Science 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy
Science 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy
This is wild. $65/MWh starts to make these #nuclear and methane powered options look very uneconomical.
https://electrek.co/2025/12/12/battery-storage-hits-65-mwh-tipping-point-solar/
Utterly wild story about a nuclear generator lost atop a Himalayan mountain by the CIA 60 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k8.jOUn.daSfdUlyfo3e [Gift Link]
AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/12/09/nuclear-power-ai
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This is wild. $65/MWh starts to make these #nuclear and methane powered options look very uneconomical.
https://electrek.co/2025/12/12/battery-storage-hits-65-mwh-tipping-point-solar/
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed....." United States Navy E-6B 163919 Mercury departing Travis Air Force Base, at twilight. April 9th 2025 #TravisAFB #aviationphotography #Mercury #e6b #TACAMO #nuclear #aviation #AvGeek #photography
"Tokyo-based fusion company Helical Fusion has signed a power purchase agreement with Aoki Super Company, a major regional supermarket chain in central Japan."
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/japanese-supermarket-chain-signs-up-for-fusion-power
Haiyang district heating network expanded, with Rongcheng becoming the third city in China's Shandong Province to receive district heating from the Haiyang nuclear power plant's AP1000 reactors.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/haiyang-district-heating-network-expanded
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed....." United States Navy E-6B 163919 Mercury departing Travis Air Force Base, at twilight. April 9th 2025 #TravisAFB #aviationphotography #Mercury #e6b #TACAMO #nuclear #aviation #AvGeek #photography
"The government subsidies are simply huge: a nuclear tax is being levied on hard pressed consumers. What is the government thinking of? The fossil fuel industry, which has thrown its weight behind nuclear power, is of course delighted; all these decades of new construction without any electricity to show for it gives at least another decade or two of unabated burning gas"
Paul Brown on his life as an environment writer.
https://www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/24/britains-nuclear-ambition-sunk-by-red-tape-and-costs/
UK is not good at building Nuclear Power plants.
Well, whether you like them not that sucks. It's also, sadly, unsurprising. The US Tech Bro complaint about US regs stifling nuclear don't hold up, but this does have UK overcomplicating things and a culture of "we know best/NIH" written all over it.
(C.f. Tilting trains, R101 and Hawker Siddeley Trident)
"The government subsidies are simply huge: a nuclear tax is being levied on hard pressed consumers. What is the government thinking of? The fossil fuel industry, which has thrown its weight behind nuclear power, is of course delighted; all these decades of new construction without any electricity to show for it gives at least another decade or two of unabated burning gas"
Paul Brown on his life as an environment writer.
FFS! Even at a UK level of project incompetence we could build a like-for-like baseload nuclear replacement for Drax for this money. and then we could stop cutting down Canadian forests to greenwash a greenwashing boondoggle.
(Leaving aside the fuckton of wind, solar and storage we could do with it).
Of course no one in our right-wing press is complaining about the this waste of money.
@hackaday
This is some seriously outside-the-box thinking! 🧠⚡ Putting nuclear reactors underground could solve a lot of safety and space issues—but 2026 for a functioning reactor?
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That said, if they pull it off, it could be a game-changer for clean energy. 🌍⚛️
#Nuclear #CleanEnergy #Innovation #Science #TechHacks #NuclearFission #FutureEnergy
Kodak Ran a Secret Nuclear Device in Its Basement for Decades
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a69147321/kodak-film-nuclear-reactor/
#HackerNews #Kodak #Nuclear #Secret #Film #Reactor #History #Technology
France is sending reprocessed uranium to Russia for treatment so it can be reused, despite the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, according to the Greenpeace environment group, which called the move "immoral." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/world/politics/greenpeace-france-uranium-russia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #greenpeace #france #uranium #russia #nuclear #russiaukrainewar
UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c051y3d7myzo
#HackerNews #UK #nuclear #power #small #scale #Wales #energy #future