A year ago Donald Trump decided to reignite nuclear power research –– his goal in June 2025 was to develop three new advanced nuclear reactors and get them to reach criticality by July 4th this year for the 250th celebrations. In the end they got four across the line. One of them, created by an Australian Bobby Gallagher, was a latecomer to the race, but managed to build a new microreactor design, with some help from the US Energy Department,  in an awe-inspiring 150 days.

Australia is such a backwater, his work wouldn't even be legal here.

We have more uranium than any country on Earth, but it's buried under ten million square kilometers of stupid red tape.

The microreactor on the ute in the photo is 1 megawatt with a target cost of 15 cents per kilowatt hour. It is expected to run for five years before refueling, and is called the Unity Nuclear Battery.