Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft

November 18, 2023

LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #454 (11/18/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

NOV 18, 2023

LLAW’s COMMENTARY: (Foolhardy or Just Plain Foolish)

There is a substantial difference between a foolhardy person and one who’s just plain foolish. One is just heedless or reckless, the other is just misguided or naïve, but in the case of those who advocate for nuclear power or even nuclear arms are just plain ignorant or stupid. They are utterly unwise fools. Even those, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, James B. Conant, and even a couple of U.S. Presidents – Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman – who were directly involved in the “Manhattan Project” as they developed the first atomic bomb, knew better than to advocate for or believe in the purpose of the bomb, or to even support nuclear war, so what is it that makes the industry, the politicians, the bankers and corporations, and even the ignorant and foolish general public believe that ‘all things nuclear’ is a sound idea today based on the fake propaganda from an industry that has been wasting away and failing for years oddly recovering somehow – especially when the entire planet is faced with nuclear war that is more than capable of ending all life on Earth.

Even the original concept (perhaps) was to develop but use nuclear weapons only as a deterrence from war means nothing these days nor did it in the summer of 1945 when the USA dropped two atomic bombs on of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Deterrence is hardly iron-clad and and deterrence agreements these days are being ripped to shreds before our eyes. The U.S. and seven or eight other countries are back in the wishful thinking deterrent business of an arms race, suddenly building bigger and more devastating bombs than ever before instead of demanding a planet with no nuclear weapons, nuclear power plants, or anything else nuclear at all. Destroying all things nuclear before all things nuclear destroys us (paraphrasing a JFK speech during the Russia/USA nuclear armed ICBM standoff in October of 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Deterrence is just another silly political word, signifying nothing about the reality of the looming possibility of nuclear war, and you’d better believe that existing nuclear power plants will also become nuclear weapons of mass destruction, but the difference the countries who built them will have them used against themselves. North America, including Canada, has far and away the most nuclear power plants, most of them on or near the East Coasts of both countries.

As Albert Einstein said in his always prophetic and straightforward way, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” And just let me say for emphasis, it is highly doubtful that after WWIII their will be anyone left to wield a stick or throw a stone. What the hell is humanity thinking? Our leaders must be crazy!

And just why are the rest of us following along their doomsday path to oblivion and the 6th extinction? If 4 or 5 billion (over half) of us take to the Internet and say with conviction to these ignorant, crotchety, and foolish old men and their sycophants and cronies, “Not NO, but, “HELL NO!”, demanding a united one-world people without boundaries of any kind, including country, racism, religion, and pointless genocide. Nelson Mandela said it well in 2020: “Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender, or religion.” ‘Nuff said,” ~llaw

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

If Nuclear War Breaks Out, This Will Be the Most Dangerous Plane in the Sky – Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics

If all goes well, the company will deliver three developmental aircraft … Things to Death · riddle. Solution to Riddle of the Week: Hen and the Egg.

China’s nuclear arms are behind U.S.’s but meet needs, expert says – Nikkei Asia

Nikkei Asia

Q: What do you think about the future of nuclear disarmament? A: The goal of nuclear disarmament is clearly under strain. The nuclear-armed states are …

Dismantling of California’s San Onofre nuclear power plant is more than 60% completed

Los Angeles Times

Once the dismantlement is complete, all that is expected to remain at the San Onofre plant will be two dry storage facilities; a security building …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

A Massive U.S.-Led Pledge Could Be A Global Gamechanger – Yahoo News

Yahoo News

Reactors for Units 3 and 4 sit at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant on Jan. 20 in Waynesboro, Georgia, as cooling towers of the older …

Dismantling of California’s San Onofre nuclear power plant is more than 60% completed

Los Angeles Times

Dismantlement work at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is expected to wrap up by the end of 2028.

Why Indian Point nuclear plant won’t close until 2041 – Lohud

Lohud

Indian Point’s owners say a state ban on the discharge of radiological waste in the Hudson River will delay the teardown of the nuclear power …

Nuclear War

NEWS

If Nuclear War Breaks Out, This Will Be the Most Dangerous Plane in the Sky – Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics

During the heightened nuclear tensions of the Cold War, the C-130 stepped into its most consequential role. That’s when the Navy initially equipped …

Two Ways Nuclear War Could Start, According to Chinese Scholar – Newsweek

Newsweek

Leading Chinese scholar Huang Renwei predicted two ways nuclear war could begin in an interview that was published Friday by Russian state-run …

China’s nuclear arms are behind U.S.’s but meet needs, expert says – Nikkei Asia

Nikkei Asia

TOKYO — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the warfare between Israel and Hamas are making the world more unstable and a nuclear war likelier, …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Update 194 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

International Atomic Energy Agency

A reactor unit of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) temporarily lost power earlier this week, forcing it to rely on an emergency …

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station to test emergency sirens – KTAR News

KTAR News

West Valley nuclear power plant testing emergency alert system Friday. Nov 17, 2023, 11:00 AM.

West Valley residents to receive emergency test alert – AZ Family

AZ Family

… emergency alert test …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

HISF-Ipsos Threat Index finds natural disasters seen as fastest-growing threat

Ipsos

Cyberhacking is once again considered the No. 1 real threat after being overtaken by fears of a nuclear attack in 2022. … threats. In 2023, 63 …

Two Ways Nuclear War Could Start, According to Chinese Scholar – Newsweek

Newsweek

Israel Singled Out: Apathy on Campus Over Russian Crimes, MAGA Threats. By Tom Rogers · After 30 Years, Religious Freedom Restoration Act More …

Putin’s ally forecasts inevitable nuclear war – MSN

MSN

… nuclear war. According to Express, Vladimir Solovyov … The discussion on Russian state TV, led by figures like Solovyov, frequently involves threats ..

November 15, 2023

LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #451 (11/15/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

NOV 15, 2023

LLAW’s COMMENTARY:

So, what is this supposedly brilliant idea and ultimate usefulness of tripling nuclear energy production by 2050 as a silly long-term carrot and stick program? Its sole function has to be to bamboozle and pacify the common people for the next quarter century, who depend on their governments to bear some kind of responsibility and deliver some degree of actual honesty to the facts about global warming, climate change, and reducing CO2 levels that humans and other life can live with. There is only one way to slow it down or stop its growth, and more nuclear power plants are the very worst possible solution.

It appears to be that, since we are not willing to do away with the actual culprit, meaning the entire fossil fuel industry and sycophants, that we once claimed needed to be, er, had to be, replaced by solar, wind, hydro, geo-thermal, and other clean-air power plants. So now at this year’s COP28 climate summit, especially the USA, is coming on whole-hog claiming nuclear power plant capacity will be tripled by 2050. I guess we have forgotten that uranium (the fuel for all nuclear products including power plants and military weapons of mass destruction) is also a fossil fuel, albeit refined to a lower level of CO2 emissions. But uranium is not only still a CO2 contributor like coal, oil, gas, etc., but it is also by far the dirtiest and most dangerous commercial fuel on the planet, being far more destructive and dangerous whether long-term, yesterday, today, or tomorrow than all the other fossil fuels combined. Its fuel and its waste is highly radioactive, which instantly makes it infinitely more dangerous than CO2 alone.

According to today’s news from the “The Spokesman-Review”, “The U.S. will lead a push [actually, a mere ‘pledge’ to be signed on December 1st, meaning nothing] at the COP28 climate summit to triple the amount of installed nuclear power capacity globally by 2050, marking a major turnaround for the controversial technology at the climate negotiations.” That would seem to me to be impossible, and here is another impossibility: “the key role of nuclear energy in achieving global net-zero greenhouse gas emissions/carbon neutrality by or around midcentury,” There is no such thing as “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and carbon neutrality is a moot point because we have no idea what carbon neutrality will be tomorrow, much less mid-century. This statement contains nothing but deceptive ‘buzzwords’ that make the average citizen happy because he has no idea what these words mean, but they sound good to him. It is what I call propaganda that others would call ‘hogwash’ or ‘bullshit’.

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“U.S., U.K. to push pledge to triple nuclear power by 2050 at COP28

Nov. 14, 2023 Updated Tue., Nov. 14, 2023 at 8:50 p.m.

By John Ainger, Rachel Morison and Akshat RathiBloomberg

The U.S. will lead a push at the COP28 climate summit to triple the amount of installed nuclear power capacity globally by 2050, marking a major turnaround for the controversial technology at the climate negotiations.

The declaration will call on the World Bank and other international financial institutions to include nuclear energy in their lending policies, according to a document seen by Bloomberg News. The U.S. will likely be joined by the U.K., France, Sweden, Finland and South Korea in the pledge to be signed Dec. 1 in Dubai, according to people familiar with the matter.

That will be followed a few days later by a nuclear industry commitment to triple generation resources from 2020 levels, said one of the people, who asked not to be named because the information isn’t public.

The countries recognize “the key role of nuclear energy in achieving global net-zero greenhouse gas emissions/carbon neutrality by or around midcentury,” a draft of the declaration says. “Nuclear energy is already the second-largest source of clean dispatchable baseload power, with benefits for energy security.”

