Russia is constructing a nuclear power plant on the moon, and orbiting nuclear bombs in space; China is putting nuclear reactors on small floating islands to support their military facilities. Have we lost our collective minds? The answer is, “Yes!”
Don’t we realize that, already, every nuclear armed submarine is carrying kilotons of bombs; ICBMs are carrying kilotons of bombs, and these days every nuclear power plant has nuclear armed militaries slobbering with joy at the thought of assimilating nuclear power plants as weapons of mass destruction, not to mention that nuclear power plants are like live sitting-duck ‘traps’ threatening to catch humans anywhere and everwhere and eliminate us, and other living critters, if not as captives of war, but by terrorism, human error, earthquakes, tidal waves, creating lethal radiation poisoning on our once life-giving planet Earth. And we are insanely adding to all of this extraneous nuclear activity while directly staring possible or probable nuclear war in the face.
It took only two atomic bombs (popguns by today’s standards) to kill 100 thousand or more Japanese citizens to end WWII. We already have enough nuclear products of all kinds to destroy virtually every living thing on planet Earth with ‘all things nuclear’, but we can’t seem to break the habit — even in outer space. ~llaw
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A mining machine excavates alcoves and niches for exploratory scientific testing in September 2013 at Yucca Mountain. Thousands of studies of the site’s geology, hydrology, chemistry and climate to determine Yucca Mountain’s suitability as the nation’s first repository for commercial spent nuclear fuel. The project has stalled since the Obama administration attempted to withdraw the license application of the Yucca Mountain project in 2010. (Credit: US Energy Department, via Flickr)
This story from “The Bulletin” is not included in the TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS below, but is an April 30 article about the never-ending ridiculous political argument to allow the long ago proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site to be approved. This fight has been going on since the 1980s and anyone who cares knows that Yucca Mountain is just about the last place on earth that such a geologically faulted place is okay for nuclear waste disposal. The reason I am posting it here this evening is because I have followed the ridiculous history of this political insanity for more than 40 years, not just the few that the article indicates, and like the headline for the story says, Congress needs to “stop trying to revive Yucca Mountain.” ~llaw
To find a place to store spent nuclear fuel, Congress needs to stop trying to revive Yucca Mountain
A mining machine excavates alcoves and niches for exploratory scientific testing in September 2013 at Yucca Mountain. Thousands of studies of the site’s geology, hydrology, chemistry and climate to determine Yucca Mountain’s suitability as the nation’s first repository for commercial spent nuclear fuel. The project has stalled since the Obama administration attempted to withdraw the license application of the Yucca Mountain project in 2010. (Credit: US Energy Department, via Flickr)
A recent congressional hearing strangely resembled the film Groundhog Day. The hearing—titled “American Nuclear Energy Expansion: Spent Fuel Policy and Innovation”—not only rekindled a decades-old debate about whether to recycle spent nuclear fuel from reactors; it also provided a platform to relive yet again the fantasy that somehow the US government can resolve all of the political, legal, and technical issues necessary to build a permanent nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
The Republican leadership of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce clearly supported one path forward for commercial spent fuel. In her opening remarks, committee chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington state, urged the committee to “update the law and build state support for a permanent repository at Yucca Mountain.” In his own opening remarks, Jeff Duncan, a South Carolina Republican and chair of the subcommittee hosting the hearing, lamented that “[u]nfortunately, the political objections of one state, NOT based on scientific reality, blocked the [Yucca Mountain] repository from being licensed and constructed.” Yucca Mountain was a recurrent theme in witness testimony and congressional questioning throughout the hearing.
But to really advance federal policy and innovation on spent nuclear fuel, Congress needs to learn the lessons of Yucca Mountain and to stop trying to revive it.
In the 2020 presidential campaign, Donald Trump and Joe Biden agreed there shouldn’t be an underground repository to permanently store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and that it was time for everyone else to accept that the project was finally off the table. As was the case four years ago, it is very unlikely the next administration, be it led by President Biden or President Trump, is going to reverse its position and attempt to revive a multibillion-dollar infrastructure project that has been dormant for over a decade.
Even if support were to emerge at the federal level, attempting to obtain permits for the facility would create an extraordinary legal and regulatory morass. The state of Nevada alone had filed over 200 objections to the Yucca Mountain construction and operating permits that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was considering before the process for considering them was suspended in 2011.
