Author: Taiga Cogger

Where Young Minds Met Nuclear Innovation

I didn’t expect to walk into a room full of teenagers debating neutron economy and thorium cycles, but that’s exactly what happened. Even months later, the energy from that event…
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The Power We Choose

When I stepped off the plane in Winnipeg, the air was cold and sharp, the kind that wakes every sense. I had flown from Japan to attend the Youth Nuclear…
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Nuclear Heart

Nuclear Heart“Do you remember me?”Big eyes, rocket boots, spiky hair. That’s right, I’m Astro Boy. In Japan, they call me Tetsuwan Atomu, the Mighty Atom. I first appeared in 1952,…
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The Reactor We Left Behind

If Japan is going to lead in clean energy again, I don’t think it’s going to happen through solar panels or wind turbines, at least not alone. That thought kept…
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The Renewable Wall

by Fake Labubu(unlicensed forest resident & part-time energy realist) It’s 41°C and rising. The leaves have stopped rustling. Even the cicadas are too exhausted to scream. Somewhere deep in the…
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Jellyfish vs. Nuclear Safety

It wasn’t a storm or an earthquake that challenged one of France’s biggest nuclear plants last week. It was jellyfish millions of them, clogging the seawater intake at Gravelines. Within…
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Abundance, Not Scarcity

We’ve been told that the future must be one of limits, that we’re running out of water, fuel, land, and time. But what if the real constraint isn’t physical? What…
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Rethinking Nuclear Waste

When people think of nuclear power, one word often comes to mind: waste. The image of barrels of radioactive material sitting in storage for tens of thousands of years is…
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