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My interview in Time.
I ain’t reading all that.
Happy for me though.
Or sorry that it happened.
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"That's it??" -
@rypan
This is about 40 years of spent fuel that powered~ 9% of California's electricity, and > 50% of its carbon-free energy (and could even be recycled to retrieve the >90% of energy left in it).
After being told over and over in media headlines with absolutely
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Another interesting look: if you imagine this much land covered in solar panels compared to the tiny (and beautiful!) footprint of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant, it is easy to see why the energy density of nuclear energy should be considered at least equal environmental
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Diablo Canyon was a lot more beautiful than I expected.. kind of a cathedral to honor our industrial age - a massive spinning rotor, powered by the pinnacle of human understanding of our physical world, pumping out entropy-fighting juice, adding energy to a closed system.
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@hankgreen
That story isn't true. There is no record of it, its absurd to think an attempted murder would have no record. If you read the footnotes more carefully his friends, interviewed 60 years later said, in the first telling "I don't know what he was talking about".
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What's the worst nuclear energy disaster you can think of in the United States - Three Mile Island?
If you think that's bad, I'd avoid bananas.
"Area residents received a smaller exposure of 1 millirem (10 μSv), or about 1/3 the dose from eating a banana per day for one year."
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Happy birthday, grandpa! It’s JROs 120th birthday. And Earthday. And now - Nuclear Energy Spring Day.
Harnessing fission, and unlocking the strong force of the atom will always be with us. We can use that power for war - and the destruction of society as we know it. Or a
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@hankgreen
No peer of his living ever heard that, not his powerful enemies. It didn't happen in his life. It was resurrected 85 years after his college spring break, as a rumor. It irresponsible of American Prometheus authors to portray it as a fact, they admit they don't know what
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@Michael63930721
@rypan
We can recycle it, it has over 90% of the energy left in it. We choose not to, currently.
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"This is to certify that I have no first name other than the letter J, and that my full and correct name is J Robert Oppenheimer.”
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I want to a Twitter Spaces as the first live media event hosted by the Oppenheimer family.
@MarioNawfal
or
@elonmusk
- would consider attending or even hosting to get some 👀 on it?
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@MattLoszak
Memes FTW! So strong. I was writing a multi-paragraph essay about this topic, should have just read this thread!
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The US will lead a push at the COP28 climate summit to triple the amount of installed nuclear power capacity globally by 2050!
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@MikeStraka2
@rypan
The real alternatives are coal and gas, which are cheaper and baseload, but have unaccounted-for carbon costs (and fuel costs). Solar and wind aren't equal alternatives (and certainly weren't in 1985 when Diablo was built), more like intermittent compliments that go well with
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Great analysis by Scott Sagan. The policies that would have adverted an arms race were right infront of us.
Need to use that as a bridge to understand what to do today: more unity, more energy, less weapons.
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I created a flow chart for decision-makers about war.
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Truman: "When will the Russians get the bomb?"
Oppenheimer: "I don't know" (he had just explained fission was unconcealable)
Truman: "I know"
Oppenheimer: "When"?
Truman: "Never."
Couldn't have been more wrong.
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Times have changed in nuclear energy politics. California parties are accusing their opponents of not being sufficiently *pro* nuclear!
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It has been a pretty special trip to Korea, then Japan. In Japan, I had an opportunity to do something my grandfather didn’t - visit Hiroshima and talk with survivors. My impression of Hiroshima is beautiful and healed - and it was an honor to sit with survivors and hear their
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Great breakdown by
@MattLoszak
The new Oppenheimer film looks amazing!…
But it may rekindle public confusion between nuclear reactors and the bomb - confusion that set the energy sector back decades in the 70s.
Here’s how engineers turned Earth’s deadliest weapon into one of our SAFEST energy sources ⬇️
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This Veterans Day, I'm thinking of both my grandfathers who served in World War 2. My mother's father, Major William Wilson Mitchell told me stories of serving in Burma and China - and eventually returning alive, unlike the 70+ million people who lost their lives in World War
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This is a fantastic statement from Christopher Nolan "Our film ends on what I think is a dramatically necessary note of despair. But in the real world there are all kinds of individuals and organizations who have fought long and hard to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in
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"While we have been investing in technologies like wind and solar, we have completely underinvested in the role nuclear energy could play in scaling a swift and dramatic energy transition. You can’t run an electricity grid with only the variable energy generation of
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"I also know you can’t know anybody by their public persona. It’s impossible. I mean you may think you do, but I guarantee you don’t"
Wise words from
@JeffBezos
about
@elonmusk
. I'm often surprised how often people forget that, even those who are in the public eye. Who feel
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Great analysis from
@dr_kkjetelina
I'm hopeful that the effect of the Oppenheimer movie are the discussions about what we should do now.
…
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Headed to NYC right now.
