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I would love to add more about this story in other countries as well. I just ran out of time and steam when writing the US perspective. Give me more time to rec

I would love to add more about this story in other countries as well. I just ran out of time and steam when writing the US perspective. Give me more time to recharge. One thing that's nice about the US side for me is that we have vast libraries of technical reports available for me to peruse. It would be impossible for me personally to do such a deep dive in Russia or France or China or any other non-English-publishing place simply because I don't speak the language.

ggm 6y ago
The development of electricity generation from nuclear has deep roots in europe: USSR in 1954, Uk in 1957. AGR design got deployed at Torness. (I protested FWIW, a position I might vary on now with hindsight) The chinese work on pebble-bed interests me hugely. small modular reactor stuff is fascinating. The UK and France (aside from Russia) operate their own submarine reactors. I think its odd they didn't move this up the foodchain to surface ships the way the Americans did. Both the UK and USSR had significant accidents, which informed choices around future reactor design. The role of Klaus Fuchs in the emergence of the east german nuclear power industry would be worth a write up all of its own. The extent of French dependency on nuclear power is amazing. And the German retreat from nuclear power, likewise the scandi experience. China and India, I think will be making a huge move off coal but its less clear this will be to nuclear. Japan is obviously in a complicated situation, perhaps not unlike France's dependencies.