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Is S02 worth watching? We watched E01 E02 and suspect it might not be.

(Didn't mind S01 except last episode seemed weak. But S01 not a must-watch show, just want to know if S02 worse/same/better.)

MAJOR WIN FOR CLIMATE ACTION!

We've halted the demolition of Tihange's cooling towers!

Why it matters:
✅ Prevents irreversible destruction of billions in clean energy infrastructure
✅ Keeps the door open for restarting Tihange 1 & 2
✅ Protects Belgium's energy security & climate goals

DOE awards $19M to advance SNF recycling

The DOE-NE awarded more than $19 million to five U.S. companies—Alpha Nur, Curio Solutions, Flibe Energy, Oklo, and Shine Technologies—to research and develop recycling technologies for spent nuclear fuel.

Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2026-02...

Flibe Energy has won a DOE grant to refine its concept for recycling used nuclear fuel. Flibe will research electrochemical processes that dissolve fuel rods, separate the uranium for reuse in conventional reactors, and retain fission products and transuranics for use in liquid-fuel reactors. 1/2

“Filming horizontally rather than vertically includes more of the scene.”

Finally! Rachael Maddow signal boosts a calls for landscape video capture!

Now can we also restore some sanity to everyone’s TV settings and ditch sped-up frame rates?

YouTube video by AtomicBlender Inside America’s $3T Nuclear Bet (HALEU)

It's not that advanced reactors aren't and can never be economical (that's crazy), but they haven't been economical so far (for very specific reasons) and have a steep hill to climb to achieve viability. As always, the only way to climb it is to build build build. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2JL...

I still don’t know what is happening. Email me at gordonmcdowell@gmail.com if you think there’s some communication I am missing through social media

Jesus.

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How ​‘strategic amnesia’ led to Calgary’s water pipe disasters | The Sprawl A costly example of a common pattern.

Calgary city hall knew that a crucial water pipe could blow. But the ways in which city hall *didn’t* know—or kept itself from knowing with clarity—are perhaps more telling. #yyccc

Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Gratuitous brown nosing and exact
same policies and exact same criminal behaviour would have prevented this.

September 2025: Commence construction of the 60MWt/10MWe demonstration reactor (TMSR-LF2), with a construction period of 48 months.

Source: Compiled by China Securities Journal"

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Conrad, are you bouncing these efforts off some LLM tool too? What you're doing is important, but I'm worried you might not have all the tools that might help at your disposal. Can share access to an LLM if you don't have one.

@gordonmcdowell.bsky.social I put the tiles on my Google Drive drive.google.com/drive/folder...

If you download the whole directory and open the included HTML files in a browser, they will render the tiles at different sizes; 512 pixels each (100%), 256 (50%), 128 (25%), 64 (12.5%), and 32 (6.25%)

What's latest SINAP timeline on terrestrial TMSR ? (If you know offhand.)

Exclusive | China’s oldest shipyard Jiangnan plans world’s first nuclear-powered vessel Construction on 25,000-container ship could start in the next 10 years, but a lot remains to be done, a top executive says.

#Nuclear #Thorium
#China #钍 #TMSR

"Jiangnan Shipyard to build world’s first thorium-powered container vessel by 2035" (8 Dec 2025)
www.scmp.com/business/chi...

Article image is "A model of a nuclear-powered container ship is displayed at the Marintec China expo in Shanghai last week." :)

I so want to tour this White House. Not “The” White House. THIS White House. The photos, the captions, the labels on rooms, the rubble, the tacky.

PLEASE next admin: before changing anything do a LiDAR and high rez scan.

We are allowed to swear on YouTube? Where will it end? Where will it all end?!?

I’m now a member of the “tried to watch Tron Ares” club.

Matt Zoller Seitz at Roger Ebert dot Com gave it 4/4 stars.

“If they’d played it again right after I saw it for the first time, I would have gladly stayed in my seat.” says Matt.

What is the projector?

you know I had to do this

Why do I (when I search by price) see video projectors on Amazon with a resolution of 320 x 240 ?

How is that even a thing?

YouTube video by SmarterEveryDay Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR - Smarter Every Day 311

This refueling video from Destin is excellent.

His nuclear submarine series, and this surface reactor series have been a treat
youtu.be/v0afQ6w3Bjw

#Nuclear #Thorium
#China #钍 #TMSR

Media news!

【新闻直播间】科技推动力·钍基熔盐堆建成 我国核能科技实现新突破
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"Thorium-based Molten Salt Reactor Completed, Marking a New Breakthrough in my country's Nuclear Energy Technology"

76 MB vid 7:19

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But if you are circumcised AND you get vaccines, the otherwise inevitable autism effect is canceled out.

Heck of a day to run that piece. It is just too late.

Had one hour in an Apple Store with an iPhone 17 Pro and it wasn’t enough time to fully explore one question: Dual Camera capture, is it 2x 4K or 1080P?

Answer: DoubleTake UI is buggy. Says 4K but shoots 1080P. Toggling camera choices gets around the bug.

If we have a 2 sided discussion, I think things will go fine. My problem is that so far, the nuclear town hall held by GPC had only anti-nuclear participants. Radiant Energy's polling included GPC (a rare breakout) and my fellow Green are least likely to know that nuclear is low carbon.

GPC Green Party of Canada's Elizabeth May is delaying member's vote on nuclear power policies, including a proposal to lift GPC's blanket opposition against #nuclear power. According to United Nations ECE lifecycle report, nuclear is THE single LOWEST-CARBON source of electricity. #cdnpoli