Emmet Penney
@nukebarbarian
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Senior Fellow, Infrastructure and Energy: @joinfai Contributing editor: @compactmag_ @TFASorg Novak Fellow '24 - '25 writing about electric reliability.
Chicago, IL
Joined January 2017
I recommend returning to your hometown to visit power infrastructure that’s been there for over a century
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RT @xiaowang1984: And a detail that was explicitly not included in the spanish government report talking about the much improved voltage re….
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⚔️⚛️⚔️.
The level of engagement on nuclear energy at high levels of the current Administration is remarkable. I've never seen anything like it in all my time in government. Now is the time. We have to execute. We have to deliver.
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This is so goofy and canned. Ah how the mediocre have fallen
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RT @MadiHilly: The Original Dumb Day: @JBPritzker vetoing a bill because it would *checks notes* "open the door to the proliferation of lar….
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A tragicomic element of lefty academic “abolish” discourse is its fantasy that it will be them and not the bean counters that execute their plan. Like all people incapable of second order thinking, they’re always shocked when their departments close for good.
Does any discipline outrank Classics in having so many insiders who forthrightly desire to annihilate it?
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RT @ThomasHochman: 👀 Speaking of things heating up!. @RepJoshHarder’s letter to Congress is now public, calling for major permitting reform….
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RT @Atomicrod: Emmett Penney (@nukebarbarian) had a valuable conversation with Joe Klecha (@TheNuclearJoe). Joe is the Chief Nuclear Office….
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I now appreciate how other countries must feel about our national politics after the intensity and duration with which I’ve been subjected to NYC municipal politics of late.
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RT @TheNuclearJoe: A big thanks to @nukebarbarian for having me on his podcast. Thoroughly enjoyed the conversation and love the great thin….
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RT @ThomasHochman: New @nukebarbarian pod with The Nuclear Company CTO Joe Klecha, nuke friends must listen
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I got to interview @TheNuclearJoe over at @TheNuclearCo about his work on the Vogtle build and what it takes to pull of megaprojects. We also discussed how TNC's recent deal with @PalantirTech is going to unleash fleet-scale nuclear builds. Check it:.
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President Trump has nominated new members to the TVA board. With a new board comes opportunities for the TVA to build new nuclear. But if we these industrial cathedrals, we need to finance them by raising the TVA's debt cap, which has been frozen since the 1970s.
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RT @ThomasHochman: I'm not really sure how, but this thread misses the very basic point that the Fiscal Responsibility Act amended NEPA. O….
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RT @ThomasHochman: Okay yeah, I’m pretty sure this allows for greenfield nukes/geothermal/etc. Happy Friday!.
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RT @ThomasHochman: Based Bill Lee! . Excellent piece encouraging us to leverage the TVA to power a nuclear future. Great leadership from th….
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