The declaration is the latest sign of shifting sentiment toward nuclear power, which doesn’t produce carbon dioxide emissions, but has often been criticized over the waste it generates, the cost of building plants and potential security issues. Support has gained traction especially as clean back-up for renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. The countries will also commit to new technologies, such as small modular reactors.

“Nuclear is 100% part of the solution,” John Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum last week. “It’s clean energy.”

The United Nations’ 28th Conference of the Parties, known as COP28, will take place in the United Arab Emirates, which is the only country in the Arabian Peninsula with a nuclear power program. It’s not clear if the hosts will sign.

The two-week summit due to start on Nov. 28 will include a “global stocktake” to track how far off course the world is to keeping global warming below 1.5C and what more needs to be done to close the gap. A report from the UN Tuesday showed that emissions are set to rise 9% by 2030, compared to 2010, putting the world potentially on course for warming of 2.8C.” End of Article

But, hey, if nuclear powered plants are too expensive and dangerous, which they are, we have other great ideas for ending global warming, including atmospheric style adjustable “venetian blinds” sunshine reflectors sprayed in the stratosphere to shade us from the heat of fossil fuel CO2 emissions, which means the fossil fuel industries could go on forever commercially selling their power plant products, except they will have nobody to buy it. llolloll! ~llaw

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Who Would Take the Brunt of an Attack on U.S. Nuclear Missile Silos? | Scientific American

Scientific American

… things, the refurbishing of existing missile … The resulting nuclear explosions will generate gargantuan fireballs that will vaporize everything …

Behind the Scenes at a U.S. Factory Building New Nuclear Bombs | Scientific American

Scientific American

For years those secret scientists didn’t actually have any plutonium to study—it had to be painstakingly produced. “Almost everything was theoretical, …

The US and China re-engage on arms control. What may come next

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

For more than six decades, the United States has been worried about China’s regional influence, military activities—and its nuclear potential.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Top 10: Nuclear Energy Companies

Energy Digital Magazine

The top nuclear energy companies provide recyclable energy all around the globe, and include energy innovators NextEra Energy, Duke Energy and …

U.S., U.K. to push pledge to triple nuclear power by 2050 at COP28 | The Spokesman-Review

The Spokesman-Review

The U.S. will lead a push at the COP28 climate summit to triple the amount of installed nuclear power capacity globally by 2050, marking a major …

Small-Scale Nuclear Power Dealt Major Setback | Planetizen News

Planetizen

The company that made history in January when its ‘small modular nuclear reactor‘ became the first in the nation to receive certification from the …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Who Would Take the Brunt of an Attack on U.S. Nuclear Missile Silos? | Scientific American

Scientific American

These fallout maps show the toll of a potential nuclear attack on missile silos in the U.S. heartland.

Ukraine war latest: Russia raining ‘hell fire’ on Ukrainian troops on bank of river – Sky News

Sky News

North Korea’s missile programme, as well as its nuclear weapons, have been banned by the UN Security Council rulings, which also imposed sanctions on …

The Doomsday Clock warns the world about catastrophe – here’s why it stands … – The Conversation

The Conversation

… nuclear- or climate-induced) that the clock’s founders had designed it to prevent. Russia · Nuclear weapons · Vladimir Putin · Ukraine · Nuclear war …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

At UN nuclear conference, China, Iran, Oman decry Israeli minister’s comment on Gaza

The Times of Israel

… war, calling the remark a threat to the world. At Monday’s long-planned … Iran’s UN Ambassador Amir Iravani told the conference the nuclear threats …

China, Iran, Arab nations condemn Israeli minister’s statement about dropping a nuclear …

The Hindu

… war, calling it a threat to the world. November 14, 2023 11:13 pm … Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Iravani told the conference the nuclear threats …

U.N. Command warns N. Korea – Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

… nuclear and missile threats. In the statement, the defense ministers … nuclear weapons to protect the South in case of a North Korean nuclear attack.

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Iceland Volcano | What movies have been released about volcanoes? – NationalWorld

NationalWorld

A Yellowstone supereruption would have global consequences. The release of an enormous volume of volcanic ash, gases, and lava could impact climate, …

Is it safe to move to Montana? – EnergyPortal.eu –

EnergyPortal.eu –

… Yellowstone Caldera. Residents are encouraged to be prepared for such events, with local governments providing resources and information on …

November 13, 2023November 13, 2023

LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #449 (11/13/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLAW’s COMMENTARY: 
LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #449 (11/13/2023)
“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT
NOV 13, 2023
LLAW’s COMMENTARY: 
On this Monday evening after a long Veterans’ Day holiday, it is a good time to update where I am on my “Blue Print” concept for destroying all things nuclear before all things nuclear destroys us along with most all other living critters on planet Earth. If you’re not familiar with the “Blue Print” plan that I have described in earlier Posts, I’m sure you will be aware of it at some point in the not too distant future. I will be updating information much more frequently as I work, along with others, toward the final draft over the next few months. And then we will submit the concept to the eight nuclear possessing governments around the world employing the USA as the designated leader. I have successfully done this, of course on a much, much smaller corporate scale, one time before back in the Reagan rein with the Department of the Interior, and we were successful. So I know, essentially or basically, how to go about presenting this issue to a government that can be forced to listen. And the United States’ government is where I intend to begin. If we are successful then, we will have a strong base to pass the “Blue Print” along to other countries.

Up until recently this has been a personal impossible pipe dream that I know how to construct and make happen, and though I will need help to perfect the “Blue Print” from everywhere, I know where to find that help when the time comes. But for now the basic idea you need to know involves changing our international concept of the corporate profit ideal (Capitalism), at least until the job is done, from manufacturing or producing commercial products for greenbacks and money-bags full of profits to the sole purpose of paying for and saving our planet (and us) from creating our own extinction.

The effort, from our normal viewpoint won’t look all that much different than now because many of of our present commercial businesses will still be producing and making much of what they have always produced and made - say producing food, clothing, housing, transportation, electricity, etc. as they’ve always done, but you won’t be paying them for it and the corporations won’t be profiting from it because, of necessity, all financial capital and monetary exchange or transactions will be controlled by what I call “The Organization” (of which each and every one of us will be a part) that will act and operate much like an old fashioned Farmers’ Market or a Co-Op controlling all financial transactions with all expenses and former profits going toward the cost of destroying all things nuclear, which essentially amounts to putting the uranium that fuels all things nuclear along with all of its supporting facilities (like nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons for instance), nuclear-related equipment (like reactors), and buildings or constructs containing nuclear reactors, and nuclear waste, for example. “Destroying” means putting all of everything nuclear or related to it back in the deep underground where uranium was mined, burying it forever back where it came from - never to be dug up again. It is a mammoth project and the expeditious need for it to be done immediately rather than sometime later will be the soul objective of us all. (I know that sounds insane, but insane or not, it must be done and done quickly if we are to survive.)

There is also one other important issue that must be solved to make this happen. We need objective and honest leadership and help - the kind of help that has no alternative or deviant ideas about how to ‘beat the system’ individually and profit from the “Blue Print” beyond the day it goes into effect until the day it is over and done with. (And it may be that, when the last day arrives and the dust clears, those kinds of grifters and carpetbaggers will no longer be acknowledged nor admired as nations’ leaders.) We presently have leaders and corporate presidents in all countries who know how to ‘play the game’ and find ways to ‘cheat’ the system for personal gain. For the “Blue Print” to work, such attempted personal greed must never happen. If that seems impossible, and it may be, then we will all end up as dust in the wind of the 6th Extinction. It may be that the help we need may come from an unexpected place. ~llaw

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Illinois to lift moratorium on nuclear construction

World Nuclear News

The new bill, among other things, instructs the Illinois Emergency … nuclear technology and all of the benefits that it offers.” Researched …

China and the United States Hold their First Nuclear Security Talks in Years – UN Dispatch

UN Dispatch

I just don’t think, given everything else going on in the world, that the time is now. But my hope is that as time goes on, there will be more …

In new documentary, Ibram X. Kendi asks ‘What is wrong with Black people?’ | Boise State …

Boise State Public Radio

All Things Considered · We Are Idaho · Community Conversations · Morning … Idaho small nuclear reactor project canceled. November 10, 2023. Meet the …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

How to interpret a bad day for nuclear power – Axios

Axios

NuScale Power Corp. share price … It’s easy to over-interpret the death of small modular reactor firm NuScale’s Idaho project, but it nonetheless has …

Lockheed Martin tapped to build nuclear–powered deep-space probe – New Atlas

New Atlas

Under a US$33.7-million Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract, Lockheed Martin is developing a next-generation nuclear–reactor-powered …

U.S. Re-Enters the Nuclear Fuel Game – IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum

Centrus Energy delivers first batch of uranium that’s critical for advanced reactors.

