My op-ed begins with:
“President Donald Trump’s changes to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — which give the White House de facto control over the agency — should be a wake-up call for California’s governor and the state Legislature.”
Hope springs eternal. amp.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/read...

The thing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s re-licensing the Diablo nuclear plant is they don’t know whether it would survive an earthquake from the active thrust fault directly underneath it. This clip is from last week’s meeting of the Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee.

You can see how this latest Executive Order benefits industries like oil, gas, mining, logging and nuclear, by eliminating Endangered Species Act, Bald Eagle, Marine Mammal, and Migratory Bird protections. But why get rid of regs on safe handling of Nuclear Waste? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I stand with Ukraine.

I looked out my window and what did I see? A tree looking west and seemingly pondering. What, I can only guess.

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📷: John Brooks

Will tech companies drop their mad quest for nuclear power to run their AI data centers now that China has shown with DeepSeek it can be done with far less energy?