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On this week's episode of SMR … This week's episode explores the deep psychological patterns that influence marriage dynamics, focusing on our expectations, meanings, and self-awareness. It offers insights into how understanding our shadow motivations and settling ourselves can foster healthier, more authentic relationships. The post What Am I Wanting? #790 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.

Anything But Human is an American rock band blending the grit of alternative rock with a touch of Southern soul, their music hits hard but always hits home. From Dallas, TX, they're known for their explosive live shows, powerful vocals, and emotionally charged songwriting.Since crashing onto the scene in 2019, ABH has released a string of standout singles - including “Move On”, which became the #1 most added song at Rock Radio and landed in the Top 20 on the Billboard Rock Indicator Chart. Their debut EP “Push” showcased their dynamic range, from the heavy-hitting “Slave” to their stripped-down covers of “Someone You Loved” and “Eleanor Rigby” - the latter reaching #22 on the Billboard/BDS Chart.  The band's last single "Time" charted at #9 on the SMR chart.ABH has shared the stage with rock legends like Bon Jovi, Tesla, and Saliva, toured across the U.S. and Mexico, and performed at major festivals including RockFest and Southern Rock Woodstock. With over 300,000 streams, 30,000 followers, and a loyal fanbase growing by the day, Anything But Human continues to carve out their place in American rock with heart, intensity, and purpose.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Dr. Carlos Gomez Gonzalez joined us to talk about experimental design. We focused on his 2024 SMR publication (Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance) on how his research team used a unique methodological approach to collect data and present results through experimental design.

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Một năm trước, trong diễn văn khai mạc Tuần lễ Công nghệ Luân Đôn (London Tech Week 09-13/06/2025), thủ tướng Anh Keir Starmer đã nêu ra chiến lược lấy việc phát triển trí tuệ nhân tạo AI làm bàn đạp thúc đẩy tăng trưởng kinh tế giai đoạn 2025-2030. Sau một năm lên kế hoạch, với khoản đầu tư gần 100 tỷ bảng vào các trung tâm dữ liệu, vào y tế và giáo dục, ngành AI của Anh đã đạt được tiến bộ gì và giúp cho tăng trưởng kinh tế tới đâu? Thông tín viên Nguyễn Giang từ Luân Đôn giải thích: Anh Quốc đánh cược vào AI RFI : Đầu tiên, xin Nguyễn Giang nói về việc triển khai chiến lược AI của Vương quốc Anh?   Nguyễn Giang : Quan sát những gì Anh quốc đã và đang làm hơn một năm qua, tôi thấy họ đặt trọng tâm của kế hoạch phát triển AI vào các Khu vực Tăng trưởng Ai, tức AI Growth Zones, gọi tắt là AHGZ, với ba mục tiêu: hỗ trợ tăng trưởng kinh tế, tạo đột phá công nghệ và cân bằng, kết nối các vùng miền của Vương quốc Anh. Mô hình AI Growth Zones (Khu vực Tăng trưởng AI) tạo ra các cụm siêu trung tâm dữ liệu (hyperscale data centres) và điện toán hiệu năng cao. Chính phủ Anh đã phê duyệt hàng loạt khu vực trọng điểm ở hạt Oxfordshire (Culham - trung tâm đầu tiên), Đông Bắc Anh (Blyth & North Tyneside), xứ Wales (Wylfa) và gần đây nhất là Scotland (khu vực Lanarkshire - tháng 1/2026). Họ chia ra để mọi khu vực địa lý chính của Vương quốc Anh đều có cơ hội tiếp cận AI.  Khu quan trọng nhất là hành lang công nghệ Oxford-Cambridge (thực tế là cùng Luân Đôn lập ra một Tam giác High-Tech). Xin nhắc là từ Luân Đôn tới Cambridge và Oxford khoảng cách chỉ chừng hơn 100 km. Các đại học lớn, kể cả phòng thí nghiệm nguyên tử quan trọng nhất của Anh (Arbington), cũng nằm trong tam giác này. Điều này giảm được chi phí giao thông, hút được nguồn nhân lực chất lượng cao và tạo điều kiện cho việc kết nối băng thông cho hệ thống điện toán. Nhưng Anh cũng lập các vùng AI Growth Zone ở cả Wales, miền bắc Anh và Scotland là có ý duy trì nhiều động cơ kinh tế cho các vùng đất kia. RFI: Cho tới nay thì các khoản đầu tư được khu vực tư nhân đăng ký vào các khu vực tăng trưởng AI này là bao nhiêu? Nguyễn Giang : Mục tiêu chung là phải đạt tới 100 tỷ bảng Anh đầu tư từ khối tư nhân vào hạ tầng AI thông qua cơ chế này. Ở vùng Đông Bắc (North East AIGZ), quỹ đầu tư Blackstone đã cam kết bỏ ra10 tỷ bảng Anh để xây dựng trung tâm dữ liệu tại Blyth, đồng thời mở đường cho 20 tỷ bảng bổ sung từ các đối tác khác. Chính phủ Anh cũng trực tiếp chi ngân sách tài trợ ban đầu hơn 2,5 tỷ bảng để kích hoạt hệ thống điện toán quốc gia. Điều đáng chú ý là phần cam kết từ cả hai phía. Về phía mình, chính phủ Anh cam kết giá điện đặc biệt cho data centre tại các vùng có thặng dư năng lượng (ví dụ: giảm từ 14 đến 24 bảng/MWh tùy khu vực, tiết kiệm tới 80 triệu bảng/năm cho một trung tâm 500MW). Để đẩy nhanh tiến độ thiết kế các trung tâm dữ liệu, họ ưu tiên đưa chúng vào danh mục Hạ tầng Quốc gia Trọng yếu (Critical National Infrastructure - CNI), cho phép rút ngắn thời gian chờ đấu nối vào lưới điện quốc gia lên đến 5 năm và cắt giảm quy trình phê duyệt quy hoạch từ 18 tháng xuống còn 12 tháng. Còn về phía các nhà đầu tư cùng đối tác ở địa phương thì họ tìm cách bố trí quỹ đất tối thiểu 100 mẫu Anh (acres) đã được dọn sẵn hoặc đủ tiêu chuẩn sẵn sàng xây dựng trước 2028, cam kết tạo ra hàng nghìn việc làm chất lượng cao (như vùng North East cam kết tạo 5.000 việc làm), và phối hợp với các đại học địa phương (Newcastle, Durham...) xây dựng chương trình đào tạo nhân lực AI. Họ cam kết sẽ kết nối với các đại học địa phương. Hiện đang làm nghiên cứu trong một đại học ở Luân Đôn và đã dự nhiều khóa học, hội thảo, tôi thấy một xu hướng rõ rệt: các đại học Anh đang xóa bỏ, thậm chí đóng nhiều khoa ở các trường khắp cả nước trong các bộ môn khoa học xã hội, nghệ thuật, ngôn ngữ, nhưng lại đang mở rất nhiều khóa, ngành liên quan đến trí tuệ nhân tạo, từ mảng nghiên cứu, phát triển công nghệ tới ứng dụng Ai trong đủ mọi lĩnh vực. Xem ra đây là tương lai mới cho giáo dục đại học. RFI: Một câu chuyện nhiều nước nói tới là các trung tâm dữ liệu tiêu thụ điện năng rất lớn. Vậy ở Anh, nguồn năng lượng điện đến từ đâu? Có nằm cạnh nhà máy điện hạt nhân? Nguyễn Giang : Đúng thế, năng lượng là "nút thắt" lớn nhất của hạ tầng AI, và chiến lược của Anh là áp sát nguồn phát năng lượng sạch quy mô lớn, nhưng không chỉ giới hạn ở điện hạt nhân. Điện nguyên tử không phải tất cả, nhưng đây là một trục xương sống cho AI. Ví dụ điển hình nhất là North Wales AI Growth Zone, nơi được thiết kế cặp đôi chiến lược (strategically paired) nằm ngay cạnh dự án Lò phản ứng mô-đun nhỏ (SMR) đầu tiên của Anh tại Wylfa. Sự kết hợp này nhằm cung cấp nguồn điện tải nền (baseload) cực kỳ ổn định và khổng lồ cho các cụm chip AI mà không làm quá tải lưới điện dân dụng. Ngoài ra thì tại vùng North East (Blyth), các trung tâm dữ liệu dùng nguồn điện đến từ các trạm tiếp bờ của điện gió ngoài khơi lớn nhất thế giới ở Biển Bắc (North Sea) và mua cả năng lượng qua cáp ngầm kết nối thủy điện từ Na Uy. Tại Scotland, họ tận dụng nguồn năng lượng tái tạo thặng dư (gió và thủy điện) vốn thường bị nghẽn, không thể truyền tải về miền Nam. Các báo Anh gần đây hay đăng các câu chuyện thú vị như nhà nông nào đó ở vùng quê bán trang trại, lò sản xuất bánh mì, trạm xay bột cho công ty Ai để xây data centre. Theo một điều tra của nhà báo Henry Mawhood cho trang báo nghề cá ở Anh thì thực ra câu chuyện không đơn giản như vậy nhưng đúng là các vùng ven biển phía Tây đảo Anh, từ Weston-Super-Mare tới Cumbria (England), rồi miền Nam xứ Wales và duyên hải Đông Bắc Scotland, người ta đang có kế hoạch xây hai thứ: các nhà máy điện nguyên tử mini, các trạm nhận điện qua cáp ngầm từ Bắc Âu (Na Uy) và các trạm đón tuyến cáp truyền dữ liệu xuyên Đại Tây Dương, nối Anh với Hoa Kỳ. Vì thế, đúng là có những nơi nhà nông được mời chào bán lại các miếng đất, nhà xưởng, ít nhất với diện tích 1-2 trăm mét vuông, để chứa data centre. Trong tháng 6 năm nay, có câu chuyện mang tính biểu tượng ở Anh. Thủ tướng Kier Starmer đã thăm một nhà máy xà phòng cũ có 130 năm tuổi ở Warrington, hạt Cheshire, để dự lễ khai trương dự án trung tâm dữ  liệu. Tức là họ biến một điểm công nghiệp rất là cũ thành trung tâm dữ liệu, dùng nguồn điện, nước có sẵn.  RFI: Theo anh, công suất cho điện dùng vào trí tuệ nhân tạo ở Anh có đủ không? Nguyễn Giang : Theo các báo chuyên ngành đánh giá thì điện ở Anh, gồm cả điện nguyên tử, hiện tại là đủ cho lộ trình giai đoạn 1 nhờ chiến lược phân bổ vùng. Ví dụ, riêng trung tâm dữ liệu AI tại Blyth đang tăng tốc để đạt công suất 1,1 GW (Gigawatt) trong vòng 6 năm tới, biến nó thành một trong những cụm dữ liệu lớn nhất châu Âu. Bằng cách đặt data centre tại nơi "nguồn phát" dư thừa, Anh giải quyết được bài toán tổn thất truyền tải và giá điện cao. RFI: Cho tới nay, việc sử dụng AI trong y tế, tài chính và giáo dục tại Anh ra sao? Nguyễn Giang : Theo chỉ số tâm lý AI (EY AI Sentiment Index) tính đến giữa năm 2026, bức tranh ứng dụng của Anh như sau: Trong Dịch vụ Sức khỏe Quốc gia (NHS- tức Y tế công) thì kế hoạch 10 năm của Anh đã đưa AI từ giai đoạn thí điểm sang tích dợp hệ thống toàn diện. AI hiện là "trợ lý số" bắt buộc ở nhiều khâu: các công cụ "Ambient Scribing" (AI ghi âm cuộc thoại bác sĩ - bệnh nhân tự động chuyển thành hồ sơ bệnh án) phổ cập mạnh mẽ; ứng dụng NHS App tích hợp AI thành cổng sàng lọc bệnh tự động. Đặc biệt, Bộ Y tế Anh vừa tung ra mô hình "MHRA AI Airlock / Sandbox" (tháng 6/2026) để thử nghiệm AI trong việc dự đoán tác dụng phụ của thuốc, giúp NHS giảm bớt gánh nặng chi phí 2 tỷ bảng/năm do phản ứng ngược của thuốc gây ra. Mạnh và sâu hơn là ứng dụng trong tài chính dùng công nghệ số (fintech). Trên thực tế thì tỷ lệ ứng dụng AI ở Anh trong ngành này đã đạt 75%. Các ngân hàng và công ty tài chính Anh đang dùng AI sâu trong phát hiện gian lận (anti-frauds), trong giao dịch tự động và tuân thủ pháp lý (compliance). Vào tháng 1/2026, Cơ quan Quản lý Tài chính (FCA) đã mở cuộc điều tra Mills Review để đánh giá toàn diện tác động dài hạn của AI đối với dịch vụ tài chính tiêu dùng, đồng thời tích hợp sâu công cụ Agentic AI (AI tự chủ) vào hệ thống vận hành. Trong giáo dục đại học, Anh đang chuyển mạnh từ các ngành xã hội sang công nghệ. Hiện Bộ Giáo dục đã chuẩn hóa hơn 400 chương trình thạc sĩ chuyên sâu về AI và 28 trung tâm đào tạo tiến sĩ (CDT). Các trường đại học lớn như Edinburgh (với Bayes Centre), Cambridge, Oxford hoạt động như các lõi R&D chuyển giao công nghệ trực tiếp cho doanh nghiệp trong các AI Growth Zones. RFI:  So với Liên Âu thì Anh Quốc đi trước hay sau về công nghệ AI trong ứng dụng vào kinh tế và các ngành nghề? Nguyễn Giang : Có thể nói về mặt thương mại, hạ tầng và đầu tư thì Anh đi trước. Anh hiện đứng đầu châu Âu và thứ 4 thế giới về năng lực nghiên cứu cũng như thu hút vốn đầu tư mạo hiểm cho AI (riêng năm 2024 đạt gần 3 tỷ bảng). Do lợi thế về nguồn dữ liệu tập trung của NHS và thị trường tài chính London, các tập đoàn Mỹ (Google, Microsoft, OpenAI) chọn Anh làm bãi đáp hạ tầng lớn hơn so với Liên Âu Ưu thế của Anh là có tốc độ tích hợp AI vào dịch vụ công như trong y tế công (NHS) đồng bộ hơn nhờ cơ chế quản lý tập trung, trong khi EU bị phân mảnh theo từng quốc gia thành viên. Nhưng so sánh Anh và Pháp thì bức tranh lại hơi khác RFI:  Anh và Pháp được cho là hai quốc gia châu Âu hành đầu, cạnh tranh với Hoa Kỳ, Trung Quốc về AI nhưng cũng cạnh tranh với nhau? Nguyễn Giang : Các thông tin do hai chính phủ Anh và Pháp công bố dần dần cho thấy sự khác biệt, ưu điểm và nhược điểm của mỗi bên trong chiến lược phát triển AI. Tôi xin điểm ra một số nhỏ: Anh đã triển khai các trung tâm dữ liệu nhanh hơn Pháp. Vì ở Pháp, dù Hội nghị thượng đỉnh Choose France cam kết cắt giảm thủ tục hành chính của Pháp, nhưng Pháp cũng bị ràng buộc bởi các quy định quản lý đất đai và bảo vệ môi trường chặt chẽ của Liên Hiệp Châu Âu nên thủ tục làm tốn thời gian hơn trong việc giải phóng mặt bằng quy mô lớn. Pháp muốn đi nhanh nhưng vẫn phải tuân thủ luật Liên Âu (EU AI Act), còn Anh thì có môi trường pháp lý thoáng hơn, gần với Hoa Kỳ hơn, và thái độ ‘pro-innovation' có vẻ đang tốt hơn Pháp. Trong việc xây dựng hệ sinh thái tài chính và thương mại kỹ thuật số thì Anh có sẵn Luân Đôn là trung tâm Fintech số 1 châu Âu, kết nối truyền thống mạnh mẽ trong thế giới nói tiếng Anh với New York, với Singapore, Hồng Kông nên giúp các AI Growth Zone dễ dàng kết nối trực tiếp giải pháp AI vào thị trường tài chính toàn cầu. Thêm vào đó, việc sở hữu Dữ liệu tập trung của Y tế công NHS là lợi thế độc quyền mà Pháp không có. Anh dễ dàng thu hút các tập đoàn y sinh AI lớn đến thiết lập trung tâm tính toán, vì họ có thể tiếp cận kho dữ liệu y tế khổng lồ hàng đầu thế giới thông qua các cơ chế an toàn số (như MHRA AI Airlock). Thế nhưng, về quy mô vốn đầu tư hạ tầng khổng lồ bằng tiền nước ngoài (FDI Magnitude) thì Pháp đang hơn Anh. Ví dụ, Hội nghị Choose France, tập đoàn SoftBank đã cam kết chi tới 75 tỷ euro (trong đó 45 tỷ euro giải ngân trước 2031) để xây dựng cụm trung tâm dữ liệu AI khổng lồ công suất 5 GW tại Dunkerque. Bên cạnh đó là 10 tỷ euro từ Brookfield và 7,5 tỷ euro từ quỹ MGX (UAE). Hiện chưa rõ cuộc chạy đua đường dài về AI (AI race) giữa Anh và Pháp ra sao, nhưng cả hai nước đều đang đổ tiền vào. Tổng thống Emmanuel Macron công bố trong tháng 6/2026 khoản đầu tư 1,55 tỷ euro tiền công vào công nghệ quantum và bán dẫn (semiconductors). Cùng lúc, chính phủ Anh cũng trực tiếp chi ngân sách tài trợ ban đầu hơn 2,5 tỷ bảng để kích hoạt hệ thống điện toán quốc gia kết nối AI. RFI: Nếu làm tốt, các kế hoạch này có giúp kinh tế Anh tăng trưởng giai đoạn 2027-2030 không? Nguyễn Giang : Anh Quốc đang hy vọng kế hoạch AI Growth Zones và chuyển đổi số này được thực thi trơn tru, Nhờ đó mà tác động lên giai đoạn 2027-2030 sẽ có thể phát huy tác dụng qua ba kênh: Một là người ta hy vọng có dòng vốn dịch chuyển mạnh từ Mỹ sang Anh, không chỉ với con số 100 tỷ bảng đầu tư hạ tầng cam kết đến năm 2030 và còn có các cam kết mới. Các đầu tư này sẽ trực tiếp đóng góp vào GDP thông qua xây dựng và mua sắm thiết bị công nghệ cao ở Anh. Hai là AI sẽ làm tăng hiệu suất của y tế và tài chính, dịch vụ công. Lấy ví dụ ứng dụng AI giúp rút ngắn thời gian chẩn đoán của bác sĩ, cắt ngắn thời gian chờ được khám bệnh, và gián tiếp giải phóng hàng tỷ bảng Anh áp lực ngân sách (thời gian, giờ công) cho phép tái đầu tư tiền vào các khu vực kinh tế tạo ra thặng dư cao hơn. Và thứ ba là tác động lan tỏa (Spillover effects). Đây là điều cần chờ xem. Thế nhưng theo các mô hình dự báo, khi các AI Growth Zones đi vào hoạt động ổn định từ năm 2027, các ngành kế toán, tài chính, năng lực tính toán trong sản xuất v.v. sẽ nhờ giải pháp AI mà giảm được chi phí. Qua đó, giá trị chung của toàn chuỗi cung ứng ở Anh sẽ tăng lên, cùng sức cạnh tranh của hàng hóa Anh. Chúng ta sẽ không thấy ngay lợi ích này, nhưng đây là quá trình chuyển đổi, có người nói là cuộc cách mạng cơ sở hạ tầng lớn nhất từ thế kỷ 16 nên cần phải có  thời gian để “hưởng lợi”, nhìn từ góc độ của Anh Quốc.