Nuclear War

NEWS

The Collapse of Global Arms Control – Time

Time

The Collapse of Global Arms Control. Demonstration against ongoing war in Ukraine and nuclear weapons in Japan People attend the protest against the …

US and South Korea sharpen deterrence plans over North Korean nuclear threat – AP News

AP News

… nuclear ones, to defend the South in the event of a North Korean nuclear attack. He also said the document will provide a template for the allies …

US, South Korea revise deterrence strategy, boost drills over North Korea threat – Reuters

Reuters

… nuclear and missile threats, and vowed to maintain … nuclear planning discussions to better coordinate an allied nuclear response during a war.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Liquid Dataport and Intelsat Keep Businesses Connected During Emergencies

MyJoyOnline

Load-shedding distributes demand for electrical power across multiple power sources and is used to relieve stress on an energy source when demand for …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

US and South Korea sharpen deterrence plans over North Korean nuclear threat – AP News

AP News

… nuclear attack. He also said the document will provide a template for the … threats of nuclear conflict. Arriving in South Korea over the weekend …

US, South Korea revise deterrence strategy over North Korea threat – Reuters

Reuters

… nuclear and missile threats, South Korea’s defence ministry said. The Tailored Deterrence Strategy (TDS) is aimed at countering North Korea’s nuclear …

55th Security Consultative Meeting Joint Communique – Department of Defense

Department of Defense

He noted that any nuclear attack by the DPRK against the United States or … nuclear and other WMD use and conventional threats. The two leaders …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

World’s First National Park, world record in Wyoming

World Record Academy

The caldera is considered a dormant volcano. It has erupted with tremendous force several times in the last two million years. Well over half of the …

Plant health as a new effective monitoring system for volcanic activity – Phys.org

Phys.org

… Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming, U.S., to determine their reaction to hydrothermal activity (circulating fluids in the vicinity of a magma source …

Reykjanes Volcano Update: Eruption in Coming Days Likely | VolcanoDiscovery

Volcano Discovery

… caldera, and Ijen. Yellowstone quakes · Yellowstone quakes · Latest earthquakes under Yellowstone volcano. List and interactive map of current and …

The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war:

We’re pausing our live coverage

We’re pausing our live coverage of the war in Ukraine for now – but here are the key developments you may have missed over the weekend.

Russian forces intensified attacks on positions in eastern Ukraine.

In Bakhmut, Moscow is attempting to regain lost territory, the head of Ukraine’s ground forces wrote on social media at the weekend.

“Toward Bakhmut, the Russians have become more active and are trying to recapture previously lost positions. Enemy attacks are being repelled,” Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi said.

Ukraine also reported Russian troops are attempting to surround Avdiivka, south of Bakhmut, which is considered to be a stronghold.

Elsewhere, Russia has shelled Kherson, in the southwest of Ukraine, officials claimed, 62 times across the weekend, injuring four civilians.

On Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Ukrainians to prepare for new waves of Russian attacks on infrastructure over winter.

“Russia is preparing for Ukraine. And here, in Ukraine, all attention should be focused on defence, on responding to terrorists on everything that Ukraine can do to get through the winter and improve our soldiers’ capabilities,” he said in his nightly address.

The warning came after Ukraine claimed Russia fired its first missile strike on Ukraine in almost two weeks.

There have also been reports over the weekend, from The Washington Post, claiming a Ukrainian officer coordinated the attack on the Nord Stream pipeline – which carries gas into Europe from Russia – though the officer in question denied any involvement.

November 10, 2023

LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #446 (11/10/2023

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLAW’s COMMENTARY:

Nuclear Power Plants orbiting the Earth? Who or what does humanity think it is? Apparently our minds are fixed on a vision that we are so infinitely smart and competent that we can do anything and everything we feel inclined to do – just like the fictional worlds of what we used to call science fiction. Now we call it reality, regardless of how fictional it really is. This new idea is so “out of this world” that all I can do is laugh. We are learning how to split atoms, and creating little ‘suns’ we think we can control and manage because we are intellectually superior to everything else on planet Earth.

Yet virtually every nuclear mishap (and there have been dozens, maybe even hundreds, of them over the years) has been caused by human error, and the errors have been caused in every phase of the nuclear activity besides the terrible war issues – mining, milling, refining, designing, constructing, fueling, operating, and handling nuclear power’s radioactive waste have all had their bad days.

There are also several military mistakes that are not related to war, one of them, as an ugly example, involving nuclear weapons being permanently assigned to a ‘round the clock’ flight time that didn’t turn out so well (You can copy and paste this link to your browser: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash)

I have continuously made the point that we are not capable of safely using nuclear power of any kind, and there is nothing that will ever change my mind. I have written a previous article about some of the failures involving all things nuclear that very few of us have ever heard of, and even our governments won’t talk about it, although once discovered, they don’t continue to deny that such individual incidents happened. The nuclear industry itself attempts to hide their mistakes and accidents, but eventually (sometimes years later, the truth comes out). The ‘accidents’ are often much worse than you might think because even one nuclear accident anywhere on Earth is one too many.

The normal governmental and commercial interests in nuclear bombs and nuclear power always considers the advantages of to have them, but never takes an even more important look at the disadvantages, pretending that the the pros will always outweigh the cons. The truth is, though, that in reality it’s the other way around. ~llaw

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Nuclear reactor deal collapse challenges Portland company’s clean energy plan – OPB

Oregon Public Broadcasting

All Things Considered. Show switch stream buttons. Switch Stream: OPB NewsListen to the OPB News live stream (opens new window) KMHDListen to the …

First-of-a-kind nuclear project is terminated in a blow to Biden’s clean energy agenda

The Public’s Radio

… All Things Considered. Schedule. national news. First-of-a-kind nuclear … Officials believe the work accomplished to date on the project will be …

First-of-a-kind nuclear project is terminated in a blow to Biden’s clean energy agenda

Beaumont Enterprise

Sign up for a weekly update on all things business with our What’s New: Business in the Golden Triangle email newsletter! Most Popular. Walmart …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Nuclear Energy Project in Idaho Is Canceled – The New York Times

The New York Times

The project that NuScale Power and Western energy companies had developed struggled to attract enough utility customers.

Biden’s clean energy agenda suffers a big blow when a first-of-its-kind nuclear project is cancelled

Fortune

NuScale Power has the only small modular nuclear reactor design certified for use in the United States.

US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft | Space

Space.com

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s concept of a space nuclear reactor system to produce high-power electricity. … power nuclear electric power and …

Nuclear Power in Outer Space – NASA – NASA

Nuclear War

NEW

Ukraine war latest: Russia nuclear sub launches intercontinental missile in ‘successful’ test – reports

Sky News

Despite a huge massing of Russian forces around Avdiivka, Ukrainian military officials say defences are keeping Russian advances at bay.

North Korea is ‘Preparing’ for War With Nuclear Weapons Buildup – Newsweek

Newsweek

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “seriously preparing” for war as it builds its nuclear weapons arsenal, according to an expert on Korean …

Ukraine war latest: Overnight attack ‘damages Russian fleet loaded with armoured vehicles’

Sky News

Russia nuclear sub launches intercontinental ballistic missile in ‘successful’ test – reports. The Russian military has announced it successfully …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Nuclear reactor deal collapse challenges Portland company’s clean energy plan – OPB

Oregon Public Broadcasting

… nuclear power plants. Their design makes any potential emergencies easier to contain than conventional reactors. THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR: Become a …

Nuclear War Threats

NEW

Russia Warns Nuclear Weapons Threat Becoming More Dire – Newsweek

Newsweek

Russia Warns Nuclear Weapons Threat Becoming More Dire … New Fairness Meter! … A Russian official has warned that nuclear threats made by Israeli …

Iran wants IAEA to notify UN Security Council on Israeli threat to nuke Gaza – Tehran Times

Tehran Times

Related News. Iran nuclear official calls for global condemnation of Israel nuclear threat against Gaza · Shaky Israel resorts to nuke threats …

Pentagon: China’s WMD Buildup Poses Serious Challenges – The National Interest

The National Interest

… war. Moreover, the threat of using weapons of mass destruction can … But China presents a much wider threat in WMDs than just nuclear weapons.

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Naples residents live with active volcano in their backyard – The Missoulian

The Missoulian

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s …

What is a supervolcano, and could it wipe out humanity? – The Washington Post

Washington Post

But scientists are skeptical that a super eruption could happen again at Yellowstone. The volcano may not even have enough molten magma underneath its …

Campi Flegrei Volcano Is Sparking Concern—Will It Erupt? – Best Life

Best Life

… Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, told NBC News. But that’s probably not … The Long Valley Caldera, a volcano in California about 250 miles north …

The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war:

Key points

Overnight attack ‘damages Russian fleet’, Ukraine says View post
Why fighting across Dnipro could put huge pressure on Kremlin control View post
‘Chess saved my life’: The Ukrainian star player representing England View post
Russia pummelling Avdiivka ’round the clock’ as onslaught intensifies View post
Sean Bell analysis:Why the pendulum might start to swing in Ukraine’s favour View post
Ukraine faces roadblock as Hungary reiterates ‘clear stance’ against EU membership View post
Philip Ingram analysis: Who is winning the war? View post
Your questions answered: How bad are sanctions making life for ordinary Russians? View post
Live reporting by Charlotte Chelsom-Pill

November 6, 2023

LAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #442 (11/06/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

November 5, 2023November 5, 2023

LAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #441 (11/05/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLAW’s COMMENTARY:

An Analogy to Today’s World(s): Day Five of American Indian Heritage Month, 2023:

It is hard to believe that the American Indian Wars lasted off and on for over 300 years – from 1609 to 1924.

