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2025-12-04 Economy

Terrapower Gets Key Federal approval toward Modular Reactor

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Posted by Lord Garth 2025-12-04 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1777 views ] Top

1 Global health backslide: Gates Foundation report links funding cuts to rising child deaths

Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation are raising the alarm over the deadly impacts of international funding cuts in global health. Slashed budgets are projected to reverse decades of progress, causing the number of children dying before their fifth birthday to rise for the first time this century. An estimated 4.8 million children are expected to die this year, an increase of 200,000 deaths compared to last year.
Is he still giving to Planned Parenthood?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-04 08:08|| 2025-12-04 08:08|| Front Page Top

2 Media doing ‘damage control’ as widely reported study on cost of climate change gets retracted

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-04 10:17|| 2025-12-04 10:17|| Front Page Top

3 I know that some of you are big proponents of nuclear power but if Bill Gates is in on it, I worry that it will be as buggy as Windows and that would not be good for Wyoming.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-12-04 12:11|| 2025-12-04 12:11|| Front Page Top

4 ^3
partly agree

this reactor, given its novelty will require a extensive run at low power then stepping up a few times until it reaches full power

almost certainly there will be problems to correct but the company knows this and will have a lot of devices, cameras and people watching the start up phases

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-12-04 15:59|| 2025-12-04 15:59|| Front Page Top

5 ^#1. What would the murder rate be if abortions were counted as murders? Remember the unborn, they are persons.

Posted by Melancholic 2025-12-04 16:23|| 2025-12-04 16:23|| Front Page Top

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