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With increasing political uncertainties, the risk of nuclear war has also risen. To highlight this heightened danger and urge greater caution, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock forward by one second, bringing us just 89 seconds away from catastrophe! But what does this really mean? We spoke with Dr. Manpreet Sethi, Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies and an expert on nuclear deterrence, to gain a deeper understanding of this. Tune in to Puliyabaazi for an in-depth discussion on this critical issue.We discuss:* Will the world move towards more nuclear weapons?* Can NPT remain effective in today's world order?* Types of Nuclear Deterrence Strategies. MAD and NUTS.* Nuclear Arms Race* Doom's Day Clock* Is it time for Global No First Use?* India and China's Vishwaguru stance* Nuclear restraint mechanisms* Is a Nuclear Weapons Free World possible?* Towards Nuclear Energy* What about research on Thorium?Read more:Nuclearly Put | Articles by Dr. Manpreet SethiNuclear Strategy: India's March Towards Credible Deterrence | Book by Dr. SethiDoomsday ClockPlease note that Puliyabaazi is now available on Youtube with video.Related Puliyabaazi:भारत की ऊर्जा - कोयले से परमाणु तक. India's Energy Futureपरमाणु हथियार: इस ब्रह्मास्त्र से कैसे बचें ? Nuclear Weapons and India.If you have any questions for the guest or feedback for us, please comment here or write to us at puliyabaazi@gmail.com. If you like our work, please subscribe and share this Puliyabaazi with your friends, family and colleagues.Website: https://puliyabaazi.inGuest: @manpreetsethi01Hosts: @saurabhchandra @pranaykotas @thescribblebeeTwitter: @puliyabaaziInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/puliyabaazi/Subscribe & listen to the podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Castbox, AudioBoom, YouTube, Spotify or any other podcast app. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.puliyabaazi.in
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20250130 Vispero - Tips for Reading eBooks with Refreshable Braille Originally Broadcasted January 30, 2025, on ACB Media 5 We provided tips for accessing eBooks with your refreshable braille display. Participants learned how to access DAISY books with FSReader, Kindle books with the Amazon Kindle App for PC, and EPUB books using the Thorium app. Sponsored by: Vispero Find out more at https://acb-community.pinecast.co
On todays Show the Fearsome Threesome (James, Dwayne and Glenn) Talk and discuss Discussion of nuclear/thorium reactor technology and its potential benefits Updates on the Blue Origin rocket launch and comparisons to SpaceX Commentary on the Pam Bondi confirmation hearing, including her responses to questions Speculation about potential pardons or actions by Trump before the inauguration Concerns about the state of major US cities and their future viability Discussions around hostage releases and negotiations involving Trump Criticisms of President Biden's performance and public speaking DON'T MISS IT!
On Todays show James and the Giant Preacher (Chris) and Glenn talk about - Angels - Archangels (Michael, Gabriel) - Spiritual warfare - Faith - Miracles - Guardian angels - Biblical references (Psalms, Hebrews, Matthew) - Theological concepts (angelology, orders of angels) - Personal experiences/testimonies - Apostle Paul - Gentiles vs Jews - Gender dynamics in the workplace - Thorium nuclear reactors - Christian business environment - Prayer - Spiritual protection and much more don't miss it!
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MacroVoices Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome back, Thomas Jam Pedersen for the second instalment of this year's long-form episodes. This week they'll be taking a deep dive into nuclear fuels and fuel cycles, exploring critical topics such as the economics of Thorium-based nuclear power compared to traditional Uranium-fired reactors. https://bit.ly/3VI4bTK ⚫ Check out Copenhagen Atomics: https://www.copenhagenatomics.com/ ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://bit.ly/4cMmu0d
THORIUM MOLTEN SALT NUCLEAR REACTORS WITH THOMAS JAM PEDERSEN & SENATOR GERARD RENNICK COMMANDING THE NARRATIVE EPISODE 51 Steven Tripp and Kevin Loughrey are joined by Thomas Jam Pedersen, the CEO of Copenhagen Atomics. Copenhagen Atomics has the goal of making thorium energy at a lower cost than any other energy source. Coupled with this, they also want to enable fast deployment of this new reactor design – claiming they can mass produce one reactor per day. Thomas Jam also discusses how Copenhagen Atomics will finance, build, own and operate their reactors, rather than the need for Governments to provide the energy to the grid. Senator Gerard Rennick also joins the conversation, to provide his perspective on nuclear in Australia. To contact or follow Copenhagen Atomics, visit: https://www.copenhagenatomics.com To contact or follow Kevin Loughrey, visit: https://kevinloughrey.com.au To contact or follow Senator Gerard Rennick, visit: https://gerardrennick.com.au KEEP UP TO DATE WITH ALL OUR PODCASTS AND ARTICLES, visit: https://www.commandingthenarrative.com SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for Commanding the Narrative by donating – your support is much appreciated! https://www.commandingthenarrative.com/donate https://www.buymeacoffee.com/commandingthenarrative TO GET YOUR ‘Commanding the Narrative' merchandise, head to: https://xcandidates.tshirts.net.au CONTACT US BY EMAIL: commandingthenarrative@outlook.com Hosted by: • Steven Tripp - Internationally published political commentator https://x.com/RealStevenTripp https://www.facebook.com/theRealStevenTripp https://spectator.com.au/author/steven-tripp Follow Commanding the Narrative on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4GIXhHBogM1McL5EPGP3DT Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/ExCandidates Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommandingTheNarrative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/commandingthenarrative X: https://x.com/commandthenarra YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@commandingthenarrative Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/commandingthenarrative Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@ExCandidates Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/commanding-the-narrative/id1631685864 Please share and spread the word! #AusPol #nswpol #interview #podcast #politics #commentary #narrative #minorparties #libertarian #onenation #uap #liberal #nationals #labor #greens #steventripp #australia #teals #senate #commanding #narrative #CtN #copenhagenatomics #thomasjampedersen #gerardrennick #kevinloughrey #peoplefirst #thorium #nuclear #moltensalt
Groene weiden vol gelukkige mensen en prachtige architectuur. Zo ziet de toekomst er in de promo filmpjes van de nucleaire industrie eruit. De grote grijze angst kathedralen die kerncentrales waren, zijn vervangen door kleine Scandinavische design panden die opgaan in hun groene omgeving, met daarbinnen lieflijk snorrende reactoren die alles behalve risico's en gevaar uitstralen. Techniek en wetenschap staan namelijk niet stil. En volgens de nucleaire industrie, en ook veel voorstanders van kernenergie, heeft elk probleem een technische oplossing. Kerncentrales te duur omdat je ze niet in series kan bouwen? Ga dan voor de Small Modular Reactor (SMR)! Klein maar fijn, én: betaalbaar. Bang voor meltowns en kernafval? Ga voor Thorium! Diederik en Daan verkennen de nucleaire toekomst. Ze beginnen op een bedrijventerrein in het Gelderse Duiven, waar in de toekomst - naast Ikea! - mogelijk een SMR moet gaan komen. Hoe reëel zijn de verwachtingen? En al zouden al die verwachtingen mbt nieuwe nucleaire technologieën kloppen: elk voordeel heeft zijn nadeel. Leuk als iedereen straks zo'n schattig klein reactortje in zijn schuur heeft, maar wie gaat daar toezicht op houden? Kun je in het kernenergiedebat als voorstander wel een voorschot op de toekomst nemen? En aan de andere kant: kun je als tegenstander ontkennen dat wetenschap en techniek niet stil staan?
