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Jack Devanney
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Jack Devanney writes Gordian Knot News, a personal blog at jackdevanney.substack.com about science and economics. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Nuclear Power Is Too Safe”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jack Devanney's posts on nuclear power safety and radiation risk, including the claim that the LNT model is invalid and a post arguing nuclear power is too slow to build.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A road to cheap nuclear which humanity can and must have to solve energy poverty and global warming.
Most-linked posts?
- Nuclear Power Is Too Safe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-31
- /p/the-two-lies-that-killed-nuclear2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-17
What Hacker News says?
They have done. The Three Mile Island accident happened when it was being operated by Navy vets [1]. Simple training isn’t enough. During the investigation of the accident the Admiral that built and ran the Navy nuclear program was asked how the Navy had managed to operate accident free, and what others could learn. This was his response: > Over the years, many people have asked me how I run the Naval Reactors Progr…
Comment linking /p/tmi-lessons-what-was-learned-and
on “Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants”Submitted Cooling Towers are not Cool as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, but after a certain point it becomes a matter of risk tolerance. Apparently some radiation standards in nuclear power plants work out at millions/billions of dollars per year per life saved https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/nuclear-power-is-too-saf...
Comment linking /p/nuclear-power-is-too-safe
on “China's quiet energy revolution: the switch from nuclear to renewable energy”Submitted Nuclear power is too slow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI am not sure you have actually closely read what I have said. Early nuclear builds were cheaper to build: https://gordianknotbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/essay... Spent fuel is mostly reusable: https://gordianknotbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/gordi... Low-dose radiation risk is a contested harm: https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/the-two-lies-that-killed... And no, solar is NOT free..............
Comment linking /p/the-two-lies-that-killed-nuclear
on “Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants”Submitted The Cost of Grid Inertia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/nuclear-power-is-too-saf...
Comment linking /p/nuclear-power-is-too-safe
on “Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants”Submitted Nuclear power is too slow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/how-can-nrc-style-regula...
Comment linking /p/how-can-nrc-style-regulation-be-so
on “Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants”Submitted Nuclear Power Is Too Safe as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/600-year-old-spent-nucle...
Comment linking /p/600-year-old-spent-nuclear-fuel-is
on “Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants”Submitted Talking to People about Nuclear Power, Stage 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/nuclear-is-too-expensive https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/what-is-nuclears-should-... https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/the-two-lies-that-killed... https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/the-case-for-1-msv-per-d...
Comment linking /p/the-case-for-1-msv-per-day
on “Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants”Submitted LNT Is Nonsense as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBecause the radiation from those structural components is not harmful in the doses people would experience from them. The fear of radiation is wildly exaggerated and is based on the LNT model which every single scientific test of has proved invalid. The threshold appears to be about 25 mSv / day. The worst American nuclear disaster, TMI, exposed some people to a radiation dose equivalent to a single trans-Atlantic f…
Comment linking /p/the-two-lies-that-killed-nuclear
on “Nuclear power is too slow”