Yet now we are facing war over an entire planet called Earth, a massive futile and fatal concept of nonsensible wars with nuclear weapons of mass destruction. There is something desperately wrong with the whole concept of one man’s homeland being invaded by another man’s desires, mercilessly taking dominion over the weaker man’s territory that was never theirs. But power, greed, and domination seems to be our natural way of life. In order for humanity and other life on planet Earth, we must forget the eons of the past come together in unity and live as one. ~llaw

This link provides some of the history of a not so beautiful story:

The link is set as a cut and paste link only because it may be sensitive to some folks . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars?fbclid=IwAR05x5KkA5XC4gyB64jcqL5A7LF5i05z7Wmh8uUsEYrXXHeH58EkPGy8uVA

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated inks is listed below by nuclear Category. There is one bonus Yellowstone Caldera story available in this Post. The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is available at the end of the other categorized Posts.

TONIGHT’S CATEGORIZED NUCLEAR NEWS:

All Things Nuclear

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Russia’s Nuclear Submarine Launches the Devastating Bulava Missile | News9 – YouTube

YouTube

… all digital platforms. It includes a publishing platform, viz. www … Trump: This Is What ‘We’re Going To Do Things Immediately Within 24 Hours’ If I …

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week – Yahoo News

Yahoo News

A family rests in their at-home nuclear fallout shelter. Welcome to Bunker Talk. This is a …

Breece Hall analyzes Austin Ekeler’s game compared to other RBs ahead of Jets-Chargers matchup

YouTube

… all things New York sports. SNY delivers the most comprehensive access to all of the Tri-State area’s professional and collegiate sports teams …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Arkansas man arrested after trying to crash through gates at South Carolina nuclear plant

AP News

The Oconee Nuclear Station has three nuclear reactors and started generating power 50 years ago on Lake Keowee. The Associated Press is an …

Person of interest in custody for nuclear plant incident – YouTube

YouTube

Investigators say that someone tried to drive through a gate at a major nuclear power complex in South Carolina. SUBSCRIBE to ABC News on YouTube: …

Video Person of interest in custody for nuclear plant incident – ABC News

ABC News

Investigators say that someone tried to drive through a gate at a major nuclear power complex in South Carolina.

Nuclear War

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Israel-Palestine war: Netanyahu reacts to Israeli leader’s nuclear bomb remarks | WION

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An Israeli Minister has drawn severe criticism for suggesting dropping a nuclear bomb on the war-torn region. Israel’s Heritage Minister Amihai …

Israel minister says nuclear attack on Gaza is ‘an option’ – The New Arab

The New Arab

While the Israeli military pounds Gaza without relent, Israel’s far-right Minister for Heritage has said that a nuclear attack on Gaza is ‘an …

Israel-Hamas war: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas denounces Gaza ‘genocide’ in …

Euronews.com

The latest developments from the Israel-Hamas war. Israeli minister suspended after saying dropping nuclear weapon on Gaza ‘an option’.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Real nuclear threat in Ukraine is not Russia’s weapons, expert warns | World – Daily Express

Daily Express

A major threat in the ongoing war in Ukraine is represented not by … The Kremlin has issued nuclear threats multiple times since the invasion of …

N. Korea warns of nuclear capabilities as S. Korea, US, Japan up military cooperation

The Korea Times

… nuclear war and the third world war.” “Who can provide assurance that the … nuclear and missile threats. Last month, a joint maritime blockade …

Russia’s new nuclear submarine test launches Bulava missile – The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post

… threats, as ties between Moscow and the West have hit new lows over the war Russia launched in Ukraine in 2022.

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Yellowstone supervolcano warning as 90000 would ‘immediately’ die in horror eruption

Daily Express

The US’s Yellowstone caldera is one such supervolcano and has for decades seriously concerned volcanologists who fear that humans won’t be able to …

Sky News Coverage of the Russia/Ukraine War:

Key points

Fire ignites after Russian drones hit ‘civilian targets’ View post
Russia’s large-scale assault in Donbas town ‘flounders’ View post
Moscow making ‘disturbing’ effort to raise nuclear risks View post
‘Infighting in Russian military’ over Wagner View post
Ukrainian commander gives downbeat assessment of counteroffensive View post
Philip Ingram analysis:Who is winning the war? View post
Sean Bell explains:Why Russia is very unlikely to seek end to war before US election View post
Your questions answered:Why does Russia need North Korean weapons? View post
Live reporting by Charlotte Chelsom-Pill (now) and Brad Young (earlier)

November 4, 2023

LLAW’S All Things Nuclear #440 (10/04/2023)

LLAW’s COMMENTARY:

I’ve not said much to date about Small Nuclear Reactors (Cutely called SMRs), partly because they remain nothing more than pie in the sky, and there are just three operational SMRs – one each in Russia, China, and India. There are perhaps three more in construction and about 60 in the design stage. Heaven help us! llolloll!

But the current book on SMRs is that they are even more dangerous than the full-scale present day operational nuclear power plants that may well be the death of us without even needing the little ones. I have added a well-written media article from a German point of view to support my case, and if this one is not enough to convince you, there are dozens of others, including my own forthcoming “All Things Nuclear” ‘review’ of SMRs being just one more reason to remove all things nuclear from existence by returning them to the deep underground uranium mines (and the deserted copper mines as well) never to be seen nor heard from or even thought of again. Yes, it is that serious of a situation. I worked in nuclear industry management for parts of three decades, so I have a fair idea of that which I speak.

At this point all I can say about SMRs is that they are not small, they are in an experimental development mode, and they are poorly designed to avoid radiation leakage in the event of earthquakes, floods, espionage, and, most dangerously, a nuclear attack in the event of war. And, of course there are other issues as well, not the least of which is SMR spent fuel that is thermally hot and highly radioactive, requiring remote handling and shielding. A recent study led by Stanford University and the University of British Columbia tells us SMRs will generate more radioactive waste than conventional nuclear power plants. And we presently have no idea how to safely dispose of nuclear waste that is already beyond our control to safely store. Japan is even in the process of dumping more than a million tons of so-called ‘treated’, but still radioactive wastewater, from the 2011 tsunami wreckage of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, blessed by, of all organizations, the ‘United Nations’. I’m wondering what happens the the ‘treated’ washes off . . .

And here we are stupidly and ignorantly wanting to create more nuclear danger we call, laughably ‘Small Nuclear Reactors’, including the probability of even higher grade nuclear fuel for some SMR plants that will only add to likely possibility that nuclear radiation from both nuclear war and nuclear power plants, which are already a special new military ‘toy’ for adding to the nuclear war arsenal on a kind of two-fer-one nuclear bomb scenario that will successfully help us humans prematurely destroy all life on planet Earth. The Russia/Ukraine war has already demonstrated how such a scenario could be achieved, and the reality is only one Russian bomb away.

The following is a well done tale about the deficiencies and potential travesties connected to the concepts of constructing and bringing these vastly overrated plants on line, and why renewable energy like wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal is so much better for our future, should we have a future.

Like all other things nuclear SMRs are potentially a weapon of war and also an obvious future contributor to the Doomsday event if we’re fortunate enough to still be around when more of them become operational helping to reassure our demise. ~llaw

The following article is a primer Opinion piece: “The Big Problem With Small Nuclear Reactors” (BY PAUL HOCKENOS 07.20.2023

“The diminutive reactors are likely to be just as prone to delays and cost overruns as their behemoth predecessors.

Image not displayed here: (This is the Caption) Top: Mockup of a the top third of a small module reactor made by NuScale, the only SMR developer with a design approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Visual: Courtesy of NuScale/Oregon State University/Flickr

IN RECENT YEARS, the nuclear power lobby and its advocates have begun to sing a new song. They have bailed on the monstrous reactors of the 20th century — not because of safety or toxic waste concerns, but because of the reactors’ exorbitant expense and ponderous rollout schedules. And they have switched their allegiance to a next generation nuclear fission technology: small modular reactors, which they claim will help rescue our warming planet, as well as the nuclear power industry— once they exist.

Respected thinkers such as former U.S. president Barack Obama, French president Emmanuel Macron, and Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates have toasted the idea of small modular reactors, or SMRs, as a potentially reliable, almost-emissions-free backup to intermittent renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Advocates claim that because SMRs will be smaller than the giants that currently dominate horizons, they will be safer, cheaper, and quicker to build. Although SMRs will have only a fraction of the power-generating capacity of traditional nuclear power reactors, proponents envision that they will, one day, be assembled in factories and transported as a unit to sites — like Sears’ mail-order Modern Homes of the early 1900s.

Currently, half of the states in the EU, both major political parties in the U.S, and the five BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — have indicated that they want to split atoms for the purpose of generating energy. U.S. President Joe Biden included billions of dollars in tax credits for nuclear energy in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Gates has gone so far as to invest a chunk of his fortune in a firm he founded, TerraPower, a leading nuclear innovation company. But despite the prodigious chatter, the endeavor to blanket the Earth with SMRs is a Hail Mary pass that’s very unlikely to succeed.

