Zeihan on small modular reactors, part 2
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 of thoughts as a…
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…
Thorium at a UTK Colloquium, October 18, 2023
I really enjoyed the chance to go back to my alma mater, the University of Tennessee, and to present to their nuclear engineering department as part of their colloquium series. The department head and my former teacher, Wes Hines, was kind enough to host and I was also very glad to see Harold Dodds there,…
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Zeihan on small modular reactors, part 1
Another day has dawned with another video from our favorite geopolitical strategist, Peter Zeihan, but this time talking about small modular reactors and why they won’t “save” us. Yesterday’s video on thorium has already hit 250,000 views. I’d be lucky if my rebuttal was seen by 1/1000th of that. But oh well, I’ll try it…