If the process were revived and those objections (or contentions, in NRC terminology) were somehow adjudicated in favor of the project, the state and other opponents would turn their attention to required NRC certification of transportation casks, emergency plans, evacuation routes, safety procedures, and operator training programs. Beyond these requirements, the project would have to acquire rights-of-way for the construction of an approximately 300-mile-long railroad and obtain a certification from the US Environmental Protection Agency of compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act and radiation-protection standards, as well as a host of other state and local approvals. Underlying these legal, regulatory, and political challenges are significant—and yet unresolved—technical issues associated with the repository design and the challenge of placing spent nuclear fuel canisters into a fractured rock formation located over a critical aquifer.
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Are we humans so simple-minded that we will pay the price necessary for Biden’s outrageous global nuclear power plan with new and godfathered nuclear power plants? The plan includes boycotting Russian nuclear fuel, irresponsible congressional relaxed construction engineering requirements for new nuclear plants, and also outrageous uranium prices associated with the new gold rush, er rather, uranium rush, for all of the above reasons mentioned and many more, of course..
My question are these: Will the USA bankrupt itself and those of us, including corporations, who will pay higher taxes and utility rates for both the increased utilities costs to recover their costs, of course, by passing them along to their customers? Or will ‘all things nuclear’, coupled with lack of human common sense and care, prematurely end collective life on planet Earth to its premature death — self inflicted victims of the 6th Extinction?
Men who knew and understood, like Albert Einstein and many others, have been warning us, even in death as their warnings live on beyond them, for 80 years, but we pay no heed. ~llaw
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The 75% increase in the price of uranium over the last 12 months took most investors by surprise just as the potential for another 60% increase is being overlooked despite clear pointers to the boom in uranium getting a second wind.
Last year’s uranium rush was a simple case of demand exceeding supply after a prolonged drought in the development of new mines and re-awakened interest in nuclear power as a low emissions source of base-load electricity.
Three recent events in the U.S. have built on interest in uranium and the nuclear fuel cycle as has the latest sabre-rattling over the war in Ukraine.
The first development which returned nuclear power to the front page was the start last week of electricity production at the fourth reactor of Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle, described as the last big nuclear build as the focus shifts to small modular reactors.
Then came bipartisan political support in Washington for laws which will speed the construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants.
Capping off this burst of activity focused on a once contentious power source was the passing by the U.S. Senate of a bill banning the import of Russian uranium which is now waiting on the signature of President Biden before it becomes law.
The ban, if enforced would be a progressive shut down of Russian material with power utilities allowed waivers until the end of 2027 to manage the shift to sourcing fuel domestically or from other suppliers such as Canada or Australia.
But layered on top of uranium-connected events in the U.S. was the latest threat from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to use short-range tactical nuclear weapons against the western world because of its support for Ukraine.
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The following opinion piece from “Counter Punch” by Winslow Myers is an excellent short but powerful counterpunch to George Will, who apparently fails to understand that nuclear power plants are every bit, if not moreso, as likely to be a major issue in and contributor to the future 6th extinction of life on planet Earth than nuclear war,
If Mr. Will had actually carefully read Annie Jacobsen’s brilliantly researched scenario of a present day blow-by- blow view of what nuclear war would be like, he would know that any attack on a nuclear power plant would be additionally devastating all by themselves. There are already far, far, too many of them — there should be none — all around the world that could become incredibly powerful weapons of war and mass destruction. As demonstrated by her depiction of a North Korean ICBM delivering a nuclear bomb to the last commercial operating nuclear power plant in California (PG&E’s Diablo Canyon Station) near San Luis Obispo) and how one 300 kiloton nuclear bomb could permanently devastate life in all of southern California as well as other states as far east as Colorado caused from the destruction of just one power plant.
Incidentally, this is coincidentally the same actual currently operating nuclear power plant that I am writing a similar kind of a nuclear dystopian future about in my own imagined novel of ‘LLAW’s All Things Nuclear’ with abridged drafts of each chapter posted here once every two weeks. The next such post will be on Sunday, May 12th, with Chapter 4 of “El Nuclear Diablo”, telling the story of how nuclear power plants can create a dystopian world without nuclear war involved at all . . . ~llaw
The conservative columnist George Will wrote a very welcome column calling attention to a book, Nuclear War: A Scenario by historian Annie Jacobsen, a riveting must-read that details just how easily deterrence could unravel, how fast and irreversibly escalation would occur, and how compete the destruction would be.
But Will undercut the value of his review by contrasting nuclear war with the climate crisis, of which he is a denier. Climate deniers these days are as obsolete as Holocaust deniers and surely neither should be given space in major American newspapers.
