#Energy Secy Wright said the systems would "supercharge" advances in #NuclearPower & #fusion energy, #technologies for #defense & #NationalSecurity, & the development of #drugs.

Scientists & companies are trying to replicate fusion, the reaction that fuels the sun, by jamming light atoms in a plasma gas under intense heat & pressure to release massive amounts of energy.

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #AI #tech #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Contractor falls into tank of water at Palisades

"COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A worker sustained minor injuries when they fell into a water-filled tank at the Palisades nuclear power plant in Southwest Michigan.

It happened Tuesday at the plant along Lake Michigan in Covert Township, south of South Haven, according to a report filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Palisades owner Holtec International told News 8 in a statement that a contractor was working in the containment building when they fell into a tank above the reactor that was filled with water in preparation for future fuel movements. The report says the contractor swallowed some of the water."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/contractor-falls-tank-water-palisades-171906888.html

#radioactivity #nuclearpower #nukes

@swoop I still find it insulting to the physics to use precious heavy metals.just to boil water and make a turbine go brrr...

• Besides pebble bed reactors are a bs design and given how "P.R." #China was unable to make precise roller balls gor ballpoint pens until not so long ago, I doubt they fixed designs proven to be extremely unreliable…

It's cheaper and overall better to invest in Renewables given that it'll be always easier, faster and more sustainable to install the same power in #renewables than #nuclear by virtue if being simpler!

• In my eyes #NuclearPower is as much of a wrong development as #Tetraethyllead, #CarCentricSuburbs, #LithiumIonBatteries and #CFCs like #CFC11 & #Freon…