America's Nuclear Reactor Made Zero Watts of Power. Welcome to the Golden Era?
On June 4th, a reactor at Idaho National Lab hit something called "zero power criticality"—energy in equaled energy out. The plant won't produce a single usable watt until at least 2027, yet the Department of Energy is calling this the start of nuclear's golden era. At the same time, that same DOE is blocking wind farm permits that could be generating power right now. Mike and Neal spend the episode separating the real technology from the press release.
Fusion—the "limitless energy" version everyone gets excited about—has been ten to twenty years away for the last thirty years, and this test…
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