The climate crisis is inescapable and the nuclear crisis is becoming more so. But it is essential and useful to see how the two are intertwined:
Both crises continue because of denial. The extreme kind is exemplified by Mr. Will and, from all indications, candidate Trump—neither of these thinks global climate change is an emergency at all.
A lesser degree of denial encompasses almost all the rest of us. We see the obvious indicators of climate and nuclear dysfunctionality but feel helpless. At the other extreme are the Bill Mckibbens and Greta Thunbergs and their millions of followers who have given their utmost to waking the rest of us up to the urgency, including the doctors in groups like International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, or the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017) who are doing the same for nukes.
The denial of the passive mass middle around both issues includes the political establishments of many nations. Some countries are doing more than others to mitigate global warming, even as the powerful fossil fuel industry fights tooth and nail against its own looming obsolescence. On the nuclear issue things are far worse, with the invasion of Ukraine and China’s ongoing threat to repossess Taiwan rendering new arms control initiatives seemingly impossible—just when the aggressive pursuit of such treaties is most needed.
This is too obvious to mention, but both crises represent existential threats. Global warming may be more gradual, but it is just as all-encompassing as nuclear war. In the Jacobsen book it takes only 72 minutes to pretty much change the planet we know and love into a world where the still living would envy the dead. But because global warming is not just somewhere over the horizon but here now, there are going to be far too many people who will die in the summer of 2024 from the effects of heat, while Mr. Will continues in comfortably air-conditioned denial.
Establishment thinking assumes that we have enough money and creativity to cope with both crises. For 35 years one member of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War who is on the activist end of the spectrum, Dr. Robert Dodge, has been writing hair-on-fire editorials that apply a formula for determining how much of our tax revenue is poured down the nuclear weapons rathole. It’s mind-boggling. In tax year 2023, the town of Ojai where Dodge lives spent $2,742,698 funding U.S. nuclear weapons programs, just the one town. Ventura County where Ojai is located in California spent $253,174,999. The total U.S. Nuclear Weapons Programs expenditure was $94,485,000,000. That’s 94 billion.
There are differences between the leaders of the nine nuclear powers. Mr. Biden has little in common with Kim Jong Un, though the other candidate for U.S. president, spending his down time in court at the moment even as he polls neck-and-neck, may have all too much in common.
But the leaders of the nuclear powers are all failing to put the interests of the planet above the interests of their sovereign nations: they know that a nuclear war cannot be won, that launch-on-warning is insane, that none of them is prepared for those fateful few minutes of decision described so powerfully by Jacobsen that would unfold out of a deterrence breakdown. But all refuse to act creatively upon the implications.
There is a way out, and, once again, it involves the interconnection between nuclear war and the climate crisis. Start by pulling our ostrich heads out of the sand and admit the crazy, suicidally dysfunctionality of nuclear deterrence. The nine nuclear powers need to sign the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons even if they may be in violation of its provisions for some years yet. Make gestures which are quickly reversible if no other party responds, like bringing home a few submarines. Convene the generals and talk about the no-exit nature of the situation—and talk, loudly, about it even if some generals refuse the invitation.
And talk equally loudly about the need for a new level of cooperation on climate. Think outside the box: the military forces of all nations happen to also be the biggest polluters. How could they work together instead to help with the effects of climate already here, the refugees, the water crises, the conflicts over resources? It’s a proven fact that tensions decrease when adversaries cooperate on a common goal. We can all have conversations locally about the connections between the two challenges, conversations that would lead to probing questions of our representatives at every level.
Everything has changed in our world; we have begun to become aware that everything I do affects you and vice versa. The nuclear deterrence system and George Will-Donald Trump-style climate denial leaves out too much of our reality.
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The following stories, three related articles, demonstrate the risk that ‘All Things Nuclear’, including nuclear waste, represents to the irresponsible and foolish idea that nuclear energy, like nuclear war, is the great elixir and our life saving future, rather than the most poisonous and dreaded human product ever created by mankind. We have known that for more than 80 years, yet we ignore what is indelibly lodged in our brains after the Manhattan Project and the final results of World War II. Obviously, we know the dangers that all things nuclear represents, but we continue to ignore them and simply add to the possible (maybe probable) annihilation of all life on planet Earth. We have done this to ourselves, and only we can reverse what we done . . .
