“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

FEB 3, 2024

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This is a photo of some of the thousands of tanks containing some 350 million gallons of Fukushima nuclear waste. Approved by the United Nations. A preface of our future?

LLAW’s THOUGHTS & COMMENTS:

Continuing with the final segment of the Introduction (Preface) presented daily beginning with Post #528 on February 1st in continuity of this short Prologue leading up to the beginning of the dark story of “El Nuclear Diablo”, a novel I will be serializing here on ‘All Things Nuclear’ on a weekly basis . . .

# Introduction to “El Nuclear Diablo” a Novel by Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft

These last several days we have followed spring’s warming north along the western United States and British Columbia coasts by yacht. Any boat is ripe for the pickings of choice at any deserted marina, which would likely be most all of them, although fortunately for our personal and legal comfort, two of our crew also happen to be the legitimate owners of our schooner, allowing us all some conscientious relief.

California, Oregon, and Washington (other than the shoddy and extremely dangerous shutdown activity at El Diablo, have long been devoid of operational nuclear power plants with the exception of Washington’s inland Richmond plant (known as the “Columbia River Generating Station”), which, unlike PG&E’s El Diablo Canyon plant was, is not in the process of closing, leaving it to be the only functional nuclear power facility anywhere in the entire Pacific Northwest or anywhere else along the western Pacific coastline from the Aleutians to Tierra del Fuego.

We will soon be looking forward to scientific and experienced help from the governmental and corporate experts in eastern Washington who are still to this day handling and cleaning up the fallout from the infamous Hanford plutonium military arms manufacturing disaster that has contaminated wide swaths of earth and the Columbia River for decades. Oregon has not had an operating nuclear power plant since the mid-1990s when their only facility, near Mt. St. Helens, developed structural cracks forcing the plant to close, and British Columbia has, quite honorably, never built one. Alaska’s only nuclear facility was shut down more than fifty years ago, and today it uses diesel engines to generate steam. Juneau is the closest downwind haven from nuclear airborne protection and freedom from contamination that the climate and geography can offer, along with the fortunate absence of  nearby previously operational nuclear power facilities, providing at least a temporary refuge from the eastern Asian Pacific together with the central and eastern United States, eastern Canada, and European soon-to- be extinction level atmospheric conditions.

Some of the oceanographers, atmospheric scientists, and meteorologists who were already here in Juneau are trying to determine predictable, but limited few and far-between, world-wide safe zones and timelines, comparing Juneau’s and its surrounding weather  patterns and wind history. They have long understood the favorable high-altitude wind currents and conditions that hopefully will carry airborne radiation far above and around us for a few months at least, giving us critical time to figure out just where the world’s few survivors will need to migrate and congregate. We know, too, that global communications will be inadequate to the point of probable futility, possibly requiring some of us to travel, sometimes long distances afoot, to gather these groups together and guide them to new promising safelands.

Our future could turn out to be very much like an extended encore and final Mad Max film, although, ironically, Australia has no nuclear energy power plants, which they banned officially in 1998. But true isolated tribalism will return everywhere to the few of us who are left to make our way on a mostly neutered and dead planet that will eventually consume Australia as well, although it may be the last bastion of life along with New Zealand, whose leaders have also banned nuclear reactors save for the conjoined U.S. military/Australia world-wide espionage Pine Ridge project near Alice Springs. Yet this death threat by human hands meddling with something akin to the fusion power of the sun will eventually be a negatively significant part of their survival story, or lack of it, as well as our own.

A new way of life in a desolate no doubt cruel but lonesome world does not normally make for a pretty picture — nor a heart-warming romantic adventure tale. But still…so long as there is hope there is a story…  ~llaw (Spring, 2028)

End of “El Nuclear Diablo” Introduction: Chapter One will begin in two weeks, providing me with a week’s head start, from today on this “All Things Nuclear” platform. May this dystopian doomsday story awaken us all to seek a more immediate and nuclear-free forever-extended life on planet Earth. ~Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft (Author)

In the meantime I will continue with my commentary and opinion on the everyday ‘All Things Nuclear” categorized as always by your reader interests in this pathetic and dangerous nuclear world. My opinion for today: “We know not what we are doing!” ~llaw

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (02/03/2024):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Police: Inert Cold War-era missile found in garage of Washington state home – WFMZ.com

WFMZ.com

… that is designed to carry a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead. … How concerned are you, if at all, about the recent waves of layoffs at major companies in …

Vibrations in cooling system mean new Georgia nuclear reactor will again be delayed