On a mené l'enquête pour comprendre comment ce chantier pourrait débloquer le futur du rail français ! À 20 kilomètres de Bordeaux, LISEA construit un site encore méconnu, mais essentiel : un SMR, pour Site de Maintenance et de Remisage.C'est ici que les trains pourront dormir, être nettoyés, entretenus et réparés avant de repartir sur les rails.Et l'enjeu est énorme : aujourd'hui, la LGV Sud Europe Atlantique tourne à moins de la moitié de sa capacité, alors que 2 millions de voyageurs resteraient à quai chaque année faute de trains.Avec ce premier site de maintenance ferroviaire  indépendant en France, LISEA espère lever l'un des grands verrous du rail français : permettre à plus d'opérateurs de faire rouler plus de trains. Et c'est déjà le cas puisque Velvet, première compagnie ferroviaire française indépendante, s'appuiera sur le SMR de LISEA pour l'entretien et le remisage de ses 12 rames Alstom Avelia Horizon qui circuleront sur l'Axe Atlantique dès 2028 ! Pense à nous suivre sur nos autres réseaux !INSTAGRAM ► https://www.instagram.com/hourrailFACEBOOK ► https://www.facebook.com/hourrailTIKTOK ► https://www.tiktok.com/@hourrailLINKEDIN ► https://www.linkedin.com/company/hourrail→ Devenir membre du Club HOURRAIL ! : https://app.hourrail.voyage/le-club-hourrail?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=lisea&utm_campaign=202604→ Découvrir tous nos itinéraires : https://www.hourrail.voyage/fr→ Notre livre « Voyager en train avec HOURRAIL ! » : https://www.hourrail.voyage/fr/blog/voyager-en-train-avec-hourrail-guide-voyage-bas-carbone→ Abonne-toi à notre Newsletter bimensuelle pour un maximum de bons plans et inspirations : https://www.hourrail.voyage/fr/newsletter✍️ Journalistes : Lisa Abitbol, Benjamin Martinie

With the recent wave of milestones across the U.S. nuclear sector, we were eager to better understand what these achievements mean for the future of advanced reactors. Over the past month, Antares, Valar Atomics, Deployable Energy, and Aalo Atomics each achieved criticality, an important technical milestone, through the Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot Program (RPP) and Nuclear Energy Launch Pad. To help us put these milestones into context, we were delighted to host Dr. Rian Bahran, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Reactors in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy. Rian oversees the Department's portfolio for advanced reactor research, demonstration, and deployment, and is a career member of the Senior Executive Service who has served under both the Biden and Trump Administrations. We were thrilled to visit with Rian to "demystify" the latest developments in U.S. nuclear and discuss what still needs to happen before these technologies reach commercial scale. In our conversation, Rian explains why the four recent criticality milestones represent an important step forward for advanced nuclear. While criticality is not the finish line, he shares how these demonstrations help validate a new commercialization pathway by allowing companies to build and test nuclear hardware in months rather than years. He describes how the Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot and Launch Pad initiatives are creating greater regulatory certainty, helping companies unlock private capital, and accelerating progress toward commercial deployment. We discuss the DOE's broader strategy for expanding U.S. nuclear capacity, from gigawatt-scale reactors and small modular reactors to microreactors. Rian explains why the DOE is pursuing multiple technologies simultaneously, allowing the market to determine the winning designs while supporting innovation across the reactor, fuel cycle, and supply chain ecosystems. He outlines how reactor uprates, restarts, and investments across the nuclear fuel cycle can provide near-term additions to U.S. generating capacity while advanced reactors continue progressing toward commercialization. We explore the role advanced nuclear could play in powering AI infrastructure, military installations, industrial facilities, and future export markets. Rian discusses how the DOE is leveraging AI to accelerate reactor design, licensing, manufacturing, and deployment, and why workforce development has become one of the industry's greatest long-term challenges. He emphasizes that the U.S. has reached a true inflection point for nuclear energy, driven by unprecedented alignment across government, industry, private capital, and growing electricity demand. It was a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion, and we sincerely appreciate Rian taking the time to join us during such a busy time. Mike Bradley kicked us off by noting that three key themes have driven markets so far this quarter. First, Treasury yields have continued to move higher, with the 10-year Treasury yield rising to approximately 4.55% and the 30-year Treasury yield climbing above 5%. Second, renewed geopolitical uncertainty following the end of the Iranian ceasefire helped lift WTI crude oil prices by roughly $4/bbl this week to approximately $72/bbl. Third, equity markets have experienced notable sector rotation, with investors shifting capital out of semiconductor stocks and back into the Magnificent 7. Mike concluded by highlighting the sharp reversal in sentiment toward small modular reactor (SMR) companies. While SMR stocks were among the market's strongest performers entering 2026 amid growing enthusiasm for nuclear power, the group is now down roughly 30% on average year-to-date. Nick Morriss, Brett Rampal, and Veriten Senior Advisor Bill Flores also joined the discussion, contributing their perspectives and questions on nuclear energy and power.

Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE) i plany budowy małych reaktorów jądrowych (SMR) wywołują poważne pytania o bezpieczeństwo publicznych pieniędzy. Prof. Ludwik Pieńkowski ostrzega, że zaproponowany model finansowania inwestycji przenosi całe ryzyko biznesowe na polskich podatników, gwarantując zyski prywatnemu kapitałowi.

Anything But Human is an American rock band blending the grit of alternative rock with a touch of Southern soul, their music hits hard but always hits home. From Dallas, TX, they're known for their explosive live shows, powerful vocals, and emotionally charged songwriting.Since crashing onto the scene in 2019, ABH has released a string of standout singles - including “Move On”, which became the #1 most added song at Rock Radio and landed in the Top 20 on the Billboard Rock Indicator Chart. Their debut EP “Push” showcased their dynamic range, from the heavy-hitting “Slave” to their stripped-down covers of “Someone You Loved” and “Eleanor Rigby” - the latter reaching #22 on the Billboard/BDS Chart.  The band's last single "Time" charted at #9 on the SMR chart.ABH has shared the stage with rock legends like Bon Jovi, Tesla, and Saliva, toured across the U.S. and Mexico, and performed at major festivals including RockFest and Southern Rock Woodstock. With over 300,000 streams, 30,000 followers, and a loyal fanbase growing by the day, Anything But Human continues to carve out their place in American rock with heart, intensity, and purpose.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

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Smrť dieťaťa je téma, o ktorej sa nám všetkým ťažko hovorí. Aj my sme pred týmto rozhovorom cítili veľký rešpekt. A zároveň sme presvedčené, že mlčanie okolo nej škodí nám všetkým.Každé štvrté tehotenstvo končí predčasne. Je to skúsenosť, ktorú zažilo veľa žien okolo nás a napriek tomu o nej takmer nikto nehovorí.Dnes sme sa rozprávali so Stanislavou Cifra Beňovou, členkou občianskeho združenia Tanana, ktorá sa k nemu pridala po tom, ako v 38. týždni bezproblémového tehotenstva prišla o syna Oskara. Žije v Bruseli s manželom a dcérkou Sárou a pomáha ženám a rodinám zvládať obdobie po strate.V EPIZÓDE SA DOZVIETE:Prečo mlčanie okolo straty škodí nám všetkým.Čo povedať (a čo radšej nie) niekomu, kto prišiel o dieťa.Príbeh Stanky a Oskara - od intuície, cez pôrod, až po život dnes.Čo konkrétne ponúka OZ Tanana párom po strate.Ako byť oporou, aj keď nevieme čo povedať.Prečo je dôležité vysloviť meno dieťatka.Tento rozhovor nie je ľahký. Ale veríme, že je dôležitý.Ak prechádzate stratou nie ste v tom sami. OZ Tanana poskytuje bezplatnú podporu, porozumenie a bezpečný priestor. www.tanana.skMAMA GANG+ KOMUNITAPRIDAJ SA K NÁM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Les petits réacteurs nucléaires modulaires, ou SMR, occupent une place croissante dans les débats sur l'avenir de l'énergie. Leur principe est simple : construire des réacteurs plus compacts que les centrales classiques, standardisés, et théoriquement fabriqués en série. Cette logique doit permettre de réduire les délais, les coûts et les risques industriels. Mais entre la promesse technologique et les chantiers réels, l'écart reste important.En France, le soutien politique existe. Emmanuel Macron a annoncé un milliard d'euros pour développer les technologies nucléaires émergentes, dont les SMR. Une partie de cette enveloppe, environ 90 millions d'euros, concerne notamment des projets comme Jimmy et Calogena. Le pays dispose donc d'acteurs actifs dans la recherche et le développement, mais aucun projet français n'a encore atteint la phase de construction.Ailleurs, les choses avancent plus vite. Au Canada, le site de Darlington, à l'est de Toronto, est devenu l'un des symboles de cette course. Ontario Power Generation y porte un projet de quatre réacteurs BWRX-300, conçus par GE Vernova Hitachi. Le lancement des travaux a été marqué par la pose d'une dalle de fondation de 953 tonnes. Chaque réacteur doit fournir 300 mégawatts, soit 1 200 mégawatts au total une fois les quatre unités en service. Un seul de ces réacteurs pourrait alimenter plus de 300 000 foyers. L'investissement annoncé atteint 13,8 milliards d'euros.Les partisans des SMR y voient une filière industrielle capable de créer des milliers d'emplois pendant la construction, puis plusieurs décennies d'activité en exploitation. Les critiques, eux, pointent une question centrale : le modèle économique est-il vraiment solide ? L'abandon du projet NuScale aux États-Unis, en 2023, après une forte hausse des coûts, reste dans tous les esprits. L'OCDE rappelle aussi que les industriels occidentaux ne sont pas encore parvenus à produire ces réacteurs en grande série.La France avance donc prudemment. EDF a revu en 2024 son projet Nuward avec un design simplifié et des premiers chantiers repoussés avant 2030. La même année, le groupe s'est retiré de la compétition britannique. En parallèle, Calogena, Jimmy Energy, Stellaria, Newcleo ou Blue Capsule poursuivent leurs travaux. La filière existe, mais elle cherche encore son passage du laboratoire au béton. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Na Slovensku je úspešný film, na ktorý príde do kina 200-tisíc ľudí, vraví filmový a televízny producent a spolumajiteľ DNA Production Rasťo Šesták. Spolu s režisérom Petrom Bebjakom stoja za filmami ako Duchoň, Správa, Smršť či Trhlina. V rozhovore s reportérom Dušanom Mikušovičom vraví, koľko stojí film a čo je na ňom najdrahšie, ako prežíval emotívnu diskusiu okolo filmu Duchoň, aj prečo stopli spolupráce s STVR a nežiadajú o podporu z výziev Audiovizuálneho fondu.

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My conversation with the legend Steven Mark Ryan, from Solving the Money Problem. We discuss his strategy to buy SpaceX stock and why he thinks the compute business alone will justify the current valuation. Not too mention Starlink or anything else that Elon Musk comes up with. This was a fascinating discussion about SpaceX/xAI's future and made me EVEN MORE bullish on SPCX stock ... Huge shoutout to SMR for coming on the show! Let me know if you'd like to see a part 2 :)YouTube Solving the Money Problem:    / @solvingthemoneyproblem   SMR on X: https://x.com/stevenmarkryan1:22 Do you own $SPCX??4:13 How do you justify a $2T Valuation for Spacex? AI Datacenters9:23 Starlink's Insane Potential15:23 Cursor Acquisition & Grok Build 22:37 Competition from Anthropic & OpenAI25:22 SpaceX Is AI Compute Maxxing On Earth27:49 Agents Will Change How We Build Code29:48 Orbital Compute & Starship46:54 Bidding War for SpaceX Compute51:21 Grok can help SpaceX with AI53:36 SpaceX Bearcase 55:42 Fall of the Mainstream media1:04:57 Terafab not getting enough coverage1:09:14 Asteroid Mining, Raw Materials from the Moon1:10:04 The Tesla + SpaceX Merger My X:   / gfilche  HyperChange Patreon :)   / hyperchange   Disclaimer: Steven Mark Ryan and I are long SPCX and TSLA. Nothing in this podcast is financial advice.

