many more projects to follow as soon as the tech becomes commercially financeable.
We are moving advanced #NuclearEnergy forward. Along with our partners, @gehnuclear, @Bechtel, and Sargent & Lundy, we are teaming up to plan for the potential first BWRX-300 small modular nuclear reactors in the US at our Clinch River Site near Oak Ridge, TN. 🇺🇸 More:…
The adults in the room have finally asserted some control. VC Summer 2 should be renamed - VC Phoenix 2. Huge news👏👏👏
South Carolina utility Santee Cooper is putting out an RFP for resuming the VC Summer 2-reactor construction project that was abandoned in 2017. Santee Cooper would not own the plant. It would buy the power, presumably at an agreed price. Article link in reply. Increased…
To highlight wind intermittency, my annual Ontario, 🇨🇦Canada radial graph showing nuclear and TX-connected wind generation for every hour of 2024! After doing this for four years, I have settled on the two-scale equi-proportionate radial area presentation (check out notes)
German Greens have an IQ problem👇
Here the verdict for Germany’s wind & solar generation in January 2025 so far. What a fiasco..! Source: Agora Energiewende