If we humans were wise, we would shut down all nuclear facilities and their products, including military, and store it all in this and other similardeep geological storage facilities for all nuclear waste everywhere nuclear anything exists on Earth’s surface starting today. But we are far from wise, and our collective witless god-like egos prompt us to blindly continue on on our march to what we often call today armageddon. ~llaw
The newest nuclear reactor on Olkiluoto, Finland, took more than 17 years to build.
On the tiny island of Olkiluoto on Finland’s Baltic Sea coast, just over three hours drive north-west from Helsinki, a minor miracle of engineering and science, planning and governance is unfolding.
On the far western edge of the little island – just 5 kilometres across – Finland has switched on the first new nuclear reactor in Europe in the past 15 years; it is the tiny nation’s fifth reactor. The reactor now generates 1.6 gigawatts, enough to supply more than 750,000 modern Australian households.
Drive back towards the mainland a kilometre or two and you will come to the gates of Onkalo, a Finnish word meaning something like “cavity” in English, which will soon open to become the world’s first deep geological repository for the permanent storage of high-level nuclear waste.
Soon robot tractors will begin the work of transferring Finland’s spent fuel rods 450 metres down into the bedrock along the 50 kilometres of Onkalo’s tunnels to be sealed in gigantic copper cylinders, packed in bentonite – an absorbent clay that swells when exposed to water and is the main ingredient in kitty litter – and finally entombed behind vast concrete plugs to rest in safety for 100,000 years.
Or that is the plan arrived at in Finland’s parliament in 1994, when the nation’s leaders decreed that the generation that benefited from nuclear power was responsible for safely disposing of it and set a timeline to get it done.
A site would be selected by 2000, operations would begin by the mid-2020s. And so it was that a site was chosen by that date and Posiva, the company that won the contract to bury the waste, has just won a licence to start operations later this year.
“This is also important for Finnish culture that we stick to the schedule,” says Mika Pohjonen, managing director of Posiva Solutions, a subsidiary that sells the company’s expertise internationally, as he talks through the extraordinary considerations of such a project.
The timelines, he says, as we speak in his Helsinki office on an unseasonably snowy spring afternoon, are impossible for human minds to properly grapple with.
The plant will operate for 100 years before it is sealed and returned to the state.
In 100,000 years the radioactivity of the waste will have reduced to background levels, but the facility is intended to last 1 million years.
“Any human being cannot really understand what this means,” says Pohjonen. “You understand 10 years, 100 years, maybe. The Roman Empire was 2000 years ago, OK. But then 10,000 years? 100,000 years? That is beyond comprehension.”
I ask him how long the facility would remain safe if due to some unforeseen future calamity there was no one left to maintain it.
“If there is no nobody in Scandinavia or Finland? Then in fact who would care?”
Besides, he notes, the next ice age will cover the entire area with a few kilometres of ice in less than 150,000 years.
The bedrock into which Onkalo is built is 1900 million years old. “So it is relatively stable,” says Pohjonen, who is possessed of a manner of speech so dry it is impossible to know whether he is always or never joking.
The underground facility has 50 kilometres of tunnels.CREDIT:POSIVA
The site was selected not just for its stability but for its utterly unremarkable geological make-up. The designers wanted to be sure that no future civilisation would seek to disturb it, so they selected an area that not only had no known useful minerals, but one whose geological make-up was so common that there would be no reason to mine it for materials that might one day become valuable.
Posiva’s view is that it should be left utterly unmarked, says Pohjonen. There should be no reason for anyone to disturb it. (Just as no other deep permanent facility has yet been completed, there is no international consensus on this. A report by a major US nuclear research lab went as far as proposing wording to be inscribed upon such facilities. “This place is not a place of honour,” reads the proposed text. “No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here … nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. ”)
However unthinkable the timelines that Onkalo’s keepers are grappling with, Climate and Environment Minister Kai Mykkänen has no doubt about nuclear’s role in Finland’s economy.
Mykkänen represents a centre-right government installed in June 2023, more than a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It is more conservative and more West-facing than its predecessors and determined that not only should clean electricity help Finland meet climate targets, cheap and abundant energy should also bolster its economy.
Finland’s climate targets are among the most ambitious on earth. It aims to have a net-zero economy by 2035 and after that to go negative. That is, it aims to have its forests absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than its economy pumps into it. So far it is having success in reducing its emissions but struggling to improve its forest emissions sink.
By comparison, Australia’s targets are to reduce emissions by 43 per cent compared with 2005 levels by 2030, and reach zero in 2050.
To reach Finland’s ambitious goals, nuclear is crucial says Mykkänen. Nuclear power, along with the mass deployment of wind and solar, will allow it to double its electricity production so it can power electrified green export industries. It plans to ramp up the production of green steel, synthetic fuels and hydrogen.