This week, our guest is Mike Law, former president and CEO of the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO). Mike now leads MGL Advisory Services Ltd. and advises several companies, including Energy Alberta, where he is head of power system integration. Energy Alberta is proposing a nuclear generating station in northern Alberta's Peace River region. The podcast touches on a long list of Canadian electricity policy initiatives, including the federal government's Nuclear Energy Strategy (June 22) and the Electricity Strategy (May 14). Other policies that are impacting investment and growth forecasts include the Alberta-Canada MOU, the Clean Electricity Regulations (CER), and – specific to Alberta – the new Data Centre Regulation and the Restructured Energy Market (REM). Topics covered include Canada's need for new electricity generation to meet growing demand, including from AI data centres; how the CER is creating uncertainty for investment in new natural gas generation; and how Alberta's REM adds another layer of uncertainty. The discussion also covers Canada's new nuclear strategy and the plan to build 10 new reactors, including how it compares with the U.S. push toward a similar target. Finally, Mike outlines Energy Alberta's large-scale Peace River nuclear project, including timelines, regulatory requirements, costs, and stakeholder engagement. Content referenced in this podcast:  Nuclear Energy Strategy for Canada (June 29, 2026) Powering Canada Strong: A National Strategy for an Electrified Canadian Economy (May 14, 2026) Energy Futures: BC Hydro Turns Back to Natural Gas to Help Fill Electricity Gap (June 1, 2026) Alberta Data Centre Regulation (June 9, 2026) CBC: Power plant proposed for area northeast of Edmonton inches closer to becoming reality (June 24, 2026) Please review our disclaimer at: https://www.arcenergyinstitute.com/disclaimer/Check us out on social media:X (Twitter): @arcenergyinstLinkedIn: @ARC Energy Research InstituteSubscribe to ARC Energy Ideas PodcastApple PodcastsAmazon MusicSpotify

Ak by sme mali dlh ako Taliansko, hrozba bankrotu štátu by bola až 80-percentná. Slovensko sa vo výške dlhu nemôže porovnávať s Talianskom, hovorí Martin Šuster z Rady pre rozpočtovú zodpovednosť. Udržateľnosť gréckych verejných financií je lepšia než tých našich, naša ekonomika by taliansky dlh nezvládla, dodáva. No a prečo nám napriek tomu nehrozí zrútenie penzijného systému a bude na 12 penzií?Hovorí sa, že v živote človeka sú iba dve istoty: Smrť a dane. V prípade Slovenska však platí ešte jedna istota – istota, že Slovensko si na nohe vlečie neustále sa nabaľujúci štátny dlh. Od vzniku tohto štátu totiž žiadna vláda nedokázala hospodáriť s vyrovnaným, tobôž prebytkovým rozpočtom. Okrem deficitov sa tak nabaľoval i štátny dlh, ktorý dnes prekročil maastrichtskú hranicu 60tich percent a atakuje závratných 84 miliárd eur. Premiér ale tvrdí, že náš aktuálny štátny dlh vlastne nie je žiadny problém pretože je nižšíí než je priemer EÚ. Slovensko nemá absolútne žiadny problém s verejnými financiami, vyhlásil Robert Fico. Podľa expertov sa však premiér zásadne mýli.V čom tkvie premiérov omyl, prečo je porovnávanie sa s Talianskom či Gréckom chybné a ako fatálne môže byť ďalšie zadlžovanie tejto krajiny? V dnešných Aktualitách Nahlas na to odpovie Martin Šuster z Rady pre rozpočtovú zodpovednosť. A čo ďalej s penzijným systémom i sociálnym štátom, je dlhodobo udržateľný priebežný pilier štátnych dôchodkov zo Sociálnej poisťovne?Sledujete Aktuality Nahlas, pekný deň a pokoj v duši praje Braňo Dobšinský.

Ak by sme mali dlh ako Taliansko, hrozba bankrotu štátu by bola až 80-percentná. Slovensko sa vo výške dlhu nemôže porovnávať s Talianskom, hovorí Martin Šuster z Rady pre rozpočtovú zodpovednosť. Udržateľnosť gréckych verejných financií je lepšia než tých našich, naša ekonomika by taliansky dlh nezvládla, dodáva. No a prečo nám napriek tomu nehrozí zrútenie penzijného systému a bude na 12 penzií?Hovorí sa, že v živote človeka sú iba dve istoty: Smrť a dane. V prípade Slovenska však platí ešte jedna istota – istota, že Slovensko si na nohe vlečie neustále sa nabaľujúci štátny dlh. Od vzniku tohto štátu totiž žiadna vláda nedokázala hospodáriť s vyrovnaným, tobôž prebytkovým rozpočtom. Okrem deficitov sa tak nabaľoval i štátny dlh, ktorý dnes prekročil maastrichtskú hranicu 60tich percent a atakuje závratných 84 miliárd eur. Premiér ale tvrdí, že náš aktuálny štátny dlh vlastne nie je žiadny problém pretože je nižšíí než je priemer EÚ. Slovensko nemá absolútne žiadny problém s verejnými financiami, vyhlásil Robert Fico. Podľa expertov sa však premiér zásadne mýli.V čom tkvie premiérov omyl, prečo je porovnávanie sa s Talianskom či Gréckom chybné a ako fatálne môže byť ďalšie zadlžovanie tejto krajiny? V dnešných Aktualitách Nahlas na to odpovie Martin Šuster z Rady pre rozpočtovú zodpovednosť. A čo ďalej s penzijným systémom i sociálnym štátom, je dlhodobo udržateľný priebežný pilier štátnych dôchodkov zo Sociálnej poisťovne?Sledujete Aktuality Nahlas, pekný deň a pokoj v duši praje Braňo Dobšinský.

This episode of Sexy Marriage Radio Pam and I talk about the challenges of applying relationship knowledge in real life, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, emotional regulation, and system disruption to foster genuine change in marriage. Enjoy the show! On the Xtended version … We go through what it really looks like to make better self-respecting moves in life and marriage Let's explore more. Sponsors … Evree: Our favorite intimate product! Get 10% off every order with our code SMR - https://smr.fm.evree Academy: Join the Academy and go deeper. https://smr.fm/academy The post When Life Turns Upside Down #786 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.

Vi fikk besøk av Kristin Halvorsen en uke etter at kjernekraftutvalget leverte sin utredning. Var konklusjonen gitt på forhånd og anbefales bare mer av det som ikke virker? Halvorsen forklarer hvorfor kjernekraft ikke er så enkelt som man skulle tro. Vi snakker blant annet om SMR-kostnader, subsidiebehov, sikkerhetskrav, leverandørkjeder, håndtering av radioaktivt avfall og tidsaspekter. Om du ikke har lest hele rapporten på 500 sider, får du de viktigste funnene i Fornybaren. ⚡️Hva må til for å bli et kjernekraftland?⚡️Hvilke teknologiske nyvinninger kan gjøre kjernekraft lønnsomt?⚡️Er kjernekraft en løsning på Norges kraftbehov, eller en avsporing? Lytt med der du hører podkast

durée : 00:03:17 - On n'arrête pas l'éco - La Suède n'a pas installé de réacteurs depuis cinquante ans. Mais elle choisit aujourd'hui de relancer cette énergie avec une technologie particulière, celle des SMR, avec l'aide d'un constructeur automobile britannique emblématique. - réalisation : Ottilia Ferey Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Mŕtve dievča v aute uprostred sídliska. Verdikt doktora Lengyela je jednoznačný - mladá, zdravá, pekná, len trochu mŕtva. Smrť spôsobil pervitín, jeden vpich do žily a život vyprchal. Problémy nastanú, keď detektívi z oddelenia vrážd o Vierke zistia, že nikdy nebrala drogy, nefajčila, pila len biele víno, aj to príležitostne. Obsah žalúdka a rozbor krvi hovoria niečo iné. Aj podozrivé zmiznutie jej frajera prispeje k tomu, že celý prípad sa hneď po prvých výsluchoch zahalí rúškom tajomstva. Neostáva nič iné, len vrátiť sa na začiatok a podľa zaužívaných pravidiel vyšetrovania rozpletať záhadu mŕtvej Vierky trpezlivo, krok za krokom. Prvé zistenia sú zaujímavé, jej vážna známosť Marek nie je len obyčajný elektrikár a o Vierku ako o dôležitú svedkyňu majú záujem aj iné zložky polície, bohužiaľ, neskoro. Ani Marekovi kamaráti, banda holohlavých chuligánov v bomberách a kanadách, nie sú mimo podozrenia, hoci navonok sa tvária ako stelesnená spravodlivosť a tvrdá ruka zákona zároveň, v skutočnosti majú ich nočné nájazdy väčšinou krvavý koniec. Chlapci zo stoštyridsaťjednotky sa neponáhľajú, vedia, že páchateľ je na blízku a nemá kam uniknúť. Keby tušili, čo sa chystá v piatok, pohli by si, zatkli by tých, ktorí si to zaslúžia, už vo štvrtok a život v Našom Meste by sa od toho zlomového osudného dňa uberal úplne iným smerom. Audiokniha: Krv sa stane zabavou Autor: Dominik Dán Interpret: Martin Mňahončák Dĺžka: 10:53 hod Vydavateľstvo: Publixing Audiokniha Krv sa stane zabavou na webe Publixing (MP3 na stiahnutie) Audiokniha Krv sa stane zabavou na webe Audiolibrix (MP3 na stiahnutie)

This episode of Sexy Marriage Radio Pam and I talk about the challenges of applying relationship knowledge in real life, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, emotional regulation, and system disruption to foster genuine change in marriage. Enjoy the show! On the Xtended version … We go through what it really looks like to make better self-respecting moves in life and marriage Let's explore more. Sponsors … Evree: Our favorite intimate product! Get 10% off every order with our code SMR - https://smr.fm.evree Academy: Join the Academy and go deeper. https://smr.fm/academy The post She Knows How To Ride #785 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.

Send us Fan MailIn the face of new studies showing increased dangers of exposure to radiation, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing the repeal of a 50 year old safety regulation known as as low as Reasonably Achievable or Alara. This is being done to fast track small modular reactors. A proposed new nuclear technology, SMR reactors, are seen as a possible answer to the energy bottleneck for the expansion of data centers that feed artificial intelligence.SMRs would be smaller but spread out in more communities. They would be less efficient and use a more dangerous nuclear fuel. All of this is being greenwash under the banner of a so-called nuclear renaissance by big tech corporations and some supporters, who claim that it is an answer to climate change. On this episode of Breaking Green, we will speak with Peter Jones.Peter Jones is trained as a physicist and as a lawyer, and he is director of nuclear waste policy at the Samuel Lawrence Foundation.We track how the NRC's push to weaken long-standing radiation safeguards lines up with the rush to license small modular reactors marketed as climate solutions. We connect new research on low dose radiation risk to the unresolved nuclear waste crisis and the growing demand for electricity from AI data centers. • Why a “nuclear renaissance” narrative is gaining traction • How San Onofre illustrates the problem of stranded nuclear waste • The missing federal repository problem and the Yucca Mountain dead end • How NRC staffing pressure and rushed rulemaking change the regulatory landscape • Why data centers and AI are reshaping energy investment and political incentives • What recent studies suggest about low dose ionizing radiation and cancer risk • Why repealing Alara shifts risk onto workers and nearby communities • How SMRs can be less efficient and generate more waste per unit of energy • Liability limits, the Price Anderson Act, and gaps for newer reactor categories • HALEU fuel, higher enrichment, and increased non-proliferation concerns • The danger of reducing security requirements while using hotter fuel • Why nuclear contamination is difficult to contain, clean up, and reverse If you're enjoying this episode of Breaking Green, please subscribe or follow wherever you get your podcasts. Consider leaving a review and sharing it with friends and colleagues. You can find the full catalog of previous episodes and sign up to have future episodes delivered straight to your inbox at breakinggreen.org. To learn more about Global Justice Ecology Project, visit GlobalJusticeEcology.org. Breaking Green is made possible by tax-deductible donations by people like you. Please help us lift up the voices of those working to protect forest, defend human rights, and expose all solutions. Simply text GIVE to 716 257 4187. That's 1 716 257 4187. Support the show

This episode of Sexy Marriage Radio Pam and I talk about the challenges of applying relationship knowledge in real life, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, emotional regulation, and system disruption to foster genuine change in marriage. Enjoy the show! On the Xtended version … We go through what it really looks like to make better self-respecting moves in life and marriage Let's explore more. Sponsors … Evree: Our favorite intimate product! Get 10% off every order with our code SMR - https://smr.fm.evree Academy: Join the Academy and go deeper. https://smr.fm/academy The post Understanding Isn't The Problem #784 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.

One step closer to SMR's. Israel and Iran take a pause. For now. Gary airport to expand as a result of the Bears move? Zionsville Town Council member pressured a resident on her deathbed to sign over property? Not all Dems are thrilled that Beau Bayh is their nominee for SOS Indiana has the cheapest pizza. Today’s Popcorn Moment: Dems upset that Trump is noticing the election fraud in California, Today on the Marketplace: Recently Discontinued Soda. What is AI doing to the economy? Todd Blanche nominated for AG. Let's prosecute the fraud. Greg Bovino '28? Ukraine preparing missiles for Moscow. California is why we question election results. Indianapolis crime spreading to the donut counties. TV Theme Song: This Old HouseSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One step closer to SMR's. Israel and Iran take a pause. For now. Gary airport to expand as a result of the Bears move? Zionsville Town Council member pressured a resident on her deathbed to sign over property? Not all Dems are thrilled that Beau Bayh is their nominee for SOSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

157. epizóda Vertiga bude opäť bohatá na predstavenie noviniek z kín a online priestoru. Kiná lákajú na šiestu časť Scary Movie, rovnako aj na snaživý surreálny horor Backrooms, čaká vás aj výnimočný britský film so slovenským distribučným názvom Prisahám, že za to nemôžem, či španielska artovka Romería z festivalu v Cannes. Zo streamov sme vybrali pozoruhodné seriály Spider-Noir a Hviezdne mestečko, ale aj dark fantasy komédiu štúdia A24 – Smrť jednorožca. Zoznam filmov a seriálov z epizódy: 00:00 Úvod 00:54 Scary Movie 12:25 Backrooms: Za stenou / Backrooms 19:35 Prisahám, že za to nemôžem / I Swear 25:59 Romería 31:13 Spider-Noir (Prime Video) 36:30 Hviezdne mestečko / Star City (Apple TV+) 42:06 Smrť jednorožca / Death of a Unicorn (SkyShowtime) 48:24 Záver _ Ak nám chcete napísať, ozvite sa na vertigo@sme.sk _ Ďakujeme, že počúvate podcast Vertigo a zaujímate sa o filmový svetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jay Gunkelman has read more than half a million brain scans. In this episode he and host Pete Jansons open a real before-and-after case and walk it frame by frame — eyes open and eyes closed, pre-treatment and post-treatment — so you can watch what changed. Going in: fast alpha racing at 11.5 Hz, 23 Hz beta spindling at the vertex driving insomnia, a slow edge of alpha buried in the left temporal lobe pointing at local ischemia and possible old head injury, and right-frontal beta carrying a depressive signature. Coming out: alpha stabilized toward 10 Hz, frontal beta down, left-temporal function dramatically improved. Then the bigger story — the refractory-psychiatry work Jay did with Ron Swatzyna and Nash Boutros, where roughly half of medication failures turned out to have a focal EEG biomarker that no pill could fix. As Jay puts it: you can't give soup to the whole brain.

