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"Right wing" and "nuclear plants" in the same sentence, right at the beinning. Clearly, atom plants are the only feasible way forward. So why politicize it? It makes both sides look dumb.
I’m guessing that Euractive’s reporter, much like the American MSM, see everything through a political lens - one where “right wing” = malign, and “left wing” = virtuous. The implicit criticism of the government energy policies is there, just not headlined.
In most European nations, there are more than just two political parties represented in government.
At present, eight different parties hold seats in the Swedish legislature, and the terms "right-wing" and "left-wing" do not bear the same pejorative connotation as they do in the US.
I visited a nuclear power plant last weekend, and swam in the waters right next to it. but I was on the cold-side, the hot-side where the waters cool the reactors is not public access.
I find it somewhat amusing that one of our more technical achievements (the nuke plant) is protected by one of our earliest technologies - the lightning rods, first proposed by Ben Franklin in 1749.
I visited a nuclear power plant last weekend, and swam in the waters right next to it. but I was on the cold-side, the hot-side where the waters cool the reactors is not public access.
First officially approved Gen IV nuclear reactor in the US breaks ground
On July 17, 2024, Kairos Power began construction at Oak Ridge, Tennessee on its Hernes low-power demonstration reactor. It won't be generating electricity for the grid. Instead, its function will be to develop Kairos's molten fluoride salt-cooled pebble-bed reactor, which is an inherently safe design that is capable of shutting itself down and keeping the reactor core safely cool in the event of an accident.
Glow, Baby Glow! U.S. Nuclear Industry Ready to Dominate the World
Imagine a world where America was the dominant producer of nuclear power in the world and the dominant producer of nuclear fuel for nuclear reactors.
We don't have to imagine it, because from the 1950s to the 1970s, that was the U.S. nuclear industry.
In the decades after the first commercial nuclear reactor came online in Pennsylvania in 1957, the United States was the go-to nation for nuclear power. Our companies built power plants, and we produced 90% of the nuclear fuel for those power plants. But in the late 1960s, other nations began to surpass us as new, more efficient designs were created, and the government could not innovate fast enough.
Scott Nolan, along with Lee Robinson, a former defense department executive, formed General Matter. The firm became the first start-up company in the U.S. to build a nuclear enrichment facility.
The significance of this is that the U.S. nuclear industry had been in deep hibernation for 50 years. As a result, Russia and China raced ahead of us.
“Imagine a world where every reactor being built around the world leads to a long tail of dependence on China and Russia,” Robinson said. “Imagine a world where our grid is unstable because we don’t have our own reactors. Where we have submarines and aircraft carriers that are dry-docked because we can’t fuel them. That’s the world we could be living in, in 2040.”
To his credit, Joe Biden saw the coming crisis and acted. In 2024, Biden announced a $3.4 billion contract up for grabs to companies that could create America's nuclear supply chain.
Last October, Biden announced that four companies, including General Matter, had been selected.
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