The Case for Small Reactors

The core module of a small modular nuclear reactor in China. (Photo by Liu Xuan/VCG via Getty Images)

Last month, the Trump administration inked a multi-billion-dollar investment framework deal with Japan to finance the construction of several new large nuclear reactors in the United States, generating a wave of headlines across the globe. What has received somewhat less attention is the administration’s small reactor policy.

Earlier this year, under the authority of a White House executive order, the Department of Energy announced the creation of the Reactor Pilot Program, an initiative tasked with establishing a novel pathway for the testing of advanced reactor designs being pursued by energy startups like Terrestrial Energy and Valar Atomics. 

The Reactor Pilot Program is the latest development in a technological, regulatory, and commercial transformation of the American nuclear industry. 

Nuclear power generation has long been dominated by large light-water reactors, which typically produce more than 600 megawatts of power. All the operating commercial reactors in the U.S.—94 reactors at 54 plants around the country—fit this description. Today, though, dozens of companies are exploring smaller designs, reactors that typically produce less than 300 megawatts of power, including some so-called “microreactors,”  which are under 50 megawatts and can be as small as one megawatt or less. (A rule of thumb is that one megawatt is approximately enough to power about 1,000 American households.) 

The challenge with conventional nuclear power generation has been that each new nuclear plant was typically constructed as its own megaproject. While other electric power industries like natural gas turbines and solar panels benefit from modular technologies and economies of scale, one-off megaprojects rarely enjoy the learning curves and supply chain efficiencies that lead to lower costs over time. That’s why even in countries like France, which has generated most of its electricity from nuclear power for decades, plant construction costs rose over time. Once they’re up and running, nuclear plants generate low-cost, reliable electricity. But when the distance between a proposed project and an operating plant is more than a decade and tens of billions of dollars, the hurdles to nuclear power commercialization become daunting.

 

Es poco probable que EE. UU. invada Venezuela, pero Trump podría ordenar ataques de precisión

 Por Ahmed Adel

Investigación Global, 6 de noviembre de 2025

Región: América Latina y el Caribe , EE. UU.

Tema: Inteligencia

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El objetivo de las provocaciones militares de Estados Unidos en la cuenca del Caribe no es la lucha contra el narcotráfico, sino el intento del presidente Donald Trump de causar desestabilización interna y el colapso del gobierno venezolano para obtener el control de los recursos naturales del país.  Número uno a nivel mundial: Petróleo y gas natural. 

Sin embargo, es poco probable que esto tenga éxito, lo que plantea la cuestión de si Trump se atreverá a invadir Venezuela, ya que esta es la única perspectiva realista para un cambio de régimen.

El gobierno de Trump está presionando al gobierno venezolano financiando a las fuerzas políticas de la oposición y sobornando a ciertos altos funcionarios del ejército y la policía para ganarse a posibles golpistas, lo cual no está de acuerdo con el derecho internacional ni siquiera con las regulaciones estadounidenses. El gobierno de Trump solo ha intensificado las tensiones al amenazar con intervenir militarmente en el país

Las unidades militares, incluidos los portaaviones, que se acumulan alrededor de las aguas venezolanas con la justificación de detener a los narcotraficantes, indican en cambio que Estados Unidos podría realizar ataques pronto. Los portaaviones se utilizan para destruir objetivos en el interior del territorio de otro país, no para detener pequeñas embarcaciones de narcotráfico. Esto confirma que se trata de una presión inapropiada por parte de Trump, quien se jacta de haber detenido supuestamente ocho guerras en todo el mundo. Ahora quiere ser un jefe militar que restaure un gobierno que sirva a sus intereses en la rica Venezuela.

Trump no está logrando ningún progreso significativo ni pasos de paz en otros asuntos internacionales, como Ucrania, por lo que ahora quiere tomar medidas contra el presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro  para distraer la atención de su fracaso general, ya que cree que será un éxito fácil.

Imagen de Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Es vergonzoso y preocupante que el secretario de Estado de EE. UU., Marco Rubio,  nominara al Premio Nobel de la Paz a Maria Corina Machado , una líder opositora fallida. Maria Corina Machado, quien ganó el Premio Nobel de la Paz, hizo algo contrario al espíritu y significado mismos del premio, que no debería otorgarse a alguien que aboga por la guerra y pide la intervención de tropas extranjeras

A pesar de todas las amenazas y el armamento que ha traído a la región, Trump no podrá llevar a cabo tal intervención. En el peor de los casos, podría atacar una o dos bases, si es que realmente existe un depósito de drogas allí.

Es evidente que la administración Trump busca obtener el control de los recursos de Venezuela y no está muy interesada ni en Nicolás Maduro, ni en Machado, ni en la figura opositora Juan Guaidó, sino en tener un presidente y un gobierno al frente de ese país que una vez más le entreguen a Estados Unidos el derecho absoluto a controlar, en primer lugar, las fuentes de petróleo y gas, y luego tener acceso absoluto a todas las materias primas primarias que posee Venezuela.

