Poland is planning on 20, possibly more, SMRs of the same design SaskPower chose

youmightbeinsaskatchewan 20 Comments

I’ve been waiting to see a story come out about this for a while. A few weeks ago I saw that Poland may be building as many as 79 of the General Electric Hitachi BWRX-300 reactors, the exact same design chosen as SaskPower. This story indicated 20 at this point, but hints it could be more.

Ontario Power Generation is building the first one. Tennessee Valley Authority is building the second. Saskatchewan may have thought we were all that and a bag of chips by announcing four. But we won’t finish our second until around 2038. In the meantime, Poland might have built all 79 by that time.

We might have thought we’d be driving the bus on this SMR rollout. We’re not. In other words, the instruction manuals will likely be written in Polish. But it also means a lot of confidence is being expressed by the Poles in the design, if they build 20, or 79, or whatever.

As for how much uranium will go into these, I sat at a banquet a few weeks ago with some Cameco reps. They explained that SMRs actually use very little uranium. You fill them up at the start, and basically that’s it. That was very insightful, I thought, because that’s exactly how current US nuclear submarines (with small reactors) work.

The Most Interesting Man In The World

CreepyJoeBiden Democrats 14 Comments

No shit, Sherlock.

For the past couple of years, we’ve been led to believe that the letter from 51 national security officials was some sort of spontaneous, grassroots effort by the intelligence community to warn us about the potential foreign influence behind Hunter Biden’s laptop.

The laptop has since been confirmed to be legitimate, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed that there was no foreign disinformation campaign involved. But new information from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and congressional investigators, with the help of two Obama-era CIA officials, has revealed a new twist in the story. The investigation has uncovered evidence linking the letter dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation during the 2020 election to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Media 10 Comments

The press as police

It’s an awful look for the press. This isn’t tracking down a serial killer or exposing Enron’s fraud. The alleged “crime” here is releasing true information, information that belongs to the American public and is secret only by official designation. At most, a newspaper might decide not to publish such information, but to help jail the leaker? It’s nuts. Reporters are supposed to be interested in everything and listen to information without judgment, like doctors, yet the whole industry is working itself into a moral frenzy because a bunch of overgrown Minecraft enthusiasts were privately passing around a few truths like a joint.

More here.

Trudeau says taking back natural resources “a non-starter”

The Libranos You Might Be A Liberal 34 Comments

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will not move to take away provincial control of natural resources.

The issue of First Nations vs provincial control of natural resources came up at a town hall held at First Nations University in Regina held on April 13. It was a continuation of the dustup between the provincial governments of Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba and federal minister of Justice and Attorney General David Lametti.

Tuesday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 8 Comments

Biden’s America:  A trans clinic whistleblower.  The best of Ronald Reagan.  Some indictment illusions.  Life in California.  The Trump rape lawsuit.  Your morning meme.  Bonus meme.

Trudeau’s Canada:  Justin can’t even maintain war graves.  Trudeau defends his bought and paid for CBC.  The new NDP government in Alberta, will not be kind to reporters it doesn’t like.  Justin Trudeau and his wealthy friends (CBC).  The government giveaways are a secret.

Fascist China News:  Don’t upset the Muslims.

Woke Britain:  Not comfortable in the shower.  The Eco-terrorists strike again.  A museum hires a therapist.

Today In Islam:  Ramadan in Malaysia (JW).  And Ramadan in Britain (JW).

Competence Is Problematic

Forward! New Rules 6 Comments

I’ll give you one example [of ‘equity’ double standards] that came across my desk, and which is so typical. The American Board of Internal Medicine is a sophisticated organisation that licenses and gives exams to people who want to become board-ready doctors in internal medicine. It’s a very difficult, long exam, traditionally, [but] now has this “diversity” initiative – they are going to go through all of the exams they administer and get rid of the questions that do not give equal outcomes for [all racial] groups, on the theory that these questions don’t recognise the “latent equality” of all groups.

On self-flattering fantasies; on a bedlamite horror story; and on ‘equity’ versus competence.

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