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Shawn Connors's avatar

Good job. Thank you for your service in the navy and at NRC.

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ssri's avatar

Hi, I just found your Substack via Robert Bryce's essay Solar Energy Is Getting 200 Times More In… and your comment there.

Is there a "Pick up" to your story for HS kids since 8/21/23 that is displayed on your Substack web site? I don't happen to see one. If you were presenting Power Point slides somewhere, I have missed those, too. Or did you convert slide bullets to prose text?

But, really, as a retired engineer what I would like to find about nuclear energy is an essay, book, pamphlet, or whatever that describes the 8 to 16 different types or kinds of nuclear power plants/ sources (liquid water reactors, molten salt reactors, etc.), their respective pros and cons, and that helps to sort out the wide mix of abbreviations used for them. I am looking for something at a level suitable for a technically educated layman without being a dissertation into all aspects of nuclear chemistry, etc. I have seen several You Tube videos addressing thorium molten salt reactors that seem to be the best thing nuclear since sliced bread, but as a materials engineer I am interested in learning more about the kinds of materials used for valves, heat exchange tubing, etc. ; as well as more general trade-off issues of size, cost, storage or related legal issues, etc.

No hurry on a reply, but I presume Substack will send me an email alert if/when you do post a response. [true??]

There ought to be a way within Substack's business model to pay writers smaller amounts (say $10/year) when they are submitting less frequent content. Then you have to make up your "income" from volume of readers more than volume of submittals. Just a minor sore point, as it appears Substack is a resource with way more enticing content (from a variety of knowledgeable writers across many disciplines) than anyone can profitably consume. But I don't want to subscribe to 20 writers at $80/year, in part because I won't have the time to fully read everything they might put out.

PS: while I did my 19 months and 4 days as an Army inductee, thank you for your service in the Navy.

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