MC Hammond
@mchammond.bsky.social
Clean energy, nuclear, & national security. Regulatory attorney. Administrative law nerd. Incurable optimist. Karaoke enthusiast. Funnier in person. Views are my own.
An excellent, short piece from Dr. Rita Baranwal on separating hype from reality in microreactors:
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November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
An excellent, short piece from Dr. Rita Baranwal on separating hype from reality in microreactors:
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Bumping this great article again now that Judge Boasberg is reopening his contempt investigation into the El Salvadoran flights.
NEW: The law is supposed to protect unaccompanied migrant children from being summarily whisked out of the country by ICE in the dead of night.
But that didn't seem to matter on Labor Day weekend, when the Trump administration tried to do just that.
My latest: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
But that didn't seem to matter on Labor Day weekend, when the Trump administration tried to do just that.
My latest: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
November 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Bumping this great article again now that Judge Boasberg is reopening his contempt investigation into the El Salvadoran flights.
It is nice to see that the excellent team at LPO is still getting hard things done. This loan was started with the Biden Admin (as was most actual federal nuclear investment $), and the first loan that had a simultaneous conditional commitment and close. www.energy.gov/articles/ene...
Energy Department Closes Loan to Restart Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office closed a loan to lower energy costs and restart a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant.
www.energy.gov
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It is nice to see that the excellent team at LPO is still getting hard things done. This loan was started with the Biden Admin (as was most actual federal nuclear investment $), and the first loan that had a simultaneous conditional commitment and close. www.energy.gov/articles/ene...
“Our first point of contact with most information is rarely the information itself but some lossily compressed derivative that’s already been processed and strained through a dozen layers of reinterpretation.”
A Theory of Dumb
What if the cause of Americans’ collective cognitive decline is, simply, each other?
nymag.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“Our first point of contact with most information is rarely the information itself but some lossily compressed derivative that’s already been processed and strained through a dozen layers of reinterpretation.”
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There was another incident tonight where a Homeland Security agent shot at someone in D.C., the second such shooting in a month. For context, MPD has had five officer-involved shootings in the *entire year* thus far.
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
There was another incident tonight where a Homeland Security agent shot at someone in D.C., the second such shooting in a month. For context, MPD has had five officer-involved shootings in the *entire year* thus far.
Wow. We gave the ROK nuclear submarines and reprocessing all in one go?!?! www.reuters.com/world/china/...
www.reuters.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Wow. We gave the ROK nuclear submarines and reprocessing all in one go?!?! www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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who keeps calling it twitter instead of crashoutApp
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
who keeps calling it twitter instead of crashoutApp
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WHOA. Via @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social, it looks like Democrats just flipped BOTH *statewide* Public Service Commissioner seats in Georgia.
That seems...significant.
That seems...significant.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
WHOA. Via @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social, it looks like Democrats just flipped BOTH *statewide* Public Service Commissioner seats in Georgia.
That seems...significant.
That seems...significant.
Very insightful podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Live Special: Who Rules the World? Trump, Tech and the Fight for the Future
Podcast Episode · Past Present Future · 10/29/2025 · 57m
podcasts.apple.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Very insightful podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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NEE & GOOGL announce nuclear partnership built around restart of Iowa's Duane Arnold reactor, where GOOGL is making a 25y offtake commitment. DA was shut down in 2020 and is planned for reopen by Q1 2029.
NextEra Energy and Google Announce New Collaboration to Accelerate Nuclear Energy Deployment in the U.S.
Duane Arnold Energy Center restart to strengthen American energy grid resilience; Iowa's only nuclear facility is targeted to be fully operational by the first...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
NEE & GOOGL announce nuclear partnership built around restart of Iowa's Duane Arnold reactor, where GOOGL is making a 25y offtake commitment. DA was shut down in 2020 and is planned for reopen by Q1 2029.
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Only 7 out of 71 employees at the Los Alamos NNSA field site are working, the rest furloughed.
At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.
"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/n...
At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.
"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/n...
October 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Only 7 out of 71 employees at the Los Alamos NNSA field site are working, the rest furloughed.
At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.
"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/n...
At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.
"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/n...
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Zohran Mamdani just said he'd support new nuclear plants in New York at tonight's debate.
Mamdani: “I think it’s something worth exploring.”
Cuomo: “Is that a yes?”
Mamdani: “Yeah.”
