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1Sep 23, '23Word is out: Microsoft is plunging ahead on nuclear energy. They want a fleet of reactors powering new data centers. And now they're hiring people from the traditional nuclear indu146×6.6M21k3.4k3.6k
2Sep 27, '23Poland is starting to build a fleet of large reactors TODAY, immediately after signing contracts. They have this one great chance to bury Germany economically. Germany's economy wa111×5M9.6k1.7k1.7k
3Apr 17, '23First night of Germany's grid without nuclear: it's bad. It's night. No sun. Wind has dropped to almost nothing. Most of German "renewables" right now is richly-subsidized bioenerg73.6×3.3M13k2.9k1.2k
4Sep 4, '23HOW TO SOLVE NUCLEAR WASTE: 1. Collect the spent fuel 2. Put it in an iron container 3. Put that in a copper container 4. Put that in a hole surrounded by clay... 5. ...Deep in sta73.1×3.3M9.3k1.7k1.5k
5Aug 22, '23Warning: YOU CAN'T DRINK THE TRITIUM WATER BEING RELEASED BY JAPAN THIS WEEK It's almost entirely seawater. A lethal dose of seawater for an adult is around 8 liters! The radioacti70.1×3.2M6k1.7k280
6Feb 23, '23Massive cultural shift: superstar Democratic congresswomen @AOC describes how she safely visited a triple-meltdown site in Japan. She further describes French nuclear waste recycli63×2.8M12k1.3k865
7Apr 16, '23HOURS BEFORE CLOSING REACTOR, GERMAN UTILITY ANNOUNCES 45% PRICE RISE As Eon closed nuclear, by far its cheapest reliable power, it announced a big jump for many customers from wha59.1×2.7M4k1.2k250
8Sep 20, '24BREAKING: BLOCKBUSTER MICROSOFT DATACENTER DEAL RESURRECTING THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR PLANT Microsoft and nuclear plant owner Constellation have agreed to a massive, unprecedented57.8×2.6M3.8k752546
9Sep 10, '23The greatest man you've never heard of died this week on Wednesday, September 6th. Marcel Boiteux built the French nuclear fleet as head of national utility EdF, making superb, far47.2×2.1M12k2.7k2.7k
10Sep 23, '24BREAKING IN NYC: WORLD'S BIGGEST BANKS PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR NUCLEAR Banks and funds totaling $14 TRILLION in assets have just signed an unprecedented statement in support of nuclear 41.8×1.9M7.8k1.3k1.1k
11Jan 12open this if you want to help me build it39×1.8M9.5k107331
12Jun 6, '23ZAPORIZHZHIA NUCLEAR: LOSS OF KAKHOVKA DAM Zaporizhzhia NPP, Europe's largest, draws cooling water from a reservoir whose dam is now severely damaged. All six reactors are off &amp38.8×1.8M5.3k1.5k356
13Nov 9, '24Looking at German electricity this week you could be forgiven for forgetting they've spent FIVE HUNDRED BILLION € on a renewable energy "transition" They're just straight up fossil38.2×1.7M11k2.6k2.4k
14Apr 15, '23MUSK SLAMS GERMANY NUCLEAR CLOSURES: "I want to be super clear. In my opinion, Germany should not only not shut down the nuclear power plants, it should reopen the ones that are sh32.7×1.5M6.8k1.4k254
15Sep 9, '23The solar industry in Germany now reports that a jaw-dropping 15% of German solar capacity is rapidly disintegrating. On one hand, this represents the decay & destruction of many b32×1.4M4k1.3k663
16Dec 21, '24I have a 5mo baby. I invited three mid-20s friends to a restaurant dinner with their girlfriends. After ordering I handed over the baby and had each of them spend 5 minutes holding31.6×1.4M25k5941.2k
17Dec 2, '23HISTORIC NUCLEAR PLEDGE AT COP28 DUBAI: SIXTEEN COUNTRIES AIM TO TRIPLE GLOBAL NUCLEAR BY 2050 Joined by IAEA, the following are signing, many with heads of state present: USA, Fra28.3×1.3M5.6k1k382
18May 15, '25BREAKING: DENMARK REPEALS 1985 BAN ON NUCLEAR ENERGY The vote came and went in a matter of moments, with a murmer of astonishment across the gathered representatives. 71 for, 34 ag27.1×1.2M12k2k501