Immer wieder brandet im Netz die Diskussion auf - sind radioaktive Objektive nun gefährlich oder nicht? Die Bandbreite der Einschätzungen, denen man da begegnet, ist beträchtlich. Also war es für mich an der Zeit, mal einen Experten von der Uni Kiel zu befragen. Diese Podcast-Episode gibt es - mit Bildmaterial - auch bei mir im Blog nachzulesen: https://www.schlicksbier.com/sind-radioaktive-objektive-gefaehrlich Links zur Sendung: Mehr über die Einheit Mikrosievert: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert_(Einheit) Zerfallsreihe von Thorium: https://www.chemie.de/lexikon/Thorium-Reihe.html Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz: https://www.bfs.de/DE/home/home_node.html Liste radioaktiver Objektive: https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Radioactive_lenses und http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/radioactive_lenses Günstiges und gutes Messgerät für Radioaktivität: https://amzn.to/3A1jRdm UV-Lampe: https://amzn.to/3UrzeTp Shownotes und Diskussionsmöglichkeiten auch immer auf https://studio.kreativkommune.org/podcast Weitere Podcasts von Erik: https://www.schlicksbier.com/podcast
John Kutsch, executive director of the Thorium Energy Alliance, believes fervently that "Thorium will power the world." In addition to its potential use as a fuel, it can also be used in medicine, alloys, coatings, and superconducting materials. He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
S10E282: Mind Blown: EHS, Astronauts, and Yellow Dye 5 In this week's episode, The Grims share a candid recap of their uneventful week, revealing their shared experience with the intriguing phenomenon known as exploding head syndrome. They dive into the astonishing tale of stranded astronauts, exploring the challenges they faced in the vastness of space. The duo also marvels at a groundbreaking scientific discovery surrounding Yellow Dye 5, and play heavy metal for filthy earballs! **Available on your favorite streaming service** (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:56) - Mortus Eternum, SONG: 1000 Winters (00:06:46) - Conversation 1 (00:09:31) - Scale Of Attrition, SONG: Panacea (00:14:19) - Anoxide, SONG: The Ceaseless March (00:19:36) - Abysmal Oceans, SONG: Dominion (00:25:22) - Conversation 2 (00:30:57) - Grandma's Pantry: Misadventures in Self Surgery (00:35:14) - Conversation 3 (00:42:29) - Skaldir, SONG: Frozen Blood (00:47:30) - Vafurlogi, SONG: Hvíldarsálmur (00:53:36) - Wrahha, SONG: Totalitarian Crucifixion Rite (00:57:35) - Conversation 4 (01:01:30) - Piss Baptism, SONG: Relapse Straight Back To Hell (01:04:38) - THORIUM, SONG: Pest (01:07:51) - Ec{c}entric Pendulum, SONG: Encaged Visions of the Unobstructed Labels: Drowning Sea God Records, NoEvDia Records, Oration Records, Sentient Ruin, Transylvanian Recordings, Emanzipation Productions, Subcontinental Records
Tom Bodrovics welcomes back Professor Vince Lanci, MBA Finance and Publisher of the Goldfix Substack, for a discussion on recent market events. The primary focus is on the past week's stock market drawdowns, which started on August 2nd, possibly influenced by the Yen Carry Trade collapse. Despite no clear catalyst at the time, it's now believed that the Federal Reserve's reluctance to ease, coupled with Buffett's Apple share sale and Citibank's prediction of multiple interest rate cuts, put pressure on banks, leading them to reconsider their stance. The unexpected end to Japan's yield curve control policy caused a blow-up in the Yen Carry Trade as hedge funds were forced to refinance at higher rates, triggering a wave of selling across various markets. Tom asks about possible tensions between Federal Reserve chairman and the Treasury's roles in managing U.S. economic policy. Janet Yellen's handling of monetary policy during her tenure as Fed Chair is critiqued for misallocating funds, creating a false signal about an economic recession, and potentially leading to inflation and higher stocks. Vince shares an intriguing story about a Chinese gold trader causing significant damage to bullion banks. This trader, not typically known for gold trading, had been buying large quantities of futures from Western bullion banks over the counter, leading to losses. The conversation delves into the impact of Yellen's actions on the shape of the yield curve and discusses the sale of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) during the Biden presidency and its implications. They explore whether we still need the same level of oil reserves as in the past, considering changing energy policies and difficulties in producing and storing refined products. The conversation touches on China's growing influence, the importance of ensuring a deflationary crisis for China, discovering new oil and energy sources, and securing global dominance through innovation and geopolitical considerations. Timestamp References:0:00 - Introduction0:53 - Talk About Markets13:49 - Easy Money Addiction22:55 - Fed Vs Yellen & Mandates30:44 - Yellen & Wrong Signals38:47 - Gold Trader Story46:38 - Banks & Positioning49:22 - SPR & Politics57:23 - Oil Reserve Needs1:00:09 - Gold and the Dollar1:04:40 - Thorium & Oil1:07:56 - American Innovation?1:10:20 - BRICS & Japan1:12:47 - Policy, Energy, & Votes1:14:50 - Wrap Up Talking Points From This Episode The past week's stock market drawdowns were influenced by the collapse of Yen Carry Trade. Despite no clear catalyst at the time, Federal Reserve reluctance to ease led banks to reconsider their stance. China's gold trader caused significant damage to bullion banks due to excessive futures trading over OTC. Guest Links:Special Discount: https://vblgoldfix.substack.com/TomPalisadesWebsite: https://vblgoldfix.substack.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/SorenthekZeroHedge: https://tinyurl.com/3x72ndfcLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentlanci/Boobs & Bullion: https://twitter.com/boobsbullion Vince Lanci, a seasoned finance professional, has served as Managing Partner at Echobay Partners LLC since 2008. His expertise spans over three decades in metals trading, option analysis, and technology development. In recent years, Mr. Lanci's insights have been sought after by industry legends. He was invited to be a resident expert on precious metals and option analysis for Larry Benedict's Opportunistic Trader project. In 2017, he co-authored a paper on Energy Volatility with Professor Robert Biolsi at the University of Connecticut. Prior to his current role, from 2004 to 2008, Mr. Lanci served as Co-Head of Metals & Energy Trading for CiS Options LLC. During this tenure, he managed the long-short and volatility arbitrage portfolios for the parent Limited Partnership fund. From 1993 to 2003, Mr. Lanci was the proprietor of Berard Capital LLC, where he led a team of option marketmakers.
S10E274: A Tree With no Branches Join us for an 'intellectual' rollercoaster that traverses the spectrum from life-threatening situations to cultural phenomena, all served with a side of humor and a dash of nostalgia. Prepare to be informed, entertained, and perhaps even a little metal-ified! (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:56) - Nightrage, SONG: Euphoria Within Choas (00:05:25) - Conversation 1 (00:12:55) - Cranial Disorder, SONG: Compulsive Savagery (00:16:37) - Brainsore, deathgrind, SONG: In Life is Coils (00:18:10) - Conversation 2 (00:26:03) - Grandma's Pantry, Satanel, SONG: Their Blood will Shed as Dust (00:29:48) - Conversation 3 (00:39:18) - Thorium, SONG: Eclipsed (00:43:14) - Nihilect, SONG: The Sovereign Tongue (00:48:20) - Obscene, SONG: Dressed in Corpses (00:52:00) - Conversation 4 (01:03:58) - Xoth, SONG: The Parasitic Orchestra (01:08:13) - Avatarium, SONG: Long Black Waves (01:14:19) - The Andretti, SONG: Too Much Technology Tag: Lethal Scissor, Time to Kill Records, Emancipation Productions, Nameless Grave Records, Dawnbreed Records, AFM Records
Located in the 90th place on the periodic table is the element Thorium. Thorium, as with every element, has unique properties, making it useful in certain applications. However, Thorium's best days might still be ahead of it and might move it to the front of the list of the world's most important elements. Learn more about Thorium, how it was discovered, and its potential uses on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Available nationally, look for a bottle of Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond at your local store. Find out more at heavenhilldistillery.com/hh-bottled-in-bond.php Sign up today at butcherbox.com/daily and use code daily to choose your free offer and get $20 off. Visit BetterHelp.com/everywhere today to get 10% off your first month. Use the code EverythingEverywhere for a 20% discount on a subscription at Newspapers.com. Visit meminto.com and get 15% off with code EED15. Listen to Expedition Unknown wherever you get your podcasts. Get started with a $13 trial set for just $3 at harrys.com/EVERYTHING. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Ben Long & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode 179 of the #AskAbhijit show: Ask me interesting questions about astrophysics, cosmology, AI, science in the comments, and I shall answer them.
MacroVoices hosts Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Thomas Jam Pedersen, founder of Copenhagen Atomics. They will discuss the role thorium fission will play in the energy transition and the benefits of molten salt-cooled and liquid-fuelled thorium-burning nuclear reactors over conventional light water reactors fuelled by uranium. https://bit.ly/3QzHtuu ⚫ Find out More: https://www.copenhagenatomics.com/ ✅Sign up for a FREE 14-day trial at Big Picture Trading: https://bit.ly/46Ul2FD
Ad Verbrugge in gesprek met Wouter van Dieren, Club van Rome-icoon en milieudenker van het eerste uur. Bronnen en links bij deze uitzending: - Het opiniestuk in de Volkskrant (Paywall): https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-shell-gaat-de-klimaatcrisis-niet-verhelpen-trap-niet-langer-in-hun-pr~b5f5a2f7/ (1:34) - Reactie van Wouter van Dieren op het artikel: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nav-26-maart-2024-bericht-de-volkskrant-over-van-shell-van-dieren-rrihe/ (1:54 / 13:30) - Het Klimaatrapport Jetten: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/kamerstukken/2024/04/15/klimaat-en-energiemaatregelen-voorjaarsnota-2024 (10:32) - Wouter van Dieren was eerder te gast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiE4XeKcP9Y (18:06) - Kruiwagentjes op de maan. 'Vluchten kan niet meer', Jenny Arean & Frans Halsema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9LaGCjmA3c (18:48) -- Kom op 28 juni naar De Nacht van De Nieuwe Wereld. Bestel je kaarten hier: https://dnw.eventgoose.com/ Steun De Nieuwe Wereld. Word patroon op https://petjeaf.com/denieuwewereld of doneer op NL61 RABO 0357 5828 61 t.n.v. Stichting De Nieuwe Wereld. Alvast bedankt. -- 0:00 Intro 1:21 De kwakzalverij van Shell 3:59 Grote uitdagingen: we hebben alle kennis nodig 6:54 Problemen met windenergie 11:27 Electriciteit opwekken met kolen 13:30 Oplopende kosten en rantsoenering 16:02 Jeugdavonturen 17:13 Teruglopende opbrengsten in de koperwinning 21:11 Time-to-effect analyse 24:07 Totale chaos 29:43 Kernenergie en de toenemende strijd om uranium 34:47 Thorium als innovatieve optie 36:56 Problemen met waterstof 41:10 Vulkaantje spelen: het koelen van de aarde 50:09 De risico's van geo-engineering 55:31 Wie heeft er recht van spreken? 58:40 Greta Thunberg en het gezag van de martelaar 1:00:37 De wetten van Ghandi 1:02:01 Afsluiting -- De Nieuwe Wereld TV is een platform dat mensen uit verschillende disciplines bij elkaar brengt om na te denken over grote veranderingen die op komst zijn door een combinatie van snelle technologische ontwikkelingen en globalisering. Het is een initiatief van filosoof Ad Verbrugge in samenwerking met anchors Jelle van Baardewijk en Marlies Dekkers. De Nieuwe Wereld TV wordt gemaakt in samenwerking met de Filosofische School Nederland. Onze website: https://denieuwewereld.tv/ DNW heeft ook een Substack. Meld je hier aan: https://denieuwewereld.substack.com/
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Today, molten salt reactors (MSRs) are experiencing a resurgence of interest worldwide, with numerous companies and research institutions actively developing various designs. MSRs offer several potential advantages, including enhanced safety, reduced waste generation, and the ability to utilize thorium as a fuel source, as previously mentioned. “There are several molten salt reactor companies that are in the process of cutting deals and getting MOIs [memorandums of intent] with foreign countries,” Mike Conley, author of the book Earth Is a Nuclear Planet: The Environmental Case for Nuclear Power, said as a guest on The POWER Podcast. Conley is a nuclear energy advocate and strong believer in MSR technology. He called MSRs “a far superior reactor technology” compared to light-water reactors (LWRs). The thorium fuel cycle is a key component in at least some MSR designs. The thorium fuel cycle is the path that thorium transmutes through from fertile source fuel to uranium fuel ready for fission. Thorium-232 (Th-232) absorbs a neutron, transmuting it into Th-233. Th-233 beta decays to protactinium-233 (Pa-233), and finally undergoes a second beta minus decay to become uranium-233 (U-233). This is the one way of turning natural and abundant Th-232 into something fissionable. Since U-233 is not naturally found but makes an ideal nuclear reactor fuel, it is a much sought-after fuel cycle. “The best way to do this is in a molten salt reactor, which is an incredible advance in reactor design. And the big thing is, whether you're fueling a molten salt reactor with uranium or thorium or plutonium or whatever, it's a far superior reactor technology. It absolutely cannot melt down under any circumstances whatsoever period,” said Conley. Conley suggested that most of the concern people have about nuclear power revolves around the spread of radioactive material. Specifically, no matter how unlikely it is, if an accident occurred and contamination went airborne, the fact that it could spread beyond the plant boundary is worrisome to many people who oppose nuclear power. “The nice thing about a molten salt reactor is: if a molten salt reactor just goes belly up and breaks or gets destroyed or gets sabotaged, you'll have a messed-up reactor room with a pancake of rock salt on the floor, but not a cloud of radioactive steam that's going to go 100 miles downwind,” Conley explained. And the price for an MSR could be much more attractive than the cost of currently available GW-scale LWR units. “The ThorCon company is predicting that they will be able to build for $1 a watt,” said Conley. “That's one-fourteenth of what Vogtle was,” he added, referring to Southern Company's nuclear expansion project in Georgia, which includes two Westinghouse AP1000 units. Of course, projections do not always align with reality, so MSR pilot projects will be keenly watched to validate claims. There is progress being made on MSR projects. For example, in February 2022, TerraPower and Southern Company announced an agreement to design, construct, and operate the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE)—the world's first critical fast-spectrum salt reactor—at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Since then, Southern Company reported successfully commencing pumped-salt operations in the Integrated Effects Test (IET), signifying a major achievement for the project. The IET is a non-nuclear, externally heated, 1-MW multiloop system, located at TerraPower's laboratory in Everett, Washington. “The IET will inform the design, licensing, and operation of an approximately 180-MW MCFR [Molten Chloride Fast Reactor] demonstration planned for the early 2030s timeframe,” Southern Company said.
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MacroVoice's Erik Townsend & Patrick Ceresna welcome Mark Nelson as the special holiday guest for the New Year. Erik and Mark will delve into the intricate world of nuclear reactors, exploring potential fuels like Thorium, and shedding light on the contemporary challenges entwined with nuclear regulations. https://bit.ly/3H52Kan Follow Mark Nelson on X: https://twitter.com/energybants Check Out: https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/ Check out Energy Transition Crisis on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnergyTransitionCrisis1 Nuclear SMRs VS Renewables: https://energytransitioncrisis.org/smr Download This Episode's Chartbook:
Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy
1) Sander's early career at NRG and nuclear energy in the Netherlands' 2) Thorizon's Thorium molten salt reactor (MSR) design 3) Recent announcements from Thorizon 4) Where Sander sees nuclear energy in the global energy mix in the future
Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy
1) Sander's early career at NRG and nuclear energy in the Netherlands 2) Thorizon's Thorium molten salt reactor (MSR) design 3) Recent updates and announcements from Thorizon 4) Where Sander sees nuclear energy in the global energy mix in the future
Thorium is a potential substitute for uranium-based nuclear power, but will it solve our nuclear problems? If thorium could help with the proliferation of plutonium and make it harder to create weapons on the backend, adoption of more nuclear power might be easier....but thorium isn't our knight in shining armor. Full Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/zeihan/ask-peter-can-thorium-solve-the-nuclear-problem
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Understanding our genetics plays a significant role in how effectively we can detoxify our bodies. Our genetics not only defines our physical characteristics but also shapes how our bodies manage and eliminate toxins. Such genetic influence permeates every aspect of our detoxification mechanisms, affecting the effectiveness of processes such as sweating, breathing, bowel movements, and urination. When I encounter patients who are dealing with various health issues, such as chronic inflammation, particularly in cases like breast implant illness, it often ties back to the liver and kidney's ability to manage toxins. Today's episode holds such significant importance as we will explore the vital role these organs play in detoxification and delve deeper into the impact of various toxins, including heavy metals, mold toxins, and environmental toxins like glyphosates, on our overall well-being. How Environmental Factors Impact Detoxification and Overall Health The breast implant may contribute to chronic inflammation in a person, but their ability to manage detoxification, environmental factors like their location or environmental surroundings, air quality, water sources, and dietary choices play a significant role in shaping their health. That is why when I assess my patients, I pay close attention to their inflammatory symptoms, especially in the nervous system, where signs like brain fog, memory issues, and neuropathic pain can manifest. These inflammatory symptoms are particularly concerning in younger individuals, especially those with children. The adverse effects are not limited solely to neurological symptoms like brain fog and memory issues. They encompass a wide array of discomforts, including conditions such as dry eyes, persistent coughing, moments of breathlessness, sensations of chest tightness or discomfort, and a spectrum of digestive issues like heartburn, acid reflux, constipation, and diarrhea. Additionally, individuals may experience musculoskeletal pain, with persistent aches and discomfort in their joints and muscles. Fortunately, I've learned to understand how each person detoxifies by listening to their experiences, conducting genetic testing, and assessing their symptoms over many years. This helps me formulate a comprehensive view of their individual health and how they manage detoxification. Toxins in Mold Exposure and their Effects on Health In our office, we have a few methods to support our findings. Personally, I'm interested in conducting a urine tox test, which can reveal substances like mycotoxins, heavy metals, and environmental contaminants. The tox test report encompasses a range of toxins, and individuals with significant mold exposure might show the presence of toxins like aflatoxin, beta-one, alpha toxin, and M-one. There are also various other mycotoxins, such as ochratoxin, which is sometimes found in wine, with varying regulations in the United States and Europe. As such, people sensitive to mold and ochratoxin can face challenges when consuming wine. Heavy Metal Exposure and Detoxification in Patients with Implants Heavy metals that may be found in patient's test results include aluminum, beryllium, gadolinium, nickel, platinum, antimony, bismuth, cadmium, lead, mercury, thallium, thorium, tungsten, and uranium. These metals could be acquired through environmental exposure. Ongoing research exists about whether medical devices like hip, knee, or breast implants might contribute to metal exposure. In some cases, devices like knee or hip implants can result in what's called "poly wear." Notably, urine tests conducted after the removal of such devices, as in the case of explanted patients, have shown significant improvements in heavy metal levels, even before engaging in a detox program. However, some heavy metals, like beryllium, might linger, warranting further investigation. Taking thorium as an example, it is used in the production of welding rods, firebrick, camera and telescope lenses, gas lantern mantles, ceramics, aerospace industry materials, and nuclear reactions. Thorium has also been employed as a contrast agent in medical procedures, but it is associated with various side effects and symptoms related to hematologic, pulmonary hypertension, fibrosis, and respiratory issues. In addition to assessing food sensitivities through testing like GI maps and examining hormone levels and other bloodwork, I find it highly valuable to complement this with urine toxicity tests and genetics analysis. This comprehensive approach helps clarify the information I gather during patient interviews and allows us to create a comprehensive overview of why patients are experiencing their symptoms, with a particular focus on understanding their exposure to toxins. Additionally, with respect to toxicity assessment, it's worth noting that I've encountered some unusual cases, such as exposure to triclosan. Understanding the chemical components in products we use daily is crucial. Triclosan is present in various consumer products like toothpaste, detergents, toys, and antibacterial wet wipes. Additionally, herbicides like Atrazine and Glyphosates, the latter being a systemic herbicide and crop desiccant, also warrant attention. Exposure to these substances can occur through food, skin absorption, or inhalation in areas where they are used. Comprehensive assessments, including genetic analysis, toxicity profiles, food sensitivities, gut microbiome status, hormone levels, and other bloodwork are vital. Such a holistic approach enables us to gain a deep understanding of the root causes of patients' symptoms, providing a foundation for developing effective treatment plans, which may include surgery in cases like explant procedures, and overall strategies for improving their well-being. Links and Resources Dr. Robert Whitfield's Website (https://drrobssolutions.com/) Follow Dr. Rob on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drrobertwhitfield/ For more information on Virtual and In Person Consultations, we always answer our messenger personally: https://www.drrobertwhitfield.com/contact/
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Located in the 90th place on the periodic table is the element Thorium. Thorium, as with every element, has unique properties, making it useful in certain applications. However, Thorium's best days might still be ahead of it and might move it to the front of the list of the world's most important elements. Learn more about Thorium, how it was discovered, and its potential uses on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp is an online platform that provides therapy and counseling services to individuals in need of mental health support. The platform offers a range of communication methods, including chat, phone, and video sessions with licensed and accredited therapists who specialize in different areas, such as depression, anxiety, relationships, and more. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Everywhere ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. Visit ButcherBox.com/Daily to get 10% off and free chicken thighs for a year. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker's new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wind and Solar energy can never work to generate power on a grid scale. Unless you're living in a cabin in the woods they're a TERRIBLE way to generate electricity.Both are extremely unpredictable. Solar doesn't work at night and generates far less power when it's cloudy and in the winter (specially if your solar cells are covered in snow or sand).Wind is also extremely unpredictable. The main thing you want for grid baseload generation is a predictable flow of power.This unpredictability means you need gas peaker plant (batteries on a grid scale just can't hold enough power for a day let along a very unwindy cloudy month say).Nuclear power, specially liquid molten salt Thorium and Nuclear Fusion will give us very cheap very reliable power.Nuclear also solves climate change in ways wind and solar can't, and if you think climate change is exaggerated nuclear is still the best choice IMHO.Yet you almost never hear anybody make these points.If you think I've missed something, maybe I have, please comment below and tell me what...
In Part 1 of our series with John Kutsch, you learned about the history of nuclear, the problems of nuclear, and the public's fear of nuclear. We looked into Plant Voggle in Georgia to understand the elements of building nuclear reactors. Lastly, we looked deeply into uranium to understand what fuels nuclear reactors today.Today, you are going to hear part 2 of this series. You will hear from John Kutsch on a very special element on the periodic table called Thorium, you will learn about the importance of rare earth elements for the nuclear industry, specifically monazite for thorium extraction, you will uncover China's approach to thorium-based reactors and see how the nation has become a leader, you will learn what John and his team are doing at The Thorium Energy Alliance, and lastly, you will hear how policy is aiding the nuclear energy.Our guest on The Green Hour today is someone who has dedicated his life to finding cleaner and more efficient methods of energy through nuclear, specifically using Thorium. John Kutsch is the Executive Director for the Thorium Energy Alliance, a non-governmental, non-profit educational organization based in the United States, which seeks to promote energy security to the world through the use of Thorium as a fuel source.
When it comes to Up Wing thinking, there's no better litmus test than nuclear power. Setting aside the regulatory barriers we've imposed on ourselves, the United States can tap a source of clean, reliable energy that overcomes the carbon emissions and geopolitical challenges of fossil fuels. Here to make the case for nuclear in this episode of Faster, Please! — The Podcast, is Robert Zubrin.Robert is a nuclear engineer and the author of the new book, The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future.In This Episode* Is the case for nukes contingent on climate change? (1:14)* How the Atomic Age ended (6:39)* A 75-percent nuclear America (15:03)* Is a nuclear renaissance coming? (23:00)Below is an edited transcript of our conversationIs the case for nukes contingent on climate change?James Pethokoukis: Were it not for climate concerns, would there still be a case for nukes, or would you be writing The Case for Carbon instead?Robert Zubrin: No, there still would be a case for nukes. The primary case for nukes is to expand humanity's energy resources. Regardless of climate change, we have an imperative to make energy more cheap and available. The primary problem in the world today is poverty. We have poverty in America, but in America, the average per capita income is $50,000 a year. Globally, the average is $10,000 a year. And half of the world is below average. So the existence of poverty in the world is quite prevalent. And that stifles people's lives. It kills people — people die of diseases that could easily be cured. They don't get educations. They suffer from malnutrition. They suffer from lack of opportunity. This is the thing that needs to be answered. We need to increase the availability of energy to put the whole world on an American standard of living. Once again, we still even have poverty here. We'd have to increase world energy five times. And fossil fuels cannot support that. So regardless of the issue of climate change or carbon enrichment of the atmosphere, we need more energy.And secondly, we need the energy to come from freedom, not from possession. It needs to come from the power of creation. A major problem with fossil fuels is it puts a lot of global power in the hands of people who just simply have it by force of possession, not through creativity. It gives wealth to those who take it rather than those who make it. For example the OPEC oil cartel could, as it did in 2008, constrict the world's energy supply below what it needs and send the price of oil up to $150 a barrel and cause a massive worldwide economic dislocation as a result. That's even a potential threat right now. Whereas nuclear power fundamentally comes from mind. That is, it's the result of technological creativity: turning something that is not a resource into a resource — an incredibly abundant resource. So it moves power where it needs to be, into the hands of the creative, which is to say in the hands of the free.Let me continue on the theme from that first question: Why isn't it The Case for Solar? I know that solar prices seem to have come way down in recent years. Why not that as the thrust of your book?The problem is this, that solar energy, and in this I would also add wind as well, are intermittent energy sources. They are not reliable sources of power with which to power an industrial civilization. They are useful boutique energy sources. Wind power has had a major role in the development of human civilization by powering ships. Worldwide commerce was enabled by putting wind to work as a classic example of off-grid power. Solar energy is predominant in space, once again, way off-grid. But if we're talking about the production of energy at scale in a reliable way to power industrial society, they simply do not cut it.Does solar still not cut it, even if we figure out new ways and better ways of storing that energy? That sounds like it's doable. We just need better batteries or ways of storing that solar energy for when it's cloudy out.There are a couple of problems there. First of all, the amount of solar energy to power Manhattan would cover most of Long Island — and try buying Long Island to put the solar energy capacity there. And then you have the problem with storage. First of all, the problem with storage on a planned basis, that is just storing for a night, is bad enough. And it basically increases the cost of a solar installation by like a factor of five just to do that. But what if it's cloudy for three days going? What if there's this thing called winter that happens? Which it does. Solar energy can be inadequate for months on end. Having the capacity to deal with that is simply not possible. So, in fact, solar energy power systems have to be 100 percent backed up by reliable sources of power, which to say either fossil fuels, nuclear, or hydroelectric.How the Atomic Age endedWhy did the Atomic Age end? Do we understand the culprits? Do we understand who the murderer was?I think I do. First of all, nuclear power in the ‘60s was so much cheaper than fossil fuel power that in the early ‘70s, we were getting orders in the United States for two new nuclear power plants per month. That's how fast it was coming online. And in fact, it caused alarm in the oil interests, who very early on tried to stop [Admiral Hyman] Rickover from introducing the nuclear submarine. Exxon and Atlantic Richfield both gave very large grants to the Sierra Club to go after nuclear power. And in fact, part of their fear was justified because after the oil price went up in ‘73, '74, nuclear power actually cleaned the lunch of oil-fired electricity in the United States. In 1972, 3 percent of American electricity was nuclear, 20 percent was oil. Now it's 3 percent oil, 20 percent nuclear. Oil, of course, maintained its premier position as transportation fuel. There, it couldn't be dislodged. It has unique advantages in that realm.But what happened was in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, there was an ideological offensive launched by Malthusians. You may remember two very important books from that period. One was called The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich. And another was called The Limits to Growth by the Club of Rome. That's ‘68 to ‘72. And then there were many less popular works. But they all said, “Look, we're running out of everything. We have to stop economic growth and population growth.” This was a very powerful ideological offensive, except for you may remember Julian Simon, who was an economist who said the Club of Rome was absolute nonsense. We weren't going to run out of everything, or anything, by the year 2000. But he was regarded by mainstream media as some Neanderthal from the Chamber Commerce. And if you look at the Sierra Club's statement, when they finally came out definitively against nuclear power, which was in 1974, what they said was, “We need to oppose nuclear power because it could encourage unnecessary economic growth.”And then they went on to say, “We can do this. We can stop them by stopping the establishment of any way for them to dispose of the waste.” And so they targeted nuclear waste disposal as a key weakness of nuclear power. And at that time, there were proposals in the works to just dispose of it by subsea disposal, which is easy to do. And when they got that block, and Jimmy Carter blocked that, they then opted instead for a much more elaborate program of storing the waste under a mountain in Nevada. They then campaigned against that. It baffles the mind how someone who claims to care about health and the environment can say it's better to store nuclear waste in nuclear power plants in the suburbs of major cities than under a mountain in Nevada. And yet they did. When they say there's no solution to nuclear waste disposal, there certainly is a technical solution. And the Nuclear Navy stores nuclear waste in salt domes in New Mexico. They just don't have to put up with any of this stuff. But they managed to stop the commercial nuclear waste from safely disposing of its waste and then say, “Hey, there's no way to dispose of the waste.” And they have collaborators in the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. If the FAA was run like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, we would have no airplanes. If you have a totally hostile regulatory structure, you can destroy any industry.Can you think of particular regulations, perhaps, that you think played a key role? Or is it just broader than that?If I was asked to name one thing that is the big problem and which needs to be corrected if we're going to have a nuclear renaissance, it's the regulatory structure, what was put in place by the Carter administration — which by the way, was in infested massively with members of the US Committee for the Club of Rome. They established this regulatory structure. In the book, The Case for Nukes, I show the flow chart of what you have to do to get a nuclear power plant license in the United States. And it looks like a map of the New York subway system with a million stops and intersections this way and that way. And guess what? Each of those subway stops themselves involves another subway map inside of it. And some of these are really ridiculous. One of the subway stops, just one, is the Environmental Protection Agency, which among many other things demands to know, and have proof to its satisfaction, that the utility should build a nuclear power plant as opposed to a coal-fired power plant or a gas-fired plant, or no plant at all. Imagine if you had some land and you wanted to build a log cabin on it. And so you go to the municipal authorities and say, “I want to build a log cabin on this.” And they ask you not just for your plans to show that it's going to be a safe building, but to prove that it shouldn't be a chalet, or a cape cod, or a brick house, or a gas station, or a pet cemetery, or a zoo, or anything else.And then imagine that you actually do show that to the satisfaction of the authorities involved. But then there's now an opportunity for people who hate you to intervene in court to contest that approval. And now you have to go to court and prove to a judge and a jury that this in fact was the correct decision by the mayor. And if that court approves you, they can then appeal. That's what this is like. [Recently], we had a nuclear power plant go online in Georgia. It took 14 years to build it. Our first nuclear power plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, took three years to build. That is, the amount of time it takes to build a nuclear power plant has increased by a factor of five. And this is not because they've become more complicated. It's because the legal process become vastly more complicated.And if you look at the data, as the time it has taken to build a nuclear power plant has increased, the cost has increased as the time squared. And once again, I show this in the book. It actually follows this curve. It's not even just linear, where you have to pay people for longer periods of time, you're paying all these workers to hang around doing nothing, instead of putting things together. You're paying more expensive kinds of people. Lawyers cost a lot more than plumbers, and you're paying for more and more lawyers as this thing drags on and becomes a bigger and bigger and more complex deal. So this is what has stopped nuclear power in the United States. The time to construct nuclear plants should have gone down with experience, not been quintupled.Currently, and this is a number that's sort of holding steady, we get about 20 percent of our power generation from nuclear. What is the counterfactual? What