Mississippi PSC 2024 Nuclear Summit
I traveled to Jackson to speak to the three members of the Mississippi Public Service Commission on Tuesday, October 22. They had assembled a “2024 Nuclear Summit” and were gracious enough to allow me to present our technological approach to them. I started my talk by describing the unique economic challenge that the entire nuclear…
Ten years since TEDxCOS…
Ten years ago I gave a TEDx talk in Colorado Springs. My kids pointed out to me the other days that it had about 1.7 million views. I had no idea it had gotten to that point. Ten years is a lot of time. A lot of time to pass since then, which just doesn’t…
Zeihan on small modular reactors, part 2
(continued from part one…) I’m really sorry for how long it has taken me to get to the second part of a response to Peter Zeihan’s brief video about small modular reactors. The video was released on November 28, 2023, and I threw up a blog response the same day, but spooled up a bunch…
HALEU is frightfully expensive (calcs)
HALEU is basically 20% enriched uranium, and I have watched with disbelief as it has gone from an obscure fuel option to the central fuel form for the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Development Program (ARDP). But boy oh boy, is this stuff expensive. And other people are starting to notice and realize that…