Topics to address in 2024 January 1, 2024 John Shanahan Civil Engineer Denver, Colorado, USA john.shanahan@allaboutenergy.net Here are topics that are important to resolve (2024?) as soon as possible. [Text in brackets explains why each technical topic is as important for politicians to solve correctly as convention issues.]
1) [Reliable, clean energy for thousands of years.] Will the nuclear power industry start focusing on solving real problems holding them back and stop making unscientific claims that nuclear power can change/control global warming? 2) [Reliable, clean energy for thousands of years.] Will the world start promoting use of uranium and thorium and different nuclear power technologies for many special applications? 3) [Reliable, clean energy for thousands of years.] Will the world establish realistic radiation safety guidelines and abandon the artificial and too restrictive Linear No-Threshold and Cumulative Dose Guidelines? 4) [Reliable, clean energy for thousands of years.] Will the world start reprocessing used nuclear fuel and store only real nuclear waste which requires much shorter storage? 5) [Reliable, clean energy and 6000 vital by-products for thousands of years.] Will the world start focusing on how it is going to replace oil for energy uses and by-products that drive 1