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Now you can enjoy it all over again (dubbed into French)!
Transatomic express (Time Bomb) (1984) Morgan Fairchild
Transatomic express (Time Bomb) (1984) Morgan Fairchild
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August 23, 2026 at 10:49 PM
evastegen.bsky.social
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Schon vor einer Dekade, im Vorfeld der 🇨🇭Volksentscheide zur Energiestrategie2050 und zum #AKWNeubauVerbot hatte Atom-Investor #Aegerter seine Aktien im Spiel.

Die #PowerPoitReaktoren, die mit riesigem #PR -Aufwand protegiert wurden, floppten, Hochstapelei flog auf, #Transatomic Power ging pleite.
Energieproblem gelöst. Leise PR soll Marktanteile der Konzerne sichern
YouTube video by Eva Stegen
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November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
nebulousmenace.bsky.social
I think you're maybe giving Thiel more credit for brains and judgement than he deserves. He just fuckin' throws money at blonde women from big-name universities with Big Ideas, for instance. (At least two: Theranos and Transatomic.) And he didn't even TRY to see if Theranos's shit worked.
August 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
owasow.bsky.social
A new generation of reactors has potential to recycle “waste” as 90+% of energy remains in fuel.

Watch: “You can take the worlds 270,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel and turn it into enough electricity to power the entire world for 72 years.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G5Z...
Innovators Under 35: Leslie Dewan, Chief Science Officer, Transatomic Power
YouTube video by MIT Technology Review
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December 1, 2024 at 5:49 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or EPR2 or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or Transatomic or… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Nov 15
Not a mention of the latest examples: VCSummer, Vogtle, Flamanville, Olkiluoto, Hinkley, NuScale, mPower…

1985. "The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale."

#NuclearIsAndWasItsOwnWorstEnemy
Forbes cover February 1985. Following text in shape of cooling tower. “Nuclear Follies. The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale. The utility industry has already invested $125 billion in nuclear power, with an additional $140 billion to come before the decade is out, and only the blind, or the biased, can now think that most of the money has been well spent. It is a defeat for the US consumer and for the competitiveness of US industry, for the utilities that understood the program and for the private enterprise system that made it possible. Without even recognizing the risks, the US electric power industry undertook a commitment bigger than the space program ($100 billion) or the Vietnam War ($111 billion)…" ...and, in little more than a decade, transformed what elsewhere in the word is a low-cost, reliable, environmentally impeccable form of energy into a power source that is not only high in cost and unreliable, but perhaps not even safe. The scale of U.S. nuclear power program's collapse is appalling: 75 plants canceled since 1978, including 28 already under construction, with another half-dozen or so cancellations in prospect. Even in its death throes, the U.S. nuclear program looks ambitious: 16 new stations put into commercial operation since 1979, another 3 this past year, and 40 more units by the end of the decade. By that time nuclear power will account for something like 20% of the U.S.' total generating capacity up from 14% today. Altogether, these stations will be producing 129,725 megawatts, more than the nuclear capacity of France, West Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union put together. But that's it. Once these plants are completed, the U.S. nuclear power program is at an end…
November 16, 2024 at 9:57 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
#AmateurHour

'Our reactor is
so safe that someone could hold the spent fuel in their hands for 5 mins and get as much radiation exposure as a CAT scan.'🤔

'A nuclear engineer found holding fuel under those conditions would give a “lethal dose of radiation in 85 milliseconds."'👀

#DejaVuAllOverAgain
Nuclear Energy Startup Transatomic Backtracks on Key Promises
The company, backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, revised inflated assertions about its advanced reactor design after growing concerns prompted an MIT review.
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April 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
nuclearkatie.com
But the time between a cool idea and a deployed commercial nuclear technology is long. Lots of "paper reactors" and such exist. So I keep an eye out for more... corporeal advancements that give a better sense of where the industry is actually making firm progress
A reactor drawing from Transatomic, a defunct nuclear startup that had a lot of press and fancy drawings but folded after identifying a crucial technical error in their proposed technology advancement
October 26, 2023 at 11:29 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or EPR2 or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or Transatomic or… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
November 17, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Ping @ThorconPower @BNW_Ben @Transatomic - Finnish politicians would like to study small reactors for heating https://jmkorhonen.net/2017/03/16/over-100-finnish-election-candidates-greens-included-call-for-small-reactors-for-district-heating/
Over 100 Finnish election candidates – Greens included – ...
More than hundred candidates in the upcoming municipal el...
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December 5, 2024 at 8:10 AM
jmkorhonen-twitter.bsky.social
Energy.

https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612193/nuclear-startup-to-fold-after-failing-to-deliver-reactor-that-ran-on-spent-fuel/
A nuclear startup will fold after failing to deliver reac...
Transatomic Power, an MIT spinout that drew wide attentio...
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December 4, 2024 at 7:56 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or EPR2 or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or Transatomic or… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Nov 28
"The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale." Forbes, 2/11/1985
Forbes cover February 1985. Following text in shape of cooling tower. “Nuclear Follies. The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale. The utility industry has already invested $125 billion in nuclear power, with an additional $140 billion to come before the decade is out, and only the blind, or the biased, can now think that most of the money has been well spent. It is a defeat for the US consumer and for the competitiveness of US industry, for the utilities that understood the program and for the private enterprise system that made it possible. Without even recognizing the risks, the US electric power industry understood a commitment bigger than the space program ($100 billion) or the Vietnam War ($111 billion)…" ...and, in little more than a decade, transformed what elsewhere in the word is a low-cost, reliable, environmentally impeccable form of energy into a power source that is not only high in cost and unreliable, but perhaps not even safe. The scale of U.S. nuclear power program's collapse is appalling: 75 plants canceled since 1978, including 28 already under construction, with another half-dozen or so cancellations in prospect. Even in its death throes, the U.S. nuclear program looks ambitious: 16 new stations put into commercial operation since 1979, another 3 this past year, and 40 more units by the end of the decade. By that time nuclear power will account for something like 20% of the U.S.' total generating capacity up from 14% today. Altogether, these stations will be producing 129, 725 megawatts, more than the nuclear capacity of France, West Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union put together. But that's it. Once these plants are completed, the U.S. nuclear power program is at an …
September 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
What needs to change?

