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a new benchmark for ai agents -- can the agent run through nuclear plant scenarios? can it force the simulator into a meltdown? #nuclear #ap600

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November 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Never did.

How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR 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… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
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 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. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world Screenshot. The loading of fuel into the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been put back again by at least six more months, with the estimated cost at completion increasing by a further EUR500 million (USD530 million), EDF has announced. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-delay-to-Flamanville-EPR-start-up
November 4, 2026 at 1:11 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR 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… had been completed on time, on budget.

👇🏽 #NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Jul 25
OECD-NEA key recommendations:

1. Capitalise on lessons from recent Gen3 builds.

❌ Six active AP1000 COL sit unused.

2. Prioritise design maturity, regulatory stability.

❌ Rewrite NRC regs every few years. Pt50/52/53/NEIMA/ADVANCE…

3. Commit to standardised nuclear program.

❌ 130+ designs.

…
https://oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_30653/unlocking-reductions-in-the-construction-costs-of-nuclear Unlocking Reductions in the Construction Costs of Nuclear A Practical Guide for Stakeholders This study assesses the policy and governance frameworks needed to drive positive learning and continuous industrial performance for nuclear new build. The study also explores the risk allocation and mitigation priorities needed to define adequate financing schemes for these projects. In the longer-term, it identifies cost reduction opportunities associated with the harmonisation of code and standards and licensing regimes and new innovative designs (i.e. small modular reactors and advanced reactors). Key policy recommendations 1. Capitalise on lessons learnt from recent Gen-III construction projects. With the construction of several FOAK Gen-III nuclear reactors completed, the nuclear industry and its supply chain have in large part redeveloped their capabilities in several OECD countries. By building on these reactor designs, governments have a window of opportunity to realise cost reductions in the early 2020s through timely new-build decisions. Delaying these decisions will prevent the sustainment of capabilities and therefore raise near-term project construction costs. 2. Prioritise design maturity and regulatory stability. Designing policies to support nuclear construction is critical to ensure that new-build projects start in the right conditions. Policy support mechanisms should include requirements for design maturity and, more specifically, construction readiness, and should ensure that the regulatory framework for nuclear safety remains stable and predictable throughout construction. 3. Consider committing to a standardised nuclear programme. For countries considering multiple new-build projects, commitment to a standardised nuclear programme to capitalise on the series effect, multi-unit construction and continuous design and process optimisation is the most promising avenue to effectuate cost reductions. 4. Enable and sustain supply chain development and industrial performance. Industrial and energy strategies for new nuclear plants need to be carefully articulated. For instance, investment in supply chain capabilities require assurance of long-term energy policy commitment to new nuclear construction to adopt the latest technical and organisational advances under the best conditions. New-build ambitions needs to be adjusted to integrate supply chain constraints and ensure continuous activity to enable and sustain development. 5. Foster innovation, talent development and collaboration at all levels. Governments can support cost reduction opportunit…
October 27, 2026 at 3:28 AM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy

Nuclear has never lived up to its hype.

💸💸💸 How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or NuScale or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget.

🧵
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 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. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world Screenshot. The loading of fuel into the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been put back again by at least six more months, with the estimated cost at completion increasing by a further EUR500 million (USD530 million), EDF has announced. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-delay-to-Flamanville-EPR-start-up
October 27, 2026 at 4:16 PM
atomschutzverband.bsky.social
#Prasser Fehlprognosen
Ein weiteres Bsp. aus dem Archiv der @taz.de:
In den 27 Jahren nach seinem angekündigtem US-Atom-Revival gingen bis heute 3 Reaktoren ans Netz,
nach 10, 11 bzw 43 Jahren Bauzeit.
Der angekündigte AP600 wurde nirgends gebaut.
Von 4 geplanten AP1000 wurden 2 nie fertig gestellt.
Leserbrief von Horst Michael Prasser mit überzogenen Prognosen für ein US-Atom-Revival. https://taz.de/Revival-der-Kernenergie-in-den-USA/!1272164&s=horst%2Bmichael%2Bprasser/
August 19, 2026 at 5:41 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Nuclear has never lived up to its hype.

💸💸💸 How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or NuScale or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or Nano or Radiant or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
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 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. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world Screenshot. The loading of fuel into the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been put back again by at least six more months, with the estimated cost at completion increasing by a further EUR500 million (USD530 million), EDF has announced. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-delay-to-Flamanville-EPR-start-up
May 1, 2026 at 4:33 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
#HealThyself

How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR 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… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
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, 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. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world Screenshot. The loading of fuel into the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been put back again by at least six more months, with the estimated cost at completion increasing by a further EUR500 million (USD530 million), EDF has announced. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-delay-to-Flamanville-EPR-start-up
April 21, 2026 at 11:18 AM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR 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… or… or… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
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 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. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world Screenshot. The loading of fuel into the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been put back again by at least six more months, with the estimated cost at completion increasing by a further EUR500 million (USD530 million), EDF has announced. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-delay-to-Flamanville-EPR-start-up
March 26, 2026 at 11:50 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or ESBWR or EPR or EPR2 or NuScale or mPower or Natrium or Oklo or Nano or Radiant or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy

OTOH. Renewables deploy. #ClimateEmergency
Screenshot. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world Screenshot. The loading of fuel into the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been put back again by at least six more months, with the estimated cost at completion increasing by a further EUR500 million (USD530 million), EDF has announced. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-delay-to-Flamanville-EPR-start-up 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
March 26, 2026 at 9:34 AM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's (and the climate'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… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
March 13, 2026 at 2:24 AM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Who's "we"?

