@Emil

My home-town plant!

Maybe they'll open the Visitor Center again. When I went, several years ago now, with a couple of folks from the Dallas Makerspace, it was by-appointment-only.

Still a great pity that the proposed 2×1700 MW additional units didn't materialize.

@istewart @maol

Competitive forensics is an intellectual exercise, not a way of addressing or solving social problems. It's like translating Cæsar's Commentaries — you're not likely or expected to have any new and valuable insights that previous translators missed, but it builds and demonstrates certain kinds of abilities and readiness.

Seeing it any other way, using it any other way, is a conceptual error with the usual outcomes.

@Emil

Someone who actually knows nuclear energy, on the NRC?

Golly!

@Emil

I'm planning to visit both Dukovany and Temelin in the coming weeks. I should be able to report on their visitor centres.

@Emil

Germany continues to insist on the supremacy of EU over national law even in areas not explicitly covered by the Treaties of the European Communities. So why (I ask for the umpteenth time) has the Euratom Supply Agency not demanded that Germany turn over all spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing, regardless of German law prohibiting this?

@Emil

Armenia would be a perfect customer for the Rolls-Royce "SMR", which actually has more output than their surviving VVER-440, one of an original two. Given that the one operating unit at Metsamor provides 25% of the country's electricity, their grid simply can't accommodate anything bigger, although Russia keeps trying to sell them a VVER-1200.

@Emil

I think there is great potential in using the Treaty of Tlatelolco as a mechanism for pooling national resources to advance nuclear energy in Latin America.

@Emil @hsdkfr734r

Even when it's not required explicitly, it's a common enough practice, because a lot of work which would initially have to be done under health-physics control can, if you wait (for instance) five or ten half-lives of cobalt-60, be done much more cheaply under normal working conditions.

@SubArcticTundra

It would be if anybody cared. But California government is intensely dysfunctional. If anything, it's worse than Texas (where I'm from), which is really difficult.

@[email protected]

The monument to PRR men who died in the two World Wars, inside, has to be seen to be believed. Photos don't do it justice.

There's also that fascinating relief of "the progress of Transportation" just off the main hall.

@Emil

Absurd.

@Emil

"California legislature, governor at odds" is a blanket statement which is always true. The Assembly and Senate are controlled by the Governor's party, but he always vetoes whatever bills they pass.