LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #513 (01/17/2024)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

JAN 17, 2024

In the 1960s, gentle, pot-smoking hippies believed that a new society could be created, a world filled with peace. The belief that nuclear weapons have changed human nature and made world war impossible, the author, Ward Hayes Wilson, writes, is essentially the same claim those hippies made. Photo credit: Wikiwatcher 1 via Wikimedia Commons.

(See the story, clearly in tune with my own heart, by Ward Hayes Wilson following my personal perspective and comments . . .)

LLAW’s THOUGHTS & COMMENTS :

If we laughed at the hippies in the 1960s, why the hell are we not laughing at the polictal concept of ‘deterrence’ — the concept that nuclear weapons will never be used beyond ‘threat’ level. The ‘60s hippies’ reasoning was no different than the highest levels of nuclear-armed governments today.

For about a year and a half now, I have been preaching each and every night to the multitudes that ‘all things nuclear’ must not only be abolished but also demolished or buried deep underground where none of it can ever be recovered for future use. There are millions of others who feel the same way I do, of course, but the problem is few of us take any positive action toward making that enormous effort to achieve the purpose. It can be done, but it takes a brave new world of a globally united human society to make it happen. I have defined in many other Posts how that could be accomplished. But will we ever listen? And will we ever learn? Do we not understand “reality”?

I have already written in a previous Post my rebuttal to Mr. Kallenborn’s article, and I become more pessimistic about our collective future as time passes, but I will continue on until I know in my heart that such a possibility of eliminating ‘all things nuclear’ will never happen. ~llaw

Following Article courtesy of “The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” and the author:

A response to Kallenborn: Why realism requires that nuclear weapons be abolished

By Ward Hayes Wilson | January 17, 2024

In a recent piece in the Bulletin (“Why a nuclear weapons ban would threaten, not save, humanity”), Zachary Kallenborn argued that a ban on nuclear weapons would create serious risks, including unrestrained great power war and a hindering of global cooperation. He asserted that continuing to maintain small nuclear weapons arsenals for the foreseeable future is sensible.

What is troubling about this assertion is not so much that Mr. Kallenborn is wrong, but that he seems to have strayed from reality. Mistakes in a discussion about nuclear weapons policy matter because roughly 4.2 billion people depend on those policies for their safety and survival. With so much at stake, the discussion about nuclear weapons demands the highest levels of seriousness and an unflinching insistence on realism. Mr. Kallenborn has missed that mark in at least one important regard.

Nuclear weapons prevent all-out war? Kallenborn writes, “Nuclear weapons place a cap on how bad great power conflict can become and may deter the emergence and escalation of great power war.” In the world of nuclear weapons advocates, this is a common claim, viz. that nuclear weapons prevent large-scale existential wars similar to World War II. For example, John Lewis Gaddis a highly regarded historian of the Cold War, puts it this way: “As the means of fighting great wars became exponentially more devastating, the likelihood of such wars diminished, and ultimately disappeared altogether.”[1] In other words, “great” wars have disappeared altogether, and nuclear weapons are the reason.

This claim is essential for those who wish to keep nuclear weapons. After all, if nuclear weapons can stop World War II-type wars, then it is safe—even necessary—to keep them. If, on the other hand, they can’t, then all-out wars are more likely (because people wrongly think that nothing can go wrong as long as nuclear weapons are present). And when one occurs, the use of nuclear weapons is almost inevitable.

Unfortunately, the faith in the peace-inducing powers of nuclear weapons is wishful thinking. Wars are decided by human beings, and as the history of our civilization demonstrates—Winston Churchill once called it “the dark lamentable catalog of human crime”—human beings have deep-rooted urges to make war. It is not pleasant to insist on this portrayal of human nature, but the stakes require that we be brutally honest with ourselves. We have been fighting wars with dogged persistence for at least 6,000 years. As President John F. Kennedy put it, “[T]he human race’s history, unfortunately, has been a good deal more war than peace.”^[2] Every era of history and region of the world has experienced war with disheartening regularity. There are sometimes pauses and respites—sometimes for even a hundred years—but the lust for war always reemerges.

American philosopher William James explained the persistence of war this way, “Our ancestors have bred pugnacity into our bone and marrow, and thousands of years of peace won’t breed it out of us.”^[3] War is a tenacious part of our behavior. If humans were to suddenly give up fighting wars, it would be a monumental change—a revolution in human behavior. Losing our taste for war would be to surrender something central to our natures—like renouncing our predisposition for religion, our love of beauty, or our tendency to overeat.

