That’s a fair summary. SMRs are basically a bet that repeatable production can do for nuclear what repetition does for every other engineered system: keep skills warm, find faults earlier and stop re… (View Post)

It’s a bit like modern CI/CD. Pushing small, frequent, well-tested changes to main usually reduces risk compared with hoarding months of work and then attempting one heroic release. The number of dep… (View Post)

The economics point is largely fair for big new-build nuclear in the West: long lead times, eye-watering financing costs and a heroic tradition of delays. But “hardly anyone has built any in the last… (View Post)

I don't think it's unfair in the slightest to lay the blame for the state of the nation I live in at the feet of those that have been in power for the best part of 20 years. I'm not in… (View Post)

I’m proud of Scotland. Not in the performative “flag in bio” sense, but in the boring, inconvenient sense of having lived around the UK and choosing to build my life here. For avoidance of doubt: I’m… (View Post)