How different nuclear prospects would be of even one AP600, AP1000, EPR, EPR2, VOYGR-12, VOYGR-6, VOYGR-4, Oklo, mPower, eVinci, NANO, Natrium, Transatomic,… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
Screenshot. Vogtle project update: Cost likely to top $30 billion. https://www.ans.org/news/article-3949/vogtle-project-update-cost-likely-to-top-30-billion/ Screenshot. South Carolina's $9 Billion Nuclear Boondoggle Fits a Global Pattern of Troubles. South Carolina utilities abandoned a pair of troubled reactors projected to cost more than twice their original price. https://spectrum.ieee.org/abandoned-nuclear-reactors-fit-a-global-pattern-of-new-build-troubles
August 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or EPR2 or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or Transatomic or… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
June 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or EPR2 or VOYG-12 or VOYG-6 or VOYG-4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or Transatomic or… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Nuclear Energy Startup Transatomic Backtracks on Key Promises
The company, backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, revised inflated assertions about its advanced reactor design after growing concerns prompted an MIT review.
www.technologyreview.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:29 PM
b-renger.bsky.social
Transatomic Express (1984)
aka "Time Bomb"

☆☆☆☆

Un téléfilm tout ce qu’il y a de plus insignifiant.

✍️ La suite ici :
www.senscritique.com/film/transat...

#TransatomicExpress #TimeBomb #PaulKrasny #Film #Cinema
October 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
cityatlas.bsky.social
cc: @nycjtam @hashbrown312 @tru_randomness @wanton_stew @isilakgul @ODouglasPrice @AarneClimate
A nuclear startup will fold after failing to deliver reactors that run on spent fuel
Transatomic Power, an MIT spinout that drew wide attention and millions in funding, is shutting down almost two years after the firm backtracked on bold claims for its design of a molten-salt reactor. High hopes: The company, founded in 2011, plans to announce later today that it’s winding down. Transatomic had claimed its technology could generate electricity 75 times more…
www.technologyreview.com
June 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
jholston.bsky.social
Interesting hearing about MIT start-up @Transatomic http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2014/08/05/nuclear-waste-startup-transatomic-power-gets-2m-from-founders-fund/ via @FareedZakaria Won first-ever DOE Innovation Award
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www.xconomy.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:38 AM
suzwarto.bsky.social
2018 (NuScale failed later):

Transatomic: “...promises to use spent nuclear waste as reactor fuel... to ‘generate electricity 75 times more efficiently than conventional light-water reactors,’ according to MIT Technology Review.”

2016: “does not reduce existing stockpiles of spent nuclear fuel.”
A good announcement and a bad announcement for two nuclear-energy startups
NuScale Power takes a step toward engineering; Transatomic power shuts down.
arstechnica.com
April 23, 2026 at 11:12 PM
the25hurts.bsky.social
The natural question is how efficiency is measured. A T-MSR may have a smaller fissile inventory and be more space efficient, but it isn't going to be burning the transuranics. That's the mistake which brought down TransAtomic with their Waste Annihilating MSR. Thermal neutrons cannot fission U238
December 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
russwilcox.bsky.social
Brief Transatomic article in the Boston Herald today - Reactor Reuses Nuclear Waste <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view/20221112reactor_reuses_nuclear_waste/srvc=business&amp;position=also" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view/20221112reactor_reuses_nuclear_waste/srvc=business&position=also
Page not found – Boston Herald
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November 18, 2024 at 12:16 AM
russwilcox.bsky.social
Forbes Top 30 under 30 - Transatomic Power Cofounder Leslie Dewan headlines the list for Energy - Congratulations! <a href="http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-under-30.html" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-under-30.html
30 Under 30 - Forbes
The young disruptors, innovators and entrepreneurs on our...
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November 18, 2024 at 12:16 AM
russwilcox.bsky.social
Interested in Transatomic Power? Please VOTE for us to present at ARPA-E so people hear about our clean cheap energy. <a href="http://lnkd.in/Tm3BYt" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://lnkd.in/Tm3BYt
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November 18, 2024 at 12:16 AM
russwilcox.bsky.social
#Nemo snow is everywhere - power still on - just at home asking everyone we know to support Transatomic by midnight <a href="http://futureenergy.ultralightstartups.com/campaign/detail/848" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://futureenergy.ultralightstartups.com/campaign/detail/848
November 18, 2024 at 12:16 AM
russwilcox.bsky.social
Super clear article today in the New Yorker about @Transatomic and founder Leslie Dewan here <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/06/a-new-way-to-do-nuclear.html" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/06/a-new-way-to-do-nuclear.html
A New Way to Do Nuclear
Transatomic seemingly solves both the problems of nuclear...
www.newyorker.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:16 AM