Opinion: Wind and Solar Need a New Grid

Granted, it is certainly a step in the right direction that most observers now see the postwar, giga-watt-scale water-cooled reactors as obsolete. When constructed new, these behemoths generate electricity at up to nine times the cost of large-scale solar and onshore wind facilities, and can take well over a decade to get up and running. Perhaps for this reason, there has been one, and only one, new nuclear power project initiated in the U.S. since construction began on the last one 50 years ago: a two-reactor expansion of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia. The first of the reactors came online this year — seven years behind schedule. The staggering $35 billion cost for the pair is more than twice the original projection.

But SMRs are just as likely to face similar delays and cost overruns. Currently, there are just two existing advanced SMR facilities in the world that could be reasonably described as SMRs: a pilot reactor in China and Russia’s diminutive Akademik Lomonosov. More small reactors are under construction in China, Russia, and Argentina, but all of them are proving even more expensive per kilowatt than traditional reactors.

It’s worth noting that in the U.S., and everywhere else in the world, nuclear policy relies heavily on subsidies to be economically competitive. Starting next year, utilities operating nuclear facilities in the U.S. can qualify for a tax credit of $15 per megawatt-hour — a break that could be worth up to $30 billion for the industry as a whole. However, even these giveaways won’t reduce the projected costs of SMR-generated electricity to anywhere near the going prices of wind and solar power.

In the U.S., the only SMR developer with a design approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is NuScale, which plans to deploy six modules at one site in Idaho that will together generate less electricity than a smallish standard nuclear reactor. So far, however, NuScale has yet to lay a single brick. Its biggest win to date is securing $4 billion in federal tax subsidies. In January of this year, NuScale announced plans to sell electricity not at $58 per megawatt-hour, as originally pledged, but at $89 per megawatt-hour, citing higher than anticipated construction costs. The new projection is nearly twice the average global cost of utility-scale solar and onshore wind, according to calculations by BloombergNEF. And without the government subsidies, NuScale’s price tag would be that much higher.

In fact, there’s a fair chance that not a single NuScale SMR will ever be built: The company has said it will not begin construction until 80 percent of its expected generation capacity is subscribed, and currently buyers have signed up for less than a quarter of the plant’s capacity.

Gates’s TerraPower has an even longer way to go, although it too is cashing in on subsidies. The U.S. Department of Energy has pledged up to $2 billion in matching funds to construct a demonstration plant in Wyoming. Yet TerraPower recently announced it’s facing delays of at least two years because of difficulties securing uranium fuel from its lone supplier: Russia.

Even if the unlikely rollout of SMRs eventually happens, it will unfold too late to curb the climate crisis.

Even if the unlikely rollout of SMRs eventually happens, it will unfold too late to curb the climate crisis. And the reactors will face many of the same safety and radioactive waste concerns that plagued their larger counterparts, if only at smaller scales. Meanwhile, the siren song of nuclear energy is diverting critical resources from the urgent task of building out clean technologies. And the idea that nuclear reactors would serve as “backups” for wind and solar is misguided because the reactors can’t be ramped up and down quickly.

One is left to wonder why it is that intelligent people like Gates and Obama are running down this rabbit hole?

I think it’s because they understand the chilling imperative of the climate crisis, and its scope. They’re panicked, and rightly so. In nuclear energy, they see a miracle-like, low-carbon power source that they know, and that can serve a million customers at a time. Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, they don’t trust renewables and smart energy systems to get the job done.

But that is where they err. The technology of the future is already here. Clean wind and solar energy — coupled with updated smart grids, expanded storage capacity, hydrogen technology, virtual power plants, and demand response strategies — can work. Our energy systems of the future will look like a patchwork quilt, with diverse energy sources kicking in at different times during the day, and with the mix differing from one day to the next.

Bill Gates and like-minded innovators should put their minds and fortunes to work on this futuristic project of the present — and leave the 20th century relic that is nuclear power in the past, where it belongs.” ~Paul Hockenos

Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based writer who covers energy and climate topics.

(Original Post, expanded here, was “All Things Nuclear” #420 dated October 15, 2023)

ACCESS TO MEDIA:

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated inks is listed below by nuclear Category. There are no bonus Yellowstone Caldera stories available in this Post. The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is available at the end of the other categorized Posts.

All Things Nuclear

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Trump: This Is What ‘We’re Going To Do Things Immediately Within 24 Hours’ If I Win In 2024

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Trump: This Is What ‘We’re Going To Do Things Immediately Within 24 Hours’ If I Win In 2024 … Car crashes through gate at South Carolina nuclear plant …

Victor Wembanyama is inevitable + Cowboys vs Eagles + Rangers repeat – YouTube

YouTube

Car crashes through gate at South Carolina nuclear plant, suspect on … FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright makes prediction Cowboys vs Eagles on Sunday.

Podcast PAWcast: Three Alumni on Ukraine, Putin, and the Threat of Nuclear War

Princeton Alumni Weekly | – Princeton University

… nuclear weapons, and Russia’s share of that is approximately half, so, 45% of all nuclear weapons in the world are in Russia. Now, we’ve been …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Person of interest identified after car crashes through nuclear power plant – YouTube

YouTube

Doyle Wayne Whisenhunt, 66, has been identified as a person of interest in connection with the breach of the nuclear power plant in South Carolina …

South Carolina: Oconee Nuclear Station incident update

WYFF 4

We have learned new information about the situation at the Oconee County Nuclear Plant in South Carolina that happened Thursday night.

SMR power plant proposed in Norway – World Nuclear News

World Nuclear News

Norsk Kjernekraft has submitted a proposal to Norway’s Ministry of Oil and Energy for an assessment into the construction of a power plant based …

Nuclear War

NEW

Ukraine war latest: Russia’s assault in Donbas town ‘flounders’; Moscow makes ‘disturbing …

Sky News

Yesterday, Vladimir Putin signed a law revoking ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CBTB), which the US signed but never …

Nuclear Talks With China Are Essential and Long Overdue – The New York Times

The New York Times

The landmark Cold War-era treaties between the United States and Russia have fallen by the wayside, one by one, with few meaningful restraints …

ICBM Test Failure Puts Nuclear Modernization Effort Into Focus

Air & Space Forces Magazine

… nuclear arsenal. “It has served our country well and we will continue to depend on it to deter nuclear war until the 2030s, but this week’s test …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Exercise of Clinton Nuclear Power Station – Juliana Stratton, Lt. Governor – Illinois.gov

Juliana Stratton, Lt. Governor – Illinois.gov

Emergency Plans Set for November 14th. SPRINGFIELD – An exercise to test emergency response plans for the area surrounding the Clinton Nuclear …

IAEA’s expert team conducts rotation at occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant – Yahoo News

Yahoo News

… nuclear safety and security at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant … emergency diesel generators for unit 1, the 750-kilovolt power line’s …

Switzerland has distributed iodine tablets to residents for years, and not because of nuclear war

PolitiFact

If a radiation emergency occurred at the plants, taking the pills would protect the people from thyroid cancer. (The iodine pills, technically …

Nuclear War Threats

NEW

New Kind of Nuclear Threat in Putin’s War on Ukraine Explained – Newsweek

Newsweek

… nuclear threats, but could atomic assets on the ground pose the same danger? … nuclear threat that has persisted since the start of the war. The …

Nuclear Bomb Map Shows Impact if Biden’s New Weapon Dropped on Russia – Newsweek

Newsweek

China gives US demands for preventing nuclear war · Even After the War in … threats from potential adversaries.” In the release, Plumb added: “The …

Oklahoma Won’t Be Spared From WW3 Nuclear Threats

KLAW 101

… nuclear bomber bases. It would honestly be the worst-case scenario of war to consider Oklahoma a legitimate nuclear threat from Russia. We’re …

Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war . . .

Key points

Fire ignites after Russian drones hit ‘civilian targets’ View post
Russia’s large-scale assault in Donbas town ‘flounders’ View post
Moscow making ‘disturbing’ effort to raise nuclear risks View post
‘Infighting in Russian military’ over Wagner View post
Ukrainian commander gives downbeat assessment of counteroffensive View post
Philip Ingram analysis:Who is winning the war? View post
Sean Bell explains:Why Russia is very unlikely to seek end to war before US election View post
Your questions answered:Why does Russia need North Korean weapons? View post
Live reporting by Charlotte Chelsom-Pill (now) and Brad Young (earlier)

November 2, 2023

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #438 (11/02/2023)

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #438 (11/02/2023)

“End nuclear insanity before nuclear insanity ends humanity”

LLAW’s COMMENTARY: Republished from October 13, 2023 . . .

The Doomsday Clock remains set at its most critical level in history by the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” . . .

“The clock hands are set by the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists”, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it against people. The time of the clock is currently 90 seconds to midnight”. Midnight represents “Doomsday.

You can follow the world news concerning “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” at my daily Posts on both my website at LLAW’s WORLDS @albertlloydwilliams.com and/or at Substack to keep abreast of the world-wide nuclear situation, trends, threats, issues, and what could be done to prevent nuclear radiation from creating a dystopian world – or worse yet, a man-made 6th Extinction on planet Earth. Time is of the Essence. ~llaw

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A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated inks is listed below by nuclear Category. There are two bonus Yellowstone Caldera stories available in this Post. The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is available at the end of the other categorized Posts.