19Dec 24, '22Chicago's four local nuclear plants are cranking out immense power, taking care of Chicago while helping support the surrounding areas. They sit on about 100 acres each. They're ru26.7×1.2M13k1.8k158
20Sep 20, '24However big you think this Microsoft nuclear deal is, I am telling you, it's bigger. One of the biggest power deals ever. ~$800 million/yr for 20 years $16 BILLION for one nuclear 26.1×1.2M7.4k1.1k1.2k
21Jan 6, '24Incredible: German electricity demand has fallen to the lowest levels since before reunification in 1990, as its economy falters. Germany intentionally turned off its extraordinari25.6×1.2M5.5k1.4k1.1k
22Feb 11, '25MACRON MEETING ALTMAN IN PARIS The guy with the most spare nuclear capacity in the world just sat down with the guy who says he needs the most of it. A friend sent me this pic he t24.2×1.1M6.5k1.1k1.8k
23Mar 24, '24Catalonia is powered by nuclear. 60% of electricity comes from reactors. Two here at Asco which I toured today. Spain has the largest planned nuclear phaseout in the world. Nowhere23.3×1.1M2.6k285136
24Sep 21, '24When word gets out that both Three Mile Island and Chernobyl kept running for years after their meltdowns, people are going to be so angry for being lied to about the danger of nuc23.1×1M3.7k337198
25Jan 15, '23German energy policy in its purest form: Police rolling around in mud attempting to protect a mine that serves almost exactly the same amount of energy (37 TWh in 2022) as Germany 23×1M4.5k868267
26Sep 9, '23Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry nuclear plant is one building containing three powerful reactors. It makes steady, carbon-free power for 3 million people for the incompre22.3×1M5.1k645466
27May 16, '23Finland spent 19 years building the world's slowest, most over-budget nuclear reactor. Was supposed to cost €4 billion. Cost €12 billion. Construction companies and the reactor bui22×993k3.4k386113
28Apr 29, '25SPAIN BLACKOUTS: AN ANONYMOUS EXPERT VIEW From a deep groupchat, last night, translated from Spanish, written by an expert in transmission and distribution of power. Not my words. 19.5×880k8.1k2.1k4.4k
29Aug 16, '24In a few minutes, Germans will blow up two cooling towers at the world-class Grafenrheinfeld nuclear plant. In past generations, it took a lot of American lives and money to destro19.1×864k6.1k939239
30Apr 2, '24Depressing to watch electricity production crashing in Germany year by year. We can all see what they're doing to themselves. Maybe other EU nations enjoy seeing the decline of Ger18.6×837k4.8k989879
31Oct 16, '24BREAKING: AMAZON MAKES HISTORIC INVESTMENT TO DEPLOY NUCLEAR PLANTS Amazon has made a direct investment, the first of its kind, into building nuclear reactors to power AI. Amazon i18.1×814k5.1k873676
32Jun 21, '24Incredible speech: Arnold Schwarzenegger slams Germany for closing nuclear plants while claiming a fossil fuel emergency to its citizens! Schwarzenegger, the most famous living Aus17.4×784k8.2k1.5k984
33Aug 11, '24ZAPORIZHZHIA FIRE: This fire is not near the reactors and is not a threat to them. The fire is at the base of one of the natural draft cooling towers circled in red. The nuclear re16.8×758k2.7k886199
34Dec 4, '24BREAKING: We find that Germany can restart 3 nuclear reactors by 2028 and 9 reactors by 2032. The engineering and economics work. Two-thirds of the public want it. Only political w16.4×741k7.4k1.5k1.2k
35Feb 26, '23EU "NUCLEAR ALLIANCE" BEING PREPARED: France is now fully defecting from Germany's suicidal energy policies. Remarkable turnaround after 2 decades of self-sabotaging energy appease15.9×718k3.6k515163
36Sep 20, '24AMAZON NOW HIRING NUCLEAR ENGINEERS All these companies claimed for years to be 100% renewable-powered. It was always untrue, and now they can't get into nuclear fast enough. They 15.3×689k6.8k1k967
