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As a young woman, living in upstate NY, thanks to a near by nuclear plant, my electric bill was $10.00/month despite electric heat. I then moved to the Boston MA area and suffered sticker shock with an electric bill of $300.00 a month! I have been a fan of nuclear power ever since.
”Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”
Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies, Author: “Population Bomb” and “Ecoscience”
Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren co-authored the 1971 Science paper “Impact of Population Growth” and the 1977 textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment with Paul and Anne Ehrlich.
”The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.”
Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
What Is Making People Near Data Centers Sick (and What Could Fix It) — Midwesterndoctor
The Thorium Opportunity
This is also what makes Alaska the natural home for something I have waited decades to see. I care immensely about the health of the earth, and after looking at every alternative energy option, I long ago concluded “green nuclear power” was the most viable one we had, then watched the promising designs go nowhere. The most promising is thorium: there is 3–4 times as much of it in the earth as uranium¹ (and since it occurs alongside the rare earths America is now scrambling to secure, we already extract it and then throw it away as radioactive waste), all of it can be used as fuel (rather than the 0.72% of uranium that can, which leaves behind mountains of depleted waste), the molten-salt designs it is paired with have no solid core to melt (if they overheat, the salt expands, the reaction slows, and the fuel drains into a tank without pumps), they produce far less long-lived waste, and they greatly reduce the risk of weapons proliferation, since no enrichment plants are needed.
This raises the obvious question of why it was never adopted. Simply put, the entire American nuclear complex was built as a weapons program with a civilian branch attached, and uranium was the fuel that made weapons. Oak Ridge demonstrated a working molten salt reactor in the 1960s, but in the early 1970s the Atomic Energy Commission committed the country to a plutonium breeder instead, its director Alvin Weinberg was pushed out after eighteen years for continuing to argue his reactor was the safer path, and the program was cancelled in 1973.¹,² Thorium’s low proliferation risk, now its great selling point, at the time simply meant it did not offer what the nuclear establishment wanted. After that, the industry became large enough to keep competitors from getting off the ground (mirroring what I have watched happen with countless forgotten medical technologies).
The result is that the technology now requires a supply chain that does not exist, so two things are needed: a relaxing of regulatory restrictions (which began in May 2025, when Trump signed executive orders setting a goal of quadrupling nuclear capacity by 2050 and ordering the NRC to decide new reactor applications within 18 months)¹ and a very large investment, which is now possible for the first time, as an industry has emerged that needs enormous amounts of power and is willing to pay almost anything for it. The published models place thorium power among the cheapest sources of electricity ($20–55 per megawatt hour),¹,² a fraction of what new conventional nuclear plants cost ($175–255).¹
Note: the money is already moving. The major technology companies have contracted for roughly ten gigawatts of nuclear capacity in two years,¹ and Microsoft signed a twenty-year deal to restart the Three Mile Island reactor that sat beside the one which partially melted down in 1979 (Unit 1, which closed in 2019 for economic reasons), at a price analysts estimate at roughly $110–115 per megawatt hour,¹ well above the projected cost of thorium power.
The timing matters because of how long every step takes. A serious American program could have a molten salt test reactor running by the end of this decade and first commercial power in the mid-2030s, so a decision now decides the second and third waves of data centers. China already has a molten salt reactor running and a public ladder toward commercial units by 2040,¹ so if America waits until those are built to begin, it will be buying the technology rather than fielding it. A campus in Alaska that starts on stranded gas can then switch to a microreactor, then a small modular reactor, then a thorium plant, without ever raising anyone’s utility bill, and the fiber and rail built to support it will remain useful regardless of whether the AI boom lives up to its hype.
Promethian Action prompted at 13 minutes.
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Bessent Takes On the IMF
13:16 — Susan Kokinda:
I think that it’s really critical for people to put this in the context of the battle between two systems. I want to focus people a little bit on something which I’m sure flew under most people’s radar screen, except for the ones who watched my show the other day, [It] is what Scott Bessent said to the International Monetary Fund… Because when you look at what Bessent did at the International Monetary Fund meeting, every leftist in the world should honestly be cheering this. But they’re not. What he did is completely challenge the fundamental premises that have run the world financial structure going back to 1971 and which has allowed the global financier elite to loot nations, destroy nations, [and] prevent third-world countries from developing. [To] gut advanced sector nations like ours by eliminating the middle class and the working class, creating what the Democrats hope is a perpetual class of poor people. [People] that they can throw some crumbs to and so on while Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have hundreds of millions of dollars…
So, what are the three things that Bessent challenged? First of all, he challenged the core principle of the IMF, which is the way you get out of debt is you cut the budget. And Bessent stood his ground in direct opposition to the head of the IMF… Bessent said, “No, it is growth that is going to solve our problems, and everything we are doing is unleashing that kind of growth.” Second, he had a very subtle reference, but it was definitely there, to the problem of deregulated currencies, floating exchange rates. and said, “This has be addressed in terms of creating perpetual imbalances.
