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  1. @npr @u-s-news-npr
    A view on next-gen nuclear reactors from Idaho, proposed to meet rising demand with low carbon emissions.
    ☢️ the catch:
    ⚠️ security ( #ThreeMileIsland #sl1 #mayak #chernobyl #fukushima )
    ⚠️ radioactive waste management (unsolved safe storage for 10,000s of generations)

    The report doesn’t say how micro reactors would solve these?

    “Going small and local” as PR to a favorable public opinion on nuclear energy, stalling out for decades in the US.

    #NuclearEnergy

  2. #InTheNews - #Radiation eating fungus. Savior or #NuclearIndustry PR? I've always been fascinated by the #RadiotrophicFungus. But is it truly performing #Radiosynthesis? What is the "chemical byproduct"? Also, I do remember reading about #FukushimaBlackMold and #SpaceFungus on the #ISS. Hmmmm....

    Species in #Chernobyl disaster zone is mutating to feed on nuclear radiation

    By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR, 1 December 2025

    "Nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, scientists have discovered a form of life that's thriving on the radiation that's been left behind.

    A strange black fungus called #CladosporiumSphaerospermum, found growing on abandoned reactor walls, hasn't just learned to survive the deadly fallout, but several strains now grow faster when radiation is present and even move towards it."

    dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar

    #BlackFungus #Radiotrophic #NuclearRadiation