37May 8, '24Telegraph: Microsoft reportedly planning "Stargate", a $100billion supercomputer to be powered by several nuclear plants The era of the great uranium brains approaches.14.7×664k3.7k462667
38Jan 22, '25PROJECT STARGATE ENERGY ANALYSIS Project Stargate is going to need an enormous amount of power: each of the five Stargates needs about 5 gigawatts (about five million people's wort14.2×642k2.5k4481.7k
39Sep 30, '24New photos show China building America's best nuclear reactor design at record speeds to become #1 in nuclear power. Here's Lianjiang nuclear plant 12 months after Unit 1 construct14.1×634k3.2k559324
40Jan 27, '24It must be emphasized that in the middle of a crushing energy crisis, Germany turned off all of its absolute best power plants in perfect working condition. I have to remind myself13.7×618k4.4k623262
41Jul 31, '23A few harsh realities for our brave new leaders! Uranium is cheap and common. Niger exports about $300 million per year, or $12 per person. That uranium makes roughly $20 billion o13×588k2.1k415202
42Jul 16, '22GERMAN NUCLEAR OPERATOR: WE CAN KEEP RUNNING, ONLY NEED "OK" News clip has emerged showing that Chancellor Scholz and Economy Minister Habeck have been falsely claiming that nuclea12.4×027k5k571
43May 31, '24VOGTLE, GEORGIA: US SECRETARY OF ENERGY CALLS FOR "HUNDREDS" MORE LARGE NUCLEAR REACTORS "We need two hundred of these by 2050. Two down, one hundred and ninety-eight to go." US Se11.9×536k3.2k502206
44Sep 20, '24Europeans: if we force everyone to wash their clothes by hand they won't need gym memberships to get exercise Americans: let's literally restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant11.8×532k8.8k559447
45Oct 18, '23GERMANY SUBMITS TO FRANCE ON NUCLEAR DEMANDS Germany has now said that France can fund its nuclear fleet life extensions with state support, reports the FT. This decision opens up 11.7×529k3.5k760276
46Apr 16, '23In record time.11.5×517k2.2k34538
47Dec 25, '22New York is running low on energy. New York just lost enough nuclear power for a few million people. There are people out there who did this, who chose this path and then exerted t11.3×508k2.3k48747
48Mar 4, '23France vs Germany 2022: electricity by the hour. In 2022, France's $200 billion nuclear fleet had its worst year of production. Simultaneously, Germany's $500 billion Energiewende 11×498k2.2k633216
49Dec 9, '24German Greens concealed a utility's offer to keep running nuclear plant during energy crisis, reveal newly released documents. German parliament is now conducting an inquiry into h10.8×487k2.7k601341
50Jun 16, '23She's literally standing next to nuclear waste from the melted reactor at Three Mile Island that killed nobody Basically, nuclear fear was a meme that's fading out with the Boomers9.7×440k5.3k611183
51Sep 30, '24NEW DEPT. OF ENERGY NUCLEAR REPORT RELEASED Just out a few minutes ago. Some of the absolute sharpest minds in nuclear put in months of work on this report and it shows. Key highli9.2×414k2.9k5131.9k
52Oct 2, '23Bono says he went from protesting nuclear energy to being for it. Many such cases! A wave of reconsiderations has been coming in the past few years. Expect a flood as nervous celeb9.1×411k2.5k479133
53Nov 23, '24As Markus Krebber went viral by begging for power plants on LinkedIn, I received these ominous texts from a Dutch power expert, half a bottle of wine deep and despairing for his co9.0×405k2.3k508725
54Jun 17, '23I'll go toe to toe with RFK Jr on nuclear energy. Pick me Joe, pick me, it'll be fun For those who don't know, @RobertKennedyJr was instrumental in working with Andrew Cuomo to shu8.9×399k2.8k29945
55Mar 7, '24Let me translate this for those who don't speak German. "How we intentionally destroyed our industrial economy"8.8×395k4.7k565200
56Jun 7, '23Weeks before Germany's nuclear closed, utility giant @RWE_AG CEO Markus Krebber rejected calls to save them: "There is still enough electricity" The reactors close. Six weeks later8.6×386k2.3k662139
