Katie Mummah

I volunteer to be the astronaut safeguards inspector for space reactors

operation upshot-knothole would be a beautiful name for a girl

The large scale plants have challenges in terms of up front cost, but I'm not convinced that the small plants will end up significantly cheaper, especially on a per MW and O&M cost. And WEC is a real company that makes real products (sometimes) unlike a lot of the frankly dubious startups

As recently as 2023 there was no UF6 uranium conversion in the US. Now Metropolis Works is 3 years into their restart and expanding, plus a Canadian nuclear startup (from Alberta, interestingly) wants to build a new conversion plant in Wyoming cowboystatedaily.com/2026/10/21/g...

I mean, the standard design cert for the AP1000 now has one of the Vogtle units as the reference (with all the construction related mods). So they're starting from a better place. And I assume nobody is going to use WEC as the main AE/contractor again

I dug into EIA data and found a growing divide between electricity prices at investor-owned utilities and public power providers. Then @michellema.bsky.social and I visited two towns that show what that divide means for customers on the ground. Read our story here! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

proof that racism makes you hopelessly stupid

Translating politicians statements Expand housing in a "regional approach" = NIMBY, but gosh we need it in someone else's backyard! "Keep commute times reasonable" = hopefully someone nearby is a YIMBY! Preserve "Community character" = things should be preserved in amber

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Scientist: I made it in TeX and can't figure out how to remove the gap but I also don't want to get yelled at if I post a question on stackexchange, so I have instead decided to appreciate the gap, which is still there

Juice xkcd.com/3308/

We're gonna get more than 1,000 MW of new nuclear capacity soon! Uprates are a fancy word for update equipment to get more power out of an existing reactor www.ans.org/news/article...

Got the Sunday scaries, this coming week is gonna be a rough one methinks 🙈

I saw a Christmas tree in a neighborhood house

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

Today I learned that I get pretty fired up when someone questions my experience in cold weather

Why was I low energy all day? Oh yeah I only drank half my coffee, it's a real mystery

Sometimes Teams just decides to take four+ minutes to load my meeting. Don't rush buddy, this 30 minute meeting has plenty of time

This is the proper way to check that you're not bringing devices into secure areas

App: can we send you notifications? Me: ✨ never✨

I needed to grab a coworkers paper quickly so I searched for it by keywords and Gemini not only hallucinated a first name from "A.", it decided on a common mens name and referred to the researcher as he. Her name is Alex! which is even in one of the documents cited!

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I had a Twitter account while the United States was still enriching uranium by gaseous diffusion

I think you shouldn't be able to qualify for a $900 million contract from DOE without publicly announcing the type of technology you're using. Until they do I'm going to spread the rumor that General Matter is going all the way back to outdated gaseous diffusion

One thing that was clear from Global, the nuclear fuel cycle conference, is that venture capital has made its way beyond reactors alone and into the fuel cycle. Laser enrichment is back, baby!

I don't know what an adaptogen is and at this point I refuse to learn