This episode of Sexy Marriage Radio explores the complex dynamics of desire, intimacy, and past experiences in marriage, focusing on a couple's journey from swinging to a faith-based relationship. We discuss how desire, exhaustion, and personal values influence sexual intimacy and how couples can navigate these challenges with understanding and intentionality. Enjoy the show! On the Xtended version … We explore in more detail about the dilemma of the emailer asking is they should open up their marriage again and how that aligns with her Christian faith. Let's explore more. Sponsors … Evree: Our favorite intimate product! Get 10% off every order with our code SMR - https://smr.fm.evree Academy: Join the Academy and go deeper. https://smr.fm/academy The post From the Swingers Club to Sunday Morning #783 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of the WTR Small‑Cap Spotlight podcast, Rod Baltzer, CEO of Deep Isolation, joins Tim Gerdeman, Vice Chair, Co‑Founder, and Chief Marketing Officer of Water Tower Research, along with WTR Analyst Eric Goldstein.Deep Isolation is an innovative nuclear waste disposal technology company focused on protecting human health and the environment by addressing one of the most persistent challenges of the nuclear age. The company has pioneered a patented, directionally drilled deep‑borehole disposal system that places spent nuclear fuel and high‑level radioactive waste approximately one mile underground — twice the depth of a traditional mined repository, at roughly 70% lower cost, and achievable in months rather than decades.At the core of the platform is Deep Isolation's Universal Canister System, a single integrated solution for storage, transportation, and permanent disposal. By eliminating the need to repackage waste, the system helps avoid a potential $30 billion liability embedded in the current U.S. dry‑cask stockpile. With more than 100 patents; strategic partnerships with Halliburton, Amentum, Navarro, and Westinghouse; over $6 million in DOE and ARPA‑E grants; and no direct global competitor in the borehole disposal space, Deep Isolation sits at the nexus of the nuclear renaissance, the SMR buildout, and a $155 billion global waste backlog expected to nearly double by 2050.

Dr. Hill, Scott and A.J. Joseph gather to talk about the NAEMSP journal of prehospital care research topic of SMR, Spinal Motion Restrictions.  Hits been a hot topic for years. The research paper associated with this topi is the most downloaded paper in the history of NAEMSP.  Are we harming patients with our backboards and cervical collars?

Hosťom epizódy je Michal Pečík, lekár, zdravotnícky záchranár, letecký záchranár, akrobatický pilot, parašutista a doktorant na STU, kde prepája medicínu s technológiami a výskumom dýchania v záťažových podmienkach.Rozprávame sa o záchrankách, vrtuľníkoch, alkohole, fajčení, prevencii, slovenskom zdravotníctve, nadužívaní urgentnej starostlivosti, kvalite života, smrti, resuscitácii a o tom, prečo zdravotná starostlivosť nie je zadarmo, aj keď je bezplatná.Ak sa vám epizóda páči, necenzurovaná verzia s otázkami od patreonov (o 54 minút dlhšia) je na:

In this Best of SMR episode we discuss common mistakes that married couples make when it comes to initiating sex.  There are dynamics of higher desire and lower desire and patterns that make these mistakes so easy to make. We cover six common mistakes: getting annoyed at being the one who initiates, using covert or roundabout methods of initiation, joking or crude initiations, feeling the need to be as turned on as your partner, using the same initiation method every time, and talking yourself out of initiating.  Enjoy the show! On the Xtended version … What make authenticity and vulnerability in marriage so difficult? Is it the motivations behind the vulnerability? The reactions to vulnerable moments? Both? Let's explore more. Sponsors … Evree: Our favorite intimate product! Get 10% off every order with our code SMR - https://smr.fm.evree Academy: Join the Academy and go deeper. https://smr.fm/academy The post Best of SMR: Initiation Mistakes Married People Make #782 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.

Light Therapy, 40Hz Gamma & Brainwave Entrainment: How BrainTap Resets Sleep, Clears Brain Fog, and Boosts Productivity by 26% Your brain is being starved of the one nutrient it needs most, and it is not a supplement, not a nootropic, not a fasting protocol. It is light, and a 40 hertz flicker delivered at the right frequency can break up amyloid plaque, reset your nervous system, and get you 26 percent more productive in a single session. -Watch this episode on YouTube for the full video experience: https://www.youtube.com/@DaveAspreyBPR -Go to https://braintap.com/dave/ for an exclusive offer for The Human Upgrade listeners Host Dave Asprey sits down with Dr. Patrick Porter, PhD, award-winning author, educator, entrepreneur, and founder of BrainTap, who has spent over 35 years at the forefront of neurotechnology helping millions of people achieve mental and emotional resilience through cutting-edge brain entrainment tools. Backed by 72 peer-reviewed studies and research conducted alongside Google, Microsoft, universities in Brazil, and veteran treatment programs, Dr. Porter is one of the most experienced and validated practitioners in applied neuroscience and brain optimization working today. Together, Dave and Dr. Porter break down exactly how flickering light and binaural sound delivered through the BrainTap headset feeds the brain through the electron transport chain, triggers nitric oxide release, boosts mitochondrial energy, and drives neuroplasticity through frequency following response. They cover how 40 hertz gamma light breaks up amyloid plaque and why that same frequency is linked to reversing dementia, how BrainTap reset the circadian rhythms of coal miners in under three weeks, how 490,000 students in Brazil raised their GPA using brain wave entrainment, and how AI now builds personalized 21-day brain training protocols from 3,000 available sessions. If you are serious about biohacking your brain, upgrading sleep optimization, and doing smarter not harder work on your mind, this episode delivers the science and the tools. You'll Learn: Why light is the most underrated nutrient for brain health and how BrainTap delivers it directly to every cell in your body How 40 hertz gamma frequency breaks up amyloid plaque, restores blood flow, and may reverse dementia and Alzheimer's progression Why binaural beats and isochronic tones trigger frequency following response and what that does to your focus, metabolism, and energy How three 10-minute BrainTap sessions per day produces 26 percent more work output according to studies with Google and Microsoft How BrainTap restored deep sleep and REM cycles in coal miners with destroyed circadian rhythms in under three weeks Why 90 percent of autistic children in one study began speaking after six weeks of pulsed light therapy targeting alpha wave production How AI inside BrainTap now generates personalized brain training protocols based on your specific stress, sleep, and performance goals Why the vagus nerve is the hidden target of BrainTap's ear lights and how triggering it drives parasympathetic recovery How SMR brain waves create the optimal state for focus and concentration and why elite athletes use this for both performance and academic results What the NeuroCheck system measures across nine parameters of the nervous system in five minutes and how it validates your biohacking results Thank you to our sponsors! - AirDoctor | Go to https://airdoctorpro.com/daveasprey and save up to $300 on Air Purifiers. - AquaTru | Go to https://aquatruwater.com/daveasprey and save $100 on all AquaTru water purifiers. - iRestore | Reverse hair loss at www.irestore.com/DAVE and get exclusive savings on the iRestore Elite, use code DAVE Dave Asprey is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, founder of Bulletproof Coffee, and the father of biohacking. With over 1,000 interviews and 1 million monthly listeners, The Human Upgrade brings you the knowledge to take control of your biology, extend your longevity, and optimize every system in your body and mind. Each episode delivers cutting-edge insights inhealth, performance, neuroscience, supplements, nutrition, biohacking, emotional intelligence, and conscious living. New episodes are released every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday (BONUS). Dave asks the questions no one else will and gives you real tools to become stronger, smarter, and more resilient. 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Corey is celebrating a milestone birthday this year, so this episode explores the recurring themes in marriage, personal growth, and the importance of self-awareness. Join us as we reflect on lessons learned over years of marriage and shared experiences, emphasizing the value of courage, authenticity, and continuous self-improvement. Enjoy the show! Sponsors … Evree: Our favorite intimate product! Get 10% off every order with our code SMR - https://smr.fm.evree Academy: Join the Academy and go deeper. https://smr.fm/academy The post SMR Honest Reflections #781 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.

The war with Iran has put a spotlight on the security and resilience of energy and supply chains around the world. In this second special episode from the ACORE Finance Forum in New York, host Ed Crooks explores what that means for the US power industry, at a moment when rising electricity demand was already putting the grid under strain.Lori Ann LaRocco, a trade and supply chain expert and author of Trade War: Containers Don't Lie, explains the global impacts from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. She tells us that there are 70,000 products made from petrochemicals, including the components that go into solar panels, the chips for data centers, and your cell phone. Supplies of those products are being crunched because of the disruption to exports from the Gulf. Some are already in short supply. Even if the strait reopened tomorrow, the physical realities of repositioning tankers, clearing mines and restoring export infrastructure would mean supply chains would take at least a year to normalise. Her advice: know your supply chain not just to the first tier, but to the fifth, sixth and seventh.José Antonio Miranda, chief executive of Avangrid, talks about the opportunities and challenges created by rising electricity demand. He says investment needs to start now and keep going. His one word advice for policymakers: certainty. Investors have the capital and the expertise to deliver the new grid and generation capacity that policymakers want, he says. What the private sector cannot work with is retroactive rule changes and unpredictable permitting outcomes.Harry Krejsa, director of studies at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology, is a former official in both the Trump and Biden administrations who is focused on the relationship between energy and national security. He argues that worries about depending on China for clean energy technology often conflate two issues: cybersecurity risk, and supply chain dependency. His principle is guard the smart stuff, buy the dumb stuff, and build the future.Kara McNutt, Wood Mackenzie's head of power and renewables consulting for the Americas, shares her concerns about grid reliability. The share of dispatchable generation on the US grid is declining as coal-fired power plants shut down and new wind and solar capacity is added. Nuclear is genuinely exciting, with the global SMR pipeline nearly doubling in the past year, but it is a 2030s story rather than a solution for today.Benoy Thanjan, founder of Reneu Energy and host of the Solar Maverick podcast, is a solar developer. He is seeing surging interest in behind-the-meter storage, driven in part by concerns about energy security and resilience brought to the surface by the Iran war. The FEOC (Foreign Entities of Concern) rules, intended to stop unfriendly countries benefiting from US tax credits, remain a real point of friction. Customers want US-manufactured equipment, but the price gap between compliant and non-compliant products is still very large.Ray Long, president and chief executive of ACORE, closes by sharing his key takeaways from the forum. He says three things need to change to remove obstacles to investment: federal permitting reform, clear FEOC guidance from the Treasury, and faster approvals from the Departments of Interior, War and Energy for new projects. Follow the show wherever you're listening so you don't miss an episode. Let us know what you think. We're on X, at @theenergygang.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Sexy Marriage Radio, Pam and I are joined by Gary and Lisa Thomas as we talk through some simple habits you can do this summer that will have impact on your marriage. Enjoy the show! Sponsors … Evree: Our favorite intimate product! Get 10% off every order with our code SMR - https://smr.fm.evree Academy: Join the Academy and go deeper. https://smr.fm/academy The post 3 Habits To Improve Your Marriage This Summer | Gary and Lisa Thomas #780 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.

Nuclear stocks are blowing up right now… but here's the thing no one's really saying out loud. Not every “hot” trade is actually worth your money.This video breaks down what's really going on behind the surge, starting with SMR and the sudden wave of hype hitting the nuclear sector. Yeah, the story sounds powerful. Government backing, energy demand, AI growth… it all checks out on paper. But when you slow it down and actually look at the charts and signals, the picture gets a lot more interesting.Because a good story doesn't always equal a good trade.You'll see how OVTLYR is used to cut through the noise and focus on what actually matters. Not opinions. Not hype. Just real data and confirmation.Here's what stands out:✅ Why nuclear energy is suddenly everywhere right now✅ What that SMR breakout really means (and what it doesn't)✅ How to read market, sector, and stock signals the right way✅ The warning signs of overhyped or sponsored stock picks✅ A smarter approach to avoid getting caught in bad setupsThere's also a real conversation here about something most people ignore… how easily hype can turn into a trap if you're not paying attention.If price isn't confirming the move, it doesn't matter how good the story sounds.Watch it through, stay sharp, and don't just follow the crowd.Subscribe to OVTLYR for disciplined trading strategies that actually make sense.

