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Hello Kip,Is there a moral imperative to shut down nuclear? Do we really need nuclear reactors with the solar and wind farms that are being built?You are asking a very timely question.In a recent meeting, U.S. Representative Mo Brooks asks the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Edward McGinnis to describe the impact is America were to turn off its nuclear fleet. Mr. McGinnis responds:The impact would be incredibly negative, substantive, and long-term…This meeting and others like it are being held to determine the fate of America’s nuclear fleet. In another meeting, Mr. McGinnnis talks about the trajectory our current path.[1] He forcefully states that we must preserve what we have. If we don’t we will put ourselves behind potentially missing or delaying the implementation of the next generation reactors.Speaking of the next generation, Nu Scale enters the first stages of manufacturing. [2]Also, construction continues on the APR-1400 at Vogtle:It will be a long time before we secure our reactors…Regards,APDahlenP.S. There is also Hinckley:Footnotes[1] Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy on LinkedIn: ""If these plants continue to shut down as it is, we may be in an irretrievable…[2] NuScale SMR enters first manufacturing phase

Hello Richard,Nuclear is alive and well in America.George power is currently building two Gen III reactors. Here is a time laps video showing the construction of the Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at the Vogtle plant:This video shows an interesting passive safety features of the AP1000. It’s an old school design that uses a chimney to keep things cool.You will be interested to know that China is also constructing two AP1000 reactors. One reached criticality a few days ago.There is activity in the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) design. Do keep an eye on nuScale. They have been working closely with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); the reactor has successfully passed several regulatory milestones. We can expect a demonstrator to be constructed at Idaho National Labs.[1]Our national labs and universities are working on the problem. DOE recently invested $64M to the problem.[2] In this video Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Ed McGinnis points out what America does best.There is also the rest of the world:Things are looking good for nuclear. If only it moved faster…Regards,APDahlenFootnotes[1] NuScale's Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Passes Biggest Hurdle Yet[2] Department of Energy Invests $64 Million in Advanced Nuclear Technology

The 25th Amendment states that the body that must approve a Vice President declaration of Presidential unfitness is a “a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide”. Congress has not, so far as I know, provided for any other body to make such determinations, so we’re left the “the principal officers of the executive departments”.It is at least somewhat unclear to me who “the principal officers of the executive departments” is supposed to be. On first blush, this seems like it should be the senior-most officer in each executive department. But, for example, see 42 U.S. Code § 7132 - Principal officers. This statute, adopted in 1977, is the codification of the second paragraph of Title II of Pub. L. 95–91, the Department of Energy Organization Act, establishing the Department of Energy.It, like the paragraph in the law that it draws from, bears the title of “Principal officers”. Now, titles in statutory enactments are not controlling, but it seems that Congress may well have intended for not merely the Secretary of Energy (whose post is established by the preceding paragraph in Title II of this Act) but also the Deputy Secretary, the three Undersecretaries, and the General Counsel to be considered “principal officers” of the Department of Energy. However, the phrase “principal officer” does not actually appear anywhere in the text of the Act (it only appears in that one paragraph heading), and, as I stated before, headings and other titles are not consider to be controlling (they’re generally treated as commentary added for the assistance of the reader, rather than evidence of Congressional intent, even though Congress put them there).However, it’s my belief that the intent of Congress in proposing, and the States in adopting, the 25th Amendment, was that this body would be the individual head officers of each of the several executive departments, as may exist at that time, and is not intended to include people such as deputy secretaries, nor people who are heads of subordinate departments (such as the Secretary of the Army). The list of Executive Departments itself changes from time to time: departments are created (such as the Department of Energy, which was created in 1977) and even occasionally abolished (the Post Office Department, abolished in 1971). There are today 15 Executive Departments, each headed by a single officer, and it would be these 15 senior-most officers who would decide.But this raises another question. What if some of these posts are vacant? Will this singular duty of that officer be carried out by whoever is holding the seat down as the Acting Secretary under whatever order of succession exists in that Department? Or does that officer simply not participate in the election? My guess is that the Acting Secretary would participate in the election, but there’s an argument that he or she should only do so if he or she was previously confirmed by the Senate. This is not a idle question; Trump didn’t fully staff his Cabinet until April 28, with the appointment of Alex Acosta to the position of Secretary of Labor. Prior to that, there were vacancies on the Cabinet. But at the moment, the Cabinet is fully staffed with officers named by the current Administration, each confirmed by the Senate in due course.So, if Mike Pence were to seek to declare the President unfit to serve and thus become Acting President, he would need the support of a majority of the following fifteen people:Rex Tillerson (Secretary of State)Steve Mnuchin (Secretary of the Treasury)James Mattis (Secretary of Defense)Jefferson Sessions (Attorney General, head of the Department of Justice)Ryan Zinke (Secretary of the Interior)Sonny Perdue (Secretary of Agriculture)Wilbur Ross (Secretary of Commerce)Alex Acosta (Secretary of Labor)Tom Price (Secretary of Health and Human Services)Ben Carson (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development)Elaine Chao (Secretary of Transportation)Rick Perry (Secretary of Energy)Betsy DeVos (Secretary of Education)David Shulkin (Secretary of Veterans Affairs)John Kelly (Secretary of Homeland Security)