It has also allowed Finland to sever its energy lifelines with Russia, which until the invasion of Ukraine was a source of gas, wood and biomass for Finland.
So convinced of the efficacy of nuclear power is Finland that when it adopted its ambitious targets it lobbied for the European Union to recognise nuclear as a form of green energy.
Support for nuclear comes from across the political spectrum, too. While opposition to nuclear power is woven into the creation of the early Green political movements, particularly in Germany and Australia, MPs for the Green League in Finland now support it.
Partly this has to do with Finland’s typically pragmatic approach to policymaking, says Veikko Sajaniemi, a lead consultant with the Finnish sustainability advisers Third Rock.
Finland has a population of just over 5.5 million people, which is well-educated and well governed. In one annual global report, Finland was famously named the happiest country on earth seven times running, in part because it is among the least corrupt.
In other words, Finland’s nuclear energy policies are less contested than those in some other countries simply because Finns still have a faith in government and institutions that has withered in other nations.
Mykkänen boasts that in a recent survey 68 per cent of Finns voiced support for the nation’s nuclear industry.
Environmentally minded Finns were appalled when they saw Germany switch off nuclear plants only to ramp up coal use, says Sajaniemi: “Fossil fuels are the past. We are not going back to that.”
But all this does not mean Finland’s nuclear path has been without difficulty or controversy, or that there is universal support for expanding it further.
This takes us back to the island of Olkiluoto, where the government approved the construction of the so-called Olkiluoto 3 reactor on the same site as two older reactors in 2005, expecting it to begin delivering power in 2009.
In fact, the reactor was not switched on until April 16 last year, 17 and a half years after construction began, after a series of delays, breakdowns and outages.
As far back as 2009 Finland’s then-nuclear regulator, Petteri Tiippana, explained to the BBC that one of the reasons for the delay was that even though nuclear power was a proven technology, reactors remained infernally difficult machines to build and because so few were built, there was no experienced workforce.
In the end the plant, which the French company Areva had agreed to provide for €3 billion ended up costing €11 billion ($18 billion), driving the company into losses and legal skirmishes with the Finnish operator, TVO.
Despite these blowouts Mykkänen tells this masthead he would like to see even more nuclear plants built in Finland, though it would be up to the private sector to do so. He says one of the reasons for the delays was that Olkiluoto 3 was new technology, a so-called European Pressurised Reactor, designed to be safer and more efficient than a Pressurised Water Reactor.
But over the years of its development, competing technologies such as wind, solar and batteries, have matured to the point where their components can be churned out of factory production lines at the push of a button.
In recent years, Finland has ramped up its deployment of renewables too, especially wind.
In 2022, wind power production in Finland increased by 41 per cent to 11.6 TWh, accounting for just over 14 per cent of the country’s electricity consumption.
Given the advances of renewables and the staggering cost and construction times of nuclear, it may well be that while the obvious solution to Finland’s future power needs when Olkiluoto 3 was commissioned nearly two decades ago, it is no longer, says Tuuli Hietaniemi, a specialist in sustainability solutions with Sitra, an influential Finnish think tank.
She now believes Finland should stick to the “basic recipe” of rapidly deploying more renewables until and unless the nuclear sector manages to make available the much vaunted small modular reactors, which supporters say will enjoy the same benefits of industrial scale as renewable technology. And when might that be? Hietaniemi shrugs.
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In this April 29, 2015 photo, a home sits within view of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cooling towers Unit 1, left, and Unit 2 near Spring City, Tenn. VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
I have posted the 1st portion of this long article (the rest is well worth reading and I’ve posted the link to the full story below) here tonight to demonstrate the complications involved in trying to remediate and expand the very concept of nuclear power in the United States and elsewhere and how nearly impossible the effort will be to build and fuel these pie-in-the-sky efforts by overriding, ignoring, and avoiding Russian control of ‘everything nuclear’ via the supremacy of their own government owned and operated corporation called Rosatom. The sheer costs of these pipe dreams could bankrupt our federal government when added to the already out of control Department of Defense budget.
