Capitulum in Nuntio de NuScale Potestate

NuScale Power Module

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

There was an article in USA Today this morning about the development of a small modular reactor design by NuScale Power out of Corvallis, OR:

Compact, prefab power plants may revive nuclear option

It is with great irony (as I have noted before) that a left coast company among a liberal progressive feminist population devotedly and zealously opposed to nuclear energy may be the first whose novel design could eventually receive approval from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Such approval is also problematic because:

• The regulations promulgated by the US NRC are wholly written for large light water nuclear reactors, not small modular reactors, whether light water, molten salt, liquid metal or gas cooled.
• Under former President Barack Hussein Obama, the US NRC staff has been filled with personnel having a decidedly anti-nuclear power bias; as our current President Donald Trump has stated, the swamp must be drained.
• Under our current President, the ease with which fossil fuel power plants can be built (whether coal or methane otherwise called natural gas) is favored for purely temporary, transient economic reasons; there is a lack of knowledge of the strong long-term economic benefits of base-load electrical supply from a source immune to fossil fuel price swings.

NuScale 12 Module Facility

I did not list the President's skepticism regarding anthropogenic global warming because I do not believe in such pagan hysteria that worships false goddess Gaia and places the creature above the Creator who is to be glorified, praised and adored forever and ever, Amen. However, only a fool would fail to recognize that indiscriminately dumping billions of tons of pollutants into the atmosphere every year will eventually have unpredictable and unintended consequences, whatever they may be. God gave Adam and Eve dominion over the Earth and that dominion is a responsibility of stewardship. Nuclear which does not pollute and has the lowest mortality rate per terawatt hour of any form of energy production including so-called renewables is therefore the way to go in discharging that stewardship

So of course, one wishes NuScale Power all success in persevering against any and all obstacles. Burning swamp gas (methane), mineral slime (oil) or mineral rock (coal) for energy instead of splitting heavy metal atoms is a step backwards and of no essential substantive difference than what the Neanderthal Man did in burning wood in his cave. And relying on less than 30 percent capacity factor wind and solar is no different than the Medieval Vikings traversing across the north Atlantic in sail boats and the Ancient Sumerians baking mud bricks in the sun - the phrase "Green Power, Black Death" comes to mind.