#Nuclear

The American Caliban

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No matter what the TV says, don't inject bleach, huff peroxide, or get out all the plutonium in the house and put it on the table for photos. The story

Ward Wilson

WardHayesWilson

Recently I've been thinking how wildly inappropriate the word "proliferation" is when used to describe the acquisition of nuclear weapons. Proliferation implies exponential growth, but nuclear weapons have only been

Edmund Griffiths

EdmundGriffiths

If nuclear weapons remain in existence forever then sooner or later they _will_ be used again: either consciously by some govt, as at Hiroshima, or accidentally, or in response to

Cheryl Rofer

CherylRofer

The problem with the idea of doing a test of a nuclear device is where to do it.Las Vegas has grown in the direction of the test site. Even back

Homo Cosmicus

HOMO8COSMICUS

Yep, it's the quintessential example of what happens when you oppose #NuclearEnergy as an environmentalistWith #Nuclear ,we actually have a realistic chance to continue to progress&prosper while also saving the

Palladium Magazine

palladiummag

You can't separate civilian and military nuclear power. This drives fear of nuclear. We need to come to terms with this, and build a positive vision of a green nuclear-powered

Rauli Partanen

Kaikenhuippu

Thread of the day: Techno-economically, #Nuclear could pretty much stop #climatechange. We need to stop lamenting how hard it is to build because it's politically unpopular (circular argument) and instead

Vipin Narang

NarangVipin

Hot off the presses from DoD. Nuclear Deterrence! Some oddities follow...http://media.defense.gov/2020/Apr/06/2002275415/-1/-1/1/NUCLEAR-DETERRENCE-AMERICAS-FOUNDATION-AND-BACKSTOP-FOR-NATIONAL-DEFENSE.PDF 2/ China is going to double its nuclear ars

Shashank Joshi

shashj

My piece for @TheEconomist on the cyber-attack on India's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (though importantly not its control systems), touching on some of the wider issues around vulnerabilities in nuclear

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Framing the discussion this way is one of the reasons people hate nuclear bros. Seriously, I can't even fault people for liking the nuclear community less after tweets like this,

Dan Hon

hondanhon

Skynet was originally intended to be a content moderation system but after bootstrapping itself and becoming sentient decided that cleansing nuclear fire would be the best and most effective approach

(((Alex Gilbert)))

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Shellenberger has a new article in @cityjournal that misrepresents and drives confusion about the importance of US nuclear exports. Most egregiously it cites (largely) anonymous nuclear industry officials complaining about

John Hudson

John_Hudson

SCOOP: In a meeting last week, the Trump administration discussed conducting the first U.S. nuclear test explosion since 1992 in a move that would have far-reaching consequences and reverse a

(((Alex Gilbert)))

gilbeaq

Nuclear energy is really not a competitor with renewable energy.It's primary competitor in most nations is coal and natural gas. In the US, it is increasingly natural gas.Existing plants are

David Hess

6point626

Some thoughts on these comments by Timmermans. Bluntly, I'm unimpressed. It's simply not enough for EU policy makers to acknowledge that nuclear is emissions free and that they won't stand

Saket Gokhale

SaketGokhale

How Modi ruined years of hard work of UPA govt., capitulated to Japan, & risked lives of Indians:After the Indo-US nuclear deal was signed by Dr. Manmohan Singh, many nations