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	Two supervolcanoes, a world apart, have the attention of scientists – NBC News NBC News … Caldera, a volcano in eastern California that sits adjacent to Mammoth Mountain. … And one of the most famous calderas in the world, at Yellowstone … Flag as irrelevant
	peeling back the layers (Yellowstone Volcano Update – November 2023) – YouTube YouTube … Caldera Chronicles: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/caldera-chronicles?utm_source=2023-nov-1&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=nh … Flag as irrelevant
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	Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant starts 3rd release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea AP News 1 of 4 \|. FILE – This aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, on Aug. Flag as irrelevant
	Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant starts 3rd release of treated radioactive wastewater into the … – NY1 NY1 TOKYO (AP) — The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into … Flag as irrelevant
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	China and US reportedly agree to rare nuclear arms control talks – The Guardian The Guardian Russia and the US together possess almost 90% of all the nuclear weapons globally. … things‘. Pentagon’s UFO online reporting tool launches. 11h ago … Flag as irrelevant
	Putin signs bill revoking Russian ratification of nuclear test ban treaty \| CBC News CBC … nuclear posture or the way it shares information about its nuclear … TikTok’s paranormal queen CelinaSpookyBoo on why she loves all things eerie. Flag as irrelevant
	Putin signs bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty – Spectrum News Spectrum News Things to Do · Community Calendar · Submit An Event · Tar Heel Treasures · The … All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast … Flag as irrelevant
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	AI could pose risk to humanity on scale of nuclear war, Sunak warns – The Guardian The Guardian “But there is a case to believe that it may pose a risk on a scale like pandemics and nuclear war, and that’s why, as leaders, we have a … Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. and China to Hold Nuclear Arms Talks Before Biden-Xi Meeting \| TIME Time … Nuclear War Would Actually Be. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in June that the Biden administration was prepared to engage with … Flag as irrelevant
	Russia Pulled Out of a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Here’s What That Means. – The New York Times The New York Times In a landmark moment marking the closing chapters of the Cold War, Presidents Ronald Reagan of the United States and Mikhail S. Gorbachev of the … Flag as irrelevant
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	US NRC approves changes to Indian Point emergency planning requirements Nuclear Engineering International This enables decommissioning and site release for alternate uses decades sooner than previously anticipated. Image: Indian Point nuclear power plant. Flag as irrelevant
	ERCOT to increase limit of reserve power that triggers energy emergency – YouTube YouTube CBS News New 19K views · 15:10 · Go to channel · Is Small, Fast, & Cheap the Future of Nuclear Energy? Undecided with Matt Ferrell•546K views. Flag as irrelevant
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	*Nuclear War Threats*
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	CND: Nuclear war, conventional war and climate change are linked \| The Herald The Herald Beyond the obvious common threat of our extinction, the three threats can share similar causes and chronic injustices. The legacy of colonial … Flag as irrelevant
	The Threat from Within: An Overview of the Domestic Violent Extremist Threat Facing US … Stimson Center Domestic violent extremist threats to U.S. nuclear facilities prove that the nuclear security status quo is at risk … war” behind claims that it is … Flag as irrelevant
	Putin signs bill revoking nuclear test ban treaty \| The Hill The Hill … threat of nuclear weapons in the eyes of Western powers amid the war in Ukraine. Putin and his allies have increasingly threatened to use nuclear … Flag as irrelevant

All Things Nuclear

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China and US reportedly agree to rare nuclear arms control talks – The Guardian The Guardian Russia and the US together possess almost 90% of all the nuclear weapons globally. … things‘. Pentagon’s UFO online reporting tool launches. 11h ago …

Putin signs bill revoking Russian ratification of nuclear test ban treaty | CBC News CBC … nuclear posture or the way it shares information about its nuclear … TikTok’s paranormal queen CelinaSpookyBoo on why she loves all things eerie.

Putin signs bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty – Spectrum News Spectrum News Things to Do · Community Calendar · Submit An Event · Tar Heel Treasures · The … All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast …

The daily Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is posted below . . .

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November 1, 2023November 1, 2023

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #437 (11/01/2023)

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #437 (11/01/2023)

“End nuclear insanity before nuclear insanity ends humanity”

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LLAW’s COMMENTARY: So the Biden Administration and the U.S. Military wants to manufacture a nuclear bomb that is 24 times more powerful than the two we used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, to end WWII in 1945. There is really no way to compare “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” to today’s nuclear weapons because they are two different kinds of bombs. We already have bombs that are hundreds and even thousands of times more powerful than the atomic bombs we dropped on Japan. So it seems to me the media ought to do what real journalists used to do and that is to check out the ‘facts’ before writing a story that should embarrass the whole media industry with its ignorance, not to forget the inane words of our government. If that’s what Biden or some military general or anyone in his cabinet actually said, then what they said is okay from a journalistic viewpoint – but we need to point out that whoever said such a thing is laughably wrong, and take the time to tell us why.

But that’s not the most important issue, or so it seems to me. The real issue is: “Why on Earth is anyone anywhere building more nuclear weapons?” There is already enough nuclear weaponry to destroy everything on the planet several times over. We have learned, during the Russia/Ukraine war that nuclear power plants will make incredibly powerful nuclear weapons as well. All we have to do is drop a nuclear bomb on a nuclear power plant and we’ve go two weapons of mass destruction for the price of one. What the hell is wrong with humanity?

We ought to be well on the way toward destroying ‘all things nuclear’ rather than moving closer every day to destroying ourselves, which we are evidently absolutely bent on doing. For what reason do we want to do that? As a long-time employee in the nuclear industry, I am in the process of writing a ‘blueprint’ that provides a way for us to come together as a species by destroying everything nuclear and dumping and burying it all back in the open pit mines where uranium originally came from, including not only the nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, but also all of the world(s)’ weapons and power plants and storage facilities together with every other product that belongs to the family of uranium and the nuclear buildings and facilities that exist as soon as physically possible so that no one will ever again be allowed to have anything to do do with anything nuclear.

It can be done, and it must be done, or sooner or later humanity will commit world-wide genocide (it doesn’t matter whether it’s because of nuclear war with bombs designed to be weapons of mass destruction or the failure to understand that our nuclear power plants are nuclear weapons of mass destruction as well. What do we do with the nuclear waste? Dump it all in the oceans as Japan is being allowed to do right now? We can’t let that happen.

We are all essentially freshmen to the idea of understanding nuclear energy and how to clean up the global mess we have already made and each day it gets worse and more prolific while we clamor for more of it without even understanding what to do with the left overs or how to avoid accidents that are actually unavoidable because anything can cause a nuclear accident whether such accidents are man-made or Acts of Nature. A clue for us all is what we’ve done to cause climate change and global warming and all those ridiculous ways about how to save ourselves from CO2 that we continue to insanely pump into the atmosphere while knowing that greenhouse gasses, left unchecked will eventually kill us in a similar way as radiation poisoning. The writing is there profanely written on the walls of every power plant and every refinery – not just fossil fuel (uranium, by the way, is a fossil fuel as well) but every nuclear power plant and every nuclear reactor, too.

It is my hope that, since we are too proud, ignorant, or stupid to take it upon ourselves to do away with ‘all things nuclear’ that there will be intervention from somewhere by someone or something with enough common sense to not allow us to destroy planet Earth right along with ourselves, even though there is another way, if there is enough time left before the ultimate day arrives, to do it ourselves. But it would require the voluntary cooperation of all humankind around the human world(s).

Such is the purpose of this daily Post. We seek a unique world(s)-wide borderless effort for humanity to come together as a planet Earth community in order to save our ken from self-destruction and inevitable extinction if we fail to unite in a single direction peacefully and purposefully. Stay tuned as we make a diligent effort to convince war-mongering world(s) to trade in their weapons for a world of unity and felicity. It will only happen if we can bury the hatchet from now into the undefined infinite future. We all need to join the cause to save ourselves from each other. ~llaw

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ACCESS TO MEDIA:

Whenever there is a link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with links is listed below by nuclear Category. There are three bonus Yellowstone Caldera stories available in this post. The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is available at the end of the other categorized Posts.

(Just a reminder: If there is no link to a media story of interest you can still copy and paste the headline and lead line into your browser to find the article you are seeking. Hopefully this will rarely happen.)

