Mark Nelson

I work with companies working on large and companies working on small.

You previously on Twitter asked for this type of nuclear discussion but rejected me and other professionals, calling us "advocates", apparently only an issue for nuclear professionals and not for, say, geothermal professionals

HOUSTON: Tech giants are joining together with heavy energy users to support the Triple Nuclear by 2050 pledge.

Just announced, with the signing event later today at the CERAWeek global energy conference.

Everyone is realizing that, in the end, we are all baseload.

in a brutal push, if you started today, you could get there by end of 2032

Apologies Alon

Three plants would be very fast, like, by end of 2028 if you started today; nine reactors total including these three would still be faster and significantly cheaper to restart than new-build (which is slow and expensive, sadly).

I was in Brokdorf including in the containment just days ago and can thoroughly reject Alon's claim that it's too late.

Fortunately for Germany and fortunately for Europe!

I would not presume to know transit like Alon; I am not sure where he has gotten his nuclear reactor information.

depending on the item, can mean disassembled or completely destroyed

A screencap of incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a podium during a press conference

Merz: "It is necessary to reach a moratorium on dismantling"

In a live national press conference minutes ago, incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for a nuclear dismantling moratorium.

This is the first step to saving German nuclear plants and restarting them.

I am glad it is not surprising to you, a professional grid expert

This is a part of the country that has been driving corporate and Democratic climate policy, shut down several nuclear plants, and is home to large NGOs that are still deeply confused on energy issues

Oil-burning reminders are good

Yes it's called being powered almost entirely by local nuclear plants for the past forty years, incredible and timely sleuthing from Canary Media

chilling with 40 years of nuclear waste yesterday inches away from me at Diablo Canyon

Germany's nuclear reactors and plants sorted broadly from fast and cheap to restart, to costly and slow to restart, with their main systems and structures listed as icons indicating readiness levels based on already-completed decomissioning work. All listed reactors could be restarted faster and cheaper than new build. https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/restarting-germanys-reactors-feasibility-and-schedule

Germany's 9 most-complete reactors displayed at annual energy production scale and approximate restart time needed, in comparison to very large recent German solar and wind projects. https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/restarting-germanys-reactors-feasibility-and-schedule

Germany's nuclear reactors and plants mapped and categorized from from fast and cheap to restart, Restart Class 1 and 2, to costly and slow to restart, Restart Class 3 and 4. All Restart Class 1-3 reactors could be restarted faster and cheaper than new build. https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/restarting-germanys-reactors-feasibility-and-schedule

Germany's public opinion towards nuclear energy compared to peer countries. https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/restarting-germanys-reactors-feasibility-and-schedule

New report out: Germany can restart 3 reactors by 2028, 9 by 2032.

Four key graphics summarize:

1. Current physical status of German nuclear
2. Timeline and scale if nuclear returns
3. Nuclear map and restart difficulty
4. German support for nuclear

www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/rest...

German utility execs who champion the Energiewende are starting to panic after this month's shocking 12-day wind drought.

RWE CEO Markus Krebber posted a desperate plea for more "secure" power supplies this morning on LinkedIn.

The situation is coming to a breaking point.

Thanks for the reply - evidence...?

I hear your founder loud and clear and see all the articles on your website.

Am I missing some super secret behind the scenes thing that contradicts this?

My sincere apologies to anti-nuclear RMI, who indeed as of June 2024 no longer controls Carry Media which publicized this bad solar study.

Canary chooses their own editorial standards and this just tells us what those standards are.

bsky.app/profile/nath...

Outstanding thread forensically deconstructing a garbage-tier "study" claiming to show that there somehow isn't a cost shift happening from poor to rich via California solar.

Use extreme caution when reading/sharing stories from Canary Media, controlled by the anti-nuclear Rocky Mountain Institute

Very interesting thread from one of the most rare of creatures:

An electricity practitioner who's also willing to share on social media!

If we're rebuilding energy Twitter on here this stuff is an excellent foundation.

me to my team this week

I know I'll get asked this, so here's the same two weeks with 20 GW of prematurely-closed German nuclear capacity imposed on top of lignite and hard coal.

This is Germany. Electricity. First two weeks of November.

166 GW of installed onshore, offshore, and solar PV provided next to nothing for days at a time.

Almost no sun or wind across the entire European continent.

Germany has tried to get all of Europe to copy this energy policy.

we got the electricity grid Bene Gesserit over here

Well I guess they may just have more in mind then.

For security reasons, nuclear plants are "air gapped", disconnected from outside networks.

This limits the use of powerful AI in working with immense amounts of data being generated by the plant's reactor and other systems.

Solution? Bring the AI inside.

Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, has just made its first move into nuclear power: it is partnering with PG&E's recently-saved Diablo Canyon Nuclear plant to build AI inside the plant.

The deal is being announced right now.

Here's Reuters on the story:

www.reuters.com/technology/a...

At COP29 a few moments ago the USA just dropped a 200GW nuclear roadmap.

As recently as 2016 nuclear wasn't even welcome as a topic at COP and now we have climate-focused governments dropping era-defining nuclear plans there?

It's a new world.