Mamdani: “I think it’s something worth exploring.”
Cuomo: “Is that a yes?”
Mamdani: “Yeah.”
October 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Zohran Mamdani just said he'd support new nuclear plants in New York at tonight's debate.
Mamdani: “I think it’s something worth exploring.”
Cuomo: “Is that a yes?”
Mamdani: “Yeah.”
Mamdani: “I think it’s something worth exploring.”
Cuomo: “Is that a yes?”
Mamdani: “Yeah.”
Please consider giving to and volunteering at Capital Area Food Bank this holiday season. They are already seeing unprecedented demand from federal families in the region.
“Capital Area Food Bank, which partnered with No Limits Outreach Ministries to host Tuesday’s event in Landover, Maryland, said it served more than 370 households — more than double the number of federal workers it was expecting.”
www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/p...
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Federal workers form line down the block for food pantry as shutdown hits third-week mark | CNN Politics
Summer Kerksick waited in line for two hours Tuesday to receive a box of canned and dry goods at an event organized by a DC food bank and local religious group for federal workers amid the ongoing gov...
www.cnn.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Please consider giving to and volunteering at Capital Area Food Bank this holiday season. They are already seeing unprecedented demand from federal families in the region.
Watching the Lilith Fair documentary and feeling (1) very lucky to have gone to something so special and (2) very old.
October 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Watching the Lilith Fair documentary and feeling (1) very lucky to have gone to something so special and (2) very old.
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FINALLY. One of the most trusted energy assistance organizations in the country issued a call for a total ban on utility shutoffs TODAY. It's about time.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
FINALLY. One of the most trusted energy assistance organizations in the country issued a call for a total ban on utility shutoffs TODAY. It's about time.
neada.org/wp-content/u...
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Interested to see these forthcoming RFPs for the Janus program. Wrote a piece on it here: www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-...
Implementation of Executive Order 14299 Turns Advanced Nuclear Deployment into a U.S. Army Priority
Under Executive Order (EO) 14299, “ Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security ,” the U.S. Department of War directed the Army to initiate operation of an Army-regulated rea...
www.pillsburylaw.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Interested to see these forthcoming RFPs for the Janus program. Wrote a piece on it here: www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-...
Might as well be called Smaug Enterprises
Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...
October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Might as well be called Smaug Enterprises
It is just an extremely wild time to be a nuclear energy lawyer.
October 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It is just an extremely wild time to be a nuclear energy lawyer.
🚨New nuclear tech alert! So proud of the DISA and Pillsbury teams for getting this license. This game changing process will revolutionize the ability to treat over 15,000 abandoned uranium mining sites in the west including many on the lands of the Navajo Nation. www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-...
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Across the western U.S., more than 15,000 Cold War–era abandoned uranium mine waste sites remain—many of which are located on or near tribal lands—posing long-standing environmental and health risks. ...
www.pillsburylaw.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨New nuclear tech alert! So proud of the DISA and Pillsbury teams for getting this license. This game changing process will revolutionize the ability to treat over 15,000 abandoned uranium mining sites in the west including many on the lands of the Navajo Nation. www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-...
This! If you have the means, pay for your journalism. Buy subscriptions for everyone for the holidays!
It seems there are two main reasons things haven’t gone completely to shit in the US: 1. Lawyers and the courts; 2. Journalists and the media. Most of us can’t do anything about the first, but we can support journalism. Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe to news & donate to public media.
October 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This! If you have the means, pay for your journalism. Buy subscriptions for everyone for the holidays!
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US solar module prices up following safe harbour deadline rush #energysky -- via pv-tech:
US solar module prices up following safe harbour deadline rush
US solar module prices jumped in Q3 2025 as developers scrambled to meet the 2 September 2025 safe harbour deadline for ITC qualification.
www.pv-tech.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
US solar module prices up following safe harbour deadline rush #energysky -- via pv-tech:
I agree with just about everything from this piece from the NYT Editorial Board, though they skip over how the costs of transmission is a significant contributor to price rises, however the gist of the piece—that we need all forms of power to keep prices down and this Admin is doing the opposite. 💯
Opinion | Why You Should Blame Trump When Your Energy Bills Go Up
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I agree with just about everything from this piece from the NYT Editorial Board, though they skip over how the costs of transmission is a significant contributor to price rises, however the gist of the piece—that we need all forms of power to keep prices down and this Admin is doing the opposite. 💯