Dr. Taylor Loy
@tayloraloy.bsky.social
Virginia Tech Postdoc (STS), nuclear energy/nonpro. Former SRO instructor nuke worker. he/him. #TritiumMatters
Dissertation:
https://hdl.handle.net/10919/120638
FAS Day One 2025:
https://fas.org/publication/fusion-energy-leadership-tritium-capacity/
Dissertation:
https://hdl.handle.net/10919/120638
FAS Day One 2025:
https://fas.org/publication/fusion-energy-leadership-tritium-capacity/
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Dr. Taylor Loy
@tayloraloy.bsky.social
· Aug 10
*PhD-level intelligence intensifies*
1 Megadollar : 1 Megadeath
Today in 1952, the Boston Globe published an article by science writer Michael Amrine sharing the news that the hydrogen bomb—successfully tested for the first time 18 days earlier but not yet deployed—would enable the United States to conduct mass slaughter for the low, low cost of $1 per person.
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
1 Megadollar : 1 Megadeath
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Today in 1952, the Boston Globe published an article by science writer Michael Amrine sharing the news that the hydrogen bomb—successfully tested for the first time 18 days earlier but not yet deployed—would enable the United States to conduct mass slaughter for the low, low cost of $1 per person.
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Today in 1952, the Boston Globe published an article by science writer Michael Amrine sharing the news that the hydrogen bomb—successfully tested for the first time 18 days earlier but not yet deployed—would enable the United States to conduct mass slaughter for the low, low cost of $1 per person.
“Beyond Byproduct: Rethinking Tritium in Fusion Technologies” in Nuclear Future Nov/Dec 2025
The latest from me.
H/t to @alastairbaker1.bsky.social for his editorial guidance throughout.
#NukeSky
The latest from me.
H/t to @alastairbaker1.bsky.social for his editorial guidance throughout.
#NukeSky
nuclearinst.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“Beyond Byproduct: Rethinking Tritium in Fusion Technologies” in Nuclear Future Nov/Dec 2025
The latest from me.
H/t to @alastairbaker1.bsky.social for his editorial guidance throughout.
#NukeSky
The latest from me.
H/t to @alastairbaker1.bsky.social for his editorial guidance throughout.
#NukeSky
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.
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Ghislaine Maxwell told the Deputy Attorney General (who is Trump’s personal attorney) that Trump had never been to Epstein’s house. The DoJ had years-old emails proving that was a lie but still released that statement.
And now Ghislaine Maxwell has a new puppy, 3 meals a day, and healthcare access…
And now Ghislaine Maxwell has a new puppy, 3 meals a day, and healthcare access…
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Ghislaine Maxwell told the Deputy Attorney General (who is Trump’s personal attorney) that Trump had never been to Epstein’s house. The DoJ had years-old emails proving that was a lie but still released that statement.
And now Ghislaine Maxwell has a new puppy, 3 meals a day, and healthcare access…
And now Ghislaine Maxwell has a new puppy, 3 meals a day, and healthcare access…
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After one deployment & couple of days before sending the Marines out on leave, I was doing a fireside chat with a small group. As we talked about how to assess the time I said "This was less than a year of your life. A defining time, but if statistics hold, you'll live many more. We saw<
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
After one deployment & couple of days before sending the Marines out on leave, I was doing a fireside chat with a small group. As we talked about how to assess the time I said "This was less than a year of your life. A defining time, but if statistics hold, you'll live many more. We saw<
I swear if they vote on something before everybody figures out if we’re talking about FSA or HSA, we just need to delete all healthcare laws and start from scratch.
These are entirely different types of accounts with different rules and I see them being used at about the same frequency.
These are entirely different types of accounts with different rules and I see them being used at about the same frequency.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I swear if they vote on something before everybody figures out if we’re talking about FSA or HSA, we just need to delete all healthcare laws and start from scratch.
These are entirely different types of accounts with different rules and I see them being used at about the same frequency.
These are entirely different types of accounts with different rules and I see them being used at about the same frequency.
On ZNPP restart:
“To launch one or two units, there is enough water in the cooling pond and two cooling towers. They can also replenish the pond using water from wells.”
