Gerrit Bruhaug
@gbruhaug.bsky.social
Finally a real scientist with a real job. All bad opinions are my own, all good ones are my friends.
I’m sorry, but it was just too tempting! 😂
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I’m sorry, but it was just too tempting! 😂
I think this is what Google would give as an answer? www.valaratomics.com/careers
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November 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I think this is what Google would give as an answer? www.valaratomics.com/careers
Not just research, but even providing some commercial power! Both Shippingport and Indian Point 1 made electricity while acting as thorium breeders. In the end though, it wasn’t a cost competitive way to operate.
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Not just research, but even providing some commercial power! Both Shippingport and Indian Point 1 made electricity while acting as thorium breeders. In the end though, it wasn’t a cost competitive way to operate.
The first successful conversion *in a MSR*. Thorium was ran in many reactors through out the years, including Shippingport (the first PWR power plant) and at least one German pebble bed!
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The first successful conversion *in a MSR*. Thorium was ran in many reactors through out the years, including Shippingport (the first PWR power plant) and at least one German pebble bed!
I have trouble taking it seriously, since it just sounds so edgy.
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I have trouble taking it seriously, since it just sounds so edgy.
If I worked for one of these companies, I would be on the phone with Orano right now begging for a deal. Any other plan seems unrealistic this decade.
October 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If I worked for one of these companies, I would be on the phone with Orano right now begging for a deal. Any other plan seems unrealistic this decade.
And I honestly would love to see this pushed forward seriously in contrast to just relying on HALEU. Sadly, there seems to be very little serious work going on.
October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
And I honestly would love to see this pushed forward seriously in contrast to just relying on HALEU. Sadly, there seems to be very little serious work going on.
Yeah same. I find it frustrating that so many of these companies don’t even seem to read the well documented history of this sort of work or bother to go talk to experts like LANL and Orano.
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Yeah same. I find it frustrating that so many of these companies don’t even seem to read the well documented history of this sort of work or bother to go talk to experts like LANL and Orano.
Yeah the company Altman is backing (Oklo) has something like 100 employees and almost zero real nuclear expertise. They also have the honor have getting one of the few outright NRC rejections! I think it’s all talk, no substance.
October 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yeah the company Altman is backing (Oklo) has something like 100 employees and almost zero real nuclear expertise. They also have the honor have getting one of the few outright NRC rejections! I think it’s all talk, no substance.
It looks like the DOE is going to require a plan and any sites will be added to their list of sites to to be NRC or IAEA safeguarded. Personally I don’t think anyone will actually take it, since Pu is so damn expensive to work with. www.ans.org/news/article...
Surplus plutonium for power reactor fuel: What’s on offer
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October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It looks like the DOE is going to require a plan and any sites will be added to their list of sites to to be NRC or IAEA safeguarded. Personally I don’t think anyone will actually take it, since Pu is so damn expensive to work with. www.ans.org/news/article...
Now I’m not saying I’ve had that conversation last week, but I’m not not saying it either…
October 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Now I’m not saying I’ve had that conversation last week, but I’m not not saying it either…
And if we burn through carryover, we can expect an incredibly fast loss of expensive technical talent. I don’t think a bunch of machinists will stick around to see if their paychecks come back…
October 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
And if we burn through carryover, we can expect an incredibly fast loss of expensive technical talent. I don’t think a bunch of machinists will stick around to see if their paychecks come back…
Claiming the opposite also seems questionable given the 33 million person state high up that chart. If anything, I would argue that no strong trends can be attributed and the net effect depends highly on the local grid, interconnects, quality of resources, etc.
October 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Claiming the opposite also seems questionable given the 33 million person state high up that chart. If anything, I would argue that no strong trends can be attributed and the net effect depends highly on the local grid, interconnects, quality of resources, etc.
I remain forever sympathetic to Harold Agnews line about setting off a megatonner in the Pacific and making every political leader watch it in their skivvies to put the fear of nukes back in them.
October 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I remain forever sympathetic to Harold Agnews line about setting off a megatonner in the Pacific and making every political leader watch it in their skivvies to put the fear of nukes back in them.
Never underestimate how dumb it can get…
September 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Never underestimate how dumb it can get…
I’m much more concerned about where any fuel production would happen, since the previous site now has another job… If they yank the rug on that to make MOx again, everything will be delayed a generation or more.
September 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I’m much more concerned about where any fuel production would happen, since the previous site now has another job… If they yank the rug on that to make MOx again, everything will be delayed a generation or more.
Also on a sort of conservative coded mindset, anyone find it nuts that they are offering vastly more money and benefits to immigration enforcement than what a typical soldier gets? Of course I guess your typical MAGA idiot would claim that ICE has an “equally dangerous job” or some such shit.
September 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Also on a sort of conservative coded mindset, anyone find it nuts that they are offering vastly more money and benefits to immigration enforcement than what a typical soldier gets? Of course I guess your typical MAGA idiot would claim that ICE has an “equally dangerous job” or some such shit.
Yeah I would love to get a book about it as well!
September 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Yeah I would love to get a book about it as well!
I’m reminded of this great line.
September 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I’m reminded of this great line.
Yeah unless Ted’s most special weapon comes back, we are not delivering anything to “war fighters”
and it’s silly to say so.
and it’s silly to say so.
September 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Yeah unless Ted’s most special weapon comes back, we are not delivering anything to “war fighters”
and it’s silly to say so.
and it’s silly to say so.
I would bet this is not very much and mixed with normal hydrogen. Probably just enough to be annoying and not enough to be worth separating and keeping.
September 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I would bet this is not very much and mixed with normal hydrogen. Probably just enough to be annoying and not enough to be worth separating and keeping.