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2 months agoI’m planning to visit both Dukovany and Temelin in the coming weeks. I should be able to report on their visitor centres.
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A party which solidly controls government always has the tendency to break up into factions, but in the specific case of California, there’s also the initiative process. The ever-present threat of the passage, circumventing the Legislature, of what are frequently unimplementable acts, which there is no way to block or get rid of, really discourages anyone with an interest in good government from seeking elected office there.
It would be if anybody cared. But California government is intensely dysfunctional. If anything, it’s worse than Texas (where I’m from), which is really difficult.
“California legislature, governor at odds” is a blanket statement which is always true. The Assembly and Senate are controlled by the Governor’s party, but he always vetoes whatever bills they pass.
Germany continues to insist on the supremacy of EU over national law even in areas not explicitly covered by the Treaties of the European Communities. So why (I ask for the umpteenth time) has the Euratom Supply Agency not demanded that Germany turn over all spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing, regardless of German law prohibiting this?
Armenia would be a perfect customer for the Rolls-Royce “SMR”, which actually has more output than their surviving VVER-440, one of an original two. Given that the one operating unit at Metsamor provides 25% of the country’s electricity, their grid simply can’t accommodate anything bigger, although Russia keeps trying to sell them a VVER-1200.
My home-town plant!
Maybe they’ll open the Visitor Center again. When I went, several years ago now, with a couple of folks from the Dallas Makerspace, it was by-appointment-only.
Still a great pity that the proposed 2×1700 MW additional units didn’t materialize.
Even when it’s not required explicitly, it’s a common enough practice, because a lot of work which would initially have to be done under health-physics control can, if you wait (for instance) five or ten half-lives of cobalt-60, be done much more cheaply under normal working conditions.
Absurd.
@Emil
I think there is great potential in using the Treaty of Tlatelolco as a mechanism for pooling national resources to advance nuclear energy in Latin America.