small nuclear reactors will not help us solve anything, they are expensive, and too late

Members of the public, therefore, should be aware of the risks they are being asked to take on by funding the “advanced” technology of SMRs which remains largely untested. And they should know that to achieve an economy of scale would require the production of thousands of SMRs, which is not happening anywhere any time soon. According to JP Morgan’s annual energy 2025 report, there are only three operating SMRs in the world: two in Russia and one in China and another under construction in Argentina. None came in on budget. “The cost overruns on the China SMR was 300 per cent, on Russian SMRs 400 per cent and on the Argentina SMR (so far) 700 per cent.” All promised to be up and running in three to four years and all took 12 years or more to complete. Argentina’s SMR project began in 2014 and it’s still not finished. That may happen in 2027. Given these construction time frames, SMR certainly won’t put a dent in climate change in the near future or even decades from now. Certainly not in Russia, which uses its SMRs to mine arctic resources and produce more oil. And then there is the inconvenient issue of nuclear waste. You’d think something called a small reactor would pump out small volumes of waste. That’s not what researchers discovered in 2022. They concluded, “SMRs will produce more voluminous and chemically/physically reactive waste than Light Water Reactors.” Managing and disposing this waste will be problematic. In fact, they calculated, “water-, molten salt–, and sodium-cooled SMR designs will increase the volume of nuclear waste in need of management and disposal by factors of two to 30.” read the whole story here: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/09/22/New-Nuclear-Fever-Debunked/

Nickel catalyst turns single-use plastics into oils at low heat, no sorting needed

Typically, PVC contamination poisons catalysts and derails recycling batches. But in this case, PVC actually improved performance. “Adding PVC to a recycling mixture has always been forbidden,” Kratish said. “But apparently, it makes our process even better. That is crazy. It’s definitely not something anybody expected.” Even when PVC made up a quarter of the waste mix, the catalyst kept working with better results. This unexpected resilience could allow recyclers to tackle previously “unrecyclable” plastic streams. Senior author Tobin Marks believes the breakthrough could transform recycling economics: “Our new catalyst could bypass this costly and labor-intensive step for common polyolefin plastics, making recycling more efficient, practical and economically viable than current strategies.” If scaled, the nickel catalyst process might finally offer a path toward curbing the mountain of single-use plastic waste, turning a global environmental headache into a valuable resource stream. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-catalyst-plastic-recycling-reality.html

Moment of contact, the Varghina, Brazil ET capture documentary by James Fox

James Fox has just released his doc that is full of first hand statements from people who saw a strange red eyed being with 3 toe feet and the subsequent witness intimidation by men in black and ditto from the military of their personel involved in the capture. Powerful stuff, well done cinematography with excellent soundtrack, a high quality documentary! https://youtu.be/yxuV9RN9DEk