What would it take to create the SpaceX of Nuclear, cutting costs by 10x?
For rockets, the answer was obvious: Make them re-usable.
What is the equivalent insight for reactors? 🧵
Excited to see @doe posting content like this
45 years' worth of spent nuclear fuel from an entire power plant is shown in this photo, and it’s barely visible.
More people need to see this
Henry J Kaiser was incredible.
He built highways, bridges, and The Hoover Dam.
But most impressively, he built 1,490 ships during WWII, 1/3 of the entire U.S. cargo fleet.
Here's how he reduced the time to build a ship from 8 months, to 4 days 🤯 (🧵)
For 40 years, nuclear power was expanding exponentially, ushering in a new era of clean & reliable power.
Then in 1989, it hit a wall.
What really happened? … 🧶 …
My Green Card 🇺🇸 was officially approved!
The journey to build small nuclear reactors in gigafactories continues.
To celebrate, here’s me eating a donut in front of an American flag.
If you think the energy transition is going well, look at this:
Not only is clean energy barely even visible on a graph of energy use globally,
But oil and gas is still growing.
What’s going on here? (🧵)
Radioactive metal was accidentally used in the construction of 1700 apartments in Taiwan in 1983. Nobody realized for 10 yrs.
Yet the 8,000 residents have reportedly had a LOWER cancer rate than others in the area.
How? Here's the controversial story of radiation hormesis 📖 👇
How much nuclear waste has the US ever created?
You may have heard it would fit on a football field...
But stacked how high? And stored how?
@whatisnuclear wrote a great post on this... 🧵(1/8)