-Former ZNPP employee and nuclear engineer Oleksandr Krupnyi
I’ll recheck my estimates, but I don’t think that is credible.
“To launch one or two units, there is enough water in the cooling pond and two cooling towers. They can also replenish the pond using water from wells.”
-Former ZNPP employee and nuclear engineer Oleksandr Krupnyi
I’ll recheck my estimates, but I don’t think that is credible.
Russia claims NATO is preparing “major sabotage” at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, but the scenario described is technically impossible
The Insider unpacks the SVR's latest attempt to preemptively blame Ukraine for any potential incident at the facility.
The Insider unpacks the SVR's latest attempt to preemptively blame Ukraine for any potential incident at the facility.
Russia claims NATO is preparing “major sabotage” at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, but the scenario described is technically impossible
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) recently released a statement titled “The West is preparing to blame Russia for a possible accident at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant,” warning of a “...
theins.press
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
On ZNPP restart:
“To launch one or two units, there is enough water in the cooling pond and two cooling towers. They can also replenish the pond using water from wells.”
-Former ZNPP employee and nuclear engineer Oleksandr Krupnyi
I’ll recheck my estimates, but I don’t think that is credible.
“To launch one or two units, there is enough water in the cooling pond and two cooling towers. They can also replenish the pond using water from wells.”
-Former ZNPP employee and nuclear engineer Oleksandr Krupnyi
I’ll recheck my estimates, but I don’t think that is credible.
The current Trump talking point seems to be that the DOJ has to prevent the judiciary from making them feed millions of Americans who are currently hungry and in daily need because we *might* have an “emergency” of unknown nature before the government reopens.
This is the emergency.
This is the emergency.
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The current Trump talking point seems to be that the DOJ has to prevent the judiciary from making them feed millions of Americans who are currently hungry and in daily need because we *might* have an “emergency” of unknown nature before the government reopens.
This is the emergency.
This is the emergency.
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The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.
Please @cyborgapologist.bsky.social don’t hurt ‘em.
Are we having another MC Hammer moment?
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Please @cyborgapologist.bsky.social don’t hurt ‘em.
*stares in dissertation*
*eyes narrow*
*eyes narrow*
1) I thought about this one for a while and settled on NUC(LEAR)H3 (or, tritium)CO(mpany).
So, nuclear tritium company, probably a fusion startup employee/entrepreneur/founder/VC?
So, nuclear tritium company, probably a fusion startup employee/entrepreneur/founder/VC?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
*stares in dissertation*
*eyes narrow*
*eyes narrow*
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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A more convenient form of Terry Wallace's statement.
A Former Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Speaks Out
A Former Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Speaks Out - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Terry Wallace, 11th director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, posted this on his facebook page: On December 18, 1970, a nuclear weapons test was conducted in an underground shaft at the Nevada Test Site. The test, code-named Baneberry, was detonated at a depth of about 900 feet. Baneberry was a relatively small weapons test and […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A more convenient form of Terry Wallace's statement.
From “The Editors” of National Review.
Even while current admin officials and technical experts allied with Trump have been walking back his vague and inscrutable order, we can rely on the “common sense” of National Review to run with it.
Even their overview of the controversy is abysmal.
Even while current admin officials and technical experts allied with Trump have been walking back his vague and inscrutable order, we can rely on the “common sense” of National Review to run with it.
Even their overview of the controversy is abysmal.
The U.S. Should Resume Nuclear Weapons Testing | National Review
Men are not angels, and therefore the United States must always maintain an arsenal designed to deter aggression from nations that wish us ill.
www.nationalreview.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
From “The Editors” of National Review.
Even while current admin officials and technical experts allied with Trump have been walking back his vague and inscrutable order, we can rely on the “common sense” of National Review to run with it.
Even their overview of the controversy is abysmal.
Even while current admin officials and technical experts allied with Trump have been walking back his vague and inscrutable order, we can rely on the “common sense” of National Review to run with it.
Even their overview of the controversy is abysmal.
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The WSJ piece notably omits that Palantir CEO Karp holds a PhD in philosophy/social theory from Goethe University—home of the Frankfurt School—mentioning only his Haverford BA and Stanford JD.
