Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Come on Apple, you can't let this stand, can you? Getting beaten by Samsung in the SMR game! 131
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 26/03/2025It is, but that's the game, no? We need to completely decarbonize, not just decarbonize our electricity. It's not enough to get to 40% clean energy sources in total and then throw your hands up and say well, here no need to build any new nuclear 100
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This is infuriating! Finland still uses 33% fossil fuels AND burns ancient forests for 31% of their energy. Europe still uses 70% fossil fuels overall. But put the brakes on new nuclear; those fossil fuels are too cheap to beat. We are so fucking cooked 240
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I can never remember how many yards tall the nuclear waste could be stacked in a football field! @whatisnuclear.com must be able to remember this stuff off the top of his head 361
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 20/03/2025We cannot close a reactor for no good reason, driving up gas prices and outbidding poorer countries. We're at war with a gas-producing nation! It should be treason to intentionally drive up gas prices. Restart Doel-1! 081
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 20/03/2025We don't need baseload power, we'll just have micro-grids, and a combination of solar, wind, batteries, hydro, interconnected hydrogen grids, and strategically reduce demand in certain areas based on a smart meter system 140
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 19/03/2025I love how the new nuclear projects in Europe are at these beautiful Mediterranean spots, but every new nuclear project in the US is at like at the ruralest sundown city you can imagine Nuclear engineers take note 000
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This is a very real problem, people having no sense of wanting to make a bunch of money!! Once this repository is up, it will be the historical Wyoming waste repository and people will protest it's removal. You just need a few key people to be bold enough to want to make some fucking money! 010
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I had missed this! Let's go Ghana, I cannot wait for this project to be properly underway. Ghana deserves nuclear so much! 050
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 27/02/2025It was great going to the @standupfornuclear.org protest in Belgium, but depressing that there's so many of them for closures of nuclear power plants. Unbelievable that gas is getting this handout in 2025!! 093
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Please just give me the nuclear battery. all I hear are press releases, but nobody can explain to me why I can't already have the nuclear battery, just give it to me 020
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 14/02/2025One simple trick to go from 15.5 tons of CO2 emissions per person (Australia) to 4.7 tons 😇 020
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Gotta love this term. I too make a lot of decisions, in principle 020
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Good name for all younger siblings out there trying to one-up their brother 000
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Does anyone know any Naarea people? I'm super intrigued by this new facility 001
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Now, in this election year, Merkel's party, the CDU, now they're reconsidering their energy mix. Not in 2022 when we were all screaming at them to please pause the phaseout, for fucks sake 021
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Keir Starmer: build baby build "Environmentalists": bekergettek tátott szájjal a faszerdőbe ("they chased me into the dick-forest with a wide-open mouth”) 110
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 05/02/2025This felt like a finale, but now there's the terrible direct-to-DVD sequel 030
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Nuclear materials engineers 🤝 women in their 20s self-healing crystals 021
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I'm glad that nuclear is holding firm, but for fusion :/ 000
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 04/02/2025So much funding going to AI over non-fossil-fuel sources is um, how you say, not so good 121
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I wonder how this working paper stacks up 6 years later - They find the social cost of the phase-out to producers and consumers to be $12 billion per year. Most of the costs fall to consumers, and most is in increased mortality risk from air pollution exposure. 192
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Ukraine is trying to build new nuclear power plants during a war really puts the objections of other countries to shame 072
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 20/01/2025loneliness is still time spent with the world 000
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Date nights now after I got a new project at work 020
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 16/01/20252024 was just an insanely overpowered year for discovering new bio components and stuff that apparently exists in the universe 011
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 10/01/2025If Westinghouse gets a microreactor on the moon before we get a commercial microreactor on EARTH, the objectively best planet in the galaxy, I just don't know what I'll do with myself 130
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 10/01/2025So many people - and politicians - wants these super clear answers, will nuclear drive electricity prices down? Do countries with nuclear have lower electricity prices? And nuclear helps, but this system is so complex, it's just not a one part solution 180
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I want this but for a cocktail, like a slowly sweetened espresso martini 100
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 07/01/2025It's natural to focus on your home turf, but stuff like this, a big nuclear power plant getting the go-ahead in Pakistan, will really make the biggest climate impact. Good for China to export their technology, hopefully Pakistan can get their air quality under control 131
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I really hope we get nuclear diamond batteries in my lifetime, for nature of course, but also diamonds are so... I love a substance that is so strong it can only be cut by the same material. Just the metaphor of it, how you forge the tools of your own destruction. 120
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 06/01/2025RIP the Inflation Reduction Act, one of the biggest pieces of environmental legislation of my lifetime, we didn't deserve you 020
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I worry that I am getting too jaded. Years ago, I would have been so excited by this news. I remember that some people questioned the feasibility of reactors that could burn nuclear waste and not having enough examples handy. Now I question whether it will change anyone's mind, once it comes out. 020
Atomic Astrid @atomicastrid.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Anti-nuclear campaigners are making some devastatingly good points in their new report 😭 0257