57Apr 15, '23Midnight strikes. Germany's nuclear plants, among the finest on earth, power down. It's night. It's quite calm. Germany's €400 billion wind and solar fleet barely runs. Germany's c8.4×377k2.2k35442
58Jul 18, '23Germany is supposed to be rapidly expanding clean electricity, to decarbonize. The opposite is happening. Clean electricity is collapsing, now back to 2017 levels. Germany paid hun8.3×372k3.2k971272
59Oct 19, '24I'm off to Greece. "Wait," you might object. "Greece does not have a nuclear energy program!" Greece does not have a nuclear program...yet. The time has come to correct this. More 8.2×370k2.7k369242
60Oct 16, '24SIERRA CLUB: RENEWABLES NOT ENOUGH FOR AI, WE NEED NUCLEAR Sierra Club last month quietly reversed 50 years of antinuclear advocacy to endorse nuclear energy as a clean source of p8.0×363k2.9k490380
61Feb 15, '25Belgium just shut down ANOTHER nuclear reactor last night. It's all so tiring. In the dead of winter, enough cheap clean power for a million houses - gone. Europe is intentionally 7.7×348k7.4k1.5k203
62Jul 20, '23GERMANY REACTOR NEWS: ADDITIONAL REACTORS CAN BE RESTARTED Our new report's out with a shocking find: 8, not 6, reactors can be saved! Krümmel, big enough to power a million people7.5×336k2.2k566142
63Feb 24, '25MERZ: "IT IS NECESSARY TO REACH A MORATORIUM ON DISMANTLING" In a live national press conference minutes ago, incoming German Chancellor Frederic Merz called for a nuclear dismantl7.4×335k2.6k422106
64Jan 1, '25France and Germany: Electricity Compared in 2024 This chart shows all 8784 hours in the year. Germany averaged 349 grams of CO2 per kWh with wind, coal, solar, gas, and biogas. Fra7.0×317k2.8k818417
65Nov 2, '23Extraordinary development: Germany Econ Minister Habeck says Germany will lose its industry without cheap power. Owners of Isar-2, one of the largest, cheapest-operating nuclear re6.9×310k2.2k49484
67Aug 29, '23Greenpeace made defeating nuclear power its most important cause. That cause was wrong, and young people are getting angry when they discover it. Now Greenpeace is the rich corpora6.3×282k2.3k44549
68Dec 28, '24Wild French energy story: Greenpeace fought, and won, a battle to switch new French homes from electric heat to natural gas heat. France doesn't produce natural gas. They import it6.2×279k4.8k812438
69Dec 21, '24MOST POWERFUL EUROPEAN REACTOR CONNECTED TO GRID The most powerful reactor in the history of Europe is now connected to the French national grid. Flamamville 3, located on the Engl5.7×258k3.7k438174
70Sep 6, '25Marcel Boiteux, one of the greatest men of the 20th Century, died two years ago today at the age of 101. He predicted the need for and then executed the construction of France's as5.6×252k2.4k576541
71Jun 11, '25The World Bank has lifted its ban on funding nuclear. A new era is here.5.1×230k4.3k721273
72Sep 20, '24Tech companies after this4.9×221k4.2k275119
74Mar 14, '25I see that and raise you this giant 3D cross section of a German nuclear plant you can walk through4.6×207k5k255493
75Apr 18, '23Germany isn't ready for this future. United States is offering EU nations billions for what may be the start of a Nuclear Marshall Plan. Could be a permanent edge for Polish indust4.5×205k2.1k371119
76Dec 3, '24META LAUNCHES NUCLEAR PROGRAM Meta has just requested up to 4 GW of nuclear from nuclear developers. Now we're cooking.4.1×185k2.4k398260
77Aug 20, '23This is what it looks like when you land in Finland, a country where even the Green Party is for nuclear energy4.1×183k2.6k28733
78Nov 23, '24German government has been spending taxpayer money on fake antinuclear research to try to get other countries to also abandon nuclear power. Expect to see more investigative journa3.8×173k2.8k567328
