“Small Modular Reactors” or “SMR”s or “SNR”s (Small Nuclear Reactors) and a new smaller nuclear reactor option that has great potential because it reduces risks associated with nuclear power generation by making the reactors much more compact and efficient. The most important benefit of nuclear power is the ability to work almost 24 hours a day regardless of weather.
The Permian Basin, Texas’s crown jewel of oil production, has a toxic secret. Each day, oil wells in this region produce approximately 25 million barrels (about one billion gallons) of wastewater. This isn’t ordinary wastewater – it’s described by Inside Climate News as “practically the filthiest fluid to ever be contemplated for treatment” – seven times saltier than seawater and contaminated with drilling chemicals, hydrocarbons, ammonia, and radioactive elements from deep underground.