There’s no doubt that the risk of using nuclear weapons can restrain thoughts of war … sometimes. But can the “magic” of nuclear weapons dissuade us forever? Nothing else has. The hopeful (and somewhat naive) belief that nuclear weapons will always prevent all-out wars ignores one important fact: The evidence that supports this claim—the last 78 years—amounts to only 1.3 percent of the evidence. The other 5,928 years tell a different story.

Let’s get real. The claim that nuclear weapons have somehow permanently suppressed the heretofore unquenchable desire for war is not a realist position. Typically, it is idealists who optimistically say that we can change the world by simply changing our hearts. Idealists believe that changing human nature overnight is possible. For example, in the 1960s, gentle, pot-smoking hippies believed that a new society could be created, a utopian world where people would live in communes and value love above all other things. And with this new emphasis on love, there would naturally come a world filled with peace. And we could all hold hands and sing.

If you stop and think about it, the belief that nuclear weapons have changed human nature—what Kallenborn asserts—is essentially the same claim those hippies made. Nuclear believers say that the urge to make savage war has at last been overcome. They say we can now live in peace forever. Our darker, primitive natures will never again overwhelm our sensible, rational brains. There will be no more all-out wars. And they say this utopia of peace has already arrived (just without the singing). But rather than the power of love, it is a tool—a piece of technology—that has wrought this magical transformation.

Sadly, nuclear weapons have not transformed our warlike natures into calm and peaceful ones. Unbridled war, fought with savage abandon, is still likely, perhaps even inevitable. If you doubt that anger and violence are stalking the world, read some headlines. Around the world are sudden fires of passion that leap up first here, then there. War is raging in Europe and the Middle East. With so much hatred around as fuel, is there much doubt that a war that engulfs many nations and many peoples is far off? If you don’t think so, at least some of your neighbors do. An International Red Cross survey asked millennials in 2019 if they thought a worldwide war similar to World War II would happen in their lifetimes. More than 58 percent of respondents in the United States said yes.^[4]

The belief that large-scale war has been banished forever by nuclear weapons is nothing more than a dangerous fantasy. All the evidence of history and everything we know about ourselves tells us that our warlike natures cannot change overnight. (That is the sound of genuine realism talking.)

Claims that we can change human nature are unsurprising in the mouths of gentle, pot-smoking hippies. On the lips of nuclear weapons proponents, they are realist heresy. The fact that nuclear weapons advocates can call themselves realists and at the same time claim that nuclear weapons make all-out wars impossible shows that they do not understand the assumptions that underlie their own position. Their “realism” is nothing of the kind.

The problem with relying on nuclear deterrence is that if it can’t be perfect—and perfect for all time—then it is too dangerous to rely on. Who’s to say that nuclear deterrence isn’t like a pressure cooker—able to hold off savage wars for a time, but when the top blows off at last, the destruction will be all the more far-reaching because it was held in for so long? Because of our primitive, warlike natures, nuclear weapons have to go. There are no safe hands for nuclear weapons. That is a reality that we all ignore at our own peril.

Editor’s note: Ward Hayes Wilson is the author, most recently, of It Is Possible: A Future Without Nuclear Weapons. The arguments here are based in part on chapter one of that book.

Notes

^[1] John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (New York: Penguin Press, 2005), p. 52.

^[2] “News conference, President John F. Kennedy,” State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C., March 21, 1963, https://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/Press-Conferences/News-Conference-52.aspx (accessed May 24, 2023).

^[3] William James, “The Moral Equivalent of War,” in War: Studies from Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, ed. Leon Bramson and George Goethals (New York: Basic Books, 1964), p. 23.

^[4] https://www.icrc.org/en/document/majority-millennials-see-catastrophic-war-real-possibility

ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’S ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA:

There are 5 categories (plus a bonus category at the end for news about the Yellowstone caldera and others that also play an important role in humanity’s lives) as do ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 linked most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (Especially with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual appearing order:

All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear War
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Yellowstone Caldera(There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in tonight’s Post.)

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A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (per above). If a category heading does not appear, it means there was no news reported from this category today. There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available at the end of this Post.

(A reminder, just in case: When linked, the access to the media story will be underlined. 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 never happen.)

TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (01/17/2024):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

The 3 Best Nuclear Energy Stocks to Own for 2024 | InvestorPlace

InvestorPlace

BWX Technologies (NYSE:BWXT) is a one-stop shop for all things nuclear. The company does everything from nuclear-related environmental clean-up to …

A response to Kallenborn: Why realism requires that nuclear weapons be abolished

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

All the evidence of history and everything we know about ourselves tells us that our warlike natures cannot change overnight. (That is the sound of …

Nuclear ambitions in the push for renewable energy – The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe

I also wonder about the state of a nuclear fusion reactor in Japan, and … Nikki Haley was right all along. Her careful, clever challenge may not …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Nuclear power expansion plans highlight fuel bottlenecks | Business – Chemistry World

Chemistry World

Western governments look to overcome Russian dominance of key uranium processing steps. Nuclear energy shuffled into the spotlight in December …

The benefits of nuclear energy – Orano – Orano

Full Coverage

Fukushima nuclear plant operator in Japan says it has no new safety concerns after Jan. 1 quake

ABC News

The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan says it has no new safety worries and envisions no changes to the …

Dutch initiative to boost nuclear workforce

World Nuclear News

Nuclear power currently has a small role in the Dutch electricity supply, with the 485 MWe (net) Borssele pressurised water reactor providing …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Putin Ally Issues Ominous ‘Red Button’ Threat Over NATO War Report – Newsweek

Newsweek

Sergey Mironov, leader of A Just Russia, said that as a nuclear power, Russia “will take all available forces and means to defend its territory.”

A response to Kallenborn: Why realism requires that nuclear weapons be abolished

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

In the world of nuclear weapons advocates, this is a common claim, viz. that nuclear weapons prevent large-scale existential wars similar to World War …

How Russia Is Building the Nuclear Weapons of the Future | The National Interest

The National Interest

Threatening a nuclear war of annihilation is one of Moscow’s favorite sports. High level Russian nuclear threats are commonplace. This is particularly …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Nuclear Disablement Teams visit commercial atomic power station in Pennsylvania – DVIDS

DVIDS

… nuclear infrastructure of commercial power plants. “The NDTs were able to expand their understanding of commercial nuclear power emergency …

U.S. Army Nuclear Teams’ Visit Enhances Preparedness – BNN Breaking

BNN Breaking

… Power Station to gain insights into commercial nuclear power plant operations, enhancing their capability for nuclear infrastructure emergencies.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

2024 could bring ‘a lot of ruin,’ but nuclear threat could be a stabilizing force – UPI.com

UPI

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are far from over. Little noticed was a nuclear threat sounded again by Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev …

The Urgent Need for Enhanced U.S. Missile Defense Amid Rising Nuclear Threats – Medriva

Medriva

Rising Nuclear Threats: A Global Concern. As the world becomes more volatile and uncertain, the threat of nuclear war looms larger in the minds of …

NATO’s Escalating Wargames Threaten a Nuclear Exchange With Russia | Stop the War

Stop the War Coalition

… threats outside its borders. CND General Secretary Kate Hudson said … Either of these wars could go nuclear and they have to be brought to a …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Are You Prepared? 12 States Where A Volcano Eruption Could Happen At Any Time

Green Building Elements

7. Idaho. Volcanos Idaho Image Credit: Green Building Elements. Idaho’s landscape includes four active volcanic features, part of the Yellowstone …

Lewotobi Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA TO FL100 OBS FM GND AT 16/1258Z EST VA DTG

Volcano Discovery

List and interactive map of current and past earthquakes near Yellowstone volcano. Quakes Felt · Quakes Felt. See quakes that people felt in the last …

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023

LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #457 (11/21/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

NOV 21, 2023

[Why Yellowstone is a bonus Post to this “All Things Nuclear” Nightly Production. It and others could be a way out if we act soon enough.]

To my way of thinking, the Yellowstone Caldera (and others around the planet) may be by far the best chance to foil doomsday, as the ultimately successful solution to forging ahead, forgetting about the world-wide fear of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, as well as fossil fuels and their greenhouse gas global warming effect. It is incorporated into my “Blue Print” plan for destroying all things nuclear “Management”.

As for the Yellowstone Caldera and all the rest of them having their own life-ending potential, at least their devastating capability is not created by the activity of our human selves, and there is also the caveat concerning the ability to cool and control the destructive power of calderas by harnessing and using their natural power production that would reduce their potential to ‘boil over’, making them safer in the long run than we currently believe. Their collective power could comfortably provide enough electricity for the entire planet forever. Yellowstone alone could well support electrical power plants all over both of the American continents for hundreds of years. And there are others, such as the Long Valley caldera in western California, less than 800 miles southwest of Yellowstone. There are also several large calderas in South America. And the largest one of all is located in the Philippines. There are dozens of others around the world, some more active than Yellowstone. And harnessing them for power generation is much easier than one would tend to think. Yellowstone provides an example of how power generation could work by tapping the ready-made steam of calderas that could provide the heat to create electricity all by themselves. I will provide that video in a future Post of “All Things Nuclear”. You can also track it down yourself is you’ve a mind to, which might whet your interests by making the effort to broaden your scope and knowledge of our harrowing world crises from all things nuclear to its cousins, the other fossil fuels.

What follows is a brief primer considering the potential of developing the Yellowstone caldera and other similar calderas to provide all the electrical power we could ever need, and by doing so perhaps saving us in two ways from the 6th Extinction . . .

The following article by Dr. Thomas F. Arciuolo, gives us reinforcing look that the Earth’s human world(s)might well be able to get along without any fossil fuels, including uranium (nuclear fuel). The cooling affect of volcanic activity in the calderas might also allow us to live without fear of devastation from calderas such as the Yellowstone. The question is, though, can humanity buy into such an effort rather than go to war and more wars over who controls the potential natural energy production, needing only a delivery grid system. Could we possibly come together and create a global free energy program without letting greed and greenbacks get in the way? ~llaw

Supervolcano Could Solve the Climate and Energy Crises

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Ultimate Interfaces Corporation

December 10, 2022, 16:10 GMT

SHARE THIS ARTICLE: Yellowstone Caldera Supervolcano: A Solution to the Climate and Energy Crises

Scientists propose a new and revolutionary method to harness the Yellowstone’s supervolcano., and generate enough electricity to power the American continent.

With the dawn of the 3rd decade of the 21st century, humanity is embarking on a 2nd Renaissance.”

— Dr. Thomas F. Arciuolo

MILFORD, CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES, December 10, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The climate crisis poses a major threat to human civilization. Burning fossil fuels to generate energy is the primary cause of this crisis, due to greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, our energy requirements are expected to grow significantly in the future, as would be expected.

At the same time, we face another great crisis. Underneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming lies a powerful supervolcano, which has the guaranteed potential for an eruption that will be catastrophic to the entire world.

Researchers Dr Thomas Arciuolo and Dr Miad Faezipour propose a solution to these problems, by harnessing the mighty energy reserve within the Yellowstone Supervolcano to generate clean, emission-free energy.

The team’s proposed technology would generate phenomenal amounts of electricity – enough to power the entire American continent. Their plan would also cool the supervolcano’s magma chamber, preventing a super-eruption. NASA has predicted that cooling the magma by just 35% would prevent such a calamity. The project would also generate thousands of jobs and ensure energy-independence for the USA.

(Note: Concerning jobs creation, the total number of jobs lost would far outdistance the new jobs created. However, there would be thousands upon thousand of alternative jobs created by getting rid of all things nuclear as well as fossil fuel plants, mining reclamation, and ancillary supportive occupations ~llaw)

The proposed copper-based, volcanic energy harvesting technology has the potential to produce triple the USA’s predicted energy requirements for 2050. The excess power could be sold to other countries on the American continent for profit, and to fund the facility’s construction.

Arciuolo and Faezipour’s pioneering technology has been fully simulated, to prove that its methodology is both practical and efficient. The use of volcanoes to generate power has already proved successful in Iceland and Hawaii.

Harvesting energy from Yellowstone’s supervolcano would provide safer and more dependable power than any form of energy used today, including solar, wind, and nuclear. The team’s technology would not only generate huge profits, but it would also prevent a catastrophic eruption, while significantly mitigating the climate crisis and meeting the American continent’s energy needs for the years and centuries to come.

This technology could be adopted globally by other nations to provide a world-wide solution to climate change and energy production.

Dr. Thomas F. Arciuolo
Ultimate Interfaces Corporation
+1 203-640-7100
email@ultimateinterfaces.com

ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’S ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA:

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category. There is one Yellowstone Caldera bonus story available in this Post. If a category heading does not appear, it means there was no news reported from this category today.

(Just a reminder: When linked, the access to the media story will be underlined. 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 never happen.)

TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS:

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

We’re long past nuclear deterrence: Bring on mutually assured prevention | The Hill

The Hill

See all Hill.TV See all Video. Top Stories. See All · Senate · Senate … Where things stand on a potential Israel-Hamas hostage deal. by Laura Kelly 2 …

Secret Warnings About Wuhan Research Predated the Pandemic – Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

… Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees all of the agency’s nuclear weapons work. In 2014, Lawrence Livermore scientists began raising …

Disarmament Grows More Distant as US Plans Another “Upgrade” to Nuclear Bomb

Truthout

Like all U.S. nuclear weapons, the B61-13 will be assembled near … Those are things that we’re going to be paying for throughout the entirety of …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

US to announce global nuclear fusion strategy at COP28 – Reuters

Reuters

The U.S. will lay out the first international strategy to commercialize nuclear fusion power at the upcoming UN climate summit in Dubai, …

Floating Nuclear Power Plants: Benefits and Challenges discussed at IAEA Symposium

International Atomic Energy Agency

… nuclear power plant (FNPP). Interest is growing in installing small modular reactors (SMRs) on floating barges or platforms to provide clean …

Paradigm shift on nuclear power – Energy Central

Energy Central

After four decades, the Philippines is tapping nuclear power again as a viable alternative source of energy. Last week, Energy Secretary Raphael …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Why North Korea may use nuclear weapons first, and why current US policy toward …

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Because it will face an intense “use-it-or-lose-it” dilemma, North Korea will likely employ nuclear weapons early if war erupts on the Korean …

Time for a Transnational Uprising Against a Reckless Escalation of the Arms Race?

The Nation

… nuclear arms race poster during the cold war, nuclear war tensions. Demonstrators march toward Central Park during a nuclear disarmament rally of …

Gaza Massacre could lead to Nuclear War | Common Dreams

Common Dreams

As military veterans who have experienced the deadly threat of nuclear weapons from the Cuban Missile Crisis onward, as well as being distraught …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Entergy’s nuclear plant north of Baton Rouge was forced into temporary emergency shutdown

NOLA.com

Entergy’s River Bend nuclear power plant near St. Francisville was forced into a temporary emergency shutdown over the weekend due to a technical …

5 TPP power units taken out for emergency repairs – Ukrenergo | Ukrainian news

ukranews.com

Consumption limits were not introduced,” the message says. As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Energoatom national nuclear energy …

Paradigm shift on nuclear power – Energy Central

Energy Central

the Philippines’ initial attempt on nuclear energy, through the Bataan Nuclear Power … power plants for maintenance or emergency repair purposes. This …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Gaza Massacre could lead to Nuclear War | Common Dreams

Common Dreams

As military veterans who have experienced the deadly threat of nuclear weapons from the Cuban Missile Crisis onward, as well as being distraught …

Why North Korea may use nuclear weapons first, and why current US policy toward …

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Russia has probably not used nuclear weapons in Ukraine because the war is not existential. A defeat there is not an offensive threat to the Russian …

Dangers only multiply: Could Israel’s war on Gaza go nuclear? – MR Online

MR Online

Dangers only multiply: Could Israel’s war on Gaza go nuclear? … threats to launch more October 7ths until Israel is “annihilated”), this remains the …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

The Mystery Of Flagg Ranch, OR, The Case Of The Unknown Ignimbrite

National Parks Traveler

Editor’s note: Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

November 18, 2023

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

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

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

ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’s ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA:

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category. There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in this Post. If a category heading does not appear, it means there was no news reported from this category today.

TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS:

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 –

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… 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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And today’s nuclear world’s News:

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
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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 8, 2023November 8, 2023

LAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #444 (11/08/2023)

ALL THINGS NUCLEAR

LAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #444 (11/08/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

NOV 8, 2023

LLAW’s COMMENTARY:

One more evening and new (although most of the old are new too) especially to new readers who never saw or read those that were only available to Facebook faithful. So, as I’ve mentioned before, I will occasionally pick an older Post to points that have been made over the last year-plus that are important to the future of all life on planet Earth. But I have added my feelings about a Forbes article today . . .

This Post was short and intense – letting the images do the inferred “talking”. I well know those long roads to the uranium mines in Wyoming and other western states. I began my career in the uranium and nuclear industry at a mine called the Lucky Mc Mine in central Wyoming in the 1960s as an accountant for the San Francisco based company. I remained in the company’s uranium and other enterprises into the early 1980s. The 3-Mile Island nuclear accident prompted me to ‘escape’ from the nuclear business, realizing that the ‘stuff’ we were selling all over the world was immanently dangerous.

Over the years I have learned just how lethal “All Things Nuclear” are, and yet I see ridiculous stories in tonight’s media news from Forbes, with propaganda direct from the industry that headlines with How Policy Saved America’s Nuclear Power Plants, and leads on with this line. “Federal and state policy kept America’s nuclear power plants online to preserve clean energy supplies and prevent emissions increases and . . . I have to admit I laughed derisively at the opening to this article (and of course I will not read it because it is pure industry propaganda from the industry. Nuclear power plants do not produced ‘clean’ energy, and they are proud owners of the dirtiest and most toxic waste on the planet that they know what to do with except to dump it in the ocean. Oh, yes, it is ‘treated’, but what will happen when the ‘treatment’ wears off? And we haven’t even mentioned the words “meltdown” or “nuclear war” yet. ~llaw

Shared with the Public on June 8th, 2023 . . .

Uranium and its products of nuclear weapons and nuclear power is the road to Nowhere – a desolate world that looks something like this lonely road to the first step and the last step to desolation and annihilation.

Stop nuclear insanity before nuclear insanity stops humanity! ~llaw

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Science is Everywhere camps at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History – YouTube

YouTube

13 Things from the 1970s, Kids Today Will Never Understand! … all of us’ I See the full speech. MSNBC New 1M views · 6:10 · Go to channel · A Recipe …

Feds come to Kemmerer to explain the permitting process for proposed nuclear plant

Wyoming Public Media

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent federal agency that oversees all things nuclear, like the TerraPower project near Kemmerer.

Holtec plans to build new nuclear reactors at its energy plants — but not at Pilgrim, for now

WCAI

All Things Considered · Podcasts …more programs · The Point · News Roundup … Holtec and other supporters contend that nuclear energy can be safe and …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

How Policy Saved America’s Nuclear Power Plants – Forbes

Forbes

Federal and state policy kept America’s nuclear power plants online to preserve clean energy supplies and prevent emissions increases as …

Should Texas Build More Nuclear Power Plants?

Texas Monthly

Even if nuclear takes off, it will be years before it catches up to the contributions of natural gas, or even wind power, to the state’s energy mix. “ …

Ukraine war live updates: Russia claims Kyiv attacked 3 nuclear power plants – CNBC

CNBC

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev claimed Wednesday that Ukraine tried to attack three nuclear power plants.

Nuclear War

NEWS

Kremlin says nuclear arms dialogue with US is necessary but not ready to be lectured

Reuters

After fears of a nuclear war were triggered by the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States and the Soviet Union sought to slow the arms race with …

Ukraine war live updates: Russia claims Kyiv attacked 3 nuclear power plants – CNBC

CNBC

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev claimed Wednesday that Ukraine tried to attack three nuclear power plants.

Why a Russian nuclear expert thinks the Doomsday Clock should move away from midnight

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 brought the nuclear risk to an entirely new level. From the very first day of the war, Russia …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Indian Point nuclear plant to conduct emergency siren test – News 12 – Westchester

News 12 – Westchester

The Indian Point nuclear power plant will be conducting a test of its emergency siren system this evening. All 172 sirens are scheduled to emit at …

My experience of the nuclear industry so far – IMechE

IMechE

… energy mix, particularly considering the current climate emergency. I strongly believe that nuclear power will be needed to power tomorrow, along …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

ARTHUR CYR: The Continuing Threat of Nuclear Weapons | Opinion | jacksonprogress-argus.com

Jackson Progress-Argus

Military threats are not only external. In early 1961, President Eisenhower closed his Farewell Address by warning of the dangers of our massive arms …

Why a Russian nuclear expert thinks the Doomsday Clock should move away from midnight

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

… nuclear threats that has been reaffirmed this year, a Russia nuclear expert argues … nuclear war cannot be won therefore must not be fought. But …

Preventing AI Nuclear Armageddon by Melissa Parke – Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate

… nuclear threats. And UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not mention the acute threat posed by nuclear-weapons-related AI applications at all, even …

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

Key points

EU officially recommends launch of Ukraine membership talks when ‘outstanding conditions met’ View post
Adam Parsons analysis: Ukraine moves closer to EU embrace – but still faces many hurdles View post
How Ukrainian forces could ‘create problems’ for Russia over winter, according to military analyst Michael Clarke View post
Ukraine spy agency behind car bombing that killed Russian-backed politician View post
Russian milblogger issues warning over Moscow’s prospects in war 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

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

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… 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

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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: …

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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 …

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

Nuclear War Threats

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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

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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:

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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)

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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)

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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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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

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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 . . .

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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)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

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A response to Kallenborn: Why realism requires that nuclear weapons be abolished

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Supervolcano Could Solve the Climate and Energy Crises

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

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PG&E Disasters:

1. Groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California