I’ve been published for the first time ever today in the Herald, alongside my coauthor @nukebarbarian.bsky.social
“Prairie Power: Why Illinois Needs Nuclear Energy Now”
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The Nuclear Khanate of Illinois Ascendent?
Excellent primer on the new nuclear moratorium repeal bills, from Chicago's own @nukebarbarian.bsky.social
In it, I lay out why the first attempt in 2023 was a Pyrrhic victory for advocates
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Turns out a species of fish that almost killed a TVA dam project is not an actual species of fish.
nuclearbarbarians.substack.com/p/the-crypti...
a deep cut from the construction of the dresden nuke plant in illinois
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As I covered in April, the German government lied to the people about the consequences of its nuclear phaseout.
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Nearly $1k (USD) a megawatt-hour in Germany thanks to a wind drought.
This is what happens when people unmoored from reality run a country’s energy system.
Happy Sunday!
The perfect time to listen to my latest episode with @spencerklavan.bsky.social about the history of science, modern physics, and living faithfully in a scientistic world.
more miller work
Top 10 Greatest Anime Comebacks of All Time:
scaling up actually removed the need for this niche role!
hands.
On the one hand, yes.
on the other, maybe not, because this niche role preceded the nuclear power industry.
tag urself I’m KILL
in this case, yes, but as the scale of reactors increased I would imagine that this difficult disappeared as well.
However, I’m sure there are people with dwarfism who still hold jobs as welders.
That’s awesome!
absolutely.
a surprising little anecdote from the construction of America's first nuclear power plant at Shippingport
been drawing from frank miller's dark knight returns.
a little better each day.
Nuclear plants are industrial cathedrals. An anchor that generates generational prosperity for the community. They demand, and create, excellence and a high-trust society.
Nobody articulates the case better than Chicago's own Emmet Penney. Go off, king 👑.
Nuclear is in a better position than it's been in generations.
Which is why we need to be more prudent about how we communicate about nuclear's place in the world.
Check out my remarks from the ANS winter conference on where I think we can improve.
nuclearbarbarians.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
You can now read my latest piece for
American Affairs—a look at the life and contributions of David Lilienthal, first to run the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Atomic Energy Commission.
It’s also a history of the American century and Progressivism.
americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/11/davi...
I'm reading this book and it's so fantastic. Both hilarious in a lolsob sort of way and parting the curtains on arcane but important policies that impact us all. A call to action.
I published a profile of Meredith Angwin, the Vermont grandma whose self-published book on power markets, Shorting the Grid, is changing the way we look at electricity in America. thespectator.com/topic/meredi...
We’re doing a read through of Leo Marx’s half-forgotten classic The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America.
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Pretty wild.
"[I]n a review of the 30 global systemically important banks, 57 percent have explicitly excluded nuclear energy from their respective green or sustainable financing frameworks’ taxonomies, while 40 percent are silent on its inclusion or exclusion."
You hate to see it.
Good shot, even though I’m taking an L.
In my latest, I argue that phasing out coal faster than we can replace it with nukes harms coal communities and endangers our already fragile grid.
We can’t “electrify everything” while starving the system of baseload. https://compactmag.com/article/the-reckless-green-war-on-coal
