They have been forbidden from revealing that info...up until recently, everything was less than 12K, some have gotten away with saying: "Maybe" older. Something has happened in that field of study...older and older dates have been accepted.
The core sciences have been leaking studies about catastrophe's, pole reversals, crustal plate displacements, sudden Ice ages and extinctions...seems the cat is out of the bag.

While this deviant administration wants to suck all of the CO2 out the air the crops and plants die off then Methane goes amok! Wise people here in the Gulch are more intelligent and know more science then those who try to govern us.

Maybe that why we're finding older cultures like Gobekli-Tepe and others that are 12K years old. Archeologists should be taking soil samples and asking if the climate was the cause for abandonment besides other issues.

Can't be global warming, when we are in a grand solar minimum, with cold for about 11 yeas! Can blame AOC, for plagiarizing UN Agenda 21, and forcing windmills and solar on areas during this sun cycle. Can blame media for not warning people to beware of colder weather, when Australia warned their farmers more than a year ago. Blame politicians and media for gross stupidity for telling people government can force people to change enough to control weather, which is sun driven. People can control pollution, but that is localized, and not weather. /Blame those who make you think carbon emissions have anything to do with weather. The UN is set for head one world government, using these lies, and AOC and her googlely eyes are as clueless as a deer in headlights.

Easy. They changed the name of this hoax to "Climate Change", which is a safe bet because some of it will always change.
It is the method of the Dictatorship of the Greenetariat.

There seems to be some renewed interest now in molten salt reactors. Their advantages include continuous online refueling and fission product removal. There are disadvantages though (there is never a "free lunch"). One issue is reduced neutronic stability vs. more conventional designs (standard fuel rods). This is due to delayed neutron precursors (which give stability to the reactor dynamic behavior) being continually flushed out of the core, but this should be able to be addressed by operational limits. Anyway, the thorium fuel cycle definitely has advantages too - such as large thorium reserves. You're right about many of the accidents that have happened. Human error is hard to weed out. No matter the training, people will sometimes screw up. A lot of effort goes into making systems fault tolerant.

Hey these dodos spent $300,000 on a piece of land inside the city limits for a new EMS/Fire Dept facility when we have 3 fire depts. already and only 2 ambulances. They spent $1m to buy the land for that disc golf course and I think I know who they bought this land from and if so, he better duck!

"Nuclear kills far fewer people than nuclear power plants ever have."
My old brain should have wrote: Nuclear kills far fewer people than fossil fueled power plants ever have and maybe deaths due renewable energies.

With the rulers' sleight-of-hand name changes to try to deny reality, "global warming" was renamed "climate change," and I've actually seen it referred to as "climate weirding" twice recently. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...

I was at UW Madison back in early 1960s trying to go for a PHD in Chemistry. Got a BS but could not get into grad school due to having troubles with learning German and
Russian and other none science and math courses needed for a PHD in chemistry, other choi9ces were French and Japanese.
So went to grad school in math. Got courses to masters but burned out during the Vietnam war and went into lawn care business.
Nuclear kills far fewer people than nuclear power plants ever have.
Any possibility that thorium liquid salts power plants will ever be used. Didn't the military have some experimental ones operating long ago?
As for accidents, the military had most of them when storage tanks would go critical form operator errors, just like the commercial meltdowns were due to operator errors as well as some bad planning by the Japanese.

University of Washington in Seattle. UW no longer has a Department of Nuclear Engineering (they started the closure process shortly after enrollment tanked after the Chernobyl accident). But, I was already a grad student in the program, so they had to allow me to finish. I think I was the last (or possibly the second-to-last) student to get a degree from that program.

When I first started in Nuclear (1976) my boss told me, "The future is going to be filled with Nuclear Plants and electric cars." Well, the regulatory backlash from Three Mile Island put an end to that, hyped by the same media outlets that brought us coronavirus. The old-timers would ROFL talking about "too cheap to meter", which had been the mantra when construction of most of our fleet was started. With more reasonable regulation, the dream could have been realized, but the fear-mongering has just about killed off the industry. I've been retired from the utility world for over 11 years now, good to hear from someone more current.

(PhD, UW, '96)? Which UW was that?

In all honesty, I did just hear on the radio that there was one nuclear power station in Texas that had to shut down temporarily because of some "monitor" that "froze up." The report didn't elaborate beyond that, but my guess is that some outside radiation monitor had problems due to the cold. Whenever the slightest thing goes wrong at a nuclear plant, it can force a shutdown (usually due to regulatory requirements). I assume it was a very minor issue.

That's called "putting their feet to the fire", 25n56il4. I'd be curious what their squirmy dodge and duck answer is. I bet it won't be something like a bigger kick back - er ah - donation from the golf people.

I shake my head whenever our employees (government whoever) take it upon themselves to spend our money on things like golf lighting. Here's a story for you: One morning our county exec did a ribbon cutting for a partially government funded multi-million dollar "artwork" on a street corner and then in the afternoon was whining there wasn't enough money in the budget to supply proper computer equipment to the high schools. There you have it.

Edit add: That street corner used to have a tax paying business on it, but now it has a rusting litter collecting "artwork".

Glad to have your perspective, Kevin! Thank you!

"Green Power"......plain and simple.....
Utopian liberal bull shit......

That could be too...it was during the dark ages that mankind LOST the voices of their gods, their leaders and their ancestors...when the magnetic shields finally recovered, protecting us from the cosmic radiation..."Some" gained the voices of self and only 40/50% of the worlds population now have that voice of self.

Something you might be interested in hearing and pondering. A song that reminded me of this came our a while back; it's called: Say Something...listen to it and imagine a young man and women climbing the highest peak and looking up and saying out loud: "Say Something, I'll be the one if you want me too" and while you are listening just think how disturbing and painful it was for them to be with out the voice that guided their behaviors and actions for 200K years....I'll tell you, it brings tears to my eyes thinking about how lonely they must have felt.

I forgot these people change the rules so quickly. 'Climate Change'! Of course.

Those good old boys at City Hall are going to have a difficult time in April. I'm going to be there asking why they spent a million dollars for lighting on a disc golf course and didn't buy any Generators to keep the water pumps going in inclement weather?

You are a nut, OUC. But you did make me laugh. And I'm sad for the people who are dying in Texas due to the cold weather and lack of preparedness by our leaders. Is this really 2021? More like the Dark Ages. N

And one badly timed asteroid will ruin it also.

Oh no, it's just a temporary Nippy Era.

Thanks, OUC. I don't think I would have guessed that one, LOL!

Climate change is a trojan horse for social/economic justice; penalizing wealthy nations to benefit the poor nations.

If they sincerely wanted to lift the poor nations they would give a green energy grid to the poorest nation on earth. Energy is a wealth creating resource. Not only have we proven that but the producing nations worldwide have also. Then, while growing this green grid they could solve the natural growth problems an reach a fuller understanding of both energy/ economics and what it takes to create a reliable green grid. All while lifting the poorest to a better life.

It just easier to shove it down USA's throat and worry about problems later. It's the hip thing to do.