Thread by @cal_abel

What happens when you give a group of Luddites the ability to say “No”? Well, @DoombergT answers.

Q: Why is nuclear energy messed up in the US?
A: The NRC, but if you dig deeper you find their regulatory warrant comes from LNT (no safe dose), the keystone for their bad policy twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The reason why I left the nuclear industry is because I didn’t want to deal with the battered wife syndrome that the nuclear industry has due to the NRC. There is a strong desire to change, but there is a fear of artificial dependence. The best way to deal with it, leave.

Yes, I have PhD in nuclear engineering and in 2018 had just invented what was to become Natrium. I chose not to publish, patent, or promote my creation. This was not a decision I took lightly.

How it began:
www2.me.gatech.edu/theses/summary…
What is now:
natriumpower.com

@Mining_Atoms equated my creation to the Franklin stove. I understood it’s significance the moment the thought appeared in my head. But yet I walked away from it because I knew what the regulatory environment DOE/NRC would do to it.

I did it for selfish reasons. I did not want to invest my remaining professional life to be told “no” and to be cudgeled for no reason other than the regulator could. I saw what had happened to those who built and ran the nuclear industry. I didn’t want that for myself; I left.

We all face tough choices in our life. Leaving the nuclear industry was the second hardest choice I ever made. Looking at what is now happening to Natrium, DOE is preventing access to HALEU fuel needed to run the reactor, this is only a sign of what is yet to come.

You cannot change an abusive relationship from the inside. You have to leave. I went on strike to prevent the decay and destruction of my mind and life by those who wished that outcome upon me. It is the only option. Their weakness was that I had to be complicit in my suffering.

I refuse to be complicit. To all my brethren in the nuclear industry, the same choice is yours. If we want change, leave, refuse to comply, let them fall on their own swords.

Join me in #STRIKE.

Shutdown; refuse to operate in Mode 1. Only allow #Mode5. It’s your choice.

It’s not like the utility can fire you. They can’t replace you, and they are bound by the regulator to maintain the plant in regulatory compliance.

The regulator and the utilities are entirely powerless. They require YOUR COMPLIANCE. Don’t give it.