WUGA

A new nuclear reactor is delayed in construction due to a vibrating … All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:30 PM Marketplace. 0:00. 0:00. All Things …

Could a Rogue Billionaire Make a Nuclear Weapon? – WSJ

WSJ

… about it every day. He said the study was sparked by the way gas centrifuges had lowered the bar to entry when it came to nuclear weapons. In the …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Biden poised to approve $1.5B loan to reopen Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan

WDET 101.9 FM

The federal government is expected to approve a $1.5 billion loan to restart the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan, according to a report …

Nuclear reactor in Georgia delayed due to vibrations in cooling system | Fox News

Fox News

Vibrations found in Georgia’s newest nuclear reactor will delay the start date for when the unit starts generating power, making the project much …

Nuclear power on the moon: NASA wraps up 1st phase of ambitious reactor project

Space.com

NASA is wrapping up the design phase of a project to develop concepts for a small, electricity-generating nuclear fission reactor for use on the …

Nuclear War

NEWS

AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames | New Scientist

New Scientist

“Given that OpenAI recently changed their terms of service to no longer prohibit military and warfare use cases, understanding the implications of …

Iran could spark terrifying nuclear world war ‘in the blink of an eye’ – The US Sun

The US Sun

Observers have long accused Iran of aggressively growing its uranium stockpile in breach of the 2015 nuclear deal that aimed to curb the Tehran’s nuke …

World War 3 fears explode as Iran could trigger nuclear war ‘in the blink of an eye’

Daily Express

Iran accelerated in late 2023 the rate at which it is producing near weapons-grade uranium, the UN atomic watchdog said.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Nuclear Emergency Guidelines to Be Reviewed after Noto Quake – JIJI PRESS

JIJI PRESS

… nuclear power station set to be used by local residents during evacuation. The 7.6-magnitude quake also damaged many buildings, leaving some areas …

Residents Petition Against Nuclear Reactor Restart – Safety Concerns Rise After Earthquake

Medriva

In light of the recent disaster and the subsequent damage to the Shika plant, experts have highlighted the need to revise nuclear emergency response …

Two U.S. Refineries Returning To Service After Emergency Outages | OilPrice.com

Oil Price

3 days Nuclear Power Plant to Reopen in Michigan. 3 days The U.S. Is … Two U.S. Refineries Returning To Service After Emergency Outages. By …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

(Opinion) William Lambers: Doomsday Clock still at 90 seconds to midnight, we need to stop it

Greeley Tribune

… threat of nuclear weapons. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists makes an annual announcement measuring how close the world is to nuclear war. It …

North Korea Test Fires More Missiles as Part of ‘War Preparations’ – Knewz

Knewz

… threats from countries like the U.S. and South Korea. Kim said that … “The reality that nuclear war exercises against our republic have been …

Yellowstone Caldera

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GPS stations measure winter snow weighing down Yellowstone – Billings Gazette

Billings Gazette

Since 2015, the Yellowstone caldera has been subsiding at a rate of about 1 inch a year. But the deformation changes seasonally due to variati…

Whisper or Roar? No More Secrets – YouTube

YouTube

… caldera-chronicles?utm_source=2024-feb-1&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=nh-volcanoes-fy24 Yellowstone Volcano site https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes …

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

FEB 2, 2024

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The remains of the flawed engineered and constructed Russian/Ukrainian Nuclear Chernobyl Power Plant

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Continuing on with the Introduction, presented daily beginning with yesterday’s Post for continuity of the short Prologue leading up to “El Nuclear Diablo”, a novel I will be serializing here on ‘All Things Nuclear’ on a weekly basis . . .

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El Nuclear Diablo

“Let the Bastards Freeze to Death in the Dark” ~ a common Nuclear Industry Quote and rallying cry after the 3-Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979, directed at concerned Scientists, environmentalists, worried citizens, and public protesters

By Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft

Spring, 2028 (See yesterday’s Post #528 for 1st Part of this Introduction)

# Before the Beginning of the End

Our small party of seven women (including two teen-aged daughters) and five men (one a late-teen son) left California from Carmel Bay bound for Juneau, Alaska, on a rainy Friday morning five days after the “accident” that began at Pacific Gas and Electric’s El Diablo Cañón nuclear power plant on a sunny Monday morning, disrupting the entire United States electrical power grid system in a single day before becoming a global disaster by Thursday afternoon. We all knew what had happened and we knew it was not an accident like the MSM was reporting to all of us around the globe until by Thursday morning there was no reporting at all.