🧵 #NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy

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… had been completed on time, on budget.
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Jun 1
The history of the nuclear power industry "is one of massive construction delays, cost overruns, and poor operational performance."

Fact check: TrueAF

"The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale."
March 7, 2026 at 10:03 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Renewables deploy.

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… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Sep 8
Total world energy generation (TWh) from nonHydro renewables is approaching double the generation from nuclear.

2022 2023 2024
Ren* 4206.7 4748.4 5415.2
Nuc 2679.6 2737.7 2817.5

* nonhydro renewable

www.energyinst.org/statistical-...
Chart. Global Generation (1965-2022). Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. Nuclear (TWh) Non-Hydro Renewables (TWh) Nuclear (∆TWh) Non-Hydro Renewables (∆TWh) [Probably should read "(1965-2021)."]
October 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or VOYG or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget.

Nuclear took itself out as a pre2050 solution to climate change.

#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 Screenshot. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world Screenshot. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world Screenshot. The loading of fuel into the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been put back again by at least six more months, with the estimated cost at completion increasing by a further EUR500 million (USD530 million), EDF has announced. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-delay-to-Flamanville-EPR-start-up
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR 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 eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget. #NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy

OTOH, renewables deploy. #ClimateEmergency
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Sep 8
Total world energy generation (TWh) from nonHydro renewables is approaching double the generation from nuclear.

2022 2023 2024
Ren* 4206.7 4748.4 5415.2
Nuc 2679.6 2737.7 2817.5

* nonhydro renewable

www.energyinst.org/statistical-...
Chart. Global Generation (1965-2022). Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. Nuclear (TWh) Non-Hydro Renewables (TWh) Nuclear (∆TWh) Non-Hydro Renewables (∆TWh) [Probably should read "(1965-2021)."]
September 19, 2025 at 6:45 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
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR 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… had been completed on time, on budget.

🧵 #NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Nov 28
Westinghouse "design is often not constructible." (BechtelAudit, p61)
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/audit-highlighted-problems-with-south-carolina-nuclear-project-a-year-before-cancellation/article_9ac96112-9185-11e7-9979-977331ac2233.html Screenshot "The Post and Courier" 9/2017: Audit highlighted problems with South Carolina nuclear project a year before cancellation. Screenshot title page of Bechtel audit report
September 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR 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… had been completed on time, on budget.

🧵 #NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Aug 22
Nuclear took itself out as a pre2050 solution to climate change.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
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 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. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world Screenshot. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland is the second most expensive building in the world. It is second only to the luxury hotel complex Abraj al-Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. https://metropolitan.fi/entry/olkiluoto-ol3-second-most-expensive-building-world Screenshot. The loading of fuel into the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been put back again by at least six more months, with the estimated cost at completion increasing by a further EUR500 million (USD530 million), EDF has announced. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-delay-to-Flamanville-EPR-start-up
September 10, 2025 at 8:16 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 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… had been completed on time, on budget.

🧵 #NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Nov 28
Westinghouse "design is often not constructible." (BechtelAudit, p61)
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/audit-highlighted-problems-with-south-carolina-nuclear-project-a-year-before-cancellation/article_9ac96112-9185-11e7-9979-977331ac2233.html Screenshot "The Post and Courier" 9/2017: Audit highlighted problems with South Carolina nuclear project a year before cancellation. Screenshot title page of Bechtel audit report
July 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
"We"? #HealThyEffinSelf

How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR or EPR2 or RollsRoyce or VOYG12 or VOYG6 or VOYG4 or Natrium or BWRX-300 or SMR-160 or SMR-300 or Oklo or mPower or eVinci or… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/uks-sizewell-c-plant-could-cost-40bn-nearly-double-its-initial-estimate/ UK’s Sizewell C plant could cost £40bn, nearly double its initial estimate
July 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR 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… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
July 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's prospects would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR 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… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · Nov 30
Total world energy generation (TWh) from nonHydro renewables is approaching double the generation from nuclear.

2022 2023
Ren* 4206.7 4748.4
Nuc 2679.6 2737.7

* nonhydro renewable

www.energyinst.org/statistical-...
Chart. Global Generation (1965-2022). Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. Nuclear (TWh) Non-Hydro Renewables (TWh) Nuclear (∆TWh) Non-Hydro Renewables (∆TWh) [Probably should read "(1965-2021)."]
June 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
How different nuclear's image in pop culture would be if even one AP600 or AP1000 or EPR 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… had been completed on time, on budget.

#NuclearIsItsOwnWorstEnemy
June 25, 2025 at 11:53 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
Let's get this straight.

NRC granted Design Certification to AP600 in 1999.

AP600 meets US utility requirements for ALWR, *including cost goals.*

Westinghouse recognized AP600 is not competitive in the US market.

And it's the NRC that needs reforming?!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0029549306003190 Introduction In December 1999, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted Design Certification to the AP600. The AP600 plant meets the US utility requirements (ALWR, Volume III) including the cost goals. Westinghouse recognized that the current estimate of 4.1–4.6 ¢/kWh for the AP600 is not competitive in the US market. It, therefore, embarked on the development of the AP1000, which applies economies of scale to passive safety plants to reduce the cost per kWh to about 3.0–3.5 ¢/kWh.
May 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM