OT: Engineering

[SlickRick]

I think Mechanical Engineers with a heavy emphasis on Physics would fit well in the nuclear industry.

Nuclear and Natural Gas are the most eco friendly energy production options but they don't fit the narrative of those pushing the "green new deal" agenda so they are not mentioned or encouraged. As stated above, Europe is in a pickle and they may be realizing the error a bit too late to not inflict severe harm to their economy. We shall see.

The mean tweeting orange man warned them.

[CajunVic]

Having driven a post production CNG hybrid F-150, the two issues I had were 1) below 30 degrees, the CNG did not produce enough BTUs (per the "engineer"), stalling the truck at the most inopertune times. The other was driving around with a bomb right behind me.

I'm sure greater minds could figure out the performance issue. The safety aspect, is a design issue. The upside, I could drive 700+ miles without refuling.

I’m driving a diesel GMC AT4 and getting about 600 miles without refueling

[STLMOCAJUN]

I think the major thing going for nuclear in the US right now is basically zero carbon emissions. That is a huge thing right now for investors so companies like Entergy who runs the nuclear plants in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana are pushing that to get huge capital investments. Also, nuclear plants provide large base loads for areas at capacity factors of over 90%. This lends to being able to not run natural gas/coal at 100% capacity which also goes back to the carbon emissions. And even though nuclear plants create waste, the waste for our plant which has been running for almost 40 years now sits on a concrete pad within our protected area. Perfectly safe and harmless to the environment. Also current plants are large job centers. My plant alone has almost 900 employees and every 2 years during our refuel outages we being in another 500-1000 contractors. This brings huge amount of business to the areas around the plant. Small modular reactors are the future of the business. Posted some wiki links of the different types of reactors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_water_reactor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pres..._water_reactor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor

[STLMOCAJUN]

And the biggest con of course is the potential for meltdowns. But one thing the industry does is make changes when there is an event. After Fukushima, all US plants were tasked by the NRC to look at potential accidents beyond their design bases. The industry answer was FLEX. Plants created new ways to provide water and most importantly power to the plants. Also created were two warehouses, located in Memphis and Phoenix, that contains vast amounts of equipment to mitigate accidents that can make it to any plant within 24 hours of a declared event.