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This actually happened in August and September of 2023 and it’s great validation for High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) at larger scales. I hope they have the guts to also …

people in the center, cargo in the peripherals

From Luke Smith's post on GDP: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-its-bad-to-have-high-gdp/ "GDP is only a measurement of how reliant a place or country is on the global economy. S…

I have a feeling that in hindsight, 30-40 years from now, this will seem like no brainer and that the period prior was heavily anti-meritocratic and counterproductive.

More evidence: https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/us-blew-up-russi...

Little bit of circumstantial evidence: https://seapowermagazine.org/baltops-22-a-perfect-opportunit...

oops thought it was July...

If the pipeline started operating, which it probably would in a few months with energy catastrophe in Europe - it would be total victory for Russia: natural gas revenues through th…

Act of war by USA? (equivalent if done through ally)

Better metrics -- $/operation which includes the capital and operating cost and expected lifetime of the chip OR $/transistor or something like this.

In some respects, vulnerability to attack is a feature, not a flaw for promoting peace and collaboration instead of violence. A country with nuclear reactors is less likely to piss…

Meltdown accident: basically, reactor is turned off, however heat continues to be generated because of a thing called decay heat which is when isotopes generated by the fission rea…

The typical radioisotope generator is a Plutonium-238 source like the MMRTG on the Mars rovers. The Plutonium decays by alpha emission with a half life of 80+ years. The problem is…

Regarding Omouamoua, we just observed for the first time in human history, a cylinder or plate shaped object from another star flying through our solar system with questionable orb…

A company I work with recently started design and development for space craft to catch Borisov or Omouamoua, the other extra solar object that recently passed by, using a nuclear d…

I was going to mention CANDU, basically the only exception to the above comment about running at too high power density.

This is just the dumb/old kind of nuclear in which the reactors are operated at really high power which means they have to be actively cooled so that the fuel doesn't melt itself a…

These guys explicitly want to couple their nuclear plant with wind/solar: https://usnc.com/mmr-energy-system/ . And from top level, it looks a lot like a natural gas plant.

I think that's their plan: https://usnc.com/space/

Nuclear detonations are very effective earth movers, perhaps capable tools in an Megascale structure project. See project plowshare. I'm not sure if the energy to make a weapon (en…

Then you should also refuse to comment.

fyi, this disappeared from the Top 120 of HN. Not a good look dang