This morning Samo Burja went on a podcast with some very hard words for nuclear energy. I want address them immediately. But not because he's wrong. Instead, because he got a few CRUCIAL things right; and the hard truths he tells go to the core of why I started Valar Atomics. pic.twitter.com/dgrXxiaoHa

Here's something that sounds unbelievable — but is true: India builds nuclear reactors that are CHEAPER THAN SOLAR per unit of electricity This is EVEN BEFORE considering -longevity of nuclear (> 60 yrs vs 30 yrs for solar) -cost of storage or backup for solar How?👇🧵 pic.twitter.com/HO43hUMES7

Humanity is on the cusp of practically limitless energy via nuclear fusion and basically nobody is talking about it, which is nuts. I left working in fusion because I was skeptical of the field's ability to progress, but my mind has totally changed (1/n)

Poor industry performance is responsible for high nuclear power costs and industry stagnation, not regulation. I’ve had several people ask about this post, so here is a thread on nuclear costs twitter.com/ezraklein/stat…