What our little group did not know was who and what was responsible, but we all had our own suspicions. No one wanted to discuss them, because at this point it didn’t really matter anyway. The irrevocable damage was done. We also knew the rain was not a good thing now, nor would it be in the long run as time goes by. But, laughably enough, one of us who had the foresight to bring along a Geiger counter reported excitedly, a wide grin on his face, “Hey, it’s okay for now.” No one smiled back. We had a long way to go and we were no more than a mere one hundred and fifty miles north of the remains of the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility releasing massive doses of nuclear radiation from every ruptured reactor cell it had, both internally and from its own filthy poisonous airborne waste.

# Back in the Day

More than fifty years have passed since I first learned that nuclear power plants and weapons of mass destruction were fueled by uranium, an element my well-worn dog-eared Webster’s 1940-something dictionary defined essentially as a “worthless low-level radioactive mineral found in the ground.” The reason I remember this definition is because of a letter I received in early January of 1969 from a mining company in central Wyoming’s “Gas Hills”, oddly named Lucky Mc (pronounced “Lucky Mac”) Mine, inviting me to an employment interview at the mine site and to please call to set up a date and time for the meeting. I had that old broke-spine 1940s Webster’s dictionary on my bookshelf in our small trailer house, so I looked up the definition. What the hell had changed? What were nuclear power plants’ and nuclear bombs’ ingredients if not refined uranium? Of course I was pretty sure I knew the answer. Old timer Webster was ‘dead’ wrong.

The mine, I was told in the letter, was owned by a company known as Utah Construction and Mining Company, which was then best known for building the Hoover Dam, but was now a major player in mining, primarily of coal, iron, and uranium. Intrigued, I found a pay phone at the General Store in Elk Mountain, Wyoming, and made the telephone call.

The interview took place a couple of weeks later in mid-January, and I was offered a job as a senior accountant, which I immediately accepted, ending my old job as a field office manager for a highway construction company that had recently transferred me from Grand Junction, Colorado, to a new project between Laramie and Rawlins in southern Wyoming. So I had set up shop in an office trailer halfway between the two towns, preparing for road construction to begin in early spring.

But having a growing family with two young pre-school children and an infant daughter, I was thankful for the opportunity to settle into a new life in a more permanent location than highway construction offered, so I was pleased to accept the job offer.

As I learned my new job, I soon became the chief accountant and then the administrative manager at the mine, directly overseeing more than one hundred employees white collar employees, accountants, IBM computer operators, warehousemen, and other bean counters. The company grew rapidly in its uranium branch to include a new mine known as the “Shirley Basin Mine,” blossoming Utah Construction and Mining Company into a new and more sophisticated reformed Utah International Inc, and a few years later, a major subsidiary of General Electric Company, which, among other well-known products, manufactured not-so well-known nuclear reactors. Eventually, the uranium mining division was spun off as Pathfinder Mines Corp. to avoid potential conflicts of interest. During those early days, I learned a lot about the mining and milling operations, including security, health and safety, as well as how the fuel production, the multi-step enriching process, governmental regulation, our far-flung nuclear power plant customers, and how the marketing and selling of uranium was accomplished. In the beginning the only customer the company, as well as the entire uranium industry, had was the United States’ Atomic Energy Commission, and we were the major producer and provider of  relatively stable basic enriched uranium (U308), which would be refined into U235, the usual active isotope to fuel nuclear reactors, to the government (including the TVA) until deregulation allowed us to sell mill refined U3O8 uranium to ‘under construction’ or operating l nuclear power plants as well as plants under construction and in development. Our customers were in Germany, France, Canada, and the United States.

One of these new nuclear power stations was Pacific Gas and Electric’s under construction facility, known as the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, in San Luis Obispo County, California, near Avila Beach. The original facility, Unit 1 of course, began construction in 1968 followed by Unit 2 in 1970. During the following decade Utah Construction & Mining Company, by then known as Utah International Inc, profited immensely from our sale of uranium to American, Canadian, French, German, and other nuclear power facilities around the world. Doing business with PG&E was one of my first clues that rules and regulations were meant to be manipulated and broken by aggressive dollar-worshiping utility companies. But that’s another story, part of which I will relate later in the book.

