Heidi MacLeod
Heidi MacLeod is a Material Planner and Inventory Control Officer at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories based in Ontario, Canada
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With the recent announcement of El Salvador adopting nuclear power it creates a unique opportunity to explore what the future of nuclear power looks like on a Bitcoin Standard. Bitcoin mining is going to revolutionize the economic case for building new nuclear assets big and small, anywhere in the world, that part is obvious to anybody familiar with the power consumption properties of Bitcoin mining. What comes next is even more fascinating. A guaranteed power consumer ensures that enough power for the future can be commissioned in the present with minimal underutilization risks, opening up deployment scenarios that would have been inconceivable. New software allows utilities to be compensated in real-time, and others under development would allow utilities to use lightning payments as part of power conservation programs. As generators begin to earn in Bitcoin, they then have the choice of selling it, hodling it, or putting it to work in countless novel ways in the Bitcoin ecosystem.