#newenergy
💲 💲 💲
#NuclearFinancingSummit
has its keynote speakers:
-
@choppen5
- James Walker,
@nano_nuclear
- Jared Woodard,
@BankofAmerica
Check out the full agenda and register for this NYC event later this month:
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Niels Bohr's 1944 letter to Winston Churchill explaining him the scale of the Manhattan Project ✉️
22nd May 1944
The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, C.H., M.P.
Sir,
In accordance with your kind permission, I have the honour to send you a brief report about my impressions of the
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It’s time for a Nuclear Energy Spring. Spring brings with it a new season, a rebirth, new hope.
J. Robert Oppenheimer saw that the emergence of nuclear energy in the form of a bomb required new levels of cooperation. After many mistakes - such as creating tens of thousands of
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I'm filmed in this documentary. Sunday, July 9th 10pm EST (I think it is 7pm PST?). Haven't seen it yet.
Sunday, July 9th, watch “To End All War: Oppenheimer & The Atomic Bomb,” an
@NBCNewsStudios
production. The feature documentary examines physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the weapon that changed the world. Airs Sunday, July 9th at 10pm ET on
@MSNBC
and streaming on
@Peacock
.
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Great interview of Richard Rhodes by
@dwarkesh_sp
A highlight: 2hr 26 mins when Dwarkesh asks who has been the "wisest political leader" since the development of the bomb.
Rhodes says: "There is no question that Oppenheimer’s advice to the government after the war was really
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@begheen
@hankgreen
This story originated from American Promethus - who note there is no record of it, and the authors didn't know if it happened (and nobody else in the world ever heard of it). Gladwell didn't read the footnotes, and the game of telephone prints it in New York times doesn't make
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It was quite an honor being included in the IAEA Summit on nuclear energy "Establishing a Level Playing Field for Financing Nuclear Power" panel.
The day began with national statements - many from prime ministers including
@EmmanuelMacron
and Belgium De Croo reaffirming the
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One thing about live interviews I usually regret is that I'm not very precise in my language. When I write things, I almost always want to edit a million times (where I'm also not very precise, riddled with typos). Maybe I can edit my video responses in the future with a gen
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I keep wanting to say "fission energy". Instead of Nuclear Energy. Which is hard to pronounce, and associated with bombs. Reckon it has any legs?
@ryan_pickering_
@isodope
@ParisOrtizWines
?
#LegalizeNuclearEnergy
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"In the 1950s, the United States and Soviet Union abandoned secrecy and began sharing nuclear technology internationally."
Little known fact that nuclear energy has always been a source of cooperation, even in the midst of an insane arms race.
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I like this interview an most of Nolan’s points.
Step into the intriguing world of Christopher Nolan. We unravel his captivating journey into the past, and the filmmaker's insights into the relationship between science, government, and the looming threat of nuclear weapons. 📷: Magnus Nolan 1/8
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How about energy
#abundance
as a solution to our climate problems? To get there we need way more carbon-free nuclear energy - now.
Co-authored with
@cgousu
in
@USATODAY
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These guys did a good, sincere job interviewing. And I enjoyed the conversation, went into more detail than the CNN one where we were limited by a few minutes.
I stand by the optimism: I have an unreasonable belief that if we build any kind of discussion at the very top, most
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@sapitonmix
Speaking of decoupling - a brilliant if a bit long analysis of this
@Dr_Keefer
I loved the physics part from
@jbkrell
- but it ends with a crystal clear description of why we need more US production of enriched uranium
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I enjoyed this video of my grandparents visiting Japan -I've never seen it.
Also this one
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This is a great article by
@RachelBronson1
from
@BulletinAtomic
I believe this article represents a correct view that the Oppenheimer legacy and significance can go well beyond award shows (although winning 5
@goldenglobes
ain't bad! 🙌)
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“The most important movie ever made” was my click bait tittle that didn’t quite make it into the article.
My Guest Column: via
@variety
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"The built world and its material inputs are itself another body, an extension of our own physical bodies."
We need more philosophy to solve our problems. Looking at our condition as humans. This is spot on.
Steel is the skeleton, concrete its flesh, copper is the nervous system, oil its food, fossil energy its life force.
The built world and its material inputs are itself another body, an extension of our own physical bodies.
Birds build nests, wombats tunnel but humans… we
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Get
#nukepilled
! This is an excellent podcast from
@packyM
and
@juliadewahl
Podcasts/citizen media have been very important for delivering information about nuclear energy instead of the superficial fear-based media interpretation that most people have.
Great editing, and
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Compelling description of the cost differences between solar and nuclear. If you count the full cost of capacity factor, replacement cost, and dealing with intermittency by building backup (fossil fuel systems!), and 75 square mile land leases - even over-budget projects like
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“This thing will never get on the rails unless there is a place where people can talk to each other and work together on the problems of the bomb. And this could be at Oak Ridge, it could be some California desert, but someplace, there has got to be a place where people are free
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I’m honored to have my second piece published in the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” today.
Is there a value in looking back, at a different time, different threats, and the wisdom of our ancestors? I think so - it's something humans need to do.