Julien Villeret dirige l'innovation du groupe EDF, on s'est retrouvés un jour de pluie, ce qui tombait plutôt bien pour parler d'énergie. Julien est l'un de ces rares interlocuteurs capables de parler du mix énergétique français sans perdre la nuance ni tomber dans le discours institutionnel. Il connaît le sujet de l'intérieur, et il n'a pas peur d'aller là où ça grince.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons de nucléaire, bien sûr, mais aussi de ce qu'on ne comprend pas sur l'électricité en général. J'ai questionné Julien sur les déchets nucléaires (leur volume réel vous va surprendre), sur les compétences qu'on a perdues en arrêtant de construire des centrales, sur pourquoi une voiture électrique en Allemagne, c'est techniquement une voiture au charbon, et sur l'hydrogène, qu'on nous vend comme la grande révolution alors que la réalité est beaucoup plus complexe.On parle aussi de fusion nucléaire, de SMR, de la panne en Espagne, du compteur Linky, de l'IA et de sa consommation d'énergie, et des SAF, ces carburants d'aviation qui permettent de voler à neutralité carbone dès aujourd'hui.Ce qui m'a frappé dans cet échange, c'est la posture. Julien ne survend pas, il ne minimise pas. Il essaie juste de remettre des faits là où il y a trop souvent des fantasmes.CITATIONS MARQUANTES1. "Si on n'a plus d'énergie, on n'a plus de plastique. Et si on n'a plus de plastique, on n'a plus d'hôpitaux." (Julien Villeret, ~0:03:44)2. "Tous les déchets nucléaires produits par le parc français depuis les années 60, c'est en gros deux piscines olympiques en volume." (Julien Villeret, ~0:17:25)3. "Une centrale nucléaire, ça ne peut pas exploser. C'est un fantasme." (Julien Villeret, ~0:36:26)4. "Les plus grandes batteries du monde aujourd'hui, ce sont des barrages." (Julien Villeret, ~0:11:15)5. "On a arrêté de construire des centrales pour des raisons idéologiques. Les gens qui savaient faire sont partis à la retraite." (Julien Villeret, ~0:26:25)IDÉES MARQUANTES1. L'énergie est consubstantielle à la civilisation, pas optionnelle Timestamp : ~0:02:51 L'énergie n'est pas un confort ou un luxe, c'est le socle de tout : la santé, la nourriture, la fabrication industrielle, la vie moderne dans son entier. Le rejet d'une écologie radicale par les populations vient en partie de là : on leur demande de renoncer à quelque chose qui est aussi fondamental que l'air qu'ils respirent. Pourquoi c'est important : tant qu'on ne pose pas ce cadre, on ne peut pas avoir un débat énergétique honnête.2. L'électricité propre ou sale dépend de comment elle est produite, pas de comment elle est consommée Timestamp : ~0:07:00 Une voiture électrique en France est l'une des plus propres au monde. La même voiture en Allemagne fonctionne au charbon. Ce n'est pas l'usage qui définit l'empreinte carbone, c'est la chaîne de production entière. Pourquoi c'est important : ça remet en question beaucoup de discours simplistes sur la mobilité électrique et force à penser en systèmes.3. Les barrages hydrauliques sont les plus grandes batteries du monde Timestamp : ~0:10:18 L'eau stockée dans un barrage, c'est de l'électricité en réserve. On ouvre ou on ferme selon le besoin. C'est une batterie géante, naturelle, disponible immédiatement. La France l'utilise pour réguler son réseau depuis des décennies. Pourquoi c'est important : cette réalité physique remet en question l'idée que le stockage d'électricité est un problème sans solution.4. Les compétences nucléaires se perdent quand on arrête de construire Timestamp : ~0:26:08 La France a arrêté de construire des centrales pour des raisons politiques. Résultat : les ingénieurs et soudeurs spécialisés ont vieilli et pris leur retraite, et les jeunes ne se sont pas formés sur des métiers qu'on disait sans avenir. Aujourd'hui, EDF recrute 10 000 personnes par an pour rattraper le retard. Pourquoi c'est important : les décisions politiques sur l'énergie ont des conséquences industrielles qui prennent des décennies à corriger.5. Penser l'énergie en statique est une erreur de raisonnement Timestamp : ~0:47:53 Il y a 15 ans, on prédisait que les data centers représenteraient 10% de la consommation mondiale d'électricité. Aujourd'hui on est à 2,2%. Pourquoi ? Parce que les technologies deviennent plus efficaces au fur et à mesure. Tirer la droite et extrapoler lineairement est une erreur systématique dans tous les grands débats énergétiques. Pourquoi c'est important : c'est le même réflexe qu'on applique aujourd'hui à l'IA, et probablement avec les mêmes erreurs de projection.6. La fusion nucléaire : entre le Graal et la promesse impossible Timestamp : ~1:01:58 La fusion produirait une énergie presque illimitée, décarbonée, peu coûteuse et quasi sans déchets. C'est la centrale nucléaire idéale sur le papier. Sauf qu'on ne sait pas encore si on arrivera à la construire, et que les horizons varient de 2035 (optimistes) à 2070 (scientifiques). Les premières centrales en production : probablement 2080-2100. Pourquoi c'est important : ça relativise les discours apocalyptiques sur l'énergie et rappelle qu'on a des décennies pour construire, pas juste quelques années.7. L'hydrogène vert : trop cher, trop dangereux pour la mobilité légère Timestamp : ~1:07:41 EDF ne croit pas à l'hydrogène pour les voitures particulières. Trop cher à produire, trop dangereux à stocker sous pression, infrastructure à construire from scratch. En revanche, pour les bus et les camions approvisionnés depuis une station centralisée, ça peut faire du sens. Les avions, eux, se tournent vers les SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuels), qui sont opérationnels dès aujourd'hui. Pourquoi c'est important : l'hydrogène est massivement sur-promu dans le débat public, et la réalité industrielle est beaucoup plus about de niche use cases que de révolution générale. QUESTIONS POSÉES DANS L'INTERVIEWQu'est-ce que les gens ne comprennent pas sur l'énergie, et ce serait bien qu'ils comprennent ?Est-ce que le rejet de l'écologie radicale vient du fait qu'on demande aux gens d'arrêter quelque chose de consubstantiel à leur vie ?Comment chez EDF observez-vous l'évolution de la consommation d'énergie, notamment la tension entre développement des usages et efficacité énergétique ?Quelle est l'intermittence réelle des éoliennes et des panneaux solaires, en chiffres concrets ?Qu'est-ce que le compteur Linky exactement, et pourquoi a-t-il généré autant de fantasmes ?Où en est-on de l'innovation sur les déchets nucléaires, et peut-on les recycler ?La France a-t-elle perdu des compétences nucléaires en arrêtant de construire ? Lesquelles ?Est-ce que les SMR (Small Modular Reactors) peuvent accélérer le déploiement du nucléaire ?Est-ce que l'IA et la blockchain vont créer une pénurie d'électricité, ou est-ce une projection trop statique ?Pourquoi l'hydrogène ne fonctionnera probablement pas pour la mobilité légère, et où peut-il avoir du sens ?RÉFÉRENCES CITÉESSites / DonnéesOur World in Data (mentionné comme "The World in Data") : site recommandé par Julien pour visualiser l'évolution du bien-être mondial sur 100-300 ans. (~1:16:20)Agence mondiale de l'énergie (AIE) : citée sur les prévisions de consommation électrique liée à l'IA. (~0:49:30)Institutions / OrganismesANDRA (Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs) : gestion des déchets nucléaires en France. (~0:17:25)Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN) : régulation et surveillance du parc nucléaire français. (~0:17:25)ITER : projet international de fusion nucléaire basé en France. (~1:03:30)Enedis : opérateur du réseau de distribution électrique, gestionnaire du compteur Linky (distinct d'EDF). (~0:14:44)RTE : réseau de transport d'électricité française. (~0:44:12)ANSI / ANSSI : agence nationale de sécurité des systèmes d'information, mentionnée pour la cybersécurité des infrastructures. (~0:46:45)Projets / TechnologiesCIGEO : projet d'enfouissement des déchets nucléaires dans des couches géologiques profondes, mené par l'ANDRA. (~0:18:30)Flamanville 3 : prochain réacteur nucléaire français, sur le point d'être raccordé au réseau. (~0:21:03)Hinkley Point C : réacteur en construction au Royaume-Uni par EDF. (~0:28:18)Sizewell : projet de réacteur au Royaume-Uni. (~0:28:18)New World (projet EDF) : SMR développé par EDF. (~0:42:17)SAF / e-fuel (Sustainable Aviation Fuels) : carburant d'aviation bas carbone, obligation réglementaire croissante en Europe. (~1:12:32)ÉvénementsAccident de Fukushima : analysé en détail comme tsunami avant d'être un accident nucléaire, utilisé comme base d'apprentissage mondial. (~0:19:00)Panne électrique en Espagne et Portugal : analysée comme "orage parfait" lié à la nature analogique de l'électricité. (~0:51:33)Record d'exportation d'électricité EDF : 90 TWh exportés, record historique. (~0:48:11)Découverte scientifiqueHydrogène blanc : gisement potentiellement record découvert en France, hydrogène naturel présent dans le sol. (~1:06:40)TIMESTAMPS CLÉS (YouTube)00:00 Introduction : et si on se réjouissait à nouveau du futur ? 01:55 Présentation de Julien Villeret, directeur de l'innovation EDF02:05 L'énergie, c'est quoi au fond ? Ce que les gens ne comprennent pas L'énergie est consubstantielle à la civilisation depuis toujours. Sans électricité aujourd'hui, on perd tout : la santé, la nourriture, la fabrication industrielle. C'est le cadre que pose Julien avant d'aborder quoi que ce soit.04:18 Pourquoi l'écologie radicale ne passe pas dans l'opinion publique Le rejet du discours radical vient d'une réalité simple : on ne peut pas demander aux gens d'arrêter quelque chose d'aussi fondamental que l'énergie. La vraie question n'est pas d'arrêter, c'est comment produire et consommer différemment.06:29 Le pic du charbon et la réalité du mix énergétique mondial On continue de brûler beaucoup de charbon pour produire de l'électricité, notamment en Allemagne et en Pologne. Ce qui explique directement le sujet suivant.06:51 Voiture électrique en Allemagne = voiture au charbon ? Si l'électricité est produite au charbon, une voiture électrique n'est pas vertueuse. La chaîne complète de production compte, pas seulement le mode de transport. La France à 98% sans CO2 est une exception mondiale.08:37 Peut-on imaginer 100% d'énergie renouvelable ? Techniquement oui, économiquement non. Le problème de l'intermittence (les renouvelables produisent environ 25-30% du temps) et du coût du stockage rendrait la facture 10 à 20 fois plus élevée qu'aujourd'hui.10:18 Les barrages : les plus grandes batteries du monde L'eau stockée dans un barrage, c'est de l'électricité en réserve. Un lac, c'est une batterie géante naturelle. Les barrages hydroélectriques sont aussi des outils de régulation du réseau, activés ou coupés selon les besoins du moment.13:30 L'intermittence des renouvelables en chiffres concrets Éoliennes et panneaux solaires produisent à pleine puissance environ 25 à 30% du temps. Le pic de production solaire est autour de midi, soit rarement au moment des pics de consommation (matin, soir).14:34 Le compteur Linky : derrière les fantasmes, la réalité Linky ne surveille personne. Il envoie l'index de consommation une fois par jour, pendant 10 secondes, via les fils électriques, sans aucune émission d'ondes. Le détail au quart d'heure est opt-in. Ce sont surtout des fraudeurs que Linky a gênés.17:05 Les déchets nucléaires : vraiment deux piscines olympiques depuis les années 60 Tout le parc nucléaire français depuis le début des années 60 a produit environ 4 000 m3 de déchets à longue vie, soit deux piscines olympiques. Ils sont stockés à La Hague dans de l'eau (meilleur protecteur contre les radiations), avec un projet d'enfouissement géologique profond (CIGEO).21:47 Peut-on recycler les déchets nucléaires ? Oui, une partie du combustible usé est retraitée et réinjectée dans les centrales. Des recherches sont en cours pour fermer complètement le cycle : des réacteurs qui réutilisent en permanence le même combustible sans presque générer de déchets. Horizon : 2050-2070.22:53 Dépendances géopolitiques : uranium, gaz, pétrole, panneaux solaires Le pétrole et le gaz viennent du Moyen-Orient, de Russie et des États-Unis. Les panneaux solaires viennent quasi-exclusivement de Chine. L'uranium, lui, est présent dans de nombreux pays, n'est pas cher, et est stocké sur plusieurs années par sécurité.26:08 Les compétences nucléaires perdues et les 10 000 recrutements par an En arrêtant de construire des centrales pour des raisons politiques, la France a perdu des savoir-faire spécifiques : béton nucléaire, générateurs de vapeur, soudure qualifiée. EDF recrute maintenant 10 000 personnes par an pour reconstruire ces compétences. Un soudeur nucléaire gagne entre 3 000 et 4 000 euros par mois.32:04 Où seront construits les 6 nouveaux réacteurs français ? Sur les terrains déjà acquis à côté des centrales existantes (ex : Penly). Les riverains d'une centrale sont généralement très favorables : emplois, taxes locales, vie locale développée. Une centrale qui ne tourne pas, c'est un million d'euros de pertes par jour.36:21 Une centrale peut-elle exploser ? Les accidents nucléaires démystifiés Non, les centrales françaises ne peuvent pas exploser. Fukushima était d'abord un tsunami, pas un accident nucléaire au sens strict. Depuis, toutes les centrales françaises ont été équipées de générateurs diesel en hauteur et de récupérateurs (les "cendriers") pour le cas où le coeur fondrait.41:42 Les SMR (Small Modular Reactors) : l'avenir du nucléaire ou juste une promesse ? Aucun SMR n'est encore construit à ce jour. L'idée : des petits réacteurs plus rapides à déployer, moins coûteux, qui peuvent remplacer une centrale charbon en plug and play. Les Américains y croient surtout pour décarboner leur vieux parc charbon.45:13 Cybersécurité des centrales : isolées d'internet par principe physique Les systèmes qui font fonctionner les centrales nucléaires ne sont pas connectés à internet. C'est une barrière physique, pas logicielle. EDF mobilise plusieurs centaines de personnes à temps plein sur la cybersécurité.46:45 IA et consommation d'énergie : une vraie menace ou un raisonnement trop statique ? Il y a 15 ans, on prédisait que les data centers allaient représenter 10% de la consommation mondiale d'électricité. On en est à 2,2%. Les projections en ligne droite tombent toujours à côté parce qu'elles ignorent les gains d'efficacité technologique. En France, la marge est très large : EDF a exporté un record historique de 90 TWh l'année dernière.51:33 La panne en Espagne-Portugal : l'analogique contre le numérique L'électricité est analogique : production doit en permanence égaler consommation. Un écart provoque l'effondrement. En Espagne, une suite de problèmes improbables arrivés en même temps (un "orage parfait") a déstabilisé le réseau. La France s'est déconnectée pour éviter d'être entraînée dans la chute.56:41 Géothermie : pourquoi elle n'a pas décollé en France La géothermie dépend des choix de subvention publique. L'Allemagne l'a financée, la France non. En France, l'électricité est peu chère et faiblement carbonée, donc l'incentive est quasi nul. Installer de la géothermie en retrofit exige de tout creuser. La géothermie profonde pose en plus des risques sismiques.1:01:58 Fusion nucléaire : le Graal énergétique, entre 2035 et 2070 La fusion produirait une énergie quasi-illimitée, décarbonée, peu coûteuse et presque sans déchets. Les scientifiques parlent de premiers prototypes vers 2060-2070, les start-ups d'une dizaine d'années plus tôt. On a récemment réussi pour la première fois à produire plus d'énergie qu'on n'en consomme dans une réaction de fusion. Même si ça arrive, les premières centrales en production seront probablement vers 2080-2100.1:06:40 Hydrogène : blanc, vert, gris. Ce que chacun veut dire vraiment L'hydrogène gris (produit industriellement) est très polluant. Le vert (via électrolyse) est très cher. Le blanc (naturel, dans le sol) est encore expérimental. EDF ne croit pas à l'hydrogène pour les voitures particulières : trop dangereux, trop cher, réseau à construire from scratch. Pour les bus et camions sur station centralisée, ça peut avoir du sens.1:11:23 Aviation à hydrogène et SAF : ce qu'on peut espérer vraiment Airbus a repoussé son projet d'avion hydrogène à 2050. L'aviation mise aujourd'hui sur les SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuels) : des carburants produits à partir de CO2 capté dans l'air, déjà présents dans les réservoirs des avions Air France. C'est l'horizon réaliste, avant peut-être un avion électrique pour les courtes distances (Paris-Berlin, lignes régionales), d'ici 2030.1:15:50 Pourquoi il y a quand même des raisons d'espérer Julien conclut sur une conviction : en regardant sur le temps long, le monde va mieux. The World in Data le montre sur 200 ans. Dans l'énergie, on est passé des voitures à particules des années 50 à l'électricité bas carbone d'aujourd'hui, en 60-70 ans. Et on surestime toujours les transformations à court terme tout en les sous-estimant à long terme.1:19:44 Clap de fin : ouvrir la porte à la nuanceHébergé par Audiomeans. 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Julien Villeret dirige l'innovation du groupe EDF, on s'est retrouvés un jour de pluie, ce qui tombait plutôt bien pour parler d'énergie. Julien est l'un de ces rares interlocuteurs capables de parler du mix énergétique français sans perdre la nuance ni tomber dans le discours institutionnel. Il connaît le sujet de l'intérieur, et il n'a pas peur d'aller là où ça grince.