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

From Gaza to the Pacific, All Oppression Is Connected – Inkstick Media

Inkstick Media

How the US handles Gaza threatens everything from the Biden presidency to the Pacific’s “zone of peace” ambitions. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://inkstickmedia.com/from-gaza-to-the-pacific-all-oppression-is-connected/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MTYxNTIaYjNjNDg2MDIyNWU5NjVmYzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0PT2NM_dNjvAoPI3DVRKbA

Israeli military hits Gaza’s largest refugee camp – Little Rock Public Radio

Little Rock Public Radio

The attack on northern Gaza’s Jabalia camp caused widespread damage, injuries and deaths, Gaza officials say. Israel describes Jabalia as a Hamas … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/npr-news/2023-10-31/israeli-military-hits-gazas-largest-refugee-camp&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MTYxNTIaYjNjNDg2MDIyNWU5NjVmYzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw00i4mXTqKCSV3z6SM8_2nG

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Nuclear Power

NEWS

Climate Central Solutions Brief: Nuclear Energy

Climate Central

Nuclear energy is produced through fission—a process that breaks the bonds between subatomic particles in the nuclei of some weakly-bound isotopes of … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.climatecentral.org/report/climate-central-solutions-brief-nuclear-energy&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDc5NDIaOTU5MTZkNWRlYjc1OTI5Mzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2kib5MJ6YwoxzHXVu8Q299

3 energy companies compete to build a new nuclear reactor in the Czech Republic – NY1

NY1

… reactor at the Dukovany nuclear power station as the country strives to become more energy-independent and wean itself off fossil fuels. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/ap-top-news/2023/10/31/3-energy-companies-compete-to-build-a-new-nuclear-reactor-in-the-czech-republic&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDc5NDIaOTU5MTZkNWRlYjc1OTI5Mzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2d4RnoCiAgqWNDc4AvOgMU

How well protected are Ukraine’s nuclear power plants – DW – 11/01/2023

A nuclear power plant is more than just a reactor, says Humenyuk. It is a complex facility that consists of safety systems that provides electricity … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.dw.com/en/how-well-protected-are-ukraines-nuclear-power-plants/a-67271615&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDc5NDIaOTU5MTZkNWRlYjc1OTI5Mzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0ckI8md8qivFza70I3SPhP

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Nuclear War

NEWS

Why Putin toned down his nuclear rhetoric – Financial Times

Financial Times

Russian president unnerved his foes and friends about the war in Ukraine turning into an atomic conflagration. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ft.com/content/d98446ac-b56e-4f1d-bfa9-ebaed4e26884&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MjQzNjIaYjhiODY0NWExNDkwZmU3Zjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3C9rKfI57fxzvLId3vZbWJ

Opinion: The threat of nuclear war is closer than AU students might think – The Eagle

The Eagle

… nuclear weapons suddenly became vastly more realistic — but in a new way. This time, nuclear war would feature tactical nuclear weapons. Tactical … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theeagleonline.com/article/2023/11/opinion-the-threat-of-nuclear-war-is-closer-than-au-students-might-think&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MjQzNjIaYjhiODY0NWExNDkwZmU3Zjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2WLN2L6MJ4y5p9VQwfV_1k

A Panicked Case for Nuclear Weapons Modernization – Inkstick Media

Inkstick Media

The US shouldn’t wage a new Cold War, let alone two, despite the latest US strategic posture recommendations. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://inkstickmedia.com/a-panicked-case-for-nuclear-weapons-modernization/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MjQzNjIaYjhiODY0NWExNDkwZmU3Zjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw1H2zty7vW98XseS_oYRciQ

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Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

How well protected are Ukraine’s nuclear power plants – DW – 11/01/2023

“When substations come under fire, the nuclear power plant’s emergency protection is activated,” says nuclear energy expert Olha Kozharna. “Such … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.dw.com/en/how-well-protected-are-ukraines-nuclear-power-plants/a-67271615&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk4MjIaZTg5NDBiYzgxZmVjYjJmNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0ckI8md8qivFza70I3SPhP

US / Regulator Approves Revision To Indian Point Nuclear Station Emergency Preparedness Plan

NucNet

The Indian Point nuclear power station in New York state. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted a request by Holtec Decommissioning … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.nucnet.org/news/regulator-approves-revision-to-indian-point-nuclear-station-emergency-preparedness-plan-11-3-2023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk4MjIaZTg5NDBiYzgxZmVjYjJmNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2raLKjDA8i3D8mWb_RzWu9

Emergency planning changed for Indian Point | The River Reporter

The River Reporter

… emergency declaration. After a nuclear power plant has permanently ceased operations and removed fuel from the reactor vessel, the risk of an … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.riverreporter.com/stories/emergency-planning-changed-for-indian-point,123081&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk4MjIaZTg5NDBiYzgxZmVjYjJmNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw22ZgNlksQyomTJK1kZ88Dj

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Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Opinion: The threat of nuclear war is closer than AU students might think – The Eagle

The Eagle

The era of constant nuclear threat is not as distant a memory as it may seem. When Russian troops first invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the threat … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theeagleonline.com/article/2023/11/opinion-the-threat-of-nuclear-war-is-closer-than-au-students-might-think&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDgwMzIaZjY4NGUyMzhiYWM3ZTM5Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2WLN2L6MJ4y5p9VQwfV_1k

Why Putin toned down his nuclear rhetoric – Financial Times

Financial Times

… war, an indirect one for now.” In winning … Western analysts warn that Putin’s toned-down rhetoric does not mean the nuclear threat has disappeared. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ft.com/content/d98446ac-b56e-4f1d-bfa9-ebaed4e26884&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDgwMzIaZjY4NGUyMzhiYWM3ZTM5Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3C9rKfI57fxzvLId3vZbWJ

The Axis of Resistance Threat to Israel | The National Interest

The National Interest

… nuclear threat, but it is not far below it.” In a similar vein, then-IDF … War, Israel now faced the threat of a multi-front war. Hamas’s attack … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://nationalinterest.org/feature/axis-resistance-threat-israel-207126&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY4MDgwMzIaZjY4NGUyMzhiYWM3ZTM5Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw01W_0OVNoADCIHlB49BhX7

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Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

The complicated history of Ferdinand Hayden and the founding of Yellowstone National Park

Idaho Capital Sun

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. SUPPORT NEWS YOU … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://idahocapitalsun.com/2023/11/01/the-complicated-history-of-ferdinand-hayden-and-the-founding-of-yellowstone-national-park/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk3MzIaODRkZDY4NTllNDE2NWM4Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2J0Fw1051pk1IrHFtKJcZC

Yellowstone Volcano Eruption Map: This is the Instant Death Zone If the Supervolcano Will Erupt

Nature World News

Yellowstone is known as a site that sits on top of a dormant volcano, which experts believe to be a supervolcano that is waiting to erupt. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/59214/20231031/yellowstone-volcano-eruption-map-instant-death-zone-supervolcano-will-erupt.htm&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk3MzIaODRkZDY4NTllNDE2NWM4Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3bLFse2Cn3znfaid6Yp5Ss

The complicated history of Ferdinand Hayden and the founding of Yellowstone – Alternet.org

AlterNet

In fact, in 1805 the governor of the Louisiana Territory described a map drawn on a bison hide by an Indigenous American showing a “volcano” on the … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.alternet.org/yellowstone-national-park/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjkwNzg2Mjg4NzMzNDY3OTk3MzIaODRkZDY4NTllNDE2NWM4Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw1M1BizueyyQb-15M29pLN-

Sky News Coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war . . .

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NEWS.SKY.COM

Ukraine war latest: Russia ‘concerned’ control is slipping in parts of country, analysts suggest; Putin moving forces in

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☄️LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR”☄️ #436 (10/31/2023)

“End nuclear insanity before nuclear insanity ends humanity”

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LLAW’s COMMENTARY: The following opinion piece is from LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #425 (10/20/2023), intended to provide background commentary to those who follow our new media outlets unrelated to our former daily Posts (more than a year of them, but only a few will be reposted for this purpose). They will be helpful for new subscribers to follow some of the issues and opinions. There are also several technical Posts that describe how uranium mining, milling, refining, and finally reactor fuel, and waste that will provide new subscribers with a high level understanding of how the nuclear power plant industry operates. Oddly enough it is not significantly different than the military process of building a nuclear bomb, except instead of a nuclear reactor, the military builds a nuclear bomb.

The commentary from October 20 begins here:

What possesses us humans, who in truth know nothing about (or don’t care about) the mayhem and weaknesses of the major nuclear industries – principally known as 1) creators of nuclear weapons of war and 2) as commercial providers of costly, dangerous, and unreliable nuclear generated electricity. We continue to lie to ourselves (or at least listen to and accept the propaganda) that anything nuclear is of sound technology, good for us, cheap, safe, clean, and will last forever, when it is none of the above?

And now we are apparently considering moving (or adding to) ‘All things Nuclear’, of introducing nuclear warheads into outer space. Does that mean when one country’s leaders decide to ‘nuke’ another all it has to do is let the earth do the flying and when the target country is directly beneath them, simply electronically open the satellite’s Bombay doors and drop their bombs with no danger of retaliation – at least from the ground. Wow, that would make the ICBM (missile) obsolete as well as military aircraft! Also, obviously, then, once one country is busy planning on doing that, the rest of the nuclear capable ones will follow instantly in an arms race, many of which we have been going through for eons. It is a ridiculous joke we have played on ourselves since the stone age!

So it is the grand effort of ‘do unto others before they do unto you’ technology that goes right along in typical human warlike stupidity. What if we could just learn to love (or at least honor) one another, shake hands, destroy and bury all of this genocidal nuclear technology, and spend our resources (money) on taking care of the entire human race and our only home instead of trying to eliminate us and our Earth.

Do these ‘pillars of political and corporate power’ know something we don’t know about our future or of planet Earth’s? llolloll! Of course not, unless they, too, are being directed and advised by a higher and more powerful life form! But I doubt such a ‘higher’ life form would deal with humanity in such a potentially violent way. All we are doing is playing a foolish and childish game of playground tag that will end up in what we are referring to in advance called, “The 6th Extinction”.

The last extinction was caused by a meteorite colliding with planet Earth (65+ million years ago) long before humans entered the picture, and after Earth regenerated Herself with living organisms (and eventually humans) She returned to a special place in the cosmos where living things could live, reproduce, and prosper, and we humans became a part of it all.

But, now, looking back just a few centuries, it is plain to see that we cared, not about our only home, but only about what we could take for ourselves, and now the process of ‘playing god’ is instilled in us to the point that we seem to believe that we are superior to Mother Nature, and that we can plunder, pillage, rape, kill, as humans, human parasites or animalistic epiphytes, leaving only a vast wasteland behind even unto the precious oceans and our priceless atmospheres. We are, as Pogo inferred, our own worst enemies. And the hell of it is, we seem to have no presence of mind to change our ways by turning away from approaching oblivion. ~llaw

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ACCESS TO MEDIA:

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with links is listed below by nuclear Category. There is one Yellowstone Caldera story available in this post. The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is available at the end of the other categorized Posts.

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

America’s strategic nuclear posture review is miles off the mark | The Hill

The Hill

After identifying what it calls the unique threats posed by two peer adversaries, China and Russia, the report lays out a comprehensive, all-of- … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4282404-americas-strategic-nuclear-posture-more-deterrence-and-more-weapons/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDUzNzUyGmIzYzQ4NjAyMjVlOTY1ZmM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw32aTSfyEIcgIrtPuiTHtdl

3 energy companies compete to build a new nuclear reactor in the Czech Republic | The Hill

The Hill https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-business/ap-3-energy-companies-compete-to-build-a-new-nuclear-reactor-in-the-czech-republic/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDUzNzUyGmIzYzQ4NjAyMjVlOTY1ZmM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0oDAh6gISBlyAMBD8HMjhp

October 31: Pentagon pursues new nuclear bomb. Rockets strike Israeli hospital 4 times.

NewsNation

Happy Halloween, the celebration of all things spooky and the semi-official beginning of the 2023 holiday season. The Federal Open Market …

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Nuclear Power

NEWS

3 energy companies compete to build a new nuclear reactor in the Czech Republic – WOKV

WOKV

In a separate deal, CEZ had signed a deal with U.S. energy giant Westinghouse Electric Co. to supply nuclear fuel for the Dukovany nuclear plant, … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wokv.com/news/3-energy-companies/5LUOSSNQYFCV5EFWDPJN23VX3Y/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDc1NDQyGjk1OTE2ZDVkZWI3NTkyOTM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0ZY_3Ya2GMle8Tr8wqY5B1

Nebraska lawmakers consider ways to expand nuclear energy production

The North Platte Telegraph

As a new form of nuclear technology grows more popular, officials in Nebraska are looking for ways the state can tap into it as a source of energy … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://nptelegraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/nebraska-lawmakers-consider-ways-to-expand-nuclear-energy-production/article_a3ce222e-a5bc-5e6b-908c-fe67e3670035.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDc1NDQyGjk1OTE2ZDVkZWI3NTkyOTM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3G0wXp_6wIcjO5-6jqr_7j

3 energy companies compete to build a new nuclear reactor in the Czech Republic

AP News

1 of 2 |. FILE – A man fishes with the towering Dukovany nuclear power plant in the background, in Dukovany, Czech Republic, Sept. 27, 2011. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://apnews.com/article/czech-energy-security-nuclear-dukovany-tender-bid-6b3b1c147ac3bdfbd639c05e8707fe33&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDc1NDQyGjk1OTE2ZDVkZWI3NTkyOTM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0j-jaKVXSODbDKaA86BzXe

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Nuclear War

NEWS

US wants nuclear bomb 24 times more powerful than one dropped on Japan

New York Post

Amid ongoing wars in Israel and Ukraine, the United State Department of Defense is proposing the creation of a new nuclear bomb that would be more … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.newsnationnow.com/your-morning/october-31-pentagon-pursues-new-nuclear-bomb-rockets-strike-israeli-hospital-4-times/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDUzNzUyGmIzYzQ4NjAyMjVlOTY1ZmM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1mGFDme7l_HKYNqMYRsRO7

US to build new nuclear gravity bomb – New Atlas

New Atlas

… nuclear weapon inventory with 3,708 commissioned warheads. That’s a small fraction of what it was at the height of the Cold War and only a few … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://newatlas.com/military/us-to-build-new-nuclear-gravity-bomb/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDczMDIyGmI4Yjg2NDVhMTQ5MGZlN2Y6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2P2BOsjrXlRk_GwK0XXIMu

Australia must lobby US for ‘no first use’ of nuclear weapons, says ex-minister Gareth Evans

The Guardian

Evans told Guardian Australia it was “sheer dumb luck” that the world had avoided a nuclear attack in the 78 years since the bombing of Hiroshima and … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/01/australia-must-lobby-us-for-no-first-use-of-nuclear-weapons-says-ex-minister-gareth-evans&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDczMDIyGmI4Yjg2NDVhMTQ5MGZlN2Y6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3EI4B306B7zevxBqW9Xxak

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Terms for Describing Advanced Nuclear Power Plants | IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

Emergency preparedness and response · Safeguards and verification · Basics … INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, Terms for Describing Advanced Nuclear … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.iaea.org/publications/14816/terms-for-describing-advanced-nuclear-power-plants&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDcwNjAyGmU4OTQwYmM4MWZlY2IyZjQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw26Z2Rf2MQuXUsiC5uJ-Fec

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Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Pentagon pursues new nuclear bomb 24x the power of one dropped during WWII

NewsNation

… War II. Military officials argue these … nuclear weapon reflects “a changing security environment and growing threats from potential adversaries. https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/military/pentagon-pursues-nuclear-bomb-more-powerful-dropped-wwii/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDQ4OTEyGmY2ODRlMjM4YmFjN2UzOTY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw25szXSp7vRNYV7NxHOENhT

US wants nuclear bomb 24 times more powerful than one dropped on Japan

New York Post

“Today’s announcement is reflective of a changing security environment and growing threats from potential adversaries,” Assistant Secretary of Defense … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://nypost.com/2023/10/30/news/us-wants-nuke-24-times-more-powerful-than-one-dropped-on-japan/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDQ4OTEyGmY2ODRlMjM4YmFjN2UzOTY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw12Hus47Rhi33hFP99rXB80

Health Professionals: Reducing the Risks for Nuclear War – Medscape

Medscape

… nuclear weapons, the fact that there is a land war being waged in Europe just now, in which various threats have been made coming from the Russian … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/996959%3Fsrc%3D&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDQ4OTEyGmY2ODRlMjM4YmFjN2UzOTY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2erEWZXWwD084nTRlXMYjN

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Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Yellowstone supervolcano could be ‘gearing up to explode’ with consequences explained

Daily Express

Yellowstone volcano’s magma chamber mapped in documentary. Modern humans have never witnessed a supervolcano eruption — if they had, there’s a good … https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1829677/yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption-volcanoes-spt&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyNTgwMzc2NzE0MTQ0NDU2MTcyGjg0ZGQ2ODU5ZTQxNjVjODY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw23PGWpzq768NPlhPTDwOp5

Sky News Coverage of the Russia/Ukraine:

Analysis: Who is winning the war?

By Philip Ingram MBE, former colonel in British Military Intelligence and NATO planner

In July, the then Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov said that he “believes that Ukraine will win the war by next summer and could be admitted to NATO in July 2024”.

The reality of what Ukraine has really achieved on the ground would suggest this was an overly optimistic assessment – but who is winning?

In early June, Ukraine launched its long-expected counteroffensive against the Russian defences having had some significant successes in late 2022 taking back huge areas of ground around Kherson in the northeast and then Kherson in the east of the country. They had tied Russia up around Bakhmut, exhausting the Wagner fighters to the point where they had to be withdrawn from the front line.

With the delivery of fresh Western-trained troops, equipped with Leopard and Challenger tanks, Bradley and Marder infantry fighting vehicles, HIMARS and 155mm artillery, the expectation was they would punch through Russian defences like a hot knife through butter and reach the coast with the Sea of Azov in a few short months.

HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System)

However, they lacked air superiority, attack helicopters, sufficient air defence and, most significantly, enough combat engineering assets to enable the extensive Russian defences to be breached in any significant way. In reality they lacked sufficient troops, tanks, artillery, missiles, and infantry fighting vehicles as well. The went too early against the delivery timetables of Western equipment.

The Russian defences delayed and slowed the Ukrainians down. The Russian use of attack helicopters and well-planned defences showed the vulnerability of Western armour and stopped the Ukrainians making significant progress, meaning that at the start of the autumn mud season, the conditions for Reznikov’s winning remain a long way off.

An emboldened Russia even counterattacked the Ukrainians near Avdiivka in the Donetsk Oblast, but only after receiving 1,000 containers of ammunition and equipment from North Korea.

The current territorial picture in Ukraine has not changed much since June.

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