Advertisement · 728 × 90

Posts by gordonmcdowell

Alabama Legislature Resolves to Use Spent Nuclear Fuel – Energy From Thorium

The Alabama legislature has passed a resolution in strong support of recycling spent reactor fuel into new liquid fuels for advanced reactors. The resolution urges the Governor to help establish an R&D center in Alabama "with notable emphasis in liquid fuel reactor technologies." 1/2

1 week ago 0 1 1 0

Pete Hegseth just clicked right through the EULA.

1 month ago 1 0 0 0
Preview
France slashes renewable energy targets, expands nuclear power with new law France is this week set to pass by decree a new energy law slashing the country’s renewable energy targets and massively expanding nuclear power production. The law change comes as a relief for state-...

France repeals mandate to prematurely close 14 nuclear reactors

www.france24.com/en/france/20...

2 months ago 13 3 0 0

Is S02 worth watching? We watched E01 E02 and suspect it might not be.

(Didn't mind S01 except last episode seemed weak. But S01 not a must-watch show, just want to know if S02 worse/same/better.)

2 months ago 0 0 1 0
Post image

MAJOR WIN FOR CLIMATE ACTION!

We've halted the demolition of Tihange's cooling towers!

Why it matters:
✅ Prevents irreversible destruction of billions in clean energy infrastructure
✅ Keeps the door open for restarting Tihange 1 & 2
✅ Protects Belgium's energy security & climate goals

2 months ago 23 11 2 2
Preview
DOE awards $19M to advance SNF recycling

The DOE-NE awarded more than $19 million to five U.S. companies—Alpha Nur, Curio Solutions, Flibe Energy, Oklo, and Shine Technologies—to research and develop recycling technologies for spent nuclear fuel.

Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2026-02...

2 months ago 0 1 0 0
Spent Nuclear Fuel recycling award to Flibe Energy – Energy From Thorium

Flibe Energy has won a DOE grant to refine its concept for recycling used nuclear fuel. Flibe will research electrochemical processes that dissolve fuel rods, separate the uranium for reuse in conventional reactors, and retain fission products and transuranics for use in liquid-fuel reactors. 1/2

2 months ago 0 2 1 0
Advertisement

“Filming horizontally rather than vertically includes more of the scene.”

Finally! Rachael Maddow signal boosts a calls for landscape video capture!

Now can we also restore some sanity to everyone’s TV settings and ditch sped-up frame rates?

2 months ago 1 0 0 0
Preview
White House posts altered arrest photo to make it appear ICE critic was sobbing Lawyer calls it "outrageous that the White House would make up stories."
2 months ago 102 30 14 5
Inside America’s $3T Nuclear Bet (HALEU)
Inside America’s $3T Nuclear Bet (HALEU) YouTube video by AtomicBlender

It's not that advanced reactors aren't and can never be economical (that's crazy), but they haven't been economical so far (for very specific reasons) and have a steep hill to climb to achieve viability. As always, the only way to climb it is to build build build. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2JL...

3 months ago 7 3 0 0

I still don’t know what is happening. Email me at gordonmcdowell@gmail.com if you think there’s some communication I am missing through social media

3 months ago 0 0 1 0

Jesus.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

3 months ago 21125 8475 1001 860
Preview
How ​‘strategic amnesia’ led to Calgary’s water pipe disasters | The Sprawl A costly example of a common pattern.

Calgary city hall knew that a crucial water pipe could blow. But the ways in which city hall *didn’t* know—or kept itself from knowing with clarity—are perhaps more telling. #yyccc

3 months ago 16 6 2 1

Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

3 months ago 8212 2958 542 1781

Gratuitous brown nosing and exact
same policies and exact same criminal behaviour would have prevented this.

3 months ago 2 0 0 0
Advertisement

September 2025: Commence construction of the 60MWt/10MWe demonstration reactor (TMSR-LF2), with a construction period of 48 months.

Source: Compiled by China Securities Journal"

CC @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/conr...

3 months ago 0 1 2 0

Conrad, are you bouncing these efforts off some LLM tool too? What you're doing is important, but I'm worried you might not have all the tools that might help at your disposal. Can share access to an LLM if you don't have one.

3 months ago 0 0 0 0
Full - Google Drive

@gordonmcdowell.bsky.social I put the tiles on my Google Drive drive.google.com/drive/folder...

If you download the whole directory and open the included HTML files in a browser, they will render the tiles at different sizes; 512 pixels each (100%), 256 (50%), 128 (25%), 64 (12.5%), and 32 (6.25%)

3 months ago 0 1 3 0

What's latest SINAP timeline on terrestrial TMSR ? (If you know offhand.)

4 months ago 0 0 2 0
Preview
Exclusive | China’s oldest shipyard Jiangnan plans world’s first nuclear-powered vessel Construction on 25,000-container ship could start in the next 10 years, but a lot remains to be done, a top executive says.

#Nuclear #Thorium
#China #钍 #TMSR

"Jiangnan Shipyard to build world’s first thorium-powered container vessel by 2035" (8 Dec 2025)
www.scmp.com/business/chi...

Article image is "A model of a nuclear-powered container ship is displayed at the Marintec China expo in Shanghai last week." :)

4 months ago 7 5 3 0

I so want to tour this White House. Not “The” White House. THIS White House. The photos, the captions, the labels on rooms, the rubble, the tacky.

PLEASE next admin: before changing anything do a LiDAR and high rez scan.

4 months ago 0 0 0 0

We are allowed to swear on YouTube? Where will it end? Where will it all end?!?

4 months ago 0 0 0 0

I’m now a member of the “tried to watch Tron Ares” club.

Matt Zoller Seitz at Roger Ebert dot Com gave it 4/4 stars.

“If they’d played it again right after I saw it for the first time, I would have gladly stayed in my seat.” says Matt.

4 months ago 0 0 0 0

What is the projector?

4 months ago 0 0 0 0
Video

you know I had to do this

4 months ago 298 57 12 14
Advertisement

Why do I (when I search by price) see video projectors on Amazon with a resolution of 320 x 240 ?

How is that even a thing?

5 months ago 1 0 0 0
Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR - Smarter Every Day 311
Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR - Smarter Every Day 311 YouTube video by SmarterEveryDay

This refueling video from Destin is excellent.

His nuclear submarine series, and this surface reactor series have been a treat
youtu.be/v0afQ6w3Bjw

5 months ago 12 4 0 0

#Nuclear #Thorium
#China #钍 #TMSR

Media news!

【新闻直播间】科技推动力·钍基熔盐堆建成 我国核能科技实现新突破
www.cas.cn/spx/202511/t...
"Thorium-based Molten Salt Reactor Completed, Marking a New Breakthrough in my country's Nuclear Energy Technology"

76 MB vid 7:19

CC @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social
via x.com/FissionLiquide

5 months ago 1 1 1 0

But if you are circumcised AND you get vaccines, the otherwise inevitable autism effect is canceled out.

6 months ago 1 0 0 0

Heck of a day to run that piece. It is just too late.

6 months ago 0 0 0 0