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons de nucléaire, bien sûr, mais aussi de ce qu'on ne comprend pas sur l'électricité en général. J'ai questionné Julien sur les déchets nucléaires (leur volume réel vous va surprendre), sur les compétences qu'on a perdues en arrêtant de construire des centrales, sur pourquoi une voiture électrique en Allemagne, c'est techniquement une voiture au charbon, et sur l'hydrogène, qu'on nous vend comme la grande révolution alors que la réalité est beaucoup plus complexe.On parle aussi de fusion nucléaire, de SMR, de la panne en Espagne, du compteur Linky, de l'IA et de sa consommation d'énergie, et des SAF, ces carburants d'aviation qui permettent de voler à neutralité carbone dès aujourd'hui.Ce qui m'a frappé dans cet échange, c'est la posture. Julien ne survend pas, il ne minimise pas. Il essaie juste de remettre des faits là où il y a trop souvent des fantasmes.CITATIONS MARQUANTES1. "Si on n'a plus d'énergie, on n'a plus de plastique. Et si on n'a plus de plastique, on n'a plus d'hôpitaux." (Julien Villeret, ~0:03:44)2. "Tous les déchets nucléaires produits par le parc français depuis les années 60, c'est en gros deux piscines olympiques en volume." (Julien Villeret, ~0:17:25)3. "Une centrale nucléaire, ça ne peut pas exploser. C'est un fantasme." (Julien Villeret, ~0:36:26)4. "Les plus grandes batteries du monde aujourd'hui, ce sont des barrages." (Julien Villeret, ~0:11:15)5. "On a arrêté de construire des centrales pour des raisons idéologiques. Les gens qui savaient faire sont partis à la retraite." (Julien Villeret, ~0:26:25)IDÉES MARQUANTES1. L'énergie est consubstantielle à la civilisation, pas optionnelle Timestamp : ~0:02:51 L'énergie n'est pas un confort ou un luxe, c'est le socle de tout : la santé, la nourriture, la fabrication industrielle, la vie moderne dans son entier. Le rejet d'une écologie radicale par les populations vient en partie de là : on leur demande de renoncer à quelque chose qui est aussi fondamental que l'air qu'ils respirent. Pourquoi c'est important : tant qu'on ne pose pas ce cadre, on ne peut pas avoir un débat énergétique honnête.2. L'électricité propre ou sale dépend de comment elle est produite, pas de comment elle est consommée Timestamp : ~0:07:00 Une voiture électrique en France est l'une des plus propres au monde. La même voiture en Allemagne fonctionne au charbon. Ce n'est pas l'usage qui définit l'empreinte carbone, c'est la chaîne de production entière. Pourquoi c'est important : ça remet en question beaucoup de discours simplistes sur la mobilité électrique et force à penser en systèmes.3. Les barrages hydrauliques sont les plus grandes batteries du monde Timestamp : ~0:10:18 L'eau stockée dans un barrage, c'est de l'électricité en réserve. On ouvre ou on ferme selon le besoin. C'est une batterie géante, naturelle, disponible immédiatement. La France l'utilise pour réguler son réseau depuis des décennies. Pourquoi c'est important : cette réalité physique remet en question l'idée que le stockage d'électricité est un problème sans solution.4. Les compétences nucléaires se perdent quand on arrête de construire Timestamp : ~0:26:08 La France a arrêté de construire des centrales pour des raisons politiques. Résultat : les ingénieurs et soudeurs spécialisés ont vieilli et pris leur retraite, et les jeunes ne se sont pas formés sur des métiers qu'on disait sans avenir. Aujourd'hui, EDF recrute 10 000 personnes par an pour rattraper le retard. Pourquoi c'est important : les décisions politiques sur l'énergie ont des conséquences industrielles qui prennent des décennies à corriger.5. Penser l'énergie en statique est une erreur de raisonnement Timestamp : ~0:47:53 Il y a 15 ans, on prédisait que les data centers représenteraient 10% de la consommation mondiale d'électricité. Aujourd'hui on est à 2,2%. Pourquoi ? Parce que les technologies deviennent plus efficaces au fur et à mesure. Tirer la droite et extrapoler lineairement est une erreur systématique dans tous les grands débats énergétiques. Pourquoi c'est important : c'est le même réflexe qu'on applique aujourd'hui à l'IA, et probablement avec les mêmes erreurs de projection.6. La fusion nucléaire : entre le Graal et la promesse impossible Timestamp : ~1:01:58 La fusion produirait une énergie presque illimitée, décarbonée, peu coûteuse et quasi sans déchets. C'est la centrale nucléaire idéale sur le papier. Sauf qu'on ne sait pas encore si on arrivera à la construire, et que les horizons varient de 2035 (optimistes) à 2070 (scientifiques). Les premières centrales en production : probablement 2080-2100. Pourquoi c'est important : ça relativise les discours apocalyptiques sur l'énergie et rappelle qu'on a des décennies pour construire, pas juste quelques années.7. L'hydrogène vert : trop cher, trop dangereux pour la mobilité légère Timestamp : ~1:07:41 EDF ne croit pas à l'hydrogène pour les voitures particulières. Trop cher à produire, trop dangereux à stocker sous pression, infrastructure à construire from scratch. En revanche, pour les bus et les camions approvisionnés depuis une station centralisée, ça peut faire du sens. Les avions, eux, se tournent vers les SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuels), qui sont opérationnels dès aujourd'hui. Pourquoi c'est important : l'hydrogène est massivement sur-promu dans le débat public, et la réalité industrielle est beaucoup plus about de niche use cases que de révolution générale. QUESTIONS POSÉES DANS L'INTERVIEWQu'est-ce que les gens ne comprennent pas sur l'énergie, et ce serait bien qu'ils comprennent ?Est-ce que le rejet de l'écologie radicale vient du fait qu'on demande aux gens d'arrêter quelque chose de consubstantiel à leur vie ?Comment chez EDF observez-vous l'évolution de la consommation d'énergie, notamment la tension entre développement des usages et efficacité énergétique ?Quelle est l'intermittence réelle des éoliennes et des panneaux solaires, en chiffres concrets ?Qu'est-ce que le compteur Linky exactement, et pourquoi a-t-il généré autant de fantasmes ?Où en est-on de l'innovation sur les déchets nucléaires, et peut-on les recycler ?La France a-t-elle perdu des compétences nucléaires en arrêtant de construire ? Lesquelles ?Est-ce que les SMR (Small Modular Reactors) peuvent accélérer le déploiement du nucléaire ?Est-ce que l'IA et la blockchain vont créer une pénurie d'électricité, ou est-ce une projection trop statique ?Pourquoi l'hydrogène ne fonctionnera probablement pas pour la mobilité légère, et où peut-il avoir du sens ?RÉFÉRENCES CITÉESSites / DonnéesOur World in Data (mentionné comme "The World in Data") : site recommandé par Julien pour visualiser l'évolution du bien-être mondial sur 100-300 ans. (~1:16:20)Agence mondiale de l'énergie (AIE) : citée sur les prévisions de consommation électrique liée à l'IA. (~0:49:30)Institutions / OrganismesANDRA (Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs) : gestion des déchets nucléaires en France. (~0:17:25)Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN) : régulation et surveillance du parc nucléaire français. (~0:17:25)ITER : projet international de fusion nucléaire basé en France. (~1:03:30)Enedis : opérateur du réseau de distribution électrique, gestionnaire du compteur Linky (distinct d'EDF). (~0:14:44)RTE : réseau de transport d'électricité française. (~0:44:12)ANSI / ANSSI : agence nationale de sécurité des systèmes d'information, mentionnée pour la cybersécurité des infrastructures. (~0:46:45)Projets / TechnologiesCIGEO : projet d'enfouissement des déchets nucléaires dans des couches géologiques profondes, mené par l'ANDRA. (~0:18:30)Flamanville 3 : prochain réacteur nucléaire français, sur le point d'être raccordé au réseau. (~0:21:03)Hinkley Point C : réacteur en construction au Royaume-Uni par EDF. (~0:28:18)Sizewell : projet de réacteur au Royaume-Uni. (~0:28:18)New World (projet EDF) : SMR développé par EDF. (~0:42:17)SAF / e-fuel (Sustainable Aviation Fuels) : carburant d'aviation bas carbone, obligation réglementaire croissante en Europe. (~1:12:32)ÉvénementsAccident de Fukushima : analysé en détail comme tsunami avant d'être un accident nucléaire, utilisé comme base d'apprentissage mondial. (~0:19:00)Panne électrique en Espagne et Portugal : analysée comme "orage parfait" lié à la nature analogique de l'électricité. (~0:51:33)Record d'exportation d'électricité EDF : 90 TWh exportés, record historique. (~0:48:11)Découverte scientifiqueHydrogène blanc : gisement potentiellement record découvert en France, hydrogène naturel présent dans le sol. (~1:06:40)TIMESTAMPS CLÉS (YouTube)00:00 Introduction : et si on se réjouissait à nouveau du futur ? 01:55 Présentation de Julien Villeret, directeur de l'innovation EDF02:05 L'énergie, c'est quoi au fond ? Ce que les gens ne comprennent pas L'énergie est consubstantielle à la civilisation depuis toujours. Sans électricité aujourd'hui, on perd tout : la santé, la nourriture, la fabrication industrielle. C'est le cadre que pose Julien avant d'aborder quoi que ce soit.04:18 Pourquoi l'écologie radicale ne passe pas dans l'opinion publique Le rejet du discours radical vient d'une réalité simple : on ne peut pas demander aux gens d'arrêter quelque chose d'aussi fondamental que l'énergie. La vraie question n'est pas d'arrêter, c'est comment produire et consommer différemment.06:29 Le pic du charbon et la réalité du mix énergétique mondial On continue de brûler beaucoup de charbon pour produire de l'électricité, notamment en Allemagne et en Pologne. Ce qui explique directement le sujet suivant.06:51 Voiture électrique en Allemagne = voiture au charbon ? Si l'électricité est produite au charbon, une voiture électrique n'est pas vertueuse. La chaîne complète de production compte, pas seulement le mode de transport. La France à 98% sans CO2 est une exception mondiale.08:37 Peut-on imaginer 100% d'énergie renouvelable ? Techniquement oui, économiquement non. Le problème de l'intermittence (les renouvelables produisent environ 25-30% du temps) et du coût du stockage rendrait la facture 10 à 20 fois plus élevée qu'aujourd'hui.10:18 Les barrages : les plus grandes batteries du monde L'eau stockée dans un barrage, c'est de l'électricité en réserve. Un lac, c'est une batterie géante naturelle. Les barrages hydroélectriques sont aussi des outils de régulation du réseau, activés ou coupés selon les besoins du moment.13:30 L'intermittence des renouvelables en chiffres concrets Éoliennes et panneaux solaires produisent à pleine puissance environ 25 à 30% du temps. Le pic de production solaire est autour de midi, soit rarement au moment des pics de consommation (matin, soir).14:34 Le compteur Linky : derrière les fantasmes, la réalité Linky ne surveille personne. Il envoie l'index de consommation une fois par jour, pendant 10 secondes, via les fils électriques, sans aucune émission d'ondes. Le détail au quart d'heure est opt-in. Ce sont surtout des fraudeurs que Linky a gênés.17:05 Les déchets nucléaires : vraiment deux piscines olympiques depuis les années 60 Tout le parc nucléaire français depuis le début des années 60 a produit environ 4 000 m3 de déchets à longue vie, soit deux piscines olympiques. Ils sont stockés à La Hague dans de l'eau (meilleur protecteur contre les radiations), avec un projet d'enfouissement géologique profond (CIGEO).21:47 Peut-on recycler les déchets nucléaires ? Oui, une partie du combustible usé est retraitée et réinjectée dans les centrales. Des recherches sont en cours pour fermer complètement le cycle : des réacteurs qui réutilisent en permanence le même combustible sans presque générer de déchets. Horizon : 2050-2070.22:53 Dépendances géopolitiques : uranium, gaz, pétrole, panneaux solaires Le pétrole et le gaz viennent du Moyen-Orient, de Russie et des États-Unis. Les panneaux solaires viennent quasi-exclusivement de Chine. L'uranium, lui, est présent dans de nombreux pays, n'est pas cher, et est stocké sur plusieurs années par sécurité.26:08 Les compétences nucléaires perdues et les 10 000 recrutements par an En arrêtant de construire des centrales pour des raisons politiques, la France a perdu des savoir-faire spécifiques : béton nucléaire, générateurs de vapeur, soudure qualifiée. EDF recrute maintenant 10 000 personnes par an pour reconstruire ces compétences. Un soudeur nucléaire gagne entre 3 000 et 4 000 euros par mois.32:04 Où seront construits les 6 nouveaux réacteurs français ? Sur les terrains déjà acquis à côté des centrales existantes (ex : Penly). Les riverains d'une centrale sont généralement très favorables : emplois, taxes locales, vie locale développée. Une centrale qui ne tourne pas, c'est un million d'euros de pertes par jour.36:21 Une centrale peut-elle exploser ? Les accidents nucléaires démystifiés Non, les centrales françaises ne peuvent pas exploser. Fukushima était d'abord un tsunami, pas un accident nucléaire au sens strict. Depuis, toutes les centrales françaises ont été équipées de générateurs diesel en hauteur et de récupérateurs (les "cendriers") pour le cas où le coeur fondrait.41:42 Les SMR (Small Modular Reactors) : l'avenir du nucléaire ou juste une promesse ? Aucun SMR n'est encore construit à ce jour. L'idée : des petits réacteurs plus rapides à déployer, moins coûteux, qui peuvent remplacer une centrale charbon en plug and play. Les Américains y croient surtout pour décarboner leur vieux parc charbon.45:13 Cybersécurité des centrales : isolées d'internet par principe physique Les systèmes qui font fonctionner les centrales nucléaires ne sont pas connectés à internet. C'est une barrière physique, pas logicielle. EDF mobilise plusieurs centaines de personnes à temps plein sur la cybersécurité.46:45 IA et consommation d'énergie : une vraie menace ou un raisonnement trop statique ? Il y a 15 ans, on prédisait que les data centers allaient représenter 10% de la consommation mondiale d'électricité. On en est à 2,2%. Les projections en ligne droite tombent toujours à côté parce qu'elles ignorent les gains d'efficacité technologique. En France, la marge est très large : EDF a exporté un record historique de 90 TWh l'année dernière.51:33 La panne en Espagne-Portugal : l'analogique contre le numérique L'électricité est analogique : production doit en permanence égaler consommation. Un écart provoque l'effondrement. En Espagne, une suite de problèmes improbables arrivés en même temps (un "orage parfait") a déstabilisé le réseau. La France s'est déconnectée pour éviter d'être entraînée dans la chute.56:41 Géothermie : pourquoi elle n'a pas décollé en France La géothermie dépend des choix de subvention publique. L'Allemagne l'a financée, la France non. En France, l'électricité est peu chère et faiblement carbonée, donc l'incentive est quasi nul. Installer de la géothermie en retrofit exige de tout creuser. La géothermie profonde pose en plus des risques sismiques.1:01:58 Fusion nucléaire : le Graal énergétique, entre 2035 et 2070 La fusion produirait une énergie quasi-illimitée, décarbonée, peu coûteuse et presque sans déchets. Les scientifiques parlent de premiers prototypes vers 2060-2070, les start-ups d'une dizaine d'années plus tôt. On a récemment réussi pour la première fois à produire plus d'énergie qu'on n'en consomme dans une réaction de fusion. Même si ça arrive, les premières centrales en production seront probablement vers 2080-2100.1:06:40 Hydrogène : blanc, vert, gris. Ce que chacun veut dire vraiment L'hydrogène gris (produit industriellement) est très polluant. Le vert (via électrolyse) est très cher. Le blanc (naturel, dans le sol) est encore expérimental. EDF ne croit pas à l'hydrogène pour les voitures particulières : trop dangereux, trop cher, réseau à construire from scratch. Pour les bus et camions sur station centralisée, ça peut avoir du sens.1:11:23 Aviation à hydrogène et SAF : ce qu'on peut espérer vraiment Airbus a repoussé son projet d'avion hydrogène à 2050. L'aviation mise aujourd'hui sur les SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuels) : des carburants produits à partir de CO2 capté dans l'air, déjà présents dans les réservoirs des avions Air France. C'est l'horizon réaliste, avant peut-être un avion électrique pour les courtes distances (Paris-Berlin, lignes régionales), d'ici 2030.1:15:50 Pourquoi il y a quand même des raisons d'espérer Julien conclut sur une conviction : en regardant sur le temps long, le monde va mieux. The World in Data le montre sur 200 ans. Dans l'énergie, on est passé des voitures à particules des années 50 à l'électricité bas carbone d'aujourd'hui, en 60-70 ans. Et on surestime toujours les transformations à court terme tout en les sous-estimant à long terme.1:19:44 Clap de fin : ouvrir la porte à la nuance Suggestion d'autres épisodes à écouter : #391 L'indépendance énergétique est-elle sous nos pieds? Avec Pierre Brossolet (https://audmns.com/fcRUEpN) #187 Energy Observer: envisager le futur de l'énergie avec Louis Noel Viviès (https://audmns.com/vJdRdXI) Vlan #131 Transition énergétique: ce qu'un adulte devrait savoir avec Matthieu Auzanneau (https://audmns.com/SPHszOf)Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

