@Emil Of course, the work only just begins. Decades of dependence on Russian nuclear fuel has decimated Western industry on this. The ban makes room for Western nuclear fuel companies to exist, especially American ones. It'll take around a decade to build up this industrial infrastructure.
@Emil This is a pretty big change from the EU. If anything, it's still way too timid (we need hundreds of new big units in Europe, not merely 30), but this is already a watershed moment compared to just a few years ago when nuclear was the black sheep in Brussels.
Did CERN offer some russian scientists positions? To really fuck with Russia they should have said 'not only are we going to stop collaborating with Russia, but all scientists who wants to continue their work will be allowed to get positions here'. That would undermine Russia even more and be more fair to the scientists.
Sure, absolutely. It is often a part of the sacrifice you do when doing postdocs and sometimes also for professors, that you live separated or you have the family move with you. Some universities also allows for the opening of a second position for the spouse for an incoming professor. This is of course a different situation. Successful or not, I'd hope that at least some offers have been handed out, giving them the choice.
You are missing my point. If Putin says that they should come back (and I have now doubt that this would happen if they are offered positions) they would go back.
I personally think we shouldn't kick them out of CERN because after the war ends we will need to build Russia back better as well, politically speaking, since this war is unlikely to end with Putin in office.
@Emil OK, it's a start. Once regulatory and economic processes are in place, there will be an option to become much more ambitious here, depending on how other plans turn out. Good.
I love to seeing nuclear power plants planned to replace a coal plant. The Gates one is planning to do the same thing. I imagine they will have to do some remediation to get the background radiation of a coal plant down so it doesn't interfere with future nuclear monitoring, but replacing it with a nuclear plant is a great idea.The high power infrastructure is already in place and its not like anything else will be jumping at the opportunity to build on top of a retired coal plant.
Great question. This might actually play a role here. Nuclear energy has the lowest land impact of any energy source. They better involve the local population in this though.
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