Este es el interés de Estados Unidos, y por este interés, están dispuestos a hacer todo lo que esté en su poder, sin tener en cuenta el derecho internacional. Sin embargo, las relaciones en el mundo actual son tales que su intervención abierta produciría un efecto indeseable y una gran resistencia en el mundo, especialmente después de que Rusia diera su apoyo retórico a Venezuela.

Rusia condena enérgicamente las provocaciones militares estadounidenses en el Caribe con el pretexto de combatir el narcotráfico, declaró el 1 de noviembre la portavoz del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Rusia , María Zajárova

“Condenamos enérgicamente el uso excesivo de la fuerza militar en la implementación de misiones antinarcóticos. Tales acciones violan tanto las leyes nacionales estadounidenses como el derecho internacional. Esto es reconocido por representantes de numerosos países y organizaciones internacionales, incluyendo al Secretario General de la ONU, António Guterres, y al Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, Volker Türk”, enfatizó Zakharova.

Zakharova cree que Washington debería comenzar la guerra contra las drogas en los Estados Unidos, no en Venezuela.

Según el Washington Post, Venezuela contactó a Rusia, China e Irán en octubre con una solicitud de asistencia militar debido a las amenazas de Washington de realizar ataques. Venezuela solicitó la entrega de misiles, radares y aviones modernizados debido a la concentración de fuerzas estadounidenses en la región del Caribe y pidió a Moscú que ayudara a fortalecer las defensas aéreas, incluyendo la revisión de los cazas rusos adquiridos previamente

Al mismo tiempo, NBC informó que el Pentágono está desarrollando opciones para ataques contra los cárteles de la droga dentro de Venezuela, que, según sus fuentes, podrían comenzar en las próximas semanas, tras varias operaciones militares estadounidenses en septiembre y octubre contra barcos que transportaban presuntos narcotraficantes frente a la costa de Venezuela.

Sin embargo, en los últimos días, la propia Casa Blanca ha negado las acusaciones en la prensa estadounidense de que el presidente esté siquiera considerando una intervención militar en Venezuela, lo que indica que Trump podría estar dando marcha atrás por segunda vez desde su impulso inicial. Sin embargo, no se puede descartar que Estados Unidos pueda realizar ataques de precisión, tal como lo hizo contra Irán el 22 de junio.

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BREAKING: Peer-Reviewed Study Finds COVID-19 “Vaccines” Linked to 63 Serious Brain and Spinal Cord Adverse Events

 By Nicolas Hulscher

Global Research, November 07, 2025

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Region: USA

Theme: Science and Medicine

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The study titled “COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination: Implications for the Central Nervous System,” authored by Kirstin Cosgrove, BM, CCRA; James A. Thorp, MD; Claire Rogers, MSPAS, PA-C; Steven Hatfill, MD; Nicolas Hulscher, MPH; and Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, was just published after successful peer-review in the International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences.

Using VAERS data from January 1990 through November 2024, we compared adverse events reported after COVID-19 vaccination to those after influenza vaccination and all other vaccines combined. We focused specifically on the central nervous system (CNS) — the brain and spinal cord, which control everything from memory and thought to movement and vital body functions. In total, we identified 63 serious safety signals involving the brain and nervous system, ranging from meningitis and encephalitis to brain abscesses, herpesvirus reactivations, demyelinating syndromes, and even prion diseases — each breaching CDC/FDA thresholds that are supposed to trigger immediate safety investigations.

The mechanism is clear: lipid nanoparticles deliver mRNA into brain blood vessels, where spike protein is produced and drives vascular inflammation. This damages the blood–brain barrier (BBB), the brain’s protective shield, and allows pathogens and latent viruses to penetrate, bacteria to seed abscesses, and immune responses to misfire against neural tissue. Spike protein itself can also cross into the brain, where it disrupts neurons and glial cells and promotes abnormal protein misfolding — a prion-like process resembling Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and “mad cow disease.” Together, these effects explain why COVID-19 vaccination is associated with such a broad spectrum of severe neurological injuries.