7investing founder Simon Erickson explains why his firm just re-added NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) to its scorecard — a stock they originally recommended in 2022, sold in December 2023, and are now buying back at $12/share. The thesis centers on a seismic shift in energy demand: AI data centers are now consuming power at gigawatt scale, and the list of viable baseload solutions is extremely short. With natural gas, solid oxide fuel cells from Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE), and small modular reactors as essentially the only technologies capable of delivering 5+ gigawatts of emissions-free on-demand power, NuScale's position as the sole NRC-certified SMR design in the United States has become dramatically more valuable than it was when Simon first recommended it.The key new catalyst is a $400 million Department of Energy grant awarded to the Tennessee Valley Authority, which then partnered with the Intra-1 utility to target up to 6 gigawatts of nuclear power deployment — with NuScale as the strategic technology partner. Simon walks through why this partnership alone could represent a $50 billion+ capital project and potentially a 20-bagger from current prices, while also detailing the very real risks: cost overruns (the original Utah project collapsed when SMR power costs jumped from $58 to $89 per megawatt hour), regulatory uncertainty, long timelines of 5–10 years to operational status, and the financial pressure on a company generating only $31 million in annual revenue.Simon also reviews the prior energy companies on 7investing's watch list — including Schneider Electric (EPA:SU) for power systems infrastructure and Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE), which has surged 125%+ since being highlighted in March 2026 — and explains why SMRs specifically fit a demand need that solar, wind, and even fuel cells can't fully address at scale.Stocks Mentioned:NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR)Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE)Schneider Electric (EPA:SU)Oracle (NYSE:ORCL)Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)Constellation Energy (NASDAQ:CEG)Southern Company / Georgia Power (NYSE:SO)#NuScalePower #SMR #SmallModularReactors #NuclearEnergy #NuclearStocks #EnergyStocks #AIDataCenters #BloomEnergy #GrowthStocks #StocksToWatch #CleanEnergy #StockAnalysis #7investing #Simonerickson

