The Alabama legislature has passed a resolution in strong support of recycling spent reactor fuel into new liquid fuels for advanced reactors. The resolution urges the Governor to help establish an R&D center in Alabama "with notable emphasis in liquid fuel reactor technologies." 1/2

France repeals mandate to prematurely close 14 nuclear reactors www.france24.com/en/france/20...

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

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?

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...

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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

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...

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" CC @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/conr...

@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%)

#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.

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.

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?

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 www.cas.cn/spx/202511/t... "Thorium-based Molten Salt Reactor Completed, Marking a New Breakthrough in my country's Nuclear Energy Technology" 76 MB vid 7:19 CC @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social via x.com/FissionLiquide

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.

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

Voted ("NO") on Elizabeth May's continued leadership of GPC in Leadership Review vote, Green Party of Canada. Is May's fault EMay didn't participate in the debate. May's delay of nuclear power policy vote. Excludes 70% of Canadians from running as GPC. Drop-in candidates didn't get 100 sigs.

#Nuclear #Thorium #China #钍 #TMSR CC @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social Sad to see SINAP website in B&W today for mourning... www.sinap.cas.cn/xwzx/zhxw/20... Death notice for Xu Hongji (who headed the TMSR project). He "passed away in Shanghai at 8:15 AM on September 14, 2025, at the age of 70."

AppleCare+ is constant regardless of RAM or SSD storage. iPhone 17 Pro: 256GB or 1TB storage both (AppleCare) $13.49/mo. "That's $1600 CAD or $2200 phone, not a crazy delta!" MBP 16" MAX: $5500 CAD to $10,300. Same $190/yr AC+! One can "budget" to fixed $, but AC+ will be different.

I have lots to say and I am convincing myself to say as little as possible, but I don't think a society that has been absolutely saturated in unavoidable looping videos of snuff films for a decade is one that can hold. Power will and has coalesced around those who best weaponize the snuff films.

CANDU was created to solve a challenge this country faces again today: avoiding dependence on USA nuclear technology. macleans.ca/politics/how...

Univ. of New Brunswick has opened its Advanced Nuclear Reactors Laboratory to accelerate R&D, technical support, and workforce development. Moltex Energy, a UNB research partner for more than 7 years, noted that the facilities are specifically designed to handle molten salts. 1/2

"If we have time, we'll make a copy of the list. In case something happens to the first list." youtu.be/Vooevgm4HIQ?...

Hey @profgalloway.com!

@jonfavs.bsky.social July 11 discussion about Tesla’s commitment to the environment: Integrating Grok with Tesla means integrating gas turbines which help power it. Don’t see how company making batteries and solar panels does that, if environment was a priority.

Trump: "We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He's very nice all the time but it turns out to be meaningless."

Will no one rid me of this meddlesome President of the United States of America?

Like I said, previous Elon back down was only temporary, even when it came to his Epstein tweet that he took down. Like Trump, his basic nature is scorched earth. www.thedailybeast.com//elon-musk-d...

According to Wolff, Trump said, “‘actually, we dropped a dime to The New York Times ... on Elon’s drug taking.” Wolff said he has no idea if someone in Trump’s team was actually the source of that story, but “he is just claiming credit for that now.”

I wish Elon would stop making sense so I did not have to agree with him so much this week.

Update: This is no longer urgent or pertinent to our school.

So so good by @monicahesse.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

MacBook Pro 2012, Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and 2 supposedly Mini DisplayPort cables. Only 1 of them fits. What the F is going on? I only had the not-fitting one on-hand at first, and felt like I was losing my mind... it does NOT fit, so what is it? (The other end on both cables is HDMI.)

Apple Turnover: hypercritical.co/2025/05/09/a...

"Canada says YES to building the first #SMR in the Western world. Broadcast of the press conference on the announcement of the Final Investment Decision for Ontario Power Generation." @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=THSA...

#Nuclear #Thorium #China #钍 #TMSR CC @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social It's been way too long since I made a Satellite image video; just found out that browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu will make one for you if you just select the area! Here's the TMSR site from June 2018 to this month :)

🚨 New paper drop Must-read by a stellar group incl. @mliebreich.bsky.social, @iain-staffell.bsky.social H2 isn’t silver bullet it’s made out to be. It has a role—just not everywhere. Best bets: parts of industry, long-haul, storage Not useful: home heating, cars www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#Nuclear #Thorium #China #钍 #TMSR @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social it would be wonderful to get a PDF copy (or better yet, video!) of his presentation. Was titled: 《从上海光源到钍基熔盐堆（追赶、超越三十年）》 "From Shanghai Light Source to Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (Catching up and surpassing for thirty years)"

TIL: BEIR VII discusses the differences between receiving single, acute dose of radiation and multiple smaller doses spread out over time. The committee endorses LNT however, explicitly includes an adjustment for low dose rates spread out over time.

@gordonmcdowell.bsky.social SINAP itself posted www.sinap.cas.cn/xwzx/cmsm/20... about the same event, FINALLY acknowledging explicitly that LF1 was actually running LOL

@conrad.knauer.ca tech.gmw.cn/2025-04/11/c...

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

@radiantenergyg.bsky.social Any reason www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/us-p... is not linked to from your landing page?

🇨🇦 An application has been filed with Canada’s nuclear regulator to build enormous 4 gigawatt nuclear plant in Alberta The application includes four 1,000MW CANDU MONARK reactors, which are domestically designed and manufactured 🔌💡 iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/document... #cdnpoli