I have to wonder if we would not be wiser, and certainly humanity would be safer, if we invested in a grand and realistic program to help finance renewables and to seriously look into the idea of developing and generating massive use of electrical energy from already existing steam from geo-thermal resources from volcanic calderas (and other sources) such as Yellowstone, where logic tells us to begin. Many genuine experts in the technical, geological, engineering, and utility power industry believe such a grass-roots effort is possible both technically and financially and could solve — faster than expanding a single new full-scale nuclear power plan — virtually every serious difficulty we have in our need for more power including the CO2 global warming and climate change problem, and never build nor use another nuclear power plant again, much less build new ones. ~llaw
The link to this entire article from HuffPost is also provided here and also in the TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Saturday, (05/04/2024) below for your convenience:
The Biden administration wants the United States to triple the global supply of nuclear power, with American-designed reactors running on fuel enriched in the West. The goal: Usurp Russia’s near monopoly on atomic energy exports, and keep China from gaining control of yet another green energy industry.
But there’s one big problem: The U.S. isn’t even building any more reactors at home.
After nearly 15 years of billion-dollar cost overruns and delays, the utility giant Southern Company just hooked the second of two new reactors at a power plant in Georgia up to the grid this week — the only two atomic energy units built from scratch in the U.S. in decades. Developers are shopping around all kinds of novel designs for new-age nuclear plants. Yet few utilities can afford — or persuade investors to put up the cash for — projects that can take a decade or more to complete.
Luckily for President Joe Biden, the federal government owns a massive power utility specifically designed to deploy large-scale infrastructure that remains out of reach for the market’s invisible hand. But building new megaprojects means borrowing money — and Congress hasn’t bothered to adjust the utility’s credit limit for inflation in 45 years.
Established almost exactly 91 years ago to electrify rural parts of the American South too poor to attract profiteering utilities, the Tennessee Valley Authority today generates and sells power to 153 local distributors that serve 10 million people in Tennessee and the surrounding region. The TVA’s seven reactors, spread out between three nuclear power plants, churned out 43% of its electricity in the past few months.
The TVA functions like any other independent power company. But the New Deal-era state corporation’s board of directors is appointed by the White House and its shares are owned by the federal government. That makes the TVA the closest thing the U.S. has to the kind of government-controlled entity that other countries have tasked with completing their own years-long nuclear megaprojects.
France, Japan, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Poland and Ukraine all use government ownership to build and operate nuclear energy plants. The Kremlin-owned Rosatom has only widened Russia’s lead over the U.S. in reactor and uranium fuel exports in recent years, while successfully deploying new technologies at home. China’s state utilities have built reactors at home faster than any other country, and the country now looks poised to begin exporting its reactor designs in direct competition with the U.S.
Putting the TVA at the cutting edge of the U.S. government’s nuclear revival strategy is not a new idea. But it’s gaining momentum. The utility is already working on two next-generation projects to build some of the country’s first small modular reactors. Now even the regulator who oversaw construction of the nation’s only all-new reactors in Georgia is encouraging the TVA to take up the challenge of constructing more. (Copy the available link to read the full article.)
“I think we need to do everything possible.”
– Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.)
Arthur Delaney contributed reporting from Washington.
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… war on Ukraine has already demolished the entire European security architecture. The U.K. and France recognize that just as Russian nuclear threats …
The Nuclear Power News category (Category 2) of the ‘All Things Nuclear’ daily media headlines below is an accidental model of how media stories confuse the casual American or international citizen(s) by contradicting one another or themselves, even unintentionally. If you do nothing more than scan down and read the 3 headlines from the New York Times, WVTF, and the Iowa State Daily, you will plainly see what it is that continues to fracture any idea of understanding the past, present, and future of nuclear power plants and why they are claimed to be clean or dirty, cheap or expensive, and whether or not nuclear power plants are in favor or disfavor as a functional tool for becoming more or less popular for producing electricity.
Similar to the never ending media political division of opinion, nuclear media stories often lead to bitter misunderstandings about whether nuclear power of any kind is good or bad for human use, but in every case if one reads between the lines the reader will find that, no matter the issue, there is a dark side to the whole concept of nuclear power viability, including many that are seldom discussed at all, the most important of which is that nuclear power plants are easily subject to be used as extremely powerful and dangerous weapons of massive elimination of human and other life on planet Earth.