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"Oppenheimer After Trinity".
Way way after Trinity.
Great film by
@LarrySheffield
- it won multiple awards in film festivals. I enjoyed being interviewed for this. Links in comments.
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@GeneDannen
The family maintains that was a mistake by the clerk at the hospital. And as Robert said himself, in writing to the US Government, that is the answer. Ah poor JRO.. not even his name could be simple!
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Great article by
@JerryBrownGov
and
@ErnestMoniz
.
"We must wake up to the reality of today’s nuclear threats, raise our voices and seize the opportunity to build a more peaceful world," write
@ErnestMoniz
and
@JerryBrownGov
.
#MakeNukesHistory
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April 22nd is J. Robert Oppenheimers birthday - and it is
#earthday
.
Need more science and facts nuclear energy, not using political/media bias used for dis-inviting
@standupfornuclear
to an
#earthday
celebration. "The people of the world must unite..."
Nuclear Energy is part of the climate conversation - it provides 52% of our low-carbon energy in the U.S.
& YET, SF Earth Day denied my friends & I from representing & advocating for one of the greatest low-carbon energy sources - nuclear energy.
🧵
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As an Oppenheimer: “A grave miscarriage of justice has been corrected, portending a new era of...”
As a New Mexican: “You talkin’ sh*t about my grandfather ese??”
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@pmarca
@bhorowitz
You’ve said the lesson of Oppenheimer is that we shouldn’t listen to scientists in policy because… he had some commie friends? And were impressed by Truman talking shit behind his back (while being completely wrong about the US ability to have a monopoly on fission)?
That a
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"Those loyalty hearing that the government held on my in 1954. The records printed in so many hundreds of pages of fine print in 1954. My big year, I've heard people say, and my life story complete in those records. But it isn't so. Almost nothing that was important to me
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Fantastic summary from
@AngelicaOung
about the
@jbkrell
talk on
@DecoupleMedia
.
Summary: big nuclear is a big deal.
I’m a big believer that we can learn from our past and ancestors. And nobody knows more about our nuclear energy past than
@jbkrell
. And just wait till you
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@curiouswavefn
My view of deterrence and MAD "strategy" is that it was accidental. The US blundered our way into it by trying to have a monopoly: "US should have all the bombs and nobody else will have any" was the actual strategy we pursued. When that failed as the scientists said it
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“I am a lot more concerned about a defeatist mentality than I am about the complex problems we currently face. “
One of the many excellent observations 👇
Like many in my generation, I used to despise humans and feel hopeless about the future.
The book “The Beginning of Infinity” single-handedly turned me into an optimist.
It made me see humans and the universe in a completely different way.
Here are some of the most important
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@sophieemuirhead
That’s great! Maybe that will be the highest purpose of that movie?
For pure Oppenheimer stuff I would recommend Letters and Recollections of JRO - his own writing.
The Making of the Atomic bomb is a masterpiece - if you can get through that you deserve a Masters.
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I'm creating a holding company. I definitely found the design.
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How I invented my own job at Twilio
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@kellyjohnj64
In the photo - my grandfather, J. Robert Oppenheimer, my father Peter, and my aunt Toni. ~ 1946 in Berkeley CA. This photo hasn't been published in any public material/biographies, only on here on X.
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I'm trying to write a few sentences sentence that highlights the need to invest in fission energy to complement renewables without being too pejorative about the renewables industry.
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@Dr_Keefer
@CanadiansEnergy
Fantastic work on this Chris! Change begins with discussion - and you’ve certainly been central in that 🙌
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@alizardx
If we account for the total system cost it is competitive:
Is Nuclear Energy Too Expensive?
Understanding the full cost of energy systems.
democracyjournal.org
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@rafaelmgrossi
@mission_rf
Good to see the dialog. Look forward to it being US, China, and Russia in the same room.
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"there are many truths about the world and many ways of seeing it. These truths might appear divergent or contradictory, but they are all equally essential in representing the true nature of reality; they are complementary."
Bohr from
@curiouswavefn
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I'm looking forward to this event at the Exploratorium on March 19th.
It illustrates the value of building institutions. The founding of the Exploratorium was 100% Frank Oppenheimer, his teaching style came to life. But instead of building a for-profit business, he created an
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Deadly solar panels:
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@Yousra_Fettach
@MarioNawfal
@elonmusk
When you do interviews with a media establishiment, which I've been doing, you hand over control to them. The timing, editing, message. A Twitter space is a direct open conversation with the audience.. closer to our family values.
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@Jason
@IMAX
We did it at AMC Metreon (thanks
@UniversalPics
) I can ping AMC for you.. main question is limited availability, once they sell some seats they can’t use it for private events. Dates?
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“There is no simple and direct correlation between the three parts that of the NPT bargain—nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, and the expansion of the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.”
Great article by
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Roads in San Francisco turned into space for public art for humans instead of vehicles - especially in parks - this is the way ❤️🩹
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