[theluckycountry]

Small Modular Hallucinations
https://substack.com/home/post/p-165399821

[AdamB]

Small Modular Hallucinations
https://substack.com/home/post/p-165399821

[theluckycountry]

How long since they have built a new plant in the US? 3 decades? Four? Of course they blame it on protestors but the reality is they are super expensive and can't get out of the ground without massive subsidies.

[theluckycountry]

UK Announces $19.3 Billion Funding For New Nuclear Power Project

Weeks after Germany decided to reverse course and 're-embrace' nuclear power following their supreme idiocy on the matter, the UK government announced on Tuesday that it would build a new nuclear plant in the southeast of England. The new plant, named Sizewell C, will be located in Suffolk and will create enough electricity power roughly 6 million homes.

"We need new nuclear to deliver a golden age of clean energy abundance, because that is the only way to protect family finances, take back control of our energy, and Blah Blah Blah... clean energy - mission in action- investing in lower bills and good jobs - Blah Blah Blah (But Wait!) Sizewell C would be the third power station built on the site after Sizewell A and Sizewell B, both of which are currently in the process of being decommissioned. (So build one to replace two )

Sizewell C would be just the second new nuclear plant built in Britain in more than 20 years, after another EDF project, Hinkley Point C, which was first announced in 2010. Hinkley Point C, based in Somerset, has been beleaguered by delays and budget overruns and is currently expected to come online in 2029.

So 20 years from inception to on-stream. Half the population of England will have frozen to death by then, even if it comes to pass. Forgive my skepticism but the rose colored glasses I ordered from Ebay never arrived. All have to go on is the reality that politicians Lie through their teeth and the simple fact that a nation overpopulated for its resource base and collapsing back into the dark ages isn't going to see a revival due to a couple of Nuke plants.

Yes resource base, the stuff we build nations on in the first place. Coal and farmland and minerals. In the good ol days of Blighty they were able to roam the world and steal at will. "Steal, Steal at will said the general." Then after WWII they were still able to steal through financial and currency manipulation. They maintained relative prosperity on the poverty of the 3rd world nations they were exploiting. It's the American model, no need to send in armies, just corporations and suitcases full of cash to bribe the dictators. Have the dictator's children educated at Eton and Oxford, buy them lavish homes in central London. When they grow up to rule they'll be more English than Zimbabwean and will view their people back home the same way their White overlords do. A resource base, or feral animals overrunning a good mine site. Anyway the Nuke plant is just a proposal at this stage, hardly worth mentioning outside of the fact they are decommissioning more than they are building.

A.I. says:

While it's common to see the children of political leaders, including dictators, being educated abroad, including in England, there's no specific list of dictators' children educated in England. However, it's notable that sending children abroad for education, often to prestigious institutions in England, has been a common practice for families of power, including those of dictators.

Kim Jong Un, the dictator of North Korea, is reported to have attended the Liebefeld Steinhölzli state school in Köniz, near Bern, Switzerland, from 1998 to 2000. He was under the name "Pak-un" or "Un-pak" and was described as the son of an employee of the North Korean embassy. While he was initially in a special class for foreign language children, he later joined regular classes. Classmates described him as a well-integrated and ambitious student who enjoyed basketball.

He views his Korean subjects, as insects, and reportedly likes cognac and western cigarettes.

[AdamB]

A.I. says:

Like an uneducated fool isn't bad enough....now they have to use AI to hide their own inability to think for themselves.

[theluckycountry]

New York To Build Gigawatt Nuclear Power Plant, Backed By Trump-Era Reforms

Well someone has a plan to keep the lights on, in the this city at least, which is more than we can say for little dumps like boulder colorado. It will be allowed to go dark, nothing of importance there anyway.

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil ... n-271cfd33

[AdamB]

New York To Build Gigawatt Nuclear Power Plant, Backed By Trump-Era Reforms
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil ... n-271cfd33

[theluckycountry]

too bad it's not in boulder hey adam, all those heat pumps needed to stay warm

Brrrrr

[AdamB]

too bad it's not in boulder hey adam, all those heat pumps needed to stay warm

Not sure what you mean. I don't live in Boulder. And I don't have a heat pump. Recently, for 2 days, I had the A/C on for the first time this summer, it was like 100F outside. But the temperature swings along the Front Range are large, we can have 100F during the day and a nice 55-60F at night. So you open some windows, as the Sun begins to heat the house, you close the windows, somewhere around 2-3 PM the 90F+ begins to show in rising inside temperatures, you turn on the A/C for maybe 4 hours until the Sun gets behind clouds or the mountains and temperatures drop, and you shut off A/C and open windows again. With some ceiling fans, which are GREAT, the temperature rarely cracks 78F using this simple system.

What moron thinks that the recent heat dome means we are trying to stay warm?

[theluckycountry]

US Nuclear power stations, I've discussed them here before. When they reach the end of life the government just renews the licenses, most are timebombs. Then there was that "one" that was decommissioned up by the great lakes. They cleaned up the site and turned it into a park, all except that big concrete block where they left all the radioactive waste

Every morning I wake up and thank God we never built any here, no Chernobyl's in Australia, No Fukushima's thank you very much. Oh it''ll happen in the US one day too no doubt.
"No it Won't!"
Yeah, that's what the Russians said, that's what the Japanese said...

[AdamB]

US Nuclear power stations, I've discussed them here before.

So what? You are qualified to discuss nose picking, and ditch digging possibly, but you aren't qualified to say the word "nuclear" if only because you probably can't spell it without a dictionary, let alone discuss it intelligently. Parrots can't think Lucky.

Every morning I wake up and thank God we never built any here, no Chernobyl's in Australia, No Fukushima's thank you very much.

Australia's nuclear research reactor going strong since 2007. it ain't a power station, but a research reactor....so Australians who aren't parrots can learn stuff. Something you wouldn't know anything about obviously.

Good thing its in South Wales, the last thing they need is a parrot from Queensland coming down to try and shut them down with his ignorance of "nuclear".

[theluckycountry]

Only a matter of time...