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“After having spent 40 years just absolutely anti-nuke, even including power plants, I have to say I’ve changed my mind.”
Amazing to see actor Michael Douglas publicly stating he change his views on nuclear energy.
Why is that a big deal?
In 1979 Douglas starred in and produced “The China Syndrome” a Hollywood thriller about a nuclear reactor accident.
The film depicts the plant operators as shady and even criminal, going to great lengths to cover up serious safety concerns at the plant.
It premiered just 12 days after the Three Mile Island disaster in Pensilvania, a nuclear reactor accident in the United States.
“The China Syndrome” played a tremendous role in cementing the public perception of nuclear energy as dangerous.
But times have changed. Nuclear reactors have proven to be a lot safer than people thought and we are facing much bigger problems.
As Michael Douglas alludes to in the interview, climate change wasn’t really a concern back then.
But as we grapple with the ever more visible impacts of it, even staunch anti-nuclear folks are giving nuclear energy a second look.
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The Future is Being Built in the City of San Francisco
SF Deep Tech Week is officially live - June 23-29th
@8vc, @lowercarbon, @fiftyyears, @GiantStepVC, @Quantonation, @draper_u, and @RayyanIslam1 with 8090 Industries.
Here's the main event lineup 🧵
Event submission and sponsorship applications are now open to the public - come stake your claim to building the science fiction future promised by the vision of deep tech ventures.
Full speaker lineup announced May 15th and individual event registration opens early June
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Hey folks, it’s not the 1970’s anymore. It’s ok to say you support nuclear energy.
Just a reminder that over 50% of voters in California were in favor of keeping Diablo Canyon open.
My prediction is that in about 5-10 years being anti-nuclear energy will be as bad of a look as being a climate denier.
Get with the times 💗
Every single Democrat on stage at the CA senate debate indicates that they support shutting down the last remaining nuclear power plant in the state.
Barbara Lee: "I don't support nuclear power."
Katie Porter: "Diablo canyon needs to be safely decommissioned."
Adam Schiff: "We're gonna need to move to renewable energy."
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Tomorrow, it’s Generate SF.
Join us for astounding conversations with @FarzaTV, Carl Page, and more.
Tickets below 👇
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Terrestrial Energy Achieves Major Breakthrough with First Generation IV Technology to Complete Vendor Design Review
#Gen4Fission #SMR #AdvancedNuclear
terrestrialenergy.com/2023/0…
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Copenhagen Atomics secures €20M to advance #Thorium fueled #Nuclear plant siliconcanals.com/crowdfundi… Yes #Auspol, Australia needs that 24/7 Reliability of ULTRA Low CO2 electricity from Molten Salt Reactors #MSR and modern #NuclearEnergy
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"The “nuclear bro” is lurking in the comments section of a YouTube video, wondering it didn’t mention #nuclear. His Twitter name includes an emoji of an atom ⚛️."
I wrote about the subculture captivated by the promise of nuclear power. a brief 🧵...
washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Sagoff summarized this problem with mainstream ecology years ago... thebreakthrough.org/journal/…
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As the effort to keep Diablo Canyon enters its endgame in CA Legislature, a reminder of how we got here. New @TheBTI from @JonahMessinger @Dr_A_Stein @wang_seaver thebreakthrough.org/issues/e…
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Parents canceled plans to visit me in Sacramento area this weekend (to celebrate my bday) because temps will reach 110F and they’re worried for their health.
This week CA legislature will vote on whether 22% of our #cleanpower will be replaced by fossil fuels.
#SaveDiabloCanyon
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NEW: @SenFeinstein sends letter to California legislative leaders, urging they approve measure to extend the life of Diablo Canyon power plant.
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Great diagrams explaining the acronym salad of doe and tech development stages
a founder’s guide to @ENERGY 🎁⚡️
as the #InflationReductionAct, DPA, and CHIPS (hopefully, thankfully) scale government's impact on accelerating #climateTech, founders should be asking themselves: what’s my opportunity to engage with the DOE?
ctvc.co/founders-guide-to-th…
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Revamping Our Dysfunctional Drug Approval Process ⋆ Brownstone Institute brownstone.org/articles/reva…
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Cold Fusion | ICCF-24 x Solidstate Energy Summit iccf24.org/
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Build 1,000 new state of the art nuclear power plants in the US and Europe, right now. We won't, but we should.
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If You Want Clean Power, Go Fission by @HargravesRobert wsj.com/articles/if-you-want… via @WSJOpinion