As an example, there is an international (Article 15 of the 1977 Geneva Convention) pact among armed nations that it is against all military powers-that-be to involve nuclear power plants in war, but still right now today we continue to see the war between Russia and Ukraine dangerously fighting over military control of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine that is threatening the existence of not only Ukraine but other countries in Europe as well. As I have said many times before in this blog, human made agreements are useless because they are meaningless even before the ink is dry. Militaries and their countries’ leaders operate by this old WWII axion: “If you win, you don’t have to explain.” ~llaw
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The plant briefly switched to emergency diesel generators, the last line of defense to keep the reactor fuel cool and prevent a potential catastrophic …
This is a very interesting article, but for what it’s worth, the headline to the following opinion piece says it all. The world, friend and foe alike, including NATO, would likely not trust Donald Trump in serious matters concerning “all things nuclear”, and particularly nuclear deterrence, let alone war, if he were to become the next U.S. president. ~llaw
Trump-proofing Nato: why Europe’s current nuclear deterrents may not be enough to face biggest threats since WWII
Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Natasha Lindstaedt does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Trump-proofing Nato: why Europe’s current nuclear deterrents may not be enough to face biggest threats since WWII
Though a second Trump presidency is not a foregone conclusion, Nato members are gearing up to Trump-proof the organisation and reviewing their defence strategies.
Nato’s concerns about Trump’s re-election were heightened by his flippant comment in February that he would encourage Russia to do whatever it wanted, if certain countries didn’t pay up, defying Nato’s principle that an attack on one constituted an attack on all.
Trump’s comments represent a seismic departure for US foreign policy. No US president has made these types of threats before about its commitment to Nato, and this has forced Europe to prepare to deal with Russian aggression without US support.
Ahead of Nato’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington DC in July, this has become so concerning that one of the major parties in the European parliament, the European People’s Party has called on Europe to build its own nuclear umbrella without the US.
Of course, this is all coming to a head at a time when the west is facing the biggest threat to its security since the second world war, making the discussions about Nato’s nuclear shield more salient.
Although Russia is unlikely to use nuclear weapons in this conflict in Ukraine, some experts are warning that assuming that Nato’s current nuclear deterrence is sufficient is foolhardy.
Putin has made it clear that Russia is prepared and willing to use nuclear weapons, if necessary. Putin may believe that a limited use of nuclear weapons would not escalate the war enough to involve the US, making it more likely that Russia could dip into its nuclear arsenal in its next conflict to gain a huge advantage (or possibly at a later stage in the current one).
The logic of nuclear deterrence assumes that all actors are rational, have full information and can use that information to predict what others will do.
Putin has shown that he is a risk taker with poor military intelligence, leading to massive miscalculations, particularly if Nato remains complacent.
Putin may also assume that the US under Trump would be mostly preoccupied with domestic political opponents, giving Russia the chance to push ahead and do whatever it wants. Recently leaked documents from Russian military files have shown that its threshold for using nuclear weapons is surprisingly low, particularly if conventional methods aren’t working.
With two of the biggest superpowers being led by wildcards Putin, and potentially Trump, Nato members are rethinking their nuclear strategy. Both the UK and France have nuclear capabilities, and this provides an independent nuclear deterrence.
However, Nato’s deterrence relies mostly on US nuclear weapons deployed in Europe – of which there are about 100 non-strategic warheads (down from 7,500 in the 1980s) deployed in five Nato countries – Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey. By comparison, Russia has around 6,000 nuclear weapons – which constitutes the world’s largest arsenal – and can launch these weapons from land, sea and air.
Russian nuclear weapons are deployed across dozens of military bases in Russia, with some tactical nuclear weapons recently moved to Belarus.
Most concerning may be Russia’s confirmation in 2018 that it has nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad – the Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania.
Even though Russia’s nuclear modernisation drive has not been a huge success, the Kremlin has used the threat of nuclear weapons to temper the west’s response to Russian aggression.
Can Europe survive without the US?
Though the conflict in Ukraine has made the issue of nuclear deterrence more urgent, this is not the first time European powers have voiced concerns about their own vulnerabilities. In 2020, French president Emmanuel Macron raised the alarm about the US’s commitment to Nato and offered to make France’s nuclear deterrence the centre of European defence strategy.
At the time, Nato secretary-general Jens Soltenberg dismissed this suggestion, claiming that it made more strategic sense to rely on the US’s nuclear umbrella.
France and the UK are far behind Russia. France has around 290 nuclear warheads, which can be deployed at short notice, from both air and sea.
The UK decided in 2021 to increase the number of nuclear weapons to 225, with the goal of reaching 260 warheads by 2025.
Unlike Europe, the US does have a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons, just below Russia’s – at 5,244, and this includes nuclear-armed submarines, long-range bombers and inter-continental missiles. It has also been flying B-52 strategic bombers close to the Russian border in the Gulf of Finland, as a show of force to the Russians.
But a Trump presidency may give Putin the impression that he is unlikely to face any consequences for his actions from the US, which has been at the heart of Nato’s current nuclear deterrence plan. This would put more pressure on Europe to demonstrate its resolve.
