I have worked in the nuclear industry for over 17 years, many of which I have worked closely with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission - especially regarding proposals for new and innovative regulation to help reduce plant operating costs. My time and experience in the nuclear industry as well as my bitcoin induced education about energy policy and the state has lead me to the point that I am actually bearish on the future of nuclear power.
GASP! – I know, I know… but I have learned to live in reality, and the truth is that all the pro-nuclear sentiments are not grounded in operational, present day, reality and all require massive state intervention for success.
I believe Alex Epstein is correct when he says that Nuclear power has been criminalized by the United States. Nuclear power has been regulated beyond any comprehension of what it means to protect the health and safety of the public. In fact, nuclear power has been so over regulated that we are actually endangering the public by forcing plants to shut down and preventing new plants from being built on the premise of the most absurdly conservative acceptable operational and safety limits.
A friend of mine published a tool that tracks how many documents have been submitted to the NRC for various new reactor designs. Since 2017 about 10,000 documents have been sent to the NRC for their review; each individual document may take as long as a year to review and most will receive requests for additional information (RAIs).
https://mrdenman-nuclear.github.io/nrcadams/articles/Analytics.html
If you are bullish on nuclear, you are bullish on money printing and government backed loans to get plants built; you are bullish on politicians flipping to a pro-human outlook and bravely standing up to the union of concerned scientists; you are bullish on increasing the size of governmental nuclear regulators around the world by an order of magnitude or more in order to approve and regulate a new / larger nuclear fleets.
A nuclear powered future would indeed be bright, but the reality is that the NRC and the IAEA will never allow most countries access to nuclear power. I know it’s hard to admit, but the resurgence in interest in nuclear power is primarily driven by a fraudulent carbon accounting system and climate catastrophists who think that we will all be driving hydrogen powered cars and flying in hydrogen powered airplanes. I do not feel comfortable at all with the current group of carbon hysterics who are leading the charge for nuclear.
I will continue to work as hard as possible to keep our existing nuclear fleet operating, because in reality, they won’t be replaced by new nuclear generation for at least 50 years.
Thank you nostr, for allowing me to vent
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