In which Palantir recruits high school students for fellowships by telling them to skip college because its holds little value and then puts them through a cherry-picked curriculum that oddly resembles… college
The older I get the more I value conscientiousness over raw intelligence or anything like that — when someone has completed college that’s a stronger signal of being able to handle tasks in an independent environment on a consistent basis: www.wsj.com/business/pal...
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The WSJ piece notably omits that Palantir CEO Karp holds a PhD in philosophy/social theory from Goethe University—home of the Frankfurt School—mentioning only his Haverford BA and Stanford JD.
“With respect to the Vice President, if your wife encouraged you to re-engage with your faith, why not reciprocate that and engage with Hinduism too?”
“Hinduism doesn’t share the need to wish your spouse comes around to see things as you do in terms of religion.”
-Hindu American Foundation (HAF)
“Hinduism doesn’t share the need to wish your spouse comes around to see things as you do in terms of religion.”
-Hindu American Foundation (HAF)
November 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“With respect to the Vice President, if your wife encouraged you to re-engage with your faith, why not reciprocate that and engage with Hinduism too?”
“Hinduism doesn’t share the need to wish your spouse comes around to see things as you do in terms of religion.”
-Hindu American Foundation (HAF)
“Hinduism doesn’t share the need to wish your spouse comes around to see things as you do in terms of religion.”
-Hindu American Foundation (HAF)
The most culturally salient aspect of Vance’s interfaith marriage is that his ~6-year commitment to Catholicism is seen as more durable and serious than Usha’s lifelong Hindi faith.
It is inconceivable to the American Christian mind that he would ever convert to Hinduism.
It is inconceivable to the American Christian mind that he would ever convert to Hinduism.
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The most culturally salient aspect of Vance’s interfaith marriage is that his ~6-year commitment to Catholicism is seen as more durable and serious than Usha’s lifelong Hindi faith.
It is inconceivable to the American Christian mind that he would ever convert to Hinduism.
It is inconceivable to the American Christian mind that he would ever convert to Hinduism.
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One problem with testing "on an equal basis" with Russia and China is that they might not be on equal basis with each other. If we match Russia, China gets a free pass to follow. China has the smallest number of tests (45 v 🇷🇺715 and 🇺🇸1032) and ∴ the most to gain from new data.
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
One problem with testing "on an equal basis" with Russia and China is that they might not be on equal basis with each other. If we match Russia, China gets a free pass to follow. China has the smallest number of tests (45 v 🇷🇺715 and 🇺🇸1032) and ∴ the most to gain from new data.
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One thing I recently updated: US supercomputing zoomed past the benchmark established for stockpile stewardship (100 tflops) and also China has too. The Chinese have the computers to design new weapons, but what they don't have is the data from nuclear testing -- yet.
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
One thing I recently updated: US supercomputing zoomed past the benchmark established for stockpile stewardship (100 tflops) and also China has too. The Chinese have the computers to design new weapons, but what they don't have is the data from nuclear testing -- yet.
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Global nuclear warhead inventories, 2025
Russia🇷🇺 4309
United States🇺🇸 3700
China🇨🇳 600
France🇫🇷 290
United Kingdom🇬🇧 225
India🇮🇳 180
Pakistan🇵🇰 170
Israel🇮🇱 90
North Korea🇰🇵 50
Russia🇷🇺 4309
United States🇺🇸 3700
China🇨🇳 600
France🇫🇷 290
United Kingdom🇬🇧 225
India🇮🇳 180
Pakistan🇵🇰 170
Israel🇮🇱 90
North Korea🇰🇵 50
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Global nuclear warhead inventories, 2025
Russia🇷🇺 4309
United States🇺🇸 3700
China🇨🇳 600
France🇫🇷 290
United Kingdom🇬🇧 225
India🇮🇳 180
Pakistan🇵🇰 170
Israel🇮🇱 90
North Korea🇰🇵 50
Russia🇷🇺 4309
United States🇺🇸 3700
China🇨🇳 600
France🇫🇷 290
United Kingdom🇬🇧 225
India🇮🇳 180
Pakistan🇵🇰 170
Israel🇮🇱 90
North Korea🇰🇵 50