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Here are some of the conditions we found to be far more likely to be reported after COVID-19 vaccination compared to flu or other vaccines:

Central Nervous System Infections

• Meningitis (all types) — OR 34.2 (23.7–50.0), p<0.0001 → 34× more likely than after flu vaccination
• Aseptic meningitis — OR 52.8 (33.5–83.1), p<0.0001 → 53× more likely
• Bacterial meningitis — OR 35.7 (16.7–76.0), p<0.0001 → 36× more likely
• Autoimmune encephalitis — OR 78.9 (45.4–137), p<0.0001 → 79× more likely
• Limbic encephalitis — OR 146 (43.7–485), p<0.0001 → 146× more likely
• Bickerstaff’s encephalitis — OR 68.3 (19.8–236), p<0.0001 → 68× more likely
• Neuroborreliosis (Lyme CNS infection) — OR 321 (43.0–2390), p<0.0001 → 321× more likely
• Toxic encephalopathy — OR 157 (69.1–355), p<0.0001 → 157× more likely
• Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) — OR 44.6 (9.48–210), p<0.0001 → 45× more likely

Herpetic CNS Reactivations 

• Herpes zoster meningitis — OR 1,260 (77.0–20,700), p<0.0001 → over 1,200× more likely
• Herpes zoster meningoencephalitis — OR 339 (45.5–2,520), p<0.0001 → 339× more likely
• Herpes zoster neurological disease — OR 680 (41.1–11,200), p<0.0001 → 680× more likely
• Herpes simplex meningitis — OR 132 (7.45–2,360), p=0.0009 → 132× more likely
• Herpetic meningoencephalitis — OR 136 (47.3–391), p<0.0001 → 136× more likely
• Varicella meningitis — OR 168 (9.61–2,930), p=0.0004 → 168× more likely

Brain & Spinal Abscesses 

• Brain abscess — OR 120 (27.7–522), p<0.0001 → 120× more likely
• Extradural abscess — OR 169 (22.2–1,290), p<0.0001 → 169× more likely
• Spinal cord abscess — OR 89.1 (11.2–712), p<0.0001 → 89× more likely
• Subdural abscess — OR 35.7 (3.90–326), p=0.0015 → 36× more likely

Rare Neurodegenerative & Demyelinating Conditions 

• Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) — OR 847 (115–6,220), p<0.0001 → 847× more likely
• Myelitis (all types) — OR 31.3 (22.2–44.2), p<0.0001 → 31× more likely
• Transverse myelitis — OR 20.8 (15.0–29.0), p<0.0001 → 21× more likely
• Viral myelitis — OR 115 (6.37–2,070), p=0.0013 → 115× more likely
• Noninfectious myelitis — OR 132 (7.45–2,360), p=0.0009 → 132× more likely
• Prion disease (general) — OR 61.8 (3.15–1,220), p=0.0066 → 62× more likely

 

These findings indicate that COVID-19 vaccination not only compromises the integrity of the blood–brain barrier but initiates a cascade of neuropathological processes. In addition to facilitating infections and inflammatory injury, the spike protein exhibits prion-like behavior — misfolding and inducing aberrant protein aggregation consistent with mechanisms underlying Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, the human analogue of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (“mad cow disease”). Such prionogenic activity may also contribute to the formation of the anomalous white fibrous intravascular clots reported postmortem, where amyloid and fibrin deposition suggest a novel, vaccine-associated pathology of protein misfolding.

This unprecedented neurological impairment helps to explain why Thorp et al found that mRNA shots were linked to 86 serious neuropsychiatric disorders including dementia, schizophrenia, suicidal and homicidal thoughts, stroke, psychosis, depression, cognitive impairment, delusions, and more:

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Taken together, disruption of the brain’s vascular defenses and induction of prion-like processes represent a profound and urgent neurological safety concern.

It’s no mystery why cognitive impairment is skyrocketing across America:

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As we conclude in the study:

At the time of this publication, 4.5 years have passed since the initiation of the mass COVID-19 mRNA “vaccination” campaign and yet the long-term effects of this program are still being elucidated. Our data join the work of others to firmly conclude the COVID-19 vaccines and their boosters are not safe for human use and should be urgently removed from the market.

 

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The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity

by Michel Chossudovsky

Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.

“My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”

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In fifteen concise science-based chapters, Michel traces the false covid pandemic, explaining how a PCR test, producing up to 97% proven false positives, combined with a relentless 24/7 fear campaign, was able to create a worldwide panic-laden “plandemic”; that this plandemic would never have been possible without the infamous DNA-modifying Polymerase Chain Reaction test – which to this day is being pushed on a majority of innocent people who have no clue. His conclusions are evidenced by renown scientists. —Peter Koenig 

Professor Chossudovsky exposes the truth that “there is no causal relationship between the virus and economic variables.” In other words, it was not COVID-19 but, rather, the deliberate implementation of the illogical, scientifically baseless lockdowns that caused the shutdown of the global economy. –David Skripac

A reading of  Chossudovsky’s book provides a comprehensive lesson in how there is a global coup d’état under way called “The Great Reset” that if not resisted and defeated by freedom loving people everywhere will result in a dystopian future not yet imagined. Pass on this free gift from Professor Chossudovsky before it’s too late.  You will not find so much valuable information and analysis in one place. –Edward Curtin

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