The Nuclear Skeptic

‘Missing’ documents complicate restart of retired Michigan nuclear plant The report is needed to confirm materials used in repairs meet safety requirements.

Holtec's hubris and incompetence are on full display here.

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What an interesting thread. France went all in on nuclear power plants, which are now being displaced by cheaper wind and solar. Ramping nuke plants up/down and turning them on/off puts unexpected wear and tear on pumps, valves, pipes, etc., raising maintenance costs and shortening equipment lives.

Really interesting thread on French nuclear power.

The Trump Administration exempts new nuclear reactors from environmental review The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

NEW: The Trump Administration is exempting new experimental nuclear reactors from environmental reviews.

The exclusion comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten environmental and safety standards at the Department of Energy.

www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

In 2025, installed nuclear capacity of 4.4 GW was 180 times lower than new solar and wind capacity, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicting 4,600 GW new renewable capacity by 2030 (current global nuclear capacity is 369 GW), meeting 90% of global electricity demand growth.

The Trump Administration exempts new nuclear reactors from environmental review The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

"The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a written, public assessment of the possible consequences of a nuclear accident."

🚨New NuclearCosts guest blog today from NEIS's David Kraft:

“First get your facts straight; then you can distort them as much as you want" 👇

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"They're taking a wrecking ball to the system of nuclear safety" - @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social

The new "rules" Trump's DOE just handed to the nuclear industry should alarm anyone living near a proposed nuclear reactor.

Safety is now just a recommendation. 👇
www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

GA's "new" Plant Vogtle reactors resulted in a 25% increase in electric bills 👀

Then why is @governor.ny.gov hellbent on building new reactors in NY that will drive up 🔌 bills?
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"It was a remarkable moment when she (Gov. Hochul) tried to do a bunch of applause lines around nuclear and it was like crickets chirping in the hall"

Climate activists find little comfort in Gov. Hochul’s State of the State message The Democrat’s address emphasized nuclear with smaller goals for new renewable energy.

"There's no possible way of saying that new nuclear is consistent with an affordability agenda. That is magical thinking. She's getting bad advice.”

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“The cost analysis underlying (Hochul’s) Energy Plan is so flawed that neither the state nor the contractor who wrote it stands behind its accuracy or the consequences of using it.”

-Dr. Joseph Romm on @governor.ny.gov's plan to build 3GW of nuclear power
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Nuclear power is not the answer.

A new report from the Hawaiʻi State Energy Office finds that nuclear energy is legally barred, technologically unviable, and fundamentally incompatible with Hawaiʻi’s climate goals, public safety needs, and history in the Pacific.

The conclusion is decisive.

Optimism About Nuclear Energy Is Rising Again. Will It Last?

"We’re really headed toward a very dangerous experiment on the American people."

- Edwin Lyman, a physicist and the director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists
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*Karl Grossman

"neither the president nor his family have ever engaged, or will ever engage, in conflicts of interest.”

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Kevin Grossman and Harvey Wasserman on the many conflicts of interest the Trump family nuclear grift poses 👇
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Nuclear power’s loud-but-quiet year Despite all the hype, overall global nuclear capacity shrunk in 2025 as retirements outstripped additions. Still, the sector could rebound in the coming…

"For press releases, policy changes, and promises to build new nuclear power, 2025 was a gangbusters year. For actually adding new reactors to the grid, not so much."

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"The researchers estimated that about 20,600 cancer cases in the state—roughly 3.3% of all the cases included in the study—were attributable to living near an nuclear power plant"

Cancer risk may increase with proximity to nuclear power plants | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In Massachusetts, residential proximity to a nuclear power plant was associated with significantly increased cancer incidence, with risk declining by distance, according to a new Harvard Chan School s...

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Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company that wants to power AI The combined company says it plans to find a site and begin construction next year on the “world’s first utility-scale fusion power plant,” with aims to provide the electricity needed for artificial i...

Grifters gonna grift, and in the energy sector, the biggest grifts are always in nukes.
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Exactly.

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