What happened at Diablo Canyon between early 2024 and its planned decommission in late[ 2025, which was politically extended for five more years financed by the taxpayers in California and across the USA, ultimately causing the horrid global devastation that followed just two short years after its original closure date, is what this story is all about, and it shames me every day of my life that I was once a willing contributor to the shape of the macabre issues to come within the nuclear power industry. There are few of us left alive who know the factually complete and chronological entirety of this doomsday tale, but I am thankful and even proud to be one of the few because I have the knowledge and the motivation to relate this horrific tale. I have an absolute moral and ethical obligation to pass my knowledge of this world-class man-made armageddon (spelled here with a small but still doomsday-deadly “a”) event along to those few who will come after the rest of us, hoping to go a different way whether it be for better or for worse. Your choices and your chances are extremely limited, and I wish you, as well as all of “us”, all the best.

At an overly ripe sixty-five years old, as I write this dystopian-like tale, my mind is clear and fixed on the events that led to this catastrophe that with proper regulatory enforcement and diligent responsibility of the American government and industry corporate officials, engineers, and employees might never have happened. A common failure of mankind is to brazenly think of ourselves as collectively invincible, making us just delusional enough to fool ourselves into believing that we are smarter, more imaginative, and more resourceful than Mother Nature. We have proven ourselves wrong about that countless times concerning thousands of vital issues, but through the ages we have made and continue to make the same mistakes repeatedly. Who was the wise man who said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.”?

Just the relatively minor accidents at nuclear facilities (most of them politically covered up or not commonly known) over the years including the more well-known Hanford (Richland), Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima—along with the common political knowledge that several nations—not all of whom were American allies — had and still have the ability to cyber-attack our nuclear power plants and our electrical distribution grid systems, ought to have been enough to give us fair warning that — contrary to pseudo-science, corporate greed, political propaganda and public opinion — nuclear power was never safe, but in reality was and is the single most dangerous and destructive power generating concept ever developed for all kinds of reprehensible reasons. When something goes nuclear wrong, it goes irreparably wrong, most likely impossible to control or recover from the impending disaster that will last for several hundreds to a few thousands of years, although the half-life of bismuth radiation has been measured at twenty billion billion (yes, twenty billion-billion), years so we in this lonely corner of the universe might consider ourselves lucky. In 2022 there were four hundred and fifty nuclear power plants operating world-wide and sixty more were under construction. Today, of course, there are none.

Despite Meriam-Webster’s innocent grandfatherly definition of uranium, this same earthly tragedy (but on a much smaller scale) has apparently happened on our planet at least once before — more likely twice — though much hypothetical theory (including Biblical references, quiet speculation, and outright loud conspiracy theories) have been written about the evidence of the possibility, few of us seem to understand or have ever cared that a similar nuclear world with massive devastation actually occurred, at least once, thousands of years ago, nor that the archeological and anthropological scientific community has not investigated, researched, endorsed or even acknowledged the historical evidence. This does not surprise me, but today what scientists and historians believed is immaterial, right or wrong, because now what is left of our world is all that we have to worry and care about — events of the past, rightly so, mean nothing today. We are long past the life-saving threshold of learning from our mistakes, including acknowledging our willful ignorance.

We humans, them or us or mixed together, seem to have been running a rigged three-legged race against one another to rend asunder the entire planet against the natural environmental care and protections of Gaia, the Goddess of Nature and her Mother. In a blind and greedy rush to subconsciously exterminate ourselves and fatally poison our only home — planet Earth and all her abundant bounty — we have, through American style financing of international environmental degradation, hawkish threats of nuclear war, or the patriarchally personalized political, bureaucratic and corporate industrial pandemic earth-cancer super-spreaders that I call those humans who would allow humanity to “freeze to death in the dark.”

I personally heard this same man say this same phrase, with their — often profane — variants, more than just once or twice. The phrase was coined by the President and CEO of a major mining company I was involved with, echoing his indignant objections to public protests over Three Mile Island in beginning in late 1979. Note that all of these doomsday contestants during their race toward human extinction —indeed, by natural extension, including all life — had their in-common triple arsenal of the half-life of airborne nuclear radioactive emissions teamed up with ground and waste water airborne radiation, not to mention fossil fuel CO2 and other greenhouse gases, their three legs at the end entirely unbound, allowing them to overrun the basins and ranges without restrictions, making all of them self-proclaimed “winners” of their race into the likes of Dante’s, or someone’s, infernal Inferno.

