New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 430.93 ppm

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2. If you live long enough, you may be able to have a small nuclear plant nearby. My boy is working on that sort of...

...thing, printable reactors.

There is a lot of controversy about SMR's, built around trying to retrofit the regulatory sphere of large reactors, questions of shielding etc., all based on the dubious proposition that exposure to radiation is worse than chemical toxicity, although chemical toxicity kills vast numbers of people, and radiation doesn't.

We hold nuclear energy to standards we apply to no other form of energy, specifically, nuclear must prove that no one at no time will face risks under any circumstances, real or imagined, while fossil fuels can kill in vast numbers in normal operations.

This is a real health and environmental tragedy.

My son's Ph.D thesis - I've read the proposal - is on the properties of printed specialty alloys vs those formed by bulk processes. It's cool. It turns out that printed metals have properties superior to bulk alloys, owing to the precision with which the alloys can be structured.

Here, from Oak Ridge, is a reactor core being printed:

This is now, not in some distant future.