Tootfinder

More depressing news as governments swallow propaganda from the nuclear power lobby.
Renewables won't deliver the power currently used, and projected, but nor will nuclear, which also depends on fossil fuels, uses a scarce and diminishing resource, and leaves a toxic legacy for which there is no adequate solution.
The only solution is radical energy descent.
Tide is turning in Europe and beyond in favour of nuclear power | Nuclear power | The Guardian

No sign Russia is preparing to restart Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/no-sign-russia-is-preparing.html

Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for #NuclearPower Plants, Lowest for #Solar

Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar - CleanTechnica
A new study from the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability finds that construction costs run over budget for more than 60% of energy infrastructure projects worldwide. By Laura Hurley Between now and 2050, the International Energy Agency projects that more than $100 trillion will be spent on building net-zero energy infrastructure globally. ... [continued]

I don't usually get involved in the pro/anti nuclear discussion, but whenever people say "we need nuclear because renewables aren't reliable enough", do they usually take into account how much energy storage you can buy for the price of one nuclear power plant?

This type of reasoning is always baffling to me. When climate change is discussed these people always say that there is some magical technological solution that will pop up to save us (usually handed to us by the AI gods).
Why then, in the the several decades that it takes to scale up nuclear, can we not account for the possibility that AI could become more energy efficient?
That sounds like something you could solve for the cost of a few power plants...

UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon Web Services boss
The world's largest cloud computing company plans to spend £8bn on new data centres in the UK over the next four years.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11648 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nuc…

Isotopic Transparency in Central Xe+Sn Collisions at 100 MeV/nucleon
A new method, based on comparing isotopic yield ratios measured at forward and sideward polar angles and on cross-bombarding heavy nuclei with different neutron-to-proton ratios, is used to quantify the stopping power of nuclear matter in heavy-ion collisions. For central collisions of isotopically separated $^{124,129}$Xe+$^{112,124}$Sn at 100~MeV/nucleon bombarding energy, measured with the 4$π$ multidetector INDRA at GSI, a moderate transparency is deduced for hydrogen isotopes, whereas for…

Adam Bandt
That tiny Bandt
With his atomic power
Would have been so much funnier if he was the one spruiking nuclear energy.
#auspol