(To be continued tomorrow)

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (02/02/2024):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Nuclear War? Climate Collapse? No Worries. WEF Says Disinformation is Humanity’s Most …

Counterpunch

So of course, they regard speech, that is, free speech, as the main threat to their luxurious creature comforts. After all, someone might say …

North Korea is ramping up missile tests as Kim Jung Un weighs war with South Korea

WUNC

… nuclear expert who visited North Korea seven times. … Mary Louise Kelly is a co-host of All Things Considered, NPR’s award-winning afternoon …

North Korea is ramping up missile tests as Kim Jung Un weighs war with South Korea

Northern Public Radio

Mary Louise Kelly is a co-host of All Things Considered, NPR’s award-winning afternoon newsmagazine. See stories by Mary Louise Kelly · Fatma Tanis.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Iran begins construction of four new nuclear plants | The Times of Israel

The Times of Israel

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran began construction on four more nuclear power plants in the country’s south, with expected total capacity of 5,000 megawatts, …

Iran Begins Building 4 More Nuclear Power Plants – VOA News

VOA News

Iran begins construction on four more nuclear power plants in the country’s south, with expected total capacity of 5000 megawatts, official IRNA …

Vibrations in cooling system mean new Georgia nuclear reactor will again be delayed

WesternSlopeNow.com

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. said Thursday that vibrations found in a cooling system of its second new nuclear reactor will delay when the …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Putin Ally Suggests Moving to Nuclear War – Newsweek

Newsweek

The idea that a nuclear war could break out amid the conflict in Ukraine has been floated by numerous Russian officials.

Artificial intelligence and why human control of nuclear weapons is necessary

Washington Times

… nuclear war. During the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet militaries believed they had the ability to detect missile launches less than 20 minutes …

Russia has no plans to deploy nuclear arms beyond Belarus, says deputy minister | Reuters

Reuters

… nuclear free” European countries in NATO nuclear missions. He did not … war‘ list. 16 hours ago. Opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Caltrans declares emergency for landslide that suspended San Diego-to-Orange County trains

Del Mar Times

… nuclear power and more. He was the night city editor for the North County Times for about five years until it was purchased by The San Diego Union …

Emergency Management Specialist (Preparedness) – FEMA – Chicago, IL – Dice

Dice

Serving as the primary point of contact (Site Specialist) for the assigned nuclear power plant. Supporting development, coordination, and …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Beyond Midnight: Navigating the Unsettling Landscape of Global Threats – Kroc Institute

Kroc Institute – University of Notre Dame

This representation encompasses a spectrum of dangers, from nuclear explosions to climate change, biological threats, and disruptive technologies like …

Map reveals best places to live in the US if nuclear war breaks out – MSN

MSN

Russia escalated nuclear threats in the midst of its war on Ukraine. North Korea’s nuclear arsenal has also been growing. Last week, were elevated …

Nuclear War? Climate Collapse? No Worries. WEF Says Disinformation is Humanity’s Most …

Counterpunch

Or did they mouth vague platitudes about extreme weather? Yes, bromides were their plat du jour. The most immediate threat to humanity, according to …

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

FEB 1, 2024

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The PG&E nuclear power plant at Avila Beach. The last operating commercial nuclear power plant in California, or anywhere along the Pacific Coastline from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego in South America.

LLAW’s THOUGHTS & COMMENTS:

As promised, this is the 1st Draft of the Introduction to the coming serialized novel to be presented here of “El Nuclear Diablo”, my in-progress tale about what could happen to a nuclear world under attack by cyber espionage or intentionally or accidentally erratic use of nuclear power plants and grids carrying nuclear power generated energy.

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Such a life-threatening doomsday scenario could happen from a disaster due to a terrorist attack, an intentional operational error, or even an ‘act of god’ incident from an earthquake or a hurricane, a typhoon, at a single nuclear power plant that could spread similar to a communicable disease, jeopardizing all life on planet Earth. ~llaw

El Nuclear Diablo

“Let the Bastards Freeze to Death in the Dark” ~ a common Nuclear Industry Quote and rallying cry after the 3-Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979, directed at concerned Scientists, environmentalists, worried citizens, and public protesters

By Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft

Prologue

Juneau, Alaska

Spring, 2028

Does it really matter who, exactly, is to blame, or why humankind is savagely devouring the native resources of planet Earth until there soon will be nothing left but lichenless barren rocks, the barren salty seas, countless grains of sand, and an eternally poisonous atmosphere? It ought not to be enough to simply ask, “Is it a critical unvarnished ugly truth to come?” The question should be more like, “When will it happen and is there no way out of it?”, should it not?

I can only wonder if highly intelligent, but virulent, forms of our human species have, for countless eons, long traveled through the universal cosmos continually seeking, finding, and lavishly consuming, ultimately ravaging the natural resources, the flora and the fauna, devastating the environments of this and former other living rich blue-green planets also once full of fossil fuels and innocently living resources similar to Earth’s in order to ensure and serve their own survival at the expense of all else in their way. Obviously, we are the only species on this planet that rape and ravage the earth with such savagely uncontrolled vigor on such a large scale. We are the ultimate fungus, the ultimate lethal mushrooms. And I have to also wonder if there are not multiple, or at least two species of us — one peaceful, one warlike.

