Saturday, May 30, 2026

Did you miss me?

 

Surprisingly, when I took a look at my post views from mid-April (the last time I posted), there are tens of them.  Now, I don't expect a lot;  that's one of the joys of my hard-to-find blog.  I can say what I want and whoever finds what I write and post gets exclusivity.  I've had a couple of posts that were relatively well-seen, but not many.  I might (emphasis on might) start putting links to posts on Twitter (oh, I'm sorry, "X") more.  

So where have I been?  Nowhere special, but I did go to a conference on small nuclear reactors.  Very exciting developments, and this is where I think the industry has to go -- and will go -- because of several necessities.  The necessities are the need for more energy, and the need for more non-polluting energy. Even though solar is cheap, wind is cheap, and their growth is strong, these AI data centers need more than that.  This is demonstrated by the interest in restarts of old nuclear power plants.  But the better answer is a small, safe, and reproducible modular reactor.  And they are coming.

So, I will be posting a lot in the next couple of weeks. I have a lot of lighthouses to catch up on, so I'll be posting retroactive Lighthouses of the Week.  And I've seen and read a lot during my interim.

So get back on board, I'm typing again!

First, a couple of confections from Bethany Lily April, who has gotten herself into tremendous shape, and new mother of twins (via surrogate) Amanda Cerny.




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