That has been one of the key weapons that the global bankers have used, especially to keep the third world backward. They control currency prices through speculation because we took the dollar off the gold reserve standard. They control commodity prices through the City of London. And the net result of that has been the perpetual unneeded backwardness of many developing sector nations.
Another tool in the bankers’ toolkit, in the globalists’ toolkit, has been the green agenda and being anti-nuclear. And Bessent took that on directly. He said, “Cut it out. Stop making your decisions from hostility to oil and gas.” But even more important, he pledged the the United States to start putting money into a nuclear development fund for the third world. You know how many nuclear loans the World Bank has made since 1959? One, and that was to Italy.
That’s it. But plenty of solar panels, plenty of windmills, plenty of pails so that people can carry water 5 miles from where they are, and so on. So, this was a direct challenge to the underlying premises of this globalist financier elite at that level.
Obviously this administration is doing the same thing domestically because it’s been a lot easier to liberate ourselves than it is to liberate the rest of the world where we’re not the only sheriff in town, although we’re an important one. What the president has done is thrown out the green mandates, challenged the traditional orthodox Republican position that the only way you can get out of the deficit and debt crisis is by cutting. And making very clear, “No, we are going to grow your way out.” And third, by actually unleashing the productive power and base of the United States.
So, on both fronts, what you have is this administration internationally and domestically… is the biggest challenge to the control of the British Imperial financial elite system — it’s generic name is globalization. You know, we see the World Economic Forum, we have the modern names like George Soros and Klaus Schwab and all the rest of them, but this is simply the British Imperial system that we’ve been in a fight [with]. The Ukraine conflict, which Barbara described, has been one of the key strategic cornerstones of that. Because… to challenge this globalist financier system, you need the other major superpowers on your side. You need Russia, you need China, you need India, you need Japan. Those are pretty much the big ones. And what the president is doing with his team is creating the conditions where these nations, as sovereign nations, can join United States in preliminarily solving some of these immediate problems, like the wars, preliminarily begin uncorking a certain level of development, but I think ultimately what this administration intends is an entirely new international financial system. So, you know, I think it’s important to keep that in mind as we go into the final 10-day countdown for the midterms.
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Rich Does Politics prompted at 36 minutes.
ROUGH TRANSCRIPT:
Scott Bessent, the Big Gay Patton [giggle]
36:32 — Rich:
it’s the first time in history where a secretary treasury secretary hasn’t attended an IMF meeting. So what’s that about? And the IMF is a proxy of the city of London…
37:27 — Susan Kokinda:
They first applied their playbook to the developing sector, then they applied it to post Soviet Russia, and then they applied it to the advanced sector. And ironically, it was Russia that said no first. And now we have Donald Trump saying no, we’re not going to play British liberal economics…
Then Bessant sent a written speech to the IMF
… when I read his speech yesterday, what he said about the developing sector and that what the United States is doing is it’s increasing its contribution to a nuclear development fund for the third [world] for the developing sector. [Those are] the real fighting words. Right?
Because the City of London, the imperial system, the most cardinal rule in their playbook is you do not let the developing sector actually develop. You keep it backward. You know the famous Barack Obama statement, “oh well, if people in Africa all had air conditioning in cars, the climate would boil over.” No, you stay backwards. you keep burning wood for fuel.
This is something that Chris Wright, the energy secretary, is very passionate about. He talks about a million preventable deaths every year because so many people are still using wood and dung, to cook on. Whereas if they had modern energy, you would see, an increase in the standard of living. Well, nuclear power isn’t just modern energy because when you go over the past 30, 40 years, every time you see a developing sector leader wanting to push nuclear power, they usually end up dead or out of power or in exile. Starting with the Shah of Iran, who at a certain point said, “All right, I don’t just want to be a gas station for British petroleum.” You know, I want to develop my country. Boom… You just go on and on and on. Every time a third world leader actually wanted to develop his country using advanced nuclear power boom that was it.