Not to ridicule Darwin at all, but does his theory of evolution, based on studies of inbreeding pigeons and chickens, really make much sense to you in this context? Does it not seem to you that we humans may be collectively aggressively overtly demanding, ruthless, impolite, unwelcome extra-terrestrial galaxy-trotting travelers or invaders doing our parasitic thing here on Earth rather than a native natural-born integral integrated key part of our indigenous evolving homo-sapiens along with the native animal population—as Darwin would have us believe? We could ask, “What about the Octopus, sir? Where did he evolve from?”

Could it be possible we or they are simply biologically genetically patterned to look and act like homo sapiens? Or perhaps vice versa? At least some of us? Maybe even a whole lot of us? How do we know the difference between the real human beings and genetically altered or cloned ones? Which one am I? Which one are you? Do any of us know? I use the terms “we”, “us” or “our” and “they”, or “them”, or “their“ interchangeably here because in this context I don’t know who or what I am—an “us” or a “them”.

I just know that I am extremely uncomfortable with our or their willfully passionate desire to destroy everything on the planet for personal power, wealth, and a life of comfort at the expense of the rest of us or them. I don’t know about you, but it sure seems to be that way to me, so that’s why I consider myself to be an ‘us’.

At the very least we need to consider the possibility of at least one species of ‘them’ and one of ‘us’. The only way we will ever know who we really are is through our unfettered natural mindful emotions—our feelings of love, care, and respect for Planet Earth, ourselves, and all her fauna and flora—or, conversely, our unnatural lack of those emotions or feelings. Yet we often disguise these characteristics, presenting the opposite of ourselves as themselves, or the other way around. But despite the hidden complexity, our human future may depend on solving this psychological dilemma.

If our human demise (at least partially) has happened before, it will likely happen again. And there is, in today’s worlds, a very quick, relatively easy long-lasting, if not eternally, way to create such a scenario as an extinction level event, not from an act of nature or a god, but from our own actions of self-destruction. ~llaw (Winter, 2024)

To be continued: “Before the Beginning of the End”

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

There are 6 categories (including a bonus category at the end for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity 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 links to the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear War
4. Nuclear Power Emergencies
5. Nuclear War Threats
6. Yellowstone Caldera (There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in tonight’s Post.)

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (02/01/2024):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Taylor Swift, Drake, BTS and more may have their music taken off TikTok — here’s why | Maine Public

Maine Public

All Things Considered with Robbie Feinberg. Next Up: 6 … “UMG is kind of taking the nuclear option of removing all their music and trying to prove …

Taylor Swift, Drake, BTS and more may have their music taken off TikTok — here’s why

MPR News

All Things Considered · MPR News with Angela Davis … “UMG is kind of taking the nuclear option of removing all their music and trying to prove …

Schoolchildren will grow up with AI and should learn about it, tech insiders say – YouTube

YouTube

6 Must-Have Security Gadgets That Fit in Your Pocket. All Things Secured•1.3M views … How Would a Nuclear EMP Affect the Power Grid? Practical …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

The struggle to meet rising demand for nuclear power – Financial Times

Financial Times

But increasing nuclear energy capacity is not easy. Projects across the globe have been fraught with delays and budget overruns, with the Financial …

The US, Russia and China are in a race to dominate new-wave nuclear energy – CNN

CNN

Russia’s floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, leaving the service base Rosatomflot on August 23, 2019. Maxim Shemetov/Reuters. SMRs are …

Iran begins building 4 more nuclear power plants | AP News

AP News

Iran seeks to produce 20,000 megawatts of nuclear energy by 2041. The country has one active nuclear power plant, a 1,000 megawatt plant that went …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Beyond Midnight: Navigating the Unsettling Landscape of Global Threats – Kroc Institute

Kroc Institute – University of Notre Dame

“Climate change and nuclear war are not inevitable. They are human problems that require human solutions. Just as the world has banned torture, …

Opinion | With Pyongyang on war footing, US must quickly defuse nuclear flashpoints

South China Morning Post

… , flashpoints are growing. The US must move to defuse the situation or risk a pyrrhic victory in a nuclear war.