In this episode of Sexy Marriage Radio, Pam and I explore into the complex reality of sexual lust, shame, and the unseen battles that many marriages face, especially those with a history of hypersexuality, trauma, or previous infidelity. This conversation explores what wives and husbands can do when confronting the persistent mental and emotional remnants of past struggles. Enjoy the show! On the Xtended version … We keep going into the exploration of what we can do with our history and how it impacts our present. But that very process can also be something that creates a much closer marriage than we thought possible. Sponsors … Evree: Our favorite intimate product! Get 10% off every order with our code SMR - https://smr.fm.evree Academy: Join the Academy and go deeper. https://smr.fm/academy The post Nobody Talks About This #779 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.

BCIA would mark this EEG wrong — Jay Gunkelman calls it vascular ischemia anyway. Jay goes in **blind** — no diagnosis, no report — and disagrees with Joshua's TBI read on the exact same 50-year-old EEG. Joshua reviewed it live on The Brain Bar the night before. The next day on Thursday Carnac, Jay cold-reads the slow alpha at PZ, lands on hyperbaric + 40 Hz photobiomodulation, and shows how neurofeedback fits into the treatment plan. Read the brain, treatment follows the brain. The story doesn't matter. 

In this episode of Sexy Marriage Radio, Dr. Alexandra Stockwell joins me again to explore practical ways to deepen intimacy in marriage through everyday interactions, vulnerability, and collaborative decision-making. Discover how small, intentional acts can transform your relationship and foster lasting connection. Enjoy the show! On the Xtended version … We go further into the idea of compromise, and what happens when you reach uncompromising moments in marriage? Sponsors … Evree: Our favorite intimate product! Get 10% off every order with our code SMR - https://smr.fm.evree Academy: Join the Academy and go deeper. https://smr.fm/academy The post The Little Things | Alexandra Stockwell #778 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. -------------------- 01 Introduction This is a follow up to my 8 part series on nuclear power. In this episode I will answer questions posed by listeners in the comments to the series. I would like to start by thanking these people for taking the time to submit interesting questions. -------------------- Costs of Small Versus Large Reactors 02 brian-in-ohio asked two questions The first was for a cost comparison between large and small reactors. The second was for nuclear plant safety compared to conventional power plants. 03 Answer I think that any answer to the second question is going to be perceived by some people as politically controversial, so it's probably not a good topic for HPR to address. 04 The first question though about cost of small versus large reactors is an interesting one, although not one that is easy to give an answer to. I will restrict the answer to just grid scale electric power production and ignore use cases such as industrial process heat or power for remote mines and communities. 05 This question comes down to economies of scale versus economies of replication. Economies of scale centre around increased efficiencies of use of materials and labour when making something bigger. For example, the amount of steel used by a pipe increases linearly with its diameter, but the amount of fluid that it transports increases with the square. 06 Economies of replication come from increasing efficiencies which result from serial production. As you repeat the same design over and over again, you learn how to do things better and make fewer mistakes. 07 The exact same principles apply to shipbuilding. Indeed, a lot of the inspiration for Small Modular Reactors comes from the shipbuilding industry. If you build a series of identical ships, then each subsequent ship will cost less and be built faster. There are of course diminishing returns to this process, so the improvements are less with each additional unit and after a sufficient number of units the cost and time reductions level off. 08 However, this doesn't discount the benefits of economies of scale. What it does mean is that there are two ways of approaching the problem, and which way works in any given scenario depends on such conditions as how big the local electricity market is how fast the demand for electricity is growing, the ownership and financing structure of the electricity market, and the geography of the area, which may pose limits on the number of sites. 09 According to the finance people who have crunched the numbers, there are two sizes of reactor which make the most sense in the above context. These are 300 MW and 1000 MW. However, take those as very rough numbers rather than immutable laws of nature and other sizes may work as well. 10 The key point is that there are cases to be made for both small and large reactors, with the large reactor being several times the size of the small one. 11 An additional factor is that building only one reactor does not reap the benefits of efficiency of replication. You need to build a series of them on the same site. So if you are building a power plant, you don't build a power plant that has just one reactor unless you are in a small market which can only use that much power. Instead, you should build between 4 and 6 reactors in sequence next to one another. 12 If you are supply a large population with a growing demand for electricity, then 4 or 6 large 1000 MW reactors gains both economies of scale and economies of replication. If you are supplying a smaller population with slow growth in demand for electricity, then 4 or 6 300 MW reactors at least gets you economies of replication. 13 There is what could be viewed as an interesting example in terms of the above taking place just east of Toronto. There they are building four 300 MW SMRs on a site next to an existing nuclear power plant. 14 Here are the cost estimates from the Government of Ontario. All costs are in Canadian dollars. Unit 1 is $6.1 billion, plus $1.6 billion in costs which are shared by all four unit.s Unit 2 is $4.9 billion. Unit 3 is $4.2 billion. Unit 4 is $4.1 billion. 15 As you can see, building a series of reactors sequentially on the same site results in declining overall costs. They are very confident in these costs as they used data from a series of major nuclear power plant refurbishment projects in Ontario which have been coming in on time and on budget. 16 Construction began last year and the plant is expected to have a 65 year operating life. 17 However, the province of Ontario also has plans for expansion of electrical generation by about 15,000 MW by 2050 in order to meet net zero targets. 18 Given the heavy concentration of population in the Toronto region, and the very high cost and difficulty of building long distance transmission lines, and the limited number of sites which could host new power generation facilities of any sort, I suspect it is quite likely that subsequent reactors will be large 1,000 MW ones rather than SMRs. 19 The Wesleyville site (which is further east of Toronto) is tentatively scheduled for a 10,000 MW nuclear power plant. That would seem to make ten 1,000 MW reactors more likely than 34 300 MW reactors. 20 I don't have a comparable set of numbers for building large reactors to give an exact apples to apples comparison of costs. Different countries use different accounting and financing systems, and finance makes a huge difference to overall costs for nuclear power as operating costs are a relatively small share of the total. 21 Now to look at another side of this equation, the provinces of Saskatchewan and New Brunswick wish to replace their coal fired power plants with nuclear power plants. The populations of these provinces are too small to absorb a large new power plant into their grids, and studies assuming large reactors have foundered on this issue. 22 New Brunswick already have a nuclear power plant, but it was build in the days when reactors were much smaller. Both provinces however are very interested in small reactors, even individual ones, in order to replace the coal fired plants that are of similar size. 23 I think this covers the cost versus size issue. The more I look into it, the more it becomes apparent that there is no simple one size fits all answer but rather there are a series of trade-offs which must be taken in light of local circumstances. -------------------- MOX Fuel in the USA 24 The next question comes from mnw who asked about the use of MOX fuel in the USA. 25 mnw asked I am enjoying and look forward to the rest of the series. Do you think the US will ever wake up and start recycling its spent fuel? It seems like such a huge waste just to try and keep a small amount of fuel away from"the bad guys" or whatever they are imagining. Answer 26 My answer to this is as follows. I think I've addressed this in the original series, although not directly with respect to the US so I can provide some more detail on that aspect of it. 27 First though I will review what plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel is. As mentioned in previous episodes, military grade plutonium is not the same as the plutonium which comes out of commercial power reactors. Just as military grade uranium requires nearly pure U-235 isotope, military grade plutonium requires nearly pure Pu-239 isotope. 28 What comes out of a commercial power reactor as spent fuel is not usable for weapons purposes as the proportion of Pu-239 is much too low. However, plutonium recovered from spent fuel can be used as fuel for nuclear reactors in place of uranium 235 when mixed with uranium 238 either left over from enrichment or extracted from spent fuel. This is what is known as MOX fuel. 29 To look at the US history of this however, here's the sequence of events. The US banned fuel reprocessing in 1976. However, this ban was repealed in 1981. 30 In 2005, the US began building a mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel plant at Savannah River in the state of South Carolina. However, this plant was not intended as a normal commercial operation and it was not intended to recycle commercial nuclear power plant fuel. It was instead intended to convert surplus military grade plutonium into commercial fuel in order to get rid of it as part of an arms control program. 31 The program was suspended in 2018. There were apparently many complex political issues involved in these on-again off-again decisions and I won't pretend to have the time or interest to explore all the details nor do I think most listeners would be interested in hearing abou them. 32 As of March 2026, the US are looking at reviving part of the Savannah River plant to produce limited amounts of fuel for testing of advanced reactors. The issue driving this is the shortage of uranium enriched to just below 20%. This fuel is used in certain types of small SMR. 33 The main commercial supplier of this material was a plant in Russia, but "certain events in Europe in recent years" shall we say, have resulted in that supply no longer being available to commercial operations in the US. MOX fuel based on surplus weapons grade plutonium is intended as a short term quick fix for that problem. 34 Another driving force is legal requirements following from domestic commitments for the US government to dispose of certain stockpiles of weapons grade plutonium from certain sites in the US where it is "temporarily" stored, and the solution to that is seen as burning it up in power reactors. 35 So the history is the US banned fuel reprocessing. Then a few years later they un-banned it. Then the US government started building a MOX plant which was intended to get rid of surplus weapons grade material by burning it up in power reactors. Then they decided they didn't want to do that. Then they decided they may want to make MOX fuel after all to replace supplies of special grades of fuel for experimental or prototype reactors. 36 What is missing from the above history is any actual interest from the US commercial nuclear industry in MOX fuel. The reason for this is, as mentioned in the previous episodes, uranium is so cheap and abundant that fuel made from fresh uranium is cheaper than MOX fuel. 37 Some countries such as France wish to recycle spent fuel to reduce their dependence upon imports. Recall that France's drive to build nuclear power plants was in response to the 1970s era energy crisis when oil imports from the Middle East were suddenly cut off. However, the US are not concerned about this issue and so do not make it national security policy as France did. 38 As a result, US commercial demand is for cheaper fuel made from fresh uranium rather than for MOX fuel. Until such time as fresh uranium greatly increases in price there is little economic incentive for the use of MOX fuel in the US. 39 However, there is another aspect to this. If you recall in previous episodes I described molten salt reactors which used dissolved uranium fuel. These reactors inherently reprocess fuel as part of their normal operation. They just do it as part of maintaining the molten salt chemistry at the correct values rather than doing it as a separate process. 40 If these types of reactors become widely used then they would be achieving the same thing as creating MOX fuel, but without an explicit separate step. 41 As a final footnote to the above, the US has almost exclusively use enriched uranium light water reactors. As mentioned in previous episodes, there are ways of recycling spent fuel from light water reactors which do not involve chemically reprocessing it to make MOX fuel. 42 Experiments have been done involving South Korea, China, and Canada which take spent fuel from light water reactors and repackage it to fit it into natural uranium heavy water reactors. What is used up or "spent" fuel for a light water reactor is high grade fuel to a natural uranium reactor. However, the US has, for whatever reason, never built commercial natural uranium reactors such as are used in a number of other countries around the world. 43 If they were to do so, then nuclear fuel could be used twice, once in a light water reactor, and again in a natural uranium reactor, all without having to turn it into MOX fuel in a separate reprocessing step. However, this particular alternative would likely face the same issue in the sense that fresh fuel would still be cheaper than reusing spent fuel. -------------------- A Variety of Questions from Clinton 44 Next we have a variety of questions from Clinton. Clinton asked I would like some commentary in the current situation, why has hinkley gone off the rails, the new american approach, the odd things done after fukushima, the new radiation rules in the states. 45 Question 1 why has hinkley gone off the rails, 46 Answer The question refers to cost overruns at the Hinkley Point nuclear power project in the UK. The UK government looked into this issue in a more general sense in 2025. They published a report on it titled Nuclear Regulatory Review 2025 Enabling nuclear delivery through regulatory reform John Fingleton There is a link to the report in the show notes. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/692080f75c394e481336ab89/nuclear-regulatory-review-2025.pdf 47 As the report is 162 pages long, I won't try to cover it all in this answer. I will however give a few simple examples. The report focuses on civilian nuclear power and the defence nuclear industry as well. However it also draws examples from outside the nuclear industry to show that the problem is not limited to nuclear. It shows that the same problems exist in the offshore wind industry, and in the HS2 High Speed Rail project. 48 In the view of the authors of the report, the essence of the problem seems to be a lack of any degree of proportionality in terms of mitigating negative effects from any project. Big nuclear projects make the headlines because they are inherently big projects, but as I have just mentioned, they affect things like wind power development and rail transport as well. 49 I will pick one example from Hinkley Point specifically. This is "Case Study: Hinkley Point C Fish Protection" A summary of this is that they spent £700 million of additional money on the cooling water intakes to protect an estimated 0.083 salmon per year, along with 0.028 sea trout, 6 river lamprey, 18 Allis shad, and somewhere between 100 and 528 twaite shad. The report points out that there are ways to protect far more fish for far less money by spending it in other areas, and gives some examples. Again, this problem is not limited to nuclear power, and they give similar examples connected with offshore wind development and HS2 High Speed Rail. 50 I would like to emphasize that I am not expressing an opinion on whether or not any of these decisions were good or bad ones or whether the money was well spent. I am just summarizing the report's explanation of why large projects of all sorts initiated and approved by the UK parliament were not turning out as initially expected. I will leave it up to people in the UK to decide whether or not they are satisfied with the current situation. 51 Question 2 the new american approach, 52 Answer The US have apparently announced changes to their regulatory system. I don't know enough about the subject to really judge the practical effects of regulation within the US. However, I have read and listened to many interviews of people from both the industry and the regulatory side of things who are from outside the US but are familiar with it. They generally contrast two different approaches to regulation. On the one hand there is the US approach, which they see as being more of a box ticking exercise than an in depth safety review. This makes it very hard to get a design other than a traditional PWR or BWR approved in the US. 53 It has the advantage from the regulator side of things though in that it reduces the amount of work required as it primarily requires just following a set of defined procedures. These people then contrast that approach with the one used in the UK and in Canada, both of which they see as being very similar to one another. In those two countries, regulators work with industry to review designs from basic principles rather than just seeing if it meets a pre-defined list of criteria. This is a results oriented system rather than a process oriented system as used in the US. 54 As a result of this, designers of new nuclear reactors are going to the UK and Canada first to go through preliminary review there, and only going to the US later. What designers are looking for is feedback on their design as they go along in order to align the design with what safety regulators see as being required from their standpoint. They want to go into a review process before the design is finalized so they can get guidance on how they should approach things rather than trying to add safety as additional features on top of a finished design. 55 It would take someone with deep familiarity with nuclear regulation systems to understand the practical effects of recent changes in US regulatory systems, but it is quite possible that people within the regulatory structure in the US have been taking the above on board and trying to adapt to current circumstances. However, I can only speculate on that. This is about the best answer that I can give. 56 Question 3 the odd things done after fukushima, 57 Answer This covers a lot of topics, some of which are probably political and so are not suited to HPR. I will try to list a few events however. As a brief summary if the Fukushima events go however, a historic scale earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011 caused huge loss of life and widespread damage. About 20,000 people were killed by the earthquake and tsunami. Three nuclear reactors based on 1960s era GE BWR designs were seriously damaged by hydrogen explosions caused by loss of power to backup generators when they were flooded by the tsunami. However, there were no radiation related deaths or cases of radiation sickness. 58 Following events in Japan was a general review of designs around the world, with various improvements made in some areas, particularly backup generators and hydrogen management. It seems to be conventional wisdom that the Fukushima event caused a number of countries to decide to phase out nuclear power. 59 However, when I tried to make a list of such countries for this episode I found things were not as is often heard. The countries which decided to get rid of nuclear power had largely started down that road at least a decade before then and generally for reasons unrelated to any specific events outside of their own country. In other cases they reversed that decision or are in the process of doing so. Japan itself has restarted many of their nuclear power plants and plant to replace decommissioned nuclear power plants with new ones, although many of the older and smaller ones were considered not economically worth upgrading at this point in their life to restart them. 60 The one possible exception to this may be Taiwan which decided to phase out nuclear power in 2016. However, I don't know enough about Taiwanese politics to state with any confidence that their decision in 2016 was based on anything related to events in Japan, or whether in fact they were a byproduct of other political changes within Taiwan and the shut down of nuclear plants happened to be carried along with those. Currently Taiwan get their electricity primarily from natural gas and coal. 61 Meanwhile across mainland Asia from Turkey to China, large numbers of nuclear power plants were built or are under construction. Taken together on a global scale, did anything really change after Fukushima, or did the countries which had already decided to close down their nuclear power plants simply continue to do so, and those countries who decided they wanted more of them continue to build them? That's a good question for which I don't think anyone has the perspective to answer at this point. 62 Another side of this which is hard to disentangle from it though is the increased use of natural gas for electric power generation which was happening at around the same time. Increased use of fracking in a number of countries, plus increased supplies from Russia and LNG from the Middle East and other places resulted in falls in natural gas prices in many places. Since combined cycle natural gas turbines form the main competitor to nuclear power, anything which improves the economics of natural gas will act to reduce demand for nuclear power. This makes it hard to decide to what degree the reduction in the number of reactors being built was due to the political effects of the earthquake and tsunami and to what degree it was due to cheaper natural gas through fracking and other means. I'll leave that question at that. 63 Question 4 the new radiation rules in the states. 64 Answer I'm not deeply familiar with US radiation rules, but I will attempt to answer the question. Apparently there are wide variety of different things being addressed, only some of which have any relevance to the nuclear power industry. One of these is an epidemiological study on the current exposure limits for workers in the nuclear industry. This study will take place over about 5 years. In the end it may not result in any changes. This is for a number of reasons. 65 One is that US exposure thresholds for workers are currently aligned with international standards. It would be difficult for the US industry to operate on a different basis than the rest of the world when supply chains are global and kit is designed to meet currently recognized standards. Another is that apparently the nuclear industry are not, so far as I can discern, asking for any changes to limits. They instead are looking for changes to how some of the details are being applied, such as for example the criteria for deciding when respirators are required in low risk environments. 66 Some point to recent changes in UK regulations as an example of what they are looking for. I will post a link to the new (November of 2025) UK regulations in the show notes. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nuclear-industry-principles-to-guide-the-application-of-as-low-as-reasonably-practicable-alarp-and-best-available-techniques-bat/ways-of-working-principles-to-guide-the-application-of-alarp-and-bat-in-the-nuclear-industry-accessible-webpage This is about as much detail as I think I can comment on when it comes to this question, as I think it is a subject that requires a fair bit more practical knowledge of than I have in order to give a thorough and balanced answer. -------------------- 67 Question from Antoine Were/are the designs patented? Hi, Whiskeyjack. Nice ep. You said AGR, based on Magnox, was a nuclear reactor type that did not sell well outside the UK. I then started thinking if it were (is) possible to another countries to develop by themselves based on that project, or if it had (has) a commercial restriction for exploration of the technology. I have yet to listen to the following episodes (doing little by little) and may learn better on the choices, but I felt free to present the question by now... Thanks! 68 Answer This is a very good question because it offers the opportunity to talk about a number of interesting things that haven't been touched on yet. Let's cover a bit of background first. 69 A patent is a time limited right to exploit a defined bit of valuable technical knowledge. Patents were involved from the very earliest days of commercial nuclear power, and I will give an example of this later. A key point to keep in mind though is that the nuclear power field moves very slowly and it takes a long time for new knowledge to make it from the lab to commercial application. Patents will often expire before they reach the point where they can be used. 70 Contracts on the other hand are legally enforceable agreements between two parties. A contract may have a time limited life, but that is an arrangement between the parties. A commercial nuclear power plant is a very large and complex bit of kit and not easily copied in detail. It can be far more effective to cover designs under contracts and licenses than to rely on patents. If a country wished to build their own nuclear power plants rather than buying them from someone else, there are a large number of companies who have commercial designs they are willing to license to third parties for them to build themselves. Indeed a number of these companies base their business around licensing of designs or have other reasons for wishing to do so. 71 From a licensee perspective, it could take decades of work and hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars to take a design from first principle to the ready to build state, wheras licensing a design give you a proven design right away. As mentioned in previous episodes, there many types of reactor in the world. The selection of what sort of reactor a country decides to buy often depends more on commercial considerations revolving around licensing terms and conditions than it does with respect to any technical considerations. Here's an example which shows how South Korea decided to license a design, build it for themselves, and then export it to other countries. 72 KunMo Chung - Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, stated in an interview in 2019 that South Korea wanted to standardize on a single reactor technology in the early 1980s. They had reactors from multiple different vendors, but wanted to license an existing successful design to produce for themselves and for the export market. One of the major factors in deciding to standardize was to allow them to improve operator training by focusing on one design. Professor Chung stated that one of the key factors in selecting a design from ABB-Combustion Engineering was that he personally knew and had a good relationship with the Chief Technical Officer of ABB-Combustion Engineering going back to a time when Professor Chung had been studying and working in the USA. 73 On their side, ABB-Combustion Engineering were having financial problems and they needed a partner to help further develop their new PWR design. Also they stood to gain revenue from this partnership as well. Based on this relationship, the two sides came to a business agreement and South Korea began producing reactors based on this design, while also continuing to develop and improve it further. 74 Here's an example of a case where the developers of a promising technology decided that they had more to gain by not patenting their technology. Instead they decided to freely share their information in order to get other researchers elsewhere to help to advance the technology so that all could benefit from it. 75 In an interview Wacław Gudowski - Prof. Emeritus, Royal Institute of Technology KTH Stockholm stated that the Soviets and later the Russian were the leaders in lead-bismuth cooled reactors. These reactors use lead-bismuth liquid metal alloy as a coolant. In the 1990s the Russian institute working on commercializing this technology were working with Western partners on nuclear technology in general. They considered patenting this technology, but in the end decided to simply publish it openly. 76 Professor Gudowski had even smuggled $60,000 in cash into Russia to finance the patent application in order to get the Russian institute to publish their technology, but the money was not needed. They based this decision on the judgment that it would take 20 years of R&D before the technology was ready for the commercial market, so they wouldn't see a penny on any patents anyway. They were right on this, as it was another 20 years of R&D in Europe, Russia, China, and Korea before lead-bismuth technology was ready for commercial use. 77 It had already seen use in submarine reactors, but the commercial market demanded a more thoroughly developed technology to satisfy commercial needs. By deciding to not patent the technology, the original developers gained from shared R&D rather than chasing the illusary gains from patent licenses on technology that was not ready for the commercial market anyway. 78 I said that patents were involved in nuclear technology from the very earliest days, and I will now turn to that story. When I say the earliest days, I mean probably earlier than you are imaging. I am talking about before WWII. 79 First though I need to give some background information. France and Britain were working on nuclear weapons from the very earliest days of WWII. In Britain's case this was called Tube Alloys. Canada also was conducting nuclear experiments, including building an "atomic pile", but it's not clear if this had any clear practical goals or was done to understand the physics better. 80 If you read the Wikipedia version of history, it states that Tube Alloys was merged into the Manhattan Project. However, participants have stated in interviews that this was not the case, and the Quebec Agreement which supposedly merged them makes no such mention of any merger of the projects, just the setting up of a board to coordinate efforts between the three countries, that is the US, UK, and Canada. In fact the two projects didn't get along that well, and as we shall see below, a big part of that was disputes over patents. ### 81 The following is based on a paper written by Bertrand Goldschmidt, a French nuclear scientist. Two of his colleagues, Hans Halban and Lew Kowarski played a critical role in early nuclear research. Halban in particular was one of the greatest scientific names in nuclear fission. In March of 1939 Halban conducted an experiment showing that neutrons were emitted by the fissioning of uranium. 82 In April Joliot, Halban, Kowarski and Perrin had a pretty good idea of how to use nuclear fission to produce energy and to make an explosive device and decided to file patents on their invention. Each of the four would receive a 5% share of any benefits and the other 80% would go to the research instittute they worked at in Paris. I will now quote from Goldschmidt's paper. 83 The first two patents concerned energy production and were entitled "Device for energy production" and "Method for stabilizing a device for energy production." They roughly defined the principles of the main components of our present power reactors: moderator in heterogeneous or homogeneous arrangements, cooling fluid, control rods, protection shield. The third patent called "Method for perfecting explosive charges" was less brilliant from a foresight point of view though it proposed valid solutions for the trigger, the tamper, and the rapid obtainment of the critical assembly of a possible explosive device. Finally, nearly a year later, after Alfred Nier's experimental confirmation in March 1940 of Niels Bohr's theoretical prediction that uranium 235, the rare isotope of the mixture in natural uranium, was responsible for fission by slow neutrons, the French took out an additional patent on the advantage of using enriched uranium for the chain reaction. End of quote. 84 In May of 1940, the CNRS, the French research institute in Paris, negotiated an agreement with Belgian mining company Union Miniere, who were the world's biggest producer of uranium, at the time a byproduct of radium mining, about a partnership for the world wide exploitation of these patents. However the agreement was not finalized due to the ongoing events in the war. At the beginning of the war, the French government had approved the development of an energy generator - or a nuclear reactor as we would say today, with the intention of creating an engine for submarines. 85 With the fall of France, Halban and Kowarski travelled to the UK with their supply of heavy water where they were received by their UK counterparts, James Chadwick and John Cockroft. The British were already working on an atomic bomb. In the UK the two conducted an experiment showing that it was possible to create nuclear energy using natural uranium and heavy water. In 1941 the British nuclear project was reorganized and given the name Tube Alloys. In 1942 it was decided to move the work on a plutonium bomb to Canada, and Canada would pay for the project. A lab was set up in Montreal and Halban was put in charge of the project. 86 Halban had negotiated this arrangement by offering to arrange to have the French patents for world wide rights outside of France and the French empire transferred to the UK. In return the French team were to be given a key role in the British nuclear project. The author of the paper I am referencing, Bertrand Goldschmidt, was a section leader in Montreal and a colleague of Halban from France. The Montreal group cooperated with the American Manhattan Project and the two shared information and exchanged visits. 87 However, relations between the two began to break down, with a major cause of this being the Americans being unhappy about the French patents and Halban's arrangement to give the British world wide rights to them. The postwar commercial potential for nuclear power was seen to be huge, and this was a major bone of contention. The extensive participation of ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) engineers in the Tube Alloys project was also objectionable to the Americans. Presumably this had something to do with potential for ICI being involved in future commercialization of the technology. The American Dupont company, a commercial rival of ICI, was also heavily involved in the American atomic bomb project. The eventual result of this was that the US cut off cooperation with the UK-Canada nuclear project. 88 Finally Halban was forced out of the project at the insistence of the Americans, and he was replaced by John Cockroft who moved to Montreal to take charge of the project. The Americans now restore limited cooperation. Kowarski was put in charge of building a heavy water moderated natural uranium reactor at a new site north of Ottawa at Chalk River. This reactor was turned on on the 5th of September, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender. So in what was supposedly a titanic war for survival, key allies were falling out with respect to their ultimate weapon over issues of patents covering post war commercialization. 89 With the end of the war, the nuclear weapons project in Montreal and Chalk River was wound up. Halban, Kowarski, and Goldschmidt returned to France and Cockroft to the UK where they all played senior roles in the nuclear programs of their respective countries. John Cockroft played an important role in the development of the Magnox reactors which Antoine asked about. The Chalk River Site remains as Canada's main nuclear research centre to this day, and Canada was to continue development of heavy water moderated natural uranium reactors. 90 The first commercial nuclear power plant was commissioned in the UK in 1956, roughly 17 years after the original French nuclear patents. At that time, UK patents had a term of 16 years. While I am not a patent lawyer, it would appear that these patents would likely have expired before nuclear power was ever commercialized. So to answer the question about patents, the first patents on nuclear energy date to before WWII started, and the very first two were about nuclear power plants and it was only the third one which covered nuclear weapons. -------------------- 91 Thanks to other listeners. A number of other listeners made comments saying they were really enjoying the series. I would like to thank the following for their kind words of encouragement. They helped make the work required to do this worthwhile. They are brian-in-ohio mnw Clinton Antoine bjb Kevin O'Brien Trey L'andrew Archer72 Jim DeVore If you have commented but I have forgotten your name, or if the show was recorded before I got a chance to read your comment, I would still like to thank you. 92 Conclusion I would like to thank all the listeners for their kind comments and insightful questions. I hope that I have answered these questions to the satisfaction of everyone. I look forward to hearing from all of you in future podcast episodes including those on other topics. -------------------- Proceedings of the 29th annual conference of the Canadian Nuclear Association and 10th annual conference of the Canadian Nuclear Society. V. 1-3 https://inis.iaea.org/records/m2s41-40917 This has a paper by Bertrand Goldschmidt about the work of the French scientists in Canada. -------------------- Provide feedback on this episode.

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