For Bessant to make this explicit, the question of nuclear power for the developing sector this is like the gunfight at the OK Corral….
41:34 — Tom Luongo:
…Why do you think they’re blowing up oil refineries?
They’re doing it now in the first world. This is the thing that bothers me…
I read an article about the Exxon Mobile refinery in Illinois that was shut down for quote “an unknown electrical failure,” unquote. Now, I read that coming out of Reuters .. and I’m like, “Oh, yeah.” Like they would not report that attack, that shutdown, that way if they weren’t covering up the fact that it was external action against one of our oil refineries.. but clearly whoever did do it was politically untenable at that moment in time. So this is the classic MI6 thing. We know that you know that we know that you know we did it and we also know that you can’t tell anybody that we did it because that would make you look crazy. So therefore, we get to do it.
[After all what is Trump going to do? Declare overt war on the UK? Makes you wonder about all those food plant fires too. — GC]
…We’re watching this more and more. And we’re going to continue to watch them do this. And that’s going to be our biggest tail risk to deal with this low-level constant drag. [The] monkey wrenching on the physical economy… They’re moving away from physical choke points and the maritime world the straits of Malaka the straits of whatever and now they’re moving to the other choke points. They’re moving from upstream choke points which is the drilling of oil and the early stages of moving the oil to refining. Now they’re moving to mid-stream and downstream and they’re attacking that aspect of the market.
So as we deregulate the energy markets around the world in order to bring everybody out of poverty, that’s the fight right now.
46:27 — Rich:
…And then the nuclear power deal, I just recorded a video with Ghost from Badlands Media. So, we’re talking about Saudi Arabia, the history of Saudi Arabia, and getting on to Mohammed bin Salman who’s doing deals with Russia to build nuclear power stations in Saudi Arabia, and it looks like he’s going to get away with it because London is a waning power.
Susan Kokinda:
You can even go back to the to the 1970s. Richard Nixon’s first Secretary of State, William P. Rogers, had come out of the Eisenhower administration. Of course, Eisenhower was Atoms for Peace. But, Rogers’ approach to the Middle East was nuclear power development as the basis for economic cooperation in the entire region. And of course, he got canned, and Henry Kissinger took on the dual portfolio of National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. Of course, we have the wonderful symmetry today that Marco Rubio wears the same two hats. [laughter] But, from the completely opposite side of what they’re trying to do.
But, yeah, this question of nuclear power is something where you see the hand of the empire in its most brutal and Saudi Arabia working with Russia, just gives you the picture. This is an entirely new world which is flying beneath most people’s radar screens. But it is the much more fundamental change that’s going on in the world. You know, not the little laundry list. Donald Trump isn’t doing anything because he didn’t do… I had the feeling of someone watching somebody, on the Gong Show. He didn’t do this gong. He didn’t do that gong. I mean he’s bringing down the globalist system, you idiots.
49:02 — Tom Luongo:
I was thinking about this the other day. Every time we bring up this thing about nuclear power… I just think back to the story of Oak Ridge and thorium molten salt and how that was destroyed. I don’t know how that got done under the Kennedy. It was I think done under Kennedy… but they were beginning the process, right? Thorium molten salt ends all of this nonsense because then we don’t have the uranium 233 cycle, doesn’t produce any plutonium. It just produces a surfeit of neutrons and a lot of power and no nuclear waste.
And there’s enough thorium in the seawater that you can ream it up off the Florida coastline and then ship it over to Crystal River… I’ve watched a lot of and talked to a lot of people who were involved in this. That research was not only buried, it was meant to be destroyed completely and it got saved at the last moment. It’s like a spice. It’s like one of these stories that if you were to listen.. There’s a great documentary out there about this. A three and a half or four hour documentary about it and you listen to the story that’s been told about how this information got saved, right? You’re like, nah, that can’t possibly happen that way, but it did because it was the perfect intersection of government perfidy and government incompetence.
So, they just shut the program down and they mothballed it all and then no one was allowed to deal with it and and they were getting around to destroying all the research, all the notebooks and all of this and all of it, but they never got around to it because someone got fired and it wound up in a room somewhere. Then somebody found it all and now the Russians have a pilot plant, the Chinese have a pilot plant, other people [India –GC] are working on it and it’s 20 still 20 years out. We still have a lot of work to do, but imagine if we hadn’t lost those 60 years of metallurgy and and all the chemistry that was necessary to develop the right fluids and the metallurgy in order to create the containment vessels and everything.