is the right number? If the ideological war had not happened, and all those nuclear plants, those two nuclear plants a year, that kept happening. What does our energy mix look like today, do you think?In France today, it is 75 percent nuclear and 10 percent hydroelectric. So it's only 15 percent fossil fuels. Here you have France under the leadership of Charles de Gaulle. He put together kind of a labor-industry alliance for growth that included both de Gaulle-ists and even the communists, who had a trade union. This is jobs, this is what we want. And they did it. And it's 75 percent nuclear. Meantime, here's Germany, with this massive green party, as well as green ideology infecting the social democrats and even the Christian democrats and the rest, shutting down their nuclear power plants. Germany's carbon emissions per unit power is five times that of France. Five times. There is the green Germany. And it's even worse than that, because a lot of Germany's power comes from biomass. And you have this romanticism of “We're getting our power from the forest.” Yeah, you're getting your power by killing trees and the animals that live in the trees. So how's that being a friend of nature? The way to be a friend of nature is to get your power from things that aren't involved with the natural biosphere. The person who saved the whales was Rockefeller, by switching us from whale oil to petroleum, because petroleum has much less involvement with the biosphere than the whales do. And you'll have even less involvement with the biosphere if you switch from fossil fuels to nuclear.A 75-percent nuclear AmericaHow do we get that 20 percent up to 75 percent?There needs to be, fundamentally, a societal decision. Now, one thing that very oddly works in our favor here, is that the Malthusians have oversold the case on global warming. Global warming is real. World temperatures have gone up one degree centigrade since 1870. And that's true; I don't dispute that for a minute. I dispute the fact that that is a great cause for alarm. But it's true. They have nevertheless managed to alarm people greatly, because they're trying to use global warming as a rationale for rigging up energy prices. Which is basically an extremely regressive tax. (Carbon taxes are just about the most aggressive sales tax you can have, because they don't even tax on the basis of price. They tax on the basis of mass, and a cheap cut of meat involves the same amount of carbon emissions as an expensive one. And a cheap dress involves the same amount of carbon as an expensive dress, even though one might be priced 10 times above the other.) They've oversold this. They actually got a lot of people [saying], “Oh my God, this is an existential problem. We have to stop carbon emissions.” If their primary concern actually is carbon emissions, a lot of them are saying, “Well, then why not nuclear?”So you actually have, at this point, a significant faction in the Democratic Party, and they have an organization called the Third Way, Cory Booker is a member of this faction, who say we should have nuclear power because there's an existential problem of climate change. They actually believe this. So this is the solution. The hardcore, they hate nuclear power because it would solve a problem they need to have. But these other people actually want to solve the problem. So there's some leverage there. The Biden administration, though, has responded to this faction in only limited ways. They have allocated some money to develop more advanced types of nuclear reactors. That's good.The nuclear reactors we have now are essentially the same thing that Rickover invented in the 1950s to power the Nautilus and the Shippingport plant. I don't think that that's a fundamental design flaw. Pressurized-water reactors, which is the Rickover reactor, is like 90 percent of all reactors, if you include the mild variations of it that are out there. It's a very good design. It is inherently safe. It cannot have a runaway nuclear reaction because the water that is the coolant is also necessary to sustain the nuclear reactor. And in the book, I explain the physics of that. So it's impossible. And there's been over a thousand pressurized-water reactors on land or sea over the past 60 years, and not a single person has ever been hurt from a radiological release from one of them. But that said, it's possible to have more advanced designs that would be cheaper, that would be more efficient.I hear a lot about these small modular reactors.Yeah, that's a good one. The small modular reactors are pressurized-water reactors, but it's a different kind of design where they design them to be built small so they can be built in modules in factories and literally just assembled on site. So it's not really a construction problem, it's more like a “bring a bunch of things to a place and hook them together” kind of project. That offers the chance to make them cheaper, faster to build and also to address markets not just of big cities, but maybe of towns of 100,000, 200,000, this kind of thing all over the world. That's one. There's also greener reactors, which have the capability of getting, you know, 90 percent of the energy out of nuclear fuel instead of 1 percent, which is all a pressurized-water reactor does. Thorium reactors, which [have] cheaper fuel, other things like this. I'm all for these things.But we can't have that conversation if fundamentally there's this huge division about whether we should do it at all.Correct. And in fact, if this regulatory structure remains in place, we won't have them because it's going to be even harder to get a new kind of reactor licensed than to get another reactor of a kind that people are very familiar with. There needs to be a fundamental overhaul of the entire regulatory structure. Whether you conduct your business should, number one, be between you and the authorities. Interveners from hostile interests should not be allowed to take part in that process at all. And the regulatory structure itself has to be greatly streamlined and made to operate within the law. By law, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is supposed to approve plants within two years of the application. They regularly take five years, and then there's a whole bunch of agencies that take more time. Once again, this argument that nuclear power is too expensive is a fiction. Any industry can be made too expensive if there are regulators making it too expensive.Is a nuclear renaissance coming?There seem to be some things coming together which would make one optimistic about the future of nuclear. Are you an optimist or not so much?I'm fundamentally an optimist. Winston Churchill once said, “Americans will always do the right thing after they have exhausted all the alternatives.” We're getting there. We're exhausting the alternatives. We fell for this bunk about, you don't really need energy, or you can get it from windmills. And that this somehow would be a much better way to do it, or anything of this sort. So this is clearly the best answer. Let me give you an idea of how much energy we're actually talking about here. The nuclear reactors, we get the fuel from uranium ore, which is several percent uranium. But if you aren't interested in just getting it from ore and you're just looking around for the uranium, granite — ordinary granite that you see, buildings are built out of it, mountains are built out of — is two parts per million uranium and eight parts per million thorium. And if you converted that to energy, a block of granite would have a hundred times the energy of an equal mass of oil. So you go through New Hampshire somewhere and you see these huge granite mountains, you're looking at mountains of energy. You're talking about more energy in one of those mountains than all the oil of Saudi Arabia. That's how much energy.And then if we talk about going the next step, which is to fusion, then one gallon of water has as much energy in fusion as 350 gallons of gasoline. We're talking about completely un-limiting the human future and the waste from it. In other words, the ironic thing about making an issue of nuclear waste is that it's the only energy source in which you actually can dispose of the waste. In other words, the waste from coal-fired power plants would be impossible to sequester it because it's literally millions of times greater in volume for a given amount of energy than nuclear power. We could easily sequester the waste. And of course, with more efficient reactors, we could actually use a lot of that waste. So there's that. It's simply the right answer, and it's being blocked by people who want there to be a limit to resources.It's a preference of sorts. It's an ideological preference.It's a problem for people who want to assert that human activities, numbers, and liberties must be fundamentally constrained because there isn't enough to go around.Let me build off that by asking you a final question, which is you dedicate the book to “the Prometheans.” Who are the Prometheans?The Prometheans are the problem solvers. There's a lot of history in this book. I talk about how we got to nuclear power, and there's a human story here that goes from Einstein and Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, and Rickover, and what they had to overcome to make this happen. Now, by the way, we do have a new generation of entrepreneurial people. There's a whole bunch of entrepreneurial startups in both the fission and fusion area right now who are attempting to continue this revolution by introducing even superior types of nuclear reactors. And these people have guts. I mean, it takes a lot of guts to go into the nuclear business right now. You're going to have a fight on your hands. But I think it's the right answer and I think reason carries a stick. And so I think, ultimately, the rational will prevail. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe
What is nuclear? Is it bombs? Is it energy? Is it the future? Growing up, the little I heard about nuclear was negative – learning about World War 2 and the atomic bombs that wiped out Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the meltdowns at nuclear plants in the US, and the constant posed threat of nuclear war by Eastern nations. Nuclear is the cleanest form of energy we have, and if we want to hit the Biden administration's target of 80% renewable energy generation by 2030, nuclear is the only answer. Nuclear is the only form of renewable energy that can scale – and why is scale important, you may ask? According to the United Nations, the world population is projected to reach 8.5 billion in 2030 and increase further to 9.7 billion in 2050. Without a cohesive approach to energy, we will suffer significantly as a world.Our guest on The Green Hour today is someone who has dedicated his life to finding cleaner and more efficient methods of energy through nuclear, specifically using Thorium. John Kutsch is the Executive Director for the Thorium Energy Alliance, a non-governmental, non-profit educational organization based in the United States, which seeks to promote energy security to the world through the use of Thorium as a fuel source. In Part 1 of this 2-part series, you will hear about the creation of the Thorium Energy Alliance, the history of nuclear, the problems of nuclear and the public's fear, and uranium to understand what fuels nuclear reactors today.
In this first part of holiday special, MacroVoices welcomes nuclear engineer Mark Nelson to the show to discuss all things nuclear. Erik and Mark start with a brief history of the industry, then talk about both real and perceived problems with nuclear power, before moving on to discuss advanced nuclear technologies including small modular nuclear reactors, molten salt cooled reactors and Thorium-fuelled nuclear reactors. https://bit.ly/3Wg3q2J Radiant Energy Group Kirk Sorensen: Thorium, an alternative nuclear fuel Mothers for Nuclear Clean Core Thorium Energy Worlds Nuclear Association Library What Is Nuclear Energy? - Nick Touran The Story of Storage (Mark Nelson Masterclass) - Decouple Podcast Something's Rotten with French Nuclear- Decouple Podcast The Russian Atom feat. Mark Nelson- Decouple Podcast What Went Wrong at Vogtle? feat. Mark Nelson - Decouple Podcast A Hard Landing for Soft Energy - Decouple Podcast On the use and abuse of LCOE - Decouple Podcast Dutch Waste Facility Thread on Nuclear Waste Thread on Dutch Waste Facility Please visit our website https://www.macrovoices.com to register your free account to gain access to supporting materials
In this episode of Hardware to Save a Planet, Dylan is joined by Robert Sansone, a young innovator, a high school student, and the winner of the prestigious Regeneron ICEF award for best innovation by a high school student. Robert shares his journey of inventing a greener electric motor for electric vehicles that don't use rare earth magnets.
