Jeff Waksman (@Waksman84) / X

Jeff Waksman

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Jeff Waksman

@Waksman84

U.S. Army. Former OSD/SCO, NASA, Capitol Hill, IBM. All opinions are my own. 3.6 Röntgen. Not great. Not terrible.

Washington D.C.

Joined January 2022

Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Sep 24, 2024
BREAKING: We have broken ground in Idaho on what will likely be the first Generation IV nuclear reactor to generate electricity in the United States.
DoD Breaks Ground on Project Pele: A Mobile Nuclear Reactor for Energy
From war.gov
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Oct 14, 2025
BREAKING: The US Army will be building multiple nuclear microreactors at its installations, to provide energy resilience for our soldiers and their families. No more just talking about nuclear. We are going to build real hardware.
army.mil
Army announces Janus Program for next-generation nuclear energy
WASHINGTON — The Department of Army today announced the launch of the Janus Program, a next-generation nuclear power program that will deliver resilient...
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Oct 13, 2025
Tomorrow is going to be a big day for nuclear power in the United States.
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Nov 10, 2024
All anybody needs to do to execute effective energy policy is to study what Germany has done over the last 20 years and do the exact goddamn opposite.
Mark Nelson
@energybants
Nov 9, 2024
Looking at German electricity this week you could be forgiven for forgetting they've spent FIVE HUNDRED BILLION € on a renewable energy "transition" They're just straight up fossil powered! With high costs, high carbon, and a shrinking economy. I labeled it for you below.
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Feb 28, 2025
Every microreactor company starts with basically the same exact concept, and then when they start actually doing design work they realize that it cannot possibly work and so they do a serious redesign. You can judge companies by how long ago they figured this out.
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Oct 15, 2025
One of the key challenges the Army will undertake is consolidating the supply chain. We cannot have 20 nuclear startups with 20 unique supply chains. Even Boeing and Airbus share large fractions of their supply chains. The Janus Program will work to fix this for nuclear.
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Mar 9, 2025
The world has spent close to $1 *Trillion* subsidizing solar & wind. The U.S. alone has spent over $100 Billion, and still sends out ~$5B/yr in various tax credits and grants despite how mature the industry now is. Let's not hit the fainting couch over a few billion for nuclear.
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Oct 20, 2024
This is no longer true. Project Pele is under construction. We have dug through bedrock in Idaho and will begin assembling the reactor in Virginia in February.
Laurent Segalen
@MegaWattXinfo
Oct 20, 2024
Lots of hype around SMRs in the US. Let's see how those companies deliver.
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Jun 11, 2025
When you see gloating charts showing solar growing faster than nuclear, remember that not only had the Western world poured well over $1T into solar subsidies since 2000 but also that funding nuclear power has literally been *illegal* in much of the world.
FT Energy
@ftenergy
Jun 11, 2025
World Bank lifts ban on funding nuclear energy in boost to industry on.ft.com/3Tqo3sV
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Oct 18, 2024
Nuclear power has all the bipartisan support it needs to succeed, but it is still very, very hard to build a nuclear reactor. It's going to take far longer than most people want it to take. But we have to get through it. Execute and build. We must succeed.
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Jul 16, 2025
Anybody comparing "10 gigawatts" of solar to "10 gigawatts" of nuclear is a deeply unserious energy wonk. 10 GW of nuclear capacity offsets 10 GW of fossil fuel capacity. 10 GW of solar capacity offsets approximately 0 GW of fossil fuel capacity.
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Oct 19, 2025
Many discussions of nuclear supply chain challenges only talk about uranium, as if uranium is the only thing you need to build a reactor. Uranium isn't even in my Top 10 supply chain concerns for the next 5-10 years of nuclear power in the United States.
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Mar 3, 2025
The nuclear industry needs to do a better job policing itself. There's one nuclear startup which is quite clearly a pump-and-dump scheme. I won't call them out by name since I don't want to get sued, but I see people who should know better who are actively *promoting* them.
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Jeff Waksman
@Waksman84
Oct 24, 2025
This is a screaming red light that the nuclear bubble on Wall Street is about to pop. So here is our challenge as a nation: Can we push through that popped bubble, slide across the hype curve, and still deliver real, game changing reactors? I am committed to pushing forward.
Rod Adams
@Atomicrod
Oct 24, 2025
“Nuclear” is now such a popular word on Wall Street that a natural gas power plant developer has named itself “One Nuclear Energy LLC”. The company is now capitalizing on that name choice as part of their effort to go public via a SPAC merger. They expect to raise about $210 M
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