I agree...for now. Once Gen IV tech matures and proliferation that calculus will in nuclear's favour shift.
Yes, I am very much aware of the current paradigm.
China and Russia have successfully built small reactors, so no longer fantasy.
I'm not trying to generate power for a home. I'm talking about an array of microgrids dotted across the globe bringing power to the billions that are still without, and supporting a high tech society that values energy density.
Wind and solar will always have a role to play for hyper local decentralization but in the log run nuclear is the most effective way to meet the power needs of humanity well into the future.
Fun fact, nuclear fuel is renewable, and abundant. As small reactors mature, they will be the anchor of nearly every microgrid on Earth, while wind and solar play support, if they are even needed then.
I had a great conversation with Emile of BitcoinLens about the current state of the nuclear sector. The challenges it faces, and how Bitcoin can play a starring role in the global nuclear power renaissance that is upon us!
Fixed for the mining plebs. 
Massive update on the convergence of data center power demand and nuclear power plants.
How long will it take before a major data hosting entity owns and operates their own fleet of nuclear reactors?
If this is any indication, that time will be sooner that anticipated.
Could this model of building bitcoin data centers first, then attracting major players from the data sector to occupy new ground made fertile by POW. Time will tell, but I am here for the ride.
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Try @coinos.
In Canada we just tell them to sign up for Bull Bitcoin and get to the post office.
I think so. The spent fuels are put aside to cool down for years. There is an entire industry on reprocessing the spent fuel. The newer reactors can use these reprocessed fuels. That would be a good practice to use the spent fuels in a small modular reactors in the future and it could help decentralise the energy grid. 👀
Do you have any ideas on the topic nostr:npub18fuceddpkztv6rudrl7e87h7xpkc3vnnzkwx4vvrlh8ggnzlld2sd79ms9 ?
Yes, the technology exists to chemically and electrolytically separate non fissile materials from spent uranium full rods. France, Russia and Japan have fast breeder reactors that use a mixed oxide fuel that combines UO2, PuO and other transuranics. They can recover another 80ish% of the embedded energy in it all. It also has the added effect reducing more material to a more stable less radioactive state, while also breeding new fissile elements that increase the total amount of recoverable power.
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https://www.youtube.com/live/3xY-dV-IrSM?si=jl7HmDcSm9I2XI8P
I had an amazing time chatting all things nuclear with the Meme Factory crew.
I even presented an offering of atomic 🍌 🍞 to the prophecy.
I suggest a new podcast I just found called Gridlocked: why the 21st century is broken and how to fix it. They go through a thorough examination of the tradeoffs amongst competing power technologies and the hang ups keeping nuclear from truly flourishing. He momentum is in our favor, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
https://fountain.fm/episode/4mQ7pJJ1n5gt854tOLOi
Talking nuclear power with nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak.
Why is the world so scared of radiation associated with nuclear power? Were exposed to it naturally everyday, from the sun, bananas, flying, any medical diagnostic instrument.
Is it willful ignorance or intentional misinformation? Either way, nuclear power is staged to claim its rightful position as the preeminent energy source to lead humanity into the 22nd century.
Setting up for family game time!
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Thanks for the great podcast with nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z
Atomic power is the densest form of energy that humanity is capable of harnessing.
#nuclearpower
Need to hear more.
It's a long way from a laboratory to commercial feasibility though.
It can probably be done. We would just need an obscene amount of power to fully reduce it to its base elements, something like a hydrogen blast furnace. The economics wouldn't add up until we it is basically free power or there is some market value to doing so. People aren't going to invest the capital to do so purely out of altruism, somebody needs to be earning something of value.
It also depends on the type of plastic as well, anything with chlorine or flourine in it would add extra complexity.
As simple as burning it may be, the resultant emissions would be even worse than what comes out of a coal plant.
I'm for the Futurama solution.