Poland, for one, has made clear that it is ready and able to host nuclear weapons, while the Baltic states have upped their own military spending. Close to Kaliningrad, the Baltics have important energy and telecommunications infrastructure, making the area particularly vulnerable.
While some experts argue to increase Nato’s nuclear capabilities and sharing programmes, others claim that Nato’s most significant source of deterrence comes from political unity and its advanced conventional forces.
Increasing nuclear weapons capabilities may make Russia feel more threatened, and more likely to take risks. A related view is that the war in Ukraine has proven that there is no effective nuclear deterrent. The existence of tactical nuclear weapons (of which Russia has 2,000), which are smaller and more precise, increases the likelihood that they will be used by virtue of being smaller.
Whatever course of action carries enormous risks and potential devastation. And it’s important to highlight that the nuclear weapon launched in Hiroshima in 1945 was a “small” nuclear weapon — and it still had the power to kill 140,000 people with generations later still suffering from diseases.
Modern nuclear weapons are 3,000 times more powerful. This makes it all the most critical to come up with a coherent and effective nuclear strategy that can prevent them from being used at all.
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Russia breached global chemical weapons ban in Ukraine war, US says. 12:51 PM PDT. Ukrainian servicemen take part in training in Donetsk region · LSEG …
… Nuclear Trigger’]” also described as the “nuclear counterattack commanding system. … war breaks out on the Korean peninsula,” Kim … war if the enemies …
Increasing nuclear weapons capabilities may make Russia feel more threatened, and more likely to take risks. A related view is that the war in Ukraine …
… war elites for having failed to face up to the threat that lay ahead. … Flouting international law, issuing nuclear threats … He warns of the looming …
This link, just below, to the AFR (The Financial Review), is a well-thought out article about the possible immanent annihilation of the human race together with all other life on planet Earth and is also yet another review of Annie Jacobsen’s new book “Nuclear War: A Scenario”. Everyone, not just so-called “world leaders”, seriously needs to read and thoroughly digest this almost novelistic-style warning to us all. I am on my second, more studious, way through her book, which is, as I just said, a warning for us all to seriously pay heed. ~llaw
Even casual followers of energy and climate issues have probably heard about the alleged wonders of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs).
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. . . An update and an introduction to new readers for what “ LLAWS All Things Nuclear”, and our two user websites, a commercial publishing website, ‘Substack’ and my own personal website, LLAW’s WORLDS, as my blog continues on slowly but surely. My website is home to my nightly blog “LLAW’S ALL THINGs NUCLEAR’ complementing the daily effort of preparation, writing, and contributing, along with my Posts from both the website and Substack.com Postings each evening. Both Links are Posted every evening on my Facebook page, my email, and I would love to see more of your thoughts and comments on any one, or even on all three venues.
This extremely anti-nuclear blog has taken a long time getting off the ground (more than 600 nightly Posts), but it is slowly gaining traction, partly because the nuclear threats to humanity and other life on planet Earth have only continued on in a gradually more serious vein since my original post on August 24th of 2022.
My Posts (on either venue, or email) are free and are there to help educate the public that ‘all things nuclear’ will be the death of all us and other life if we do not remove it from the evil hands that control its deathly road to extermination.
Hiding our heads in the sand or following our world leaders over the canyon cliff does not solve the problem, so ignorance and avoiding the reality of it all is not the solution. In fact dismissing or ignoring that reality only increases the likelihood that it will happen.
I say this because I know the ‘story’ of ‘all things nuclear’ and worked in management for a corporation in the nuclear industry, I am sad to say, from the 1960s into the 1980s and bought into into nuclear energy propaganda until the 1979 Three-Mile Island disaster awakened me. So I urge you to take a few minutes occasionally to read my blog to learn more than you will otherwise ever know about the genocide we are facing at any given moment in the future, beginning now . . . ~llaw
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“Iran’s armed forces are on full alert. The Zionist enemy’s nuclear facilities are known, and we have the required information about all the targets.Nuclear War
Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 are two 1,100-megawatt Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors. The Voglte plant is operated by Southern Nuclear on behalf of …
… emergencies. On … The latter needs an emergency planning zone extending up to 16 kms around the plant. … Nuclear Power Plants (FNPPs). The first of …
Russia-1 anchor Dmitry Kiselyov, a vocal supporter of Vladimir Putin and his ongoing war efforts in Ukraine, issued the horrifying threat as he warned …