As a chemist I know it’s a very aggressive environment. So, that’s another way of saying highly corrosive and highly unstable. And so, if you want to build a 50 year duty cycle reactor system that can, run steady state for 50 years, there’s still a lot of basic materials work that has to be done in order to get us to that point and to scale it up to a reasonable level. But there’s so many angles on this. And they know that once energy is free at that level, and in fact free, they don’t have a choke point anymore.
52:00 — Susan Kokinda:
The sabotage, when I first went to DC for their predecessor organization, one of the first fights we waged was to try and save the Clinch River breeder reactor. If you can reprocess the fuel, you don’t have the waste problem. The waste problem was one of the key things the environmentalists used to have everybody’s hair on fire and everybody’s clear and blah blah blah blah. And we lost because what you had was an alliance between the environmentalist movement and the right-wing budget cutters. That’s what killed the Clinch River breeder reactor. It is sort of like your uni-party. Then you had the sabotage of fusion, which went on for years and years and years. Finally, enough private sector kept it going, and now this administration is encouraging it. We should have had it 30 years ago talking about virtually free energy. This is this has been the the critical component of the imperial playbook. You have to prevent economic development, which means you prevent the energy. So, the choke points, the money, and so on. But the new technologies, which make your choke points completely irrelevant, make blowing up refineries irrelevant. If you’ve got these new kinds of technologies, and that’s what’s being unleashed.
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15 years ago, when I first hear of them, the Lightbridge Corporation was very interested in thorium as a fuel source. Lightbridge was originally founded in 1992 as Thorium Power, Ltd., showing it’s original focus on thorium-based nuclear fuels. Since then it has shifted focus to producing metallic nuclear fuel alloy designed for use in existing and future light water reactors. This includes the Special HALEU fuel now purchased from Russia.
“High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) is nuclear fuel enriched to contain between 5% and 20% uranium-235, serving as the critical fuel source for most next-generation small modular reactors (SMRs) and advanced nuclear designs.” — Brave AI
15 year old 4 minute video note reference to Obama.
A comment from Lightbridge Corporation (LTBR) Message Board — investors hub
77Port 
11/03/25 5:06 PM Post #3,517
Va., Nov. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lightbridge Corporation (“Lightbridge” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LTBR), an advanced nuclear fuel technology company, today announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the Eurasian Patent Office for its innovative multi-zone nuclear fuel rod design. Specifically, this patent covers methods and apparatus for fabricating fuel rods using additive manufacturing techniques, enabling the creation of distinct radial and axial zones with varying compositions of refractory metals and alloys, as well as fuel materials, such as zirconium alloys combined with uranium, plutonium, or thorium.
Lightbridge and Centrus Energy to collaborate on pilot fuel fabrication facility – Nuclear Engineering International
Centrus and Lightbridge will work towards creating high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) based fuels. HALEU fuel contains uranium enriched to 5-20% uranium-235 (higher than the 3-5% typically used in light water reactors). It is required by most of the advanced reactor designs being developed under DOE’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP).
Centrus President & CEO Daniel B Poneman said: “Our plant in Ohio is the only HALEU production plant in the world outside of Russia and would be an ideal site for Lightbridge’s proposed facility. Since Lightbridge Fuel has the potential to bring HALEU and its benefits to the existing fleet of reactors, this partnership holds the potential to significantly expand the market for HALEU.” …
Lightbridge is developing Lightbridge Fuel, a proprietary next-generation nuclear fuel technology for existing light water reactors and pressurised heavy water reactors, which it says will significantly enhance reactor safety, economics, and proliferation resistance. The Company is also developing Lightbridge Fuel for new small modular reactors (SMRs).
May 27, 2025
interview with Lightbridge (LTBR) CEO, Seth Grae. (14 minutes)
Lightbridge (LTBR) CEO, Seth Grae, says nuclear power will be a leading energy source to power electricity in the coming year. He sees the U.S. moving from 19% nuclear power usage now to 50% in years to come. Seth talks about how Lightbridge plays a role in nuclear’s rising popularity and how it’s tied to powering the A.I. trade. He later talks about the company’s partnership with Oklo Inc. (OKLO).
I am happy to see that Lightbridge has survived and is doing well.