The woke mentality steals the ability for people to have gratitude. No matter how shitty the situation is, if we can cultivate a sense of gratitude, then it gives us the option of agency... ...I can be grateful for the challenge that I have, and then you can start moving forward, or you experience despair which means your progress has stopped and you're done. You're either going to die now or you're going to die later, but your situation isn't going to change. - Robb Wolf Are You Stressed Out Lately? Take a deep breath with the M21™ wellness guide: a simple yet powerful 21 minute morning system that melts stress and gives you more energy through 6 science-backed practices and breathwork. Click HERE to download for free. Is Your Energy Low? Get more superfoods to improve your energy, digestion, gut health plus also reduce inflammation and blood sugar. Click HERE to try Paleovalley's Apple Cider Vinegar Complex + Save 15% with the code 'JOSH' *Review The WF Podcast & WIN $150 in wellness prizes! *Join The Facebook Group Wellness + Wisdom Episode 492 A 2X New York Times Bestselling Author, Father, and Founder of Healthy Rebellion, Robb Wolf, comes for the 4th time on Wellness + Wisdom to talk about the current problems in our society, why he believes another crisis is coming, and what mental health means to him. Are you prepared to discover why nuclear energy is actually good for the planet and how you should get ready for another global crisis after COVID-19? In this episode, Robb and Josh discuss why it's important to be ready for the unpredictable, the role that community plays in everyday life and in crisis, and how changing your difficulties into strengths can change your life. Drink LMNT Click here to get your FREE LMNT Recharge Sample Pack (with any purchase!) A tasty electrolyte drink mix that is formulated to help anyone with their electrolyte needs and is perfectly suited to folks following a keto, low-carb, or paleo diet. For a limited time, get your LMNT Sample Pack with any purchase. Limit one per customer. Listen To Episode 492 As Robb Wolf Uncovers: [1:30] The Lack of Information about Energy Robb Wolf 103 Wired to Eat - Robb Wolf 357 Robb Wolf | Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat 403 Robb Wolf | Electrolytes: How Sodium, Potassium & Magnesium Help To Beat Brain Fog Ancestral Health Symposium 071 Food Freedom Forever With Melissa Hartwig Sacred Cow by Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf Wired to Eat: Turn Off Cravings, Rewire Your Appetite for Weight Loss, and Determine the Foods That Work for You by Robb Wolf The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet by Robb Wolf Drink LMNT – Zero Sugar Hydration: Get your free LMNT Sample Pack with any purchase Gavin Newsom - California's Governor The energy difference between now and the 1800's. How everyone could escape poverty within the next 25 years and what role energy plays in it. Why energy and economy can contribute to a better world. How we have been making naive decisions regarding food and energy. Government and society: Making big decisions without understanding how the world works. Exploring the use of solar and wind energy. Doing the best you can with the information that you have. 463 JP Sears | This Is How Media HIJACKS Your Mind: Stop Censoring Yourself & Heal The Tyrant Within How you can harm others by lacking information and believing you're doing something good. What people say about the negative impacts of meat production. [11:40] Why Is Nuclear Power Good for The World? Naval Special Warfare Why solar and wind energies are intermittent and transient according to Robb. The shift in Europe's energies towards renewable resources. Why coal and natural gas have a lower carbon footprint than wood pallets. Greenwashing: Not all renewable resources are sustainable. Discussing nuclear accidents from the past: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. Gen 4 and 5 nuclear reactors: Safe nuclear power that is still disliked after the accidents. How nuclear power helps the world. Nuclear waste from Gen 1 nuclear reactors: Plutonium, uranium. Solar energy byproduct: Radioactive chemical Thorium. Exploring the use of Thorium. [17:22] Renewable Energy Is Not Enough for The World Carbon capture projects: Why we need huge amounts of energy to get rid of CO2 but there is an ironic twist to it. Wyoming Carbon Capture facility: Powered by wind and solar energies, and natural gas. Life Cycle Analysis: How the Carbon Capture facility will eventually generate more carbon than it removes. The ways we can implement the Biodynamic Model into nature restoration and preservation. Climate mitigating activities require a huge amount of energy that can't only be sourced from renewable sources. Why Robb believes solar and wind energies will always only be a piece of the energy we use. What could happen if we let things go to the extreme: The right-wing extreme restoring order and breaking society structure under a totalitarian regime. Why we should never waste a good crisis. [21:25] Creating a Community & Supporting Mental Health During CV-19 Josh explains why he renamed his podcast from Wellness Force to Wellness + Wisdom. The reason behind why Robb and his family moved from Texas to Montana. Healthy Rebellion Community How Robb leads the Healthy Rebellion Community, his family, and what he believes are the key ingredients for better mental health right now. How Robb started his podcast and community, Healthy Rebellion. Why he doesn't like the phrase “safe space.” Separating feelings from facts to maintain civilized conversations without forgetting to acknowledge the emotions that surge. Covid lockdown: The loss of freedom and the importance of community during the pandemic. [25:02] Emotional Support in Difficult Times Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl Why it's important to have a sense of agency, control of what's happening, and the ability to make decisions. Why Robb thinks that social media is to community what junk food is to real food. Josh shares what elements are missing when we meet online instead of in person. How the community helps Robb remain grounded and question conspiracy theories. Why, as a leader of the community, he has to make sure he gives correct insights. Finding emotional support in the community during difficult times. The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential by David R. Hawkins Sadness disguised as rage and fear: Why anger is more powerful than despair. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Terminator quote - “Anger is more useful than despair.” [29:00] Robb's Childhood & Living through Adversity The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet by Robb Wolf How Robb's book from 2010 applies to right now. His background: Unhealthy family, gut issues, and poverty. The privilege of being born a white male in the U.S.A. at the end of the 20th century. Unpacking the social stigma of being on government financial support. How can social welfare turn into multigenerational traps. Adversity now vs then: How adversity has become a badge of honor. Why Robb believed he could get the American Dream through hard work. [32:56] How a Strong Community Helped Cambodians Overcome Obstacles The story of Robb's Cambodian friend: Escaping the country to survive during a civil war. Khmer Rouge (a radical communist movement that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979) - ⅓ of Cambodia was killed by them. The Killing Fields How the Cambodian community in the U.S. helped Robb's friend start from scratch and create several businesses. Rodney King Riots (Los Angeles, 1992) - The Cambodians had bunkers and were ready to defend their families and community. The journey from nothing to success: The importance of having an intact culture, work ethics, and nuclear family. [35:38] Exploring Today's Modern Mentality Why Robb thinks that the woke mentality steals the ability to have gratitude and how cultivating gratitude creates a sense of agency. Unpacking why the woke mentality is a source of mental health issues. How children are being told that they are victimized instead of being encouraged to get through the issue. Virtue Signaling Olympics: Why we have to justify our suffering. [38:00] Teaching the Fundamentals in Order to Master a Skill Robb tells a childhood story about being shamed for using food stamps to buy food and how it changed the trajectory of his life. The Matrix: Why is Neo the one? Patrick Bet-David Jordan Peterson Breaking the family patterns and why Robb thinks he's “the one” in his own family to end the cycle. Robb's post on Instagram about his daughters: How it describes what it means to be mentally healthy. The challenges of homeschooling for Robb's daughters. Robb's experience having to write 10,000 words about a brick wall: How reframing the process made it easy. How his daughters, Zoe and Sagan, went from struggling with writing to enjoying it that they each wrote a 5-page letter to their cousin. Why the beginning is the hardest part: Teaching his daughters to do the fundamentals to be able to develop the skills. [44:10] The Power of Turning Our Difficulties into Strengths The difficulty of building something online and the reason he abandoned social media. Why Robb believes every situation can be improved or changed. Kyle Maynard: How being born without arms and legs didn't stop him from climbing Kilimanjaro and becoming a New York Times Best-Selling author No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and in Life by Kyle Maynard Multigenerational trap: How fighting against inequity makes the situation worse and creates division. Our experience witnessing the experiments being placed on society right now. Why Josh thinks humanity is in a hard struggle right now but something beautiful is coming our way. The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy by William Strauss [47:57] What Happens If the System Fails? Why Western liberal democracies are lost in historical events according to Robb and what he thinks would happen if Chinese communism became a global norm. Pitting people against each other with the example of Muslims in China. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 1984 by George Orwell Why Robb believes that it's possible that humanity falls under a strictly controlled regime, but doesn't think it will actually happen. How the economic system compares to a train and why he thinks the system is broken. Chris Martenson How urban centers will suffer when economics, energy, or food systems collapse. [52:18] Covid Pandemic: Facing a Real Global Crisis Robb on moving to Montana: Finding a strong community in his neighborhood. Why do we not know our neighbors and how can we change that to strengthen the community? How the suffering in the 1920s and 1930s in the USA shifted from starvation, no work, and homelessness to prosperity. The potential threats of Covid: Why it's important to have the understanding of what could potentially happen. Missing opportunities by fearing a potential economic crisis. How Rob dealt with the Covid pandemic without fear, why he expected it to happen, and why people who don't expect dislocations to happen suffer the most. How a global crisis could bring people together and improve the food system. [57:28] Eliminating Unpredictability Josh talks about nature's strategy that we can use as inspiration to help us prepare for a crisis. How to prepare for unpredictable situations and why redundancy is beneficial during emergencies. Texas snowpocalypse 2022 iCaveman Show: Why he would never do that again: Starving himself for 2 weeks, losing 20 pounds. Morgan Spurlock: Super Size Me Why Robb's family makes extra portions almost every time they cook, freeze-dry them, and then store them in the freezer. Nutrients in freeze-dried and frozen foods: Do frozen foods conserve their nutritional value? The reason Robb bought an air rifle and invested in firearm training. The precautions he took at his home to prepare in case of an emergency: a generator, a small solar panel, a pellet stove, a small woodstove, having a water well with a simple pump, and living close to a lake. How the Healthy Rebellion community supports each other in urban areas. Why it's enough to spend 5-10% of our time over a month creating redundancy for emergencies and maintaining it afterward. Selco Begovic mentions in his book about the Serbian civil war a list of necessities, including tradable items. [1:08:07] Debt-Driven Economy: Is an Economic Collapse Only a Matter of Time? Diana Rodgers Bankless Podcast Breaking Free: How to Work at Home with the Perfect Small Business Opportunity by Brian Armstrong Unraveling of finance: Why is it a good thing? Chris Martenson's Crash Course Modern Monetary Theory Debt-driven economy: Paying debt with debt and the need for economic growth to maintain this system working. Unpacking the constant fluctuation of interest rates. How Richard Nixon took the USA off the gold standard in 1971. Why countries with non-debaseable currencies do well economically and how loaning against their currency makes the system collapse. What Robb believes to happen once the system collapses, and why he's more scared of a financial implosion than a civil war. [1:12:40] The Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and Stocks Why community is important for survival. Two questions Robb asks himself before getting into something new: Does it enrich our lives today and can it be helpful in the future? Crash of crypto and stock markets: How is the economic system being manipulated by the big players to keep themselves rich? 442 Robert Breedlove | Blockchain Wellness: How To Use Bitcoin For Your Freedom, Health & Vitality AI makes the majority of crypto transactions: Are we letting robots dictate our lives? [1:16:00] Investment, Prosperity, and Community How Rob and his wife Nikki manage their finances and investments. Investing in silver and gold: Why is silver a commodity that will never go away? Why he thinks investing a smaller part of your finances into index funds, stocks, or crypto can be good. What makes land such a great investment plus how a strong community can be beneficial in times of a financial crisis and investment. Finding community and making connections in sports clubs. [1:20:14] Acknowledging The Potential in Others Robb in his 20's: Proving to himself and the world that he matters and can be successful, and what he would do differently if he could. Dysfunctional family mechanism: How he made it work for himself. Acknowledging talent and potential: Letting people know they matter. How can mentors give meaningful wisdom and why genuine desire of the recipient plays an important role in reaching greatness. Mike Dillard: Creating an authentic community where people don't want to get anything from one another, only give to one another. [1:25:13] Remembering to Live in The Present Moment Becoming comfortable with success and remembering to live and being in the moment. Investing in our downside risk mitigation: Why Robb thinks he has invested too much time preparing for the end of the world instead of preparing for a better world. Robb's books: The Paleo Solution, Wired to Eat, Sacred Cow Upcoming book “Consequence Economy”: How good intentions and lack of understanding can go horribly wrong. What wellness means to Robb now in 2022: Prioritizing the things he really wants to do and learning to say “no” to what he doesn't want in his life. 216 Exploring The Shadow Self For Healing: George Bryant Robbwolf.com Power Quotes From The Show Our Debt-Driven Economy "There will be a chunk of debt, then we take out loans to pay that debt, and then we're paying debt with debt. The thing about that is that you need a certain rate of economic growth to keep that system going. If you don't have a certain rate of economic growth, then the whole system collapses." - Robb Wolf Being Ready For The Unpredictable "There will be a lot of dislocation, a lot of pain, and the people that are going to suffer the most are the people that didn't realize this was an eventuality. They didn't realize there was a possibility of a really rainy day, and maybe a rainy month, or a rainy decade. So they're going to be surprised, and they're going to be bitter, and that's going to make them really ineffective, strap themselves, and lean into the community that they have and help each other. The bright side of that, people will be more networked in the real world. People will care more of each other." - Robb Wolf Downside Risk Mitigation "There are a lot of folks that are afraid of facing some of these darker realities because of the anxiety they produce just thinking about economic stuff and global upheaval. But a little bit of investment in downside risk mitigation really helps you sleep at night. But then the advice I need, and what I've been realizing, I've been too good at that, I've invested too much in that. I've been preparing too much for the end of the world instead of preparing for a better world." - Robb Wolf Links From Today's Show Robb Wolf 103 Wired to Eat - Robb Wolf 357 Robb Wolf | Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat 403 Robb Wolf | Electrolytes: How Sodium, Potassium & Magnesium Help To Beat Brain Fog Ancestral Health Symposium 071 Food Freedom Forever With Melissa Hartwig Sacred Cow by Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf Wired to Eat: Turn Off Cravings, Rewire Your Appetite for Weight Loss, and Determine the Foods That Work for You by Robb Wolf The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet by Robb Wolf Drink LMNT – Zero Sugar Hydration: Get your free LMNT Sample Pack,with any purchase Gavin Newsom - California's Governor 463 JP Sears | This Is How Media HIJACKS Your Mind: Stop Censoring Yourself & Heal The Tyrant Within Naval Special Warfare Wyoming Carbon Capture facility Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. 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Patrick Bet-David Jordan Peterson Robb's post on Instagram Kyle Maynard No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and in Life by Kyle Maynard The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy by William Strauss Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 1984 by George Orwell Chris Martenson Texas snowpocalypse 2022 iCaveman Show Morgan Spurlock: Super Size Me Selco Begovic Diana Rodgers Bankless Podcast Breaking Free: How to Work at Home with the Perfect Small Business Opportunity by Brian Armstrong Chris Martenson's Crash Course Modern Monetary Theory 442 Robert Breedlove | Blockchain Wellness: How To Use Bitcoin For Your Freedom, Health & Vitality Mike Dillard 216 Exploring The Shadow Self For Healing: George Bryant Shop the Wellness Force Media Store breathwork.io Paleovalley – Save 15% on your ACV Complex with the code ‘JOSH' Seeking Health - Save 10% with the code 'JOSH' Organifi – Special 20% off to our listeners with the code ‘WELLNESSFORCE' Drink LMNT – Zero Sugar Hydration: Get your free LMNT Sample Pack,with any purchase Feel Free from Botanic Tonics – Save 40% when you use the code ‘WELLNESS40' PLUNGE - Save $150 with the code "WELLNESSFORCE' MitoZen - Save 10% with the code "WELLNESSFORCE" Activation Products - Save 20% with the code "WELLNESSFORCE" Essential Oil Wizardry: Save 10% with the code 'WELLNESSFORCE' Cured Nutrition – Get 15% off of your order when you visit wellnessforce.com/cured + use the code ‘WELLNESSFORCE' M21 Wellness Guide Wellness Force Community Leave Wellness Force a review on iTunes Robb Wolf Instagram Twitter Facebook Healthy Rebellion Community About Robb Wolf Robb Wolf, a former research biochemist is the 2X New York Times/WSJ Best Selling author of The Paleo Solution and Wired To Eat. Robb has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world via his top ranked iTunes podcast, books, and seminars. Robb has functioned as a review editor for the Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism (Biomed Central) and as a consultant for the Naval Special Warfare Resiliency program. He serves on the board of Directors/Advisors for Specialty Health Inc, The Chickasaw Nation's “Unconquered Life” initiative, and a number of innovative start-ups with a focus on health and sustainability. Robb holds a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and is a former California State Powerlifting Champion (565 lb. Squat, 345 lb. Bench, 565 lb. Dead Lift) and a 6-0 amateur kickboxer. Wolf has provided seminars in nutrition and strength & conditioning to a number of entities including NASA, Naval Special Warfare, the Canadian Light Infantry, and the United States Marine Corps. Robb lives in Texas with his wife Nicki and daughters Zoe and Sagan.
Recently, the Chinese government has been testing a thorium nuclear reactor that uses molten salt as a coolant. Although this radioactive element has been trialed in reactors before, experts say that China is the first to have a shot at commercializing the technology. The Wuwei reactor is designed to produce just 2 megawatts of thermal energy, which is only enough to power up to 1,000 homes. But if the experiments are a success, China hopes to build a reactor that could power hundreds of thousands of homes by 2030. So could Thorium Nuclear Reactors be the answer to all of our current climate woes? Simon Middleburgh, Professor of Materials at the Nuclear Futures Institute in Bangor University joins Jonathan to discuss.
