A strange thing happened in Colorado on Valentine’s Day in 2023. A panel of seven state legislators – five democrats and two republicans – voted 5-2 that nuclear energy should not be included in the state’s definition of Clean Energy. Does that seem strange to you? It did to me. I was in the room. …
We met with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently to discuss several basic questions about their licensing process. You can see some of the answers and our findings below. Overall, the meeting was incredibly productive, and we’re excited to keep chatting with them. Best part: they didn’t even charge us for the cumulative 90 minutes of …
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The world is such a small place, and the more you write – the more people write back. Paul Hellsegg reached out to me to learn more about the F2F website and projects I’ve been working on. He’s an artist who currently lives in Norway. I’ve always wanted to visit Norway, am fascinated by their …
Executive Summary Overall Outline The nine Titles of the Act are listed below. I’ve listed the number of pages included in each Title in order to give a sense of scale of how much material is actually included in each. It would be interesting to correlate page count to dollars out (or in) as a …
In his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Prize, Daniel Yergin recounts the fascinating (and sometimes terrifying) history behind the world’s most desired commodity: oil. It’s a dense read, loaded with the complete history of the adoption of the commodity – from the first Drake well in Pennsylvania up to the state of the industry in …
“Nuclear’s obviously not the answer. It’s too expensive.” “Renewables are awful for the grid. They’re intermittent, and they aren’t priced correctly.” “But nuclear is dependable, dispatchable, and uses the least amount of land! According to first principles, it should be the cheapest!” “But renewables have no fuel to ‘buy’ or ‘burn’ other than the free …
Systems are more valuable than individual components. Three fundamental resources can radically transform any area of the world: Cheap electricity (think so cheap it’s essentially free) Liquid fuels for transportation Clean drinking water A micro-nuclear reactor or small modular reactor generates the cheap electricity. Use it to recombine water with CO2 scrubbed from the atmosphere …
“Yea, but the one thing people always throw back in my face during any argument is, ‘What are you going to do with the waste?’” -Ken Hukari, 3/31/22 Author’s Note: the term nuclear waste in this article refers to the atoms in spent nuclear fuel and is used synonymously with fission products and spent nuclear …
By Kurt Duncan Executive Summary Four paths to creating hydrocarbons from CO2 and water are examined. The required cost of electricity to generate an energy equivalent gallon of diesel is estimated for each path. How Much Electricity? And What’s the Cost? It’s a pretty daunting task to decarbonize the global economy. Two sectors have dominated …
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Executive Summary: Oil and gas companies should invest directly in a fund which pools capital across the industry to research, develop, and deploy new small modular and micro-nuclear reactors. The benefits and opportunities of such a venture far outweigh the challenges, risks, and obstacles. Fire2Fission is actively working to make this a reality. You hear …