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Alastair Baker
@alastairbaker1.bsky.social
Welsh Chemical Scientist in #FlowChemisty.
Experimental Officer of MULTIForm Users Facility, part of the NNUF.
Tech-Editor of Nuclear Future Journal.
Chemist by training, Chem’Eng’er through practice. Loves a puns.
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If we cant cool it in gas,
Why not drown it in molten salt…

ARC fusion reactor is a conceptual design for a compact, high-power nuclear fusion power plant, developed by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS).
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#NukeSky, my MSCopilot prompt;
please can I have a cartoon for making 94-Pu-238 #Plute
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Hahaha ‘new technology,’
Mate, its a steam engine again.

www.ft.com/content/926e...
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Also, phosgene sits at the bottom of Beaufort’s Dyke [1], the deep trench that lies silent between the shores of Northern Ireland and Scotland,
all 14500 tons of 5-inch artillery rockets of it.

[1] ukdefencejournal.org.uk/beauforts-dy...
October 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Memes for #NukeSky,
It used to be a McDonalds toilet
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Memes for #NukeSky
October 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Earlier this year I said goodbye to my mentor who cruelly passed from aggressive motor neuron disease.
I began lecturing, and I asked him for a slide, which I am now removing from this semesters upload, but for one last time here it is... I may leave it in the actual lecture...
October 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Hey @stuartcantrill.com
Got any tips? I done this talk before but always looking for BATs…

nuclearinst.com/Events/lunch...
October 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is class
October 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Wet blanket man
October 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
October 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
My comfort show is getting a reboot and I am very hesitant about getting excited for it
September 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Nuclear microreactors are different from flowchemistry microreactors; doi.org/10.1080/0029...
But you cannot argue with the dispatachable energy of burning diesel
September 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
OOO
September 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
September 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Incredible book title!
September 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
#ChemSafety notice re-issued
September 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Suwałki Gap threat also,
Although from the sources Ive read, Belarus aint doing so good
September 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Standing or stirring?
Nah staring at this beautiful figure
September 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
September 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
New GOV.UK alarm just dropped on my phone while playing chess and holding infant.
Thankfully 7MO slept through it.

I swear it was the same noise from this film 🤣 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
September 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
When you come to North Wales youll get the obligatory photo on the train platform as well as the magnet.
Keep us in the loop on your coffee machine
September 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
3YO: I will pick your coffee today, you can have the zebra.

Jackpot for me as thats the one I wanted
September 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This graphic goes hard.
For a topic that doesnt get enough discussion right now imo

'Picture of a state actor, Tehran, deliberately using the Scottish independence to weaken its adversary by amplifying internal division.' - George Allison @ UK Defence Journal
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/dozens-of-pr...
September 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM