So where in hell do Trump and Netanyahu go from here? We all know the story; but a Yogi always told us, “It ain’t over ‘till it’s over . . . “ +llaw
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Nuclear power accounts for a sliver of energy production. The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a nonprofit, non-partisan global security organization, …
New Isreali attack comes after 12-day air war with Iran in June … “The State of Israel launched a pre-emptive attack against Iran to remove threats to …
NUCLEAR TALKS: The U.S. built up a massive military presence in the … Israel attacked Iran in June of last year in what became known as the 12-day war …
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“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
Feb 27, 2026
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My view of what our nuclear world — planet Earth — will look like after WWIII . . . ~llaw
You will have to pick your own nuclear poison for today — and the next few days — because I am, very sadly, under the weather to the point that I cannot contribute my thoughts concerning “All Things Nuclear” at this time except to say, as you all must know by now, they are extremely negative . . .
But, please, on your own, review the headers and links for today’s compilations listed in today’s newsworthy nuclear categories. . . Feel free to select your own reading material from LLAW’s Nuclear World News, Friday, 02/27//2026, below . . . ~llaw
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So now all of a sudden, their nuclear … Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist who hosts All Things Considered along with Ari Shapiro, Mary Louise …uclear safety rules are made public – NWPB
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All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:30 PM Marketplace/Yale Climate … The Department of Energy has made public a set of new rules that slash …
The highly anticipated nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran began Thursday morning with threats and continued military build up in the Middle …
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned any conflict would likely result in a “devastating war … nuclear capabilities. “Further progress has …
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You will have to pick your own nuclear poison for today — and the next few days — because I am, very sadly, under the weather to the point that I cannot contribute my thoughts concerning “All Things Nuclear” at this time except to say, as you all must know by now, they are extremely negative . . .
But, please, on your own, review the headers and links for today’s compilations listed in today’s newsworthy nuclear categories. . . Feel free to select your own reading material from LLAW’s Nuclear World News, Sunday, 02/22/2026, below . . . ~llaw
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Trump initially threatened to intervene over the deadly crackdown on nationwide unrest in Iran last month, but in recent weeks his public threats have …
LAW’s Nuclear World News’ Image & Lead Story Today . . .
I keep wondering if Trump has “learned to love the bomb” to much of the same degree as Dr. Strangelove. If you have never seen it, it is available right here and now . . . (you will need to copy and paste the links, as I could no activate them . . .! ~llaw
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TAKHT-RAVANCHI: No, the subject of negotiations is the nuclear issue, and this is agreed by all sides. INSKEEP: And I want to just clarify for people …
… energy demand. Nuclear power plant. Soaring demand for power generation, the U.S. goal of quadrupling nuclear electricity generation by 2050, and a …
LAW’s Nuclear World News’ Image & Lead Story Today . . .
This old Ally Oop and his girl-friend comic strip cartoon we old people always enjoyed as kids and adults for so many years ought be reborn in some fashion to demonstrate and illustrate the differences between the life of humans them and humans now. Are we better off from a health and welfare point of view, now? I refuse to think so . . .
Alley Oop was a long-running, influential American syndicated comic strip created by V.T. Hamlin that debuted on December 5, 1932 on into the 1960s. Known for its blend of fantasy, adventure, and humor — and his girl friend Ooola and the dinosaur they used to ride to see the “world” in a dangerous animal kingdom — the strip chronicles the life of a gruff and ready caveman in the prehistoric kingdom of Moo. The title character is famous for riding a dinosaur named Dinny, wielding a stone axe, and engaging in adventures that often satirized American life.
But it is the “then and now” that tells the accurately real story of just how well-off living organisms including humanity are at risk from those same dinosaurs before their extinction back than compared to now. Back then, it was a one-on=one battle that spared many from sudden death versus now that the “dinosaur bones” of old skeletons they have handed down to us that threaten every life on planet Earth.
But it is the “then” that wins the comparison, of course, because the dinosaurs, who are the now the remains of uranium nuclear fuel that is spreading the planet with “certain death” of all of us if we continue along this path to our ultimate destinies . . .
What do you think about our future or our renewed “dinosaur” lives of today vs. those of old? Would you rather have lived in the cave-man days or today given the obvious nuclear fuel produced for us from those old remains — which are used for uranium exploration — of those dinosaurs who were just a simple part of the ecosystem back then, makin life a one-on-one battle rather one against the whole world war? . . . ~llaw
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… Things · Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta · The … “It was my great honor to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability, and then, STOP THE WAR!” …
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My big brother Curtis and me in Ten Sleep, Wyoming, wearing our support for the United States’ military! There was a lot of bombing going on as the war was leaning toward an American/Unified victory. I have often wondered what the world would look like today if the constant bombing had been “all-out nuclear” . . . (I doubt that any of us would be alive today!)
Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft, administration executive and exploration manager for many years in uranium and other minerals. born of a Wyoming Game Warden/ Game Animal Artist, and a Wyoming ranch-raised mother on November 23, 1941, who has unfortunately run headlong into some old-age health difficulties. I expect to be “back in action” sometime around mid-week this week, and I will keep my fingers and T’s crossed until I am “back in action”.
You will have to pick your own nuclear poison for today — and the next few days — because I am, very sadly, under the weather to the point that I cannot contribute my thoughts concerning “All Things Nuclear” at this time except to say, as you all must know by now, they are extremely negative . . .
But, please, on your own, review the headers and links for today’s compilations listed in today’s newsworthy nuclear categories. . . Feel free to select your own reading material from LLAW’s Nuclear World News, Sunday, 02/22/2026, below . . . ~llaw
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The Delaware Emergency Management Agency said an “unusual event” was declared at the Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station at 2:29 a.m. on Monday, Feb …
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) — The Pentagon and the Energy Department for the first time airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, …
President Donald Trump supports nuclear power — a carbon-free source of electricity — as a reliable energy source, even as he has been broadly hostile …
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Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft, administration executive and exploration manager for many years in uranium and other minerals. born of a Wyoming Game Warden/ Game Animal Artist, and a Wyoming ranch-raised mother on November 23, 1941, who has unfortunately run headlong into some old-age health difficulties. I expect to be “back in action” sometime around mid-week this week, and I will keep my fingers and T’s crossed until I am “back in action”.
You will have to pick your own nuclear poison for today — and the next few days — because I am, very sadly, under the weather to the point that I cannot contribute my thoughts concerning “All Things Nuclear” at this time except to say, as you all must know by now, they are extremely negative . . .
But, please, on your own, review the headers and links for today’s compilations listed in today’s newsworthy nuclear categories. . . Feel free to select your own reading material from LLAW’s Nuclear World News, Sunday, 02/22/2026, below . . . ~llaw
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… nuclear arms while obliging nuclear-weapon states to pursue negotiations on nuclear … With the two superpowers coming perilously close to nuclear war …
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But if you look at what the nuclear – I mean, what the negotiations are about now, it’s about nuclear enrichment. … Michel Martin is the weekend host …
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Constellation Energy’s 1,090-MW Clinton nuclear power plant in Clinton, Illinois. Meta will buy power from the plant under a 20-year power purchase agreement that was announced June 3, 2025. Scott Olson via Getty Images
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The ghosts of nuclear past, present, and future: Can you tell them apart?
There’s a lot of chatter about nuclear energy these days, but we need to sort the category to make sense of what is feasible, writes University of Oregon Professor of Practice Joshua Skov.
Published Feb. 20, 2026
By Joshua Skov
Constellation Energy’s 1,090-MW Clinton nuclear power plant in Clinton, Illinois. Meta will buy power from the plant under a 20-year power purchase agreement that was announced June 3, 2025. Scott Olson via Getty Images
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Joshua Skov is a professor of practice at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business.
The chatter about nuclear energy is everywhere in the air. Just as the tech boom and AI and electrification generally are pushing us to get more generation on the grid, nuclear is on the tip of every tongue.
But is it more than talk? In fact, “nuclear” has become a muddled set of topics, mixing different technologies, timeframes and deployment realities. It’s time to sort it out.
I propose a simple taxonomy to keep three mostly distinct categories separate in our minds. With a nod to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, I’ve chosen the labels based on the ghosts that visit Ebeneezer Scrooge.
First, the ghost of nuclear past is our legacy fleet — and I will suggest thinking and speaking of it that way, as old infrastructure that still delivers significant benefits but which we don’t build more of.
Second, the ghost of nuclear present is our current ability to build anew, which is … basically zero, with a few narrow exceptions.
Third, the ghost of nuclear future is the most mysterious, notably because — despite the considerable hype — it doesn’t exist yet and probably won’t for longer than you think.
The ghost of nuclear past
The United States has 94 nuclear power plants, far and away the world’s largest fleet, and it generated 18.6% of our electricity in 2024 — more than coal, or more than solar and wind combined (at least for now). The fleet’s capacity factor of over 92% is the envy of the world’s nuclear generators. The marginal cost of operation at these existing plants is highly competitive, and we have no other “firm” power that is low-cost and low-carbon. This legacy fleet is part of our energy backbone, without a doubt.
What’s striking is that we don’t build these plants anymore. Indeed, the last time we started a new nuclear power plant on a new site was 1978; that plant, the Harris Nuclear Plant just outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, entered service in 1987. A handful of other reactors came online in the 1990s and 2000s after long delays, but essentially the nuclear building boom in the U.S. tapered out 20 or 30 years ago.
I know what some of you are saying. “But we did build some more! The Vogtle Units 3 and 4!” I will say flatly: those don’t count. They took 15 years and nearly $37 billion, and just for additional reactors at an existing site. It isn’t clear that we would do it all again, and the effort has failed to spark a nuclear renaissance.
The ghost of nuclear present
Here I’m focused on what we can do now with nuclear tech in the U.S. Sadly, the answer is, in essence, almost nothing. How could you be hearing so much nuclear news, you ask? It is a problem of what and when.
The reality of what additional nuclear capacity can happen right now is quite simple: new reactors of the old kind are prohibitively expensive to build. A handful of reactors are ripe for repurposing — Meta’s investment in Illinois, Microsoft’s at Three Mile Island, Google’s similar just-announced deal in Iowa — but those are few and largely spoken for; and everything else is a pilot project.
Don’t get me wrong: the “handful” I’m talking about in that middle category will mean a lot of energy. Meta has agreed to keep the Clinton Power Station open past 2027 (when it was scheduled to close), signing a 20-year agreement for all of the energy from the facility. When one considers the high capacity factor of nuclear plants, this is the equivalent of 3-4 GW of solar or 2-3 GW of wind.
Yet these are truly the exceptions to the rule. Few nuclear power plants in the U.S. have a spare reactor to bring back online, or a viable one that is headed toward decommissioning. Indeed, it isn’t clear that there will be any more deals of this kind.
In theory, we could get new builds at existing plants. But that scenario is extremely expensive and slow to deploy. If only we had new and better nukes!
This hope leads us inexorably to the final ghost.
The ghost of nuclear future
For many readers, this grim picture is at odds with the news. But the hype, you say, the hype! What about all of the investments we’re hearing about? The pilot projects? The enthusiasm from Big Tech? Recent advancements by General Atomics? The permit for TerraPower’s Wyoming site? The avalanche of cash from Bill Gates? The recent announcement from TVA that it wants more SMRs? Those fall into three categories, none of which leads to scalable megawatt-hours until well into the next decade.
First, pure tech with not a single yard of concrete in the ground. Many nuclear power articles pump up “discoveries” and “advances” that are closer to basic science than applications, much less a settled reactor design, much less commercial production.
Second, much high-profile ink has been spilled on announcements of interest, but these get coverage that misleadingly suggests imminent deployment. Amazon wants nuclear! Microsoft wants nuclear! And most recently, the article whose headline on the Tennessee Valley Authority proclaims that the “Largest US public power supplier leads push for small reactors” — only to reveal that the push is for “first-of-a-kind technologies that are not expected to be commercially available until the 2030s.”
Finally, many of the real live “deals” are only one step ahead of TVA, i.e., for first-of-a-kind projects that have “starting as early as” dates that are years away, sometimes many years. Amazon’s multi-reactor deal with Energy Northwest and Bill Gates-funded TerraPower are both publicly aiming for 2030, a suspiciously round number that appears ambitious. Others are farther out, such as Oklo (2032), many targeting “early 2030s” such as Radiant, NuScale, Aalo and Google-backed Kairos Power (2035).
Do I sound pessimistic? Consider the most bullish pathway for advanced or next-gen nuclear out there right now, the one articulated in exquisite detail in the Biden DOE’s report Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Advanced Nuclear. This half-plan, half-wish, all-serious detail-rich trajectory describes a way for all of the pieces to fall into place — initial deployment, additional R&D, aligned policy, complementary investment by the private sector — for the first commercially viable, nth-of-a-kind advanced reactors to enter service … by the late 2030s. And again, the many necessary building blocks and stepping stones in that report are not guaranteed.
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I will be out of contact for a few days, so I will just say this for today: Please remember that my “LLAW’s Worlds’ personal nuclear and other global concerns, including both nuclear war and nuclear power — which are now more or less partners in our rush to “armageddon” — have never been about me personally, but always about all of you. I see what is happening, not for my own knowledge, but for all of those of you who need to know that “All Things Nuclear” will someday be the death of all of us if we continue along the “nuclear path”, including most all other life on planet Earth!
It CAN be stopped, but doing so would take an effort of humanity almost beyond belief, including the composite of love, peace, cooperation, empathy, and effort to accomplish . . . Over the years I have tried to explain how together we could make it happen . . . ~llaw
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The US Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln leads its strike group during an exercise in the Arabian Sea [File: Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jesse Monford/US Navy via Reuters]
The United States has issued new threats against Tehran after a second round of nuclear talks, as Iran and Russia announced joint naval drills in the Sea of Oman to deter any “unilateral action” in the region.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that “Iran would be very wise to make a deal” with US President Donald Trump, after indirect talks in the Swiss city of Geneva ended without a significant breakthrough.
Leavitt told reporters that while some progress was made on Tuesday, “we’re still very apart on some issues”.
Trump – who has deployed two US aircraft carriers and thousands of troops to the Gulf region – escalated his rhetoric on social media.
“Should Iran decide not to make a Deal,” the US may need to use an Indian Ocean airbase in the Chagos Islands, “in order to eradicate a potential attack by a highly unstable and dangerous Regime”, he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
A previous negotiating effort collapsed last year when Israel launched attacks on Iran, triggering a 12-day war that Washington joined in by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
Trump issued new threats of military action in January following a deadly Iranian crackdown on antigovernment protesters. Tehran responded by threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz – a vital oil export route for Gulf oil – and warning it could strike US military bases in the region.
The exchange heightened fears of a regional war and prompted diplomatic efforts by Gulf states, including Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, to prevent escalation.
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And now Russia is involved! This is the kind of thing that could likely lead to WWIII, to which Trump seems deadset on international war along with Israel.
It seems to me to be like a “sea of human lemmings” heading for the edge of a great cliff that will lead them —- and the rest of us by default — to the throes of global nuclear war, even though it would begin as an old style conventional war that wouldn’t last long before nukes were in the final war to end all wars — not because of one nation’s hopes of winning such a war; but of course because no nation can win such a war. . .
But, in reality, perhaps it’s all more accurately caused by Trump’s insatiable desire to evidently go down in a vacuum-like series — many already achieved — of a self -aggrandizing mental history as the only winner of an international war that only he, and no one else, desires to make his statement before his own god or whomever he perceives to be his god — which is most likely himself . . . ~llaw
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