Nuke The Airport?

[eddiememphis]

https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/06/d...power-airport/
https://www.wpr.org/news/governor-to...r-in-wisconsin
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/icy...vanced-nuclear

Denver's mayor and airport chief touted a $1.25 million study Wednesday probing the chances of a 'small' nuclear power plant to feed DIA's rapid growth...

This has faced some pushback locally, but the left's sudden love affair with nuclear power has nothing to do with clean energy.

For decades they demonized nuclear as dangerous and dirty. Now, overnight, it's green and virtuous. Why? Because by changing the label, they've opened the vaults of state and federal subsidies. A million for DIA is just the start. Democrat Governors in Wisconsin and New York are touting the benefits of small modular reactor, or SMR.

This is not about clean, inexpensive energy for all. It is about money and power.

By changing nuclear power's designation, they are opening the federal and state coffers- $1m to study DIA, plus other green funding- money.

Coming out as champions of nuke shows they care about clean renewable energy- public votes.

By giving AI/data centers low cost power ,they are gaining favor with the tech companies- power.

It get a bit darker as well, allow me a moment to don my foil cap...

By controlling the cost and amount of power data companies receive, they can also strangle the flow to ensure no "Disinformation!" or "Fake News!" is disseminated to the masses. Only good news about our benevolent politicians is allowed to be viewed by the masses. Facebook and Twitter both admit to shifting algorithms at the behest of the Biden administration, without threat.

Imagine forced compliance by withholding electricity to these giant data centers.

I am not against nuclear power. I find the SMRs fascinating and their eventual deployment could be revolutionary in term of power delivery. What I do not like is the sudden embrace by the democrats and their leftist overlords. Leftism has never caused anything but misery for everyone except those in charge.

I hope they do not get ahead of the right on this one.

[TRnCO]

hmmm, last I heard on this story was that the 1.25 mil. study has been put on hold do to push back from those on the Denver board.

One thing is true though, new power supply added to the grid is needed soon, very soon. With the rise of E-cars and the very big rise of AI and the power it takes to run, Colo. along with many other states better get more power on-line, and PRONTO.

[BushMasterBoy]

Whn they going to realize ionizing radiation does terrible things to the human body? They used to have troops stand around a nuclear explosion for what? Why don't they start with a nuclear reactor in the Pentagon and Oval Office first?
Ask the folks at Fukushima, Japan about the reactor we sold them?


https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/109...-i-nevada-nucl


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukush...clear_accident

[Aloha_Shooter]

There is a big difference between a reactor design like Fukushima and one of the modern small modular reactors. I find the modern designs fascinating, especially the ones using pellets designed to be less efficient as temperature increases past a designated threshold so there really is no danger of "meltdown".