An interview with Dr. Rohan Garje from Miami Cancer Institute in Miami, FL, lead author on "Systemic Therapy Update on 177Lutetium-PSMA-617 for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: ASCO Rapid Recommendation." Dr. Garje reviews the new evidence and the latest recommendation update for the use of 177Lu-PSMA-617, a radioligand therapy in patients with PSMA-positive mCRPC, along with it's implications for clinicians and patients. For more information, visit www.asco.org/genitourinary-cancer-guidelines. TRANSCRIPT Brittany Harvey: Hello, and welcome to the ASCO Guidelines Podcast series, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network; a collection of nine programs, covering a range of educational and scientific content and offering enriching insight into the world of cancer care. You can find all the shows, including this one at: asco.org/podcast. My name is Brittany Harvey, and today I'm interviewing Dr. Rohan Garje from Miami Cancer Institute in Miami, Florida, lead author on, ‘Systemic Therapy Update on 177Lutetium-PSMA-617 for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: ASCO Rapid Recommendation'. Thank you for being here, Dr. Garje. Dr. Rohan Garje: Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me, Brittany. Brittany Harvey: Great. And first, I'd like to note that ASCO takes great care in the development of its guidelines and ensuring that the ASCO Conflict of Interest policy is followed for each guideline. The full Conflict of Interest information for this guideline panel is available online with the publication of the guideline in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Garje, do you have any relevant disclosures that are directly related to this guideline topic? Dr. Rohan Garje: Yes. I have received institutional research funding from Pfizer, Amgen, Endocyte, and AAA, who have drugs for the treatment of prostate cancer. Brittany Harvey: Excellent. Thank you for those disclosures. Then getting into the content of this guideline update, what prompted this rapid update to the ‘ASCO Guideline on Systemic Therapy in Men with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer', which was previously published in 2014? Dr. Rohan Garje: Since 2014, there have been several new drugs that have been approved for prostate cancer management. And most recently in March 2022, FDA has approved 177Lutetium-PSMA-617 for patients with PSMA scan-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. This led to the team from ASCO to develop this new rapid recommendation update. Now, this approval actually has been based on the efficacy data published in Vision clinical trials. To give you a little background about Lutetium, it is a novel β-energy-emitting radioligand therapy. In this particular study, this agent was combined with best standard of care, and compared to best standard care alone, in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, who had a positive PSMA scan. Briefly, the study was both clinically and statistically positive, and has shown improvement in both overall survival and radiographic progression-free survival. The median overall survival was about 15.3 months with the combination therapy, compared to 11.3 months with the standard care arm. Brittany Harvey: Great. And then based off this new evidence and the new approval from the FDA for 177 Lutetium-PSMA-617, what are the updated recommendations from the guideline panel? Dr. Rohan Garje: The panel recommends the use of 177 Lutetium-PSMA-617 as a treatment option in patients with PSMA PET/CT positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, who have been previously treated with at least one line of androgen receptor pathway inhibitor, and at least one line of prior axon-based chemotherapy. Brittany Harvey: Great. And then, what should clinicians know as they implement the use of this drug and this new recommendation by the guideline panel? Dr. Rohan Garje: A very good question. It is important to select patients based on a positive PSMA scan. That is, all the metastatic lesions should be positive on the PSMA scan, and there should not be any large lymph nodes or visceral organ metastatic disease that are PSMA negative. Additionally, physicians can use Gallium 68 PSMA-11, or F-18 Piflufolastat as radio tracers for PSMA scan to determine eligibility. Additionally, there are several other factors that need to be considered, such as: the patient should have baseline good blood counts, as well as renal function to be eligible for this therapy, as this treatment has a potential to cause mild suppression and impairment of renal function. The most common side effects associated with this drug are fatigue, dry mouth, dry eyes, and nausea. The treatment in general is for four to six cycles. Each cycle is for every six weeks. The fifth and sixth cycles should be considered only if patients are responding well to the therapy and have no significant toxicities. It is also important for the physicians to note that there are several additional treatment options for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, who had prior anti-androgen docetaxel therapy. They include; Cabazitaxel, PARP inhibitors for patients who have mutations in DNA repair, gene mutations such as BRCA1 and BRCA2, and immunotherapy with Pembrolizumab for patients with MSI-high status, or tumor mutation burden greater than 10. Brittany Harvey: Thank you for describing that nuance behind the recommendations. So then, in addition, how does this update impact patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer? Dr. Rohan Garje: 177 Lutetium-PSMA-617 is the first radioligand therapy approved for the treatment of prostate cancer. Previously, we had Radium-223 as a radiopharmaceutical, but this particular agent is unique in the sense, it is a radioligand therapy where it is chelated to PSMA. So, it is very targeted therapy which works for both bone and visceral organ metastasis. So, this is an exciting treatment option for patients, as it has been shown to have improvement in overall survival. This adds to the current treatment choices of anti-androgens, chemotherapy, as well as targeted therapies for prostate cancer patients. Brittany Harvey: Great. It's exciting to have a new treatment option for patients. So then finally, what are the outstanding questions regarding systemic therapy for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer? Dr. Rohan Garje: We are at an exciting stage in the management of prostate cancer. In the last decade, we have seen several new drugs; some are specific targeted agents, some are specific immunotherapy agents. Now, we are entering into this realm of radioligand therapy, which is very exciting. There are several other novel radioligand therapies such as; Actinium, Thorium, Lead, which are being evaluated in the treatment of prostate cancer. So, in the next several years, we will see several new drugs that have been developed. In addition, there are other agents called T-cell-engaging therapies, which are being evaluated to improve the outcomes. So, the last decade definitely has seen a lot of new improvements, but we are so excited that several new treatment choices are now available for patients, and several are in clinical evaluation. So, the future is bright for the patients with prostate cancer, where we have several new treatment choices to improve their outcomes. Brittany Harvey: It sounds like an exciting time for developments in prostate cancer. So, I want to thank you so much for your time today, Dr. Garje, and thank you for all of the work you did to update this guideline. Dr. Rohan Garje: Thank you so much. I really thank ASCO leadership and the team for giving me this opportunity, and thank you, Brittany, for hosting me on this podcast. Brittany Harvey: And thank you to all of our listeners for tuning into ASCO Guidelines Podcast series. To read the full guideline, go to: www.asco.org/genitourinary-cancer-guidelines. You can also find many of our guidelines and interactive resources in the free ASCO guidelines app, available in iTunes or the Google Play store. If you have enjoyed what you've heard today, please rate and review the podcast, and be sure to subscribe, so you never miss an episode. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy, should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.
Is a broken Rand Paul right twice a day? People focusing on all of the wrong things with regard to Trump's legacy (e.g. forget debunked Russiagate myths and January 6th, and look toward WWIII inciting foreign policy first). Does North Korea have anything the US wants and can scoop up into a net? Will Jurassic Park-like tech magically save the planet? Speaking of climate disaster mitigation: China and India have better ideas in mind a la trees and thorium-based energy production. Canadians turning to medical euthanasia as solution to the integral poverty of a neoliberal order. Biden's the front-runner for "Lie of the Year." DeSantis will slay the dragon of woke, using all his might, even if he has to be elected president in the process—he'll humbly sacrifice for our children's unwoke futures.Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrYSupport: patreon.com/heatdeathpodNever Forget: standwithdanielhale.orgGeneral RecommendationsJD's Recommendation: The Rehearsal JNM's Recommendation: NopeFurther Reading, Viewing, ListeningTrump, Classified Nuclear Files, Saudis: What We Do Know, What We Don'tDonald Trump Has His Own History With the Espionage ActCIA sued over alleged spying on lawyers, journalists who met AssangeBitcoin billionaires bet big on reviving woolly mammoths to combat climate changeBad News for Earth: Rainwater Is No Longer Safe to Drink, Study SaysHuman Activity in China and India Dominates the Greening of EarthChina to Activate Experimental Nuclear Molten Salt ReactorWhat is India's 3-stage nuclear energy programme?Indian test reactor reaches operation landmarkPutting a Positive Spin on the Death of '99 Percent of the Human Population'Canadians Turn to Euthanasia as Solution to Unbearable PovertyBiden front-runner for ‘Lie of the Year' award as many in media look the other wayFlorida students return to schools reshaped by Gov. DeSantis' anti-'woke' education agenda
From the ridiculously dangerous to the sublimely sassy today - via a nuclear holocaust
“People die when you can't get the grid operating.” Meredith Angwin, Author, Shorting the Grid Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid is an exposé of the insider-ruled practices of the “deregulated” areas of the United States electric grid. The grid in these areas is managed by a regional transmission organization (RTO). Within these organizations, no group is responsible or accountable for grid reliability. The RTO areas have higher retail electricity prices, no way for ordinary citizens to influence decisions, and a more fragile grid. Using the rules and history of the New England grid as an example, the book shows how RTO areas are moving steadily to a future of “rolling blackouts” where the grid operator deliberately cuts power to one section of the grid after another. To by the book, visit www.meredithangwin.com Book Reviews “An eye-opening exposé of our grid's vulnerabilities. The “deregulated” grid is highly political, secretive, overly complex, and unable to meet public needs like reliability, affordability, and low pollution. If you take for granted that the lights go on when you flip a switch, this book may blow your mind. ” — Joshua S. Goldstein, author of A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow “Reading Angwin's book is like chatting with an expert who helps you understand the underlying engineering, finances, and policies creating the risks. Her narrative moves back and forth between insightful overviews and specific examples. The book covers many grid attributes, suggesting realistic conclusions without ideological advocacy.” — Dr. Robert Hargraves, Author of Thorium, Energy Cheaper than Coal and co-founder of ThorCon Power About Meredith Angwin As a working chemist, Meredith Angwin headed projects that lowered pollution and increased reliability on the electric grid. Her work included pollution control for nitrogen oxides in gas-fired combustion turbines and corrosion control in geothermal and nuclear systems. She was one of the first women to be a project manager at the Electric Power Research Institute where she led projects in renewable and nuclear energy. In the past ten years, she began to study and take part in grid oversight and governance. For four years, she served on the Coordinating Committee for the Consumer Liaison Group associated with ISO-NE, her local grid operator. She teaches courses and presents workshops on the electric grid. She is also an advocate for nuclear energy. Her previous major book was Campaigning for Clean Air: Strategies for Pro-Nuclear Advocacy. Meredith has been a featured speaker at several nuclear events, including being keynote for the worldwide Nuclear Science Week in 2018. Additional Information During the interview, the following platforms were mentioned that will help better inform the public. Sign up for free information to increase your awareness about energy, power, and the grid. Grid Brief - www.gridbrief.com Utility Dive - www.utilitydive.com DeCouple Media - www.decouplemedia.org About The Political Economy Project The Political Economy Project is creating a blueprint that will unify our fellow humans to work together and create a new renaissance and a harmony of interests of the human spirit. The Political Economy Project is an EMLab brand produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class. Follow our work on Substack at: https://politicaleconomyproject.substack.com/. #powergrid #power #electricalengineering #engineering #energy #electricity #powerlines #renewableenergy #electrical #substation #nuclear #solarenergy #powerdistribution #smartgrid #powerplant #cleanenergy #powergridcorporationofindia #india #powersystems #gogreen #gosolar #simplygosolar #ee #electricgrid #electric #infrastructure #microgrid #transmissionlines #gate #sunset #greenenergy
Matt and Sean talk about recent advances to thorium reactor research and projects that might solve some energy production needs.Watch the Undecided with Matt Ferrell episode, “Revisiting Thorium Energy - The Future of Nuclear Power?”: https://youtu.be/uv6qt45lXDM?list=PLnTSM-ORSgi55IJwXkqPkgtq03bgQDNoHYouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/stilltbdpodcastGet in touch: https://undecidedmf.com/podcast-feedbackSupport the show: https://pod.fan/still-to-be-determinedFollow us on Twitter: @stilltbdfm @byseanferrell @mattferrell or @undecidedmfUndecided with Matt Ferrell: https://www.youtube.com/undecidedmf★ Support this podcast ★
Matt and Sean talk about the concerns, costs and advantages to nuclear powered shipping.Watch the Undecided with Matt Ferrell episode, Can Nuclear Powered Ships Clean Up Shipping? : https://youtu.be/rTGL6TAvwcU?list=PLnTSM-ORSgi7UWp64ZlOKUPNXePMTdU4dYouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/stilltbdpodcastGet in touch: https://undecidedmf.com/podcast-feedbackSupport the show: https://pod.fan/still-to-be-determinedFollow us on Twitter: @stilltbdfm @byseanferrell @mattferrell or @undecidedmfUndecided with Matt Ferrell: https://www.youtube.com/undecidedmf★ Support this podcast ★
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