80Nov 22, '24Nobody tell Elon that he could offer to buy German nuclear plants for a few billion €, wait 3 months for German elections, get one little law changed (German public largely agrees)3.5×158k3.1k271175
81Mar 4, '22Just so everybody knows: the statement that "if it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chornobyl", is absolute nonsense. This is a bad situation because it is an attack on a 3.3×05.7k1.7k282
82Jun 2, '24It's been wild to watch the financial elite discover nuclear energy's extraordinary qualities in real time.3.2×143k2.3k259118
83Sep 30, '24Spain is planning on shutting down all its nuclear power starting in 2027. That's exactly the baseload power that the tech companies are paying top dollar for in the USA. Someone s3.2×143k2.3k295110
84Dec 29, '24The next nuclear reactor to be prematurely closed in Europe turns off February 15th, in the dead of winter.3.1×142k2.5k22555
86Feb 11, '25I'm at Brokdorf nuclear plant. Just came out from a visit to the reactor. It's still in perfect shape. We could get it turned back on by the end of 2026 if we started today. Nothin2.9×132k3.4k582131
87Dec 12, '24Sweden closed nuclear reactors directly feeding their cities, to be like Germany. France destroyed one of their best nuclear plants, to be like Germany. Belgium is turning off a lo2.9×132k2.4k481110
88Sep 11, '24Germany has a national fetish for getting dumped on by the whole world. This country bet its energy future on a fossil fuel pipeline with Russia while destroying ITS OWN world-clas2.9×129k3.3k40869
89Feb 8, '25Just visited an absolute beast of a nuclear plant. Cattenom, in France, on the border with Luxembourg, boasts four massive 1300 MW reactors. With a total capacity of 5200 MW this p2.7×122k2.7k184123
90Jul 30, '22BREAKING: Extraordinary, powerful new interview. Joachim Bühler, CEO of safety inspection association TÜV, says Germany's working nuclear plants, plus 3 plants closed in December, 2.6×04.6k1.4k265
91Dec 19, '24When people say "what about the nuclear waste" they're literally just asking about this stuff "Nuclear waste" was the ultimate psyop2.3×106k3.1k198125
92Jun 19, '24HINT: it's because they aren't actually environmentalists2.3×102k2.8k21754
93May 15, '25BELGIUM LEGALIZES NUCLEAR: PHASEOUT IS HISTORY The most destructive planned phaseout in history (killing off 50% of national electricity supply in a three year period) is officiall2.2×99k3.4k656131
94Oct 10, '22How it started //~// How it's going2.0×04.3k956102
95Oct 6, '21How it started How it's going1.9×03.6k1k160
96Mar 9, '22CHERNOBYL UPDATE: BEWARE MISLEADING CLAIMS ABOUT OLD SPENT FUEL COOLING NEEDS The spent fuel rods are at minimum 22 years old. They have very little heat to dissipate. In most plan1.9×02.5k1.1k226
97Mar 4, '22This is false. Zaporizhzhia does not risk a "nuclear radiation catastrophe." If it did, he would've ordered it off. I'm afraid to say this looks like a coordinated effort to induce1.6×02.6k934142
98Feb 24, '22NUCLEAR, UKRAINE, EUROPEAN ENERGY There are wild claims about Chernobyl going around. I will post the most accurate and authoritative information here and keep this thread updated.1.4×02.3k610268
99Sep 23, '22Grotesque situation. Belgium losing 10% of its electricity supply tonight for nothing, in a generational energy crisis. Feels like ancient Rome losing a key aquaduct to invading Go1.4×02.8k65971
100Nov 25, '21"WHAT ABOUT THE WASTE?" Nuclear energy's got EXCELLENT waste: there's almost none of it, and it announces its presence reliably even w/ cheap detectors. The Dutch have solved it: m1.1×02.1k460273
101Aug 5, '22WELT: 82% OF GERMANS SAY KEEP NUCLEAR ON A poll just published finds 41% say keep nuclear long term. 68% of Greens now say keep nuclear online at least temporarily. Nearly incompre1.0×02.1k38838

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