[PalmTree]

https://x.com/SickosCommittee/status/185...4716759082

Why doesn't Stanford have a nuclear reactor of some sort? Shouldn't SLAC have its own power source? I mean, Cogen is nice, but can't Stanford do better, safely?

This would need to be approved by, at least, the (fed) NRC + SC County - good luck with getting EIRs approved for that project. Guessing it wouldn't be cost effective either based on operating/storage costs and storage/disposal costs for spent materials alone. As an analogy, the university did get permitting for and operated an on-site medical waste incinerator for ~10 years but closed down that operation ~ 10-15 years ago.  County use permit and DOT restrictions limited processing to only internally-generated (SHS & university departmental) waste streams and costs of initial capital outlays and ongoing operations made the facility a (big) money loser vis-a-vis commercially available waste disposal alternatives.

[PalmTree]

https://x.com/SickosCommittee/status/185...4716759082

Why doesn't Stanford have a nuclear reactor of some sort? Shouldn't SLAC have its own power source? I mean, Cogen is nice, but can't Stanford do better, safely?

This would need to be approved by, at least, the (fed) NRC + SC County - good luck with getting EIRs approved for that project. Guessing it wouldn't be cost effective either based on operating/storage costs and storage/disposal costs for spent materials alone. As an analogy, the university did get permitting for and operated an on-site medical waste incinerator for ~10 years but closed down that operation ~ 10-15 years ago.  County use permit and DOT restrictions limited processing to only internally-generated (SHS & university departmental) waste streams and costs of initial capital outlays and ongoing operations made the facility a (big) money loser vis-a-vis commercially available waste disposal alternatives.