The Unthinkable Looms: Nuclear-Armed Israel is at War – CounterPunch.org

Counterpunch

The attack on Yemen by US, Britain and other forces is a dangerous escalation of the war in the Middle East. The attack is intended to halt the Houthi …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Iran begins building 4 more nuclear power plants – Seattle PI

Seattle PI

Iran seeks to produce 20,000 megawatts of nuclear energy by 2041. The country has one active nuclear power plant, a 1,000 megawatt plant that went …

Nuclear War Threats

NEW

Opinion | With Pyongyang on war footing, US must quickly defuse nuclear flashpoints

South China Morning Post

The regime faces external and internal threats. … North Korean constitution change raises threat of nuclear war as it declares South its ‘top enemy’.

An emboldened North Korea is a threat to the region – Washington Times

Washington Times

… threats illustration by Linas Garsys /. North Korea and Kim Jong Un’s … nuclear war.” Last year, Mr. Kim said nuclear weapons would be enshrined …

Iran not seeking war with US but ‘not afraid of it’, says military chief – The Guardian

The Guardian

The IRGC commander-in-chief, Maj Gen Hossein Salami, said: “We hear some threats from American officials about targeting Iran. … nuclear programme and …

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

JAN 31, 2024

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Tomorrow night I will begin my fictional tale about what can happen to a world of ‘all things nuclear’ in this space to write in serial form new and unique episodes of what I call “El Nuclear Diablo”, adding perhaps one chapter a week here for you to follow. But still the nightly categorical Digest of “All Things Nuclear” with the best consolidated information anywhere for everyone interested in the ongoing world(s) life-threatening use of nuclear energy and the threats of nuclear war will be here for you every evening.

For the 1st time in more than two years I have the time to divert my full attention from the writing, editing, and publishing of a new set of two novels from the old west of the 1880s going to press late this week or early next week. They are titled “The Sweetwater Conspiracy: The Legend of Cattle Kate” with subtitles for volume I “The Emergence” and “The Conspiracy” for volume II. If you are an old west genre fan, this two-volume tome will fill your appetite beyond any western story you have read since Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove” back in 1985. Look for it at your favorite online Bookstore, including Amazon, in the coming week or so.

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But I will also continue to comment from my points of view about current events in between episodes. If the “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (which Albert Einstein was instrumental in forming) is good enough to believe “There is still time and that we must ‘demand change”, then who am I to disagree. So long as I am able to see, read and write, and think, I will never give up on the chance to see a nuclear-free world full of hope, unity, love, and peace.

But now back to the “All Things Nuclear” issues provided by my own personal digest courtesy of Google . . . ~llaw

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (01/31/2024):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Inside the world’s first reactor that will power Earth using the same nuclear reaction as the Sun

Euronews.com

So, you’re doing the same thing. You’re crushing pressurisation as well as adding heat and you get an explosion of energy, E = mc². A little amount of …

Interview with Dr. Jürgen Guldner from BMW | Innovation Zone – YouTube

YouTube

SpaceX Is Building The All Seeing Starship Eye! What about it!? New … Why I changed my mind about nuclear power | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxBerlin.

Ontario Power Generation extending life of Pickering Nuclear Generating Station – YouTube

YouTube

Ontario Power Generation is moving ahead with a plan to extend the life of the aging Pickering Nuclear Plant … Living in Montana –Things They Don’t …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Biden to offer $1.5B loan to restart nuclear power plant on Lake Michigan – The Detroit News

The Detroit News

The Biden administration is poised to lend $1.5 billion for what what would be the first restart of a shuttered US nuclear reactor at a nuclear …

Report: Feds will give $1.5 billion to restart Palisades nuclear plant | Bridge Michigan

Bridge Michigan

The federal government is reportedly poised to offer a $1.5 billion loan to re-start the Palisades nuclear plant · The plant’s owner, Holtec …

Report: Feds will give $1.5 million to restart Palisades nuclear plant | Bridge Michigan

Bridge Michigan

The federal government is reportedly poised to offer a $1.5 billion loan to re-start the Palisades nuclear plant; The plant’s owner, Holtec Energy …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Talking about security, U.S. puts Europe at risk of nuclear war – China Military

China Military

In response to the “growing threat from Russia,” the U.S. is planning to station nuclear warheads – three times as strong as the Hiroshima bomb – in …

Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight — time is almost up – Independent Australia

Independent Australia

Nuclear experts are warning that we are at a dangerous level of nuclear annihilation as wars escalate around the world.

Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight — time is almost up – Independent Australia

Independent Australia

Nuclear experts are warning that we are dangerously close to annihilation as wars escalate around the world.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEW

Turbine trip caused shutdown at Peach Bottom plant – York Dispatch

York Dispatch

A shutdown of a nuclear reactor Monday at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power … emergency,” according to the notification. The licensee confirmed there was …

Environmental Protection in New Nuclear Power Programmes | IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

It aligns more closely with the phased approach and takes into account Revision 1 of IAEA Nuclear Energy Series NG-G-3.1 and highlights the interface …

Finland amends regulations on NPP emergency planning zones

Nuclear Engineering International

Finland’s Radiation & Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK – Säteilyturvakeskus) has adopted a new regulation that no longer stipulates a five-kilometre …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Analysts: North Korea Seeks to Dominate South Korea Through Nuclear Coercion

VOA News

Domestic political and economic instability that threatens his survival could prompt Kim to start a war using the pretext of external threats as an …

The warnings from Greenham Common’s women are as pertinent as ever – The Guardian

The Guardian

… nuclear deterrence that got left out of the BBC documentary. Today, humanity stands on the very dangerous brink of nuclear war, with nuclear threats …

Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight — time is almost up – Independent Australia

Independent Australia

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wrapped the year with fresh threats of a nuclear attack on Seoul and orders for a military arsenal build-up to prepare …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

USGS Has 1 U.S. Volcano at WATCH/ORANGE Level; 4 at YELLOW/ADVISORY Today

Weatherboy

… Volcano Observatory, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, and the Northern Mariana Islands Volcano Observatory. Each of those additional volcano …

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

JAN 30, 2024

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My thoughts and comments tonight are in response to a friend’s concern that there is nothing that we can do to change the course of human destiny. Following is what she wrote in response to my Post #525 from last night, sans her name because I don’t have her permission to Post it here tonight, but it is also available on m Substack comments from last night. ~llaw

She: Lloyd, This is very discouraging. I am gratified to have information about what is really going on, however, bad news is what it comes to. Countries and their leaders will do what they will. When it comes to the crunch, individuals aren’t those in power. Russia will do what it will to Ukraine, Israel will do what it will to Gaza., etc. I so wish the world would look more hopeful. Besides reading your post, I read this morning that artists, if they protest, are being punished by having their shows cancelled. I’m referring to artists specifically protesting Netanyahu’s turning Gaza into rubble and thousands of Palestinians being killed and starved. This censorship is in the United States where we allegedly have free speech. I don’t see what our options are.

Me: I hear you loud and clear, my dear friend And I understand, and in my heart I know what I would like to witness and live to see, will never happen. But it really could be done if billions of people actually cared and understood their plight and their destiny. Only a rag-tag few of us will ever realize that world peace and harmony is possible. I am no Martin Luther King nor Nelson Mandela. And of course even Jesus Christ died in vain. So realism is as useless as the dreams these men had.

But I will still provide information and comment on genuinely wrongful issues that will never be anything more than a wish. My true hope is that there is something lurking, waiting, in the background, a power we are not aware of that will force the hand of these despots who rule with hatred and malice and for their own self-aggrandizement. I have every intention to turn my commentary into fiction asap, and I’ve mentioned that in a few of my posts, telling a story which is already written in my mind and a lot of it exists in script by hand on paper . . . ~llaw

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2. Nuclear Power
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4. Nuclear Power Emergencies
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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (01/30/2024):

All Things Nuclear

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Discover STEAM Day coming at the Nuclear Science Museum – KRQE

KRQE

Guests will get hands-on interaction and experience with all things Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics (STEAM) related. Some …

With tensions between North and South Korea high, border island could be a flashpoint

KCLU

… nuclear crisis and the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster. See stories by Anthony Kuhn · On The Air · All Things Considered3:30 PM–6:30 PM. Up …

USD/JPY Technical Analysis for January 30, 2024 by Chris Lewis for FX Empire – YouTube

YouTube

The US dollar continues to pressure the Japanese yen, as we wait for the FOMC meeting on Wednesday. All things being equal, I do think that we go …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Can Small Nuclear Reactors Really Help The Climate?: QuickTake – Bloomberg Law News

Bloomberg Law News

Much of the world has been turning away from nuclear power, with its aging plants, legacy of meltdowns and radioactive waste.

Inside the world’s first reactor that will power Earth using the same nuclear reaction as the Sun

Euronews.com

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project agreement was formally signed in 2006 by the US, EU, Russia, China, India, and …

France will continue to invest in nuclear energy – PM Attal | Reuters

Reuters

France will continue to invest in nuclear power and develop reactors, the country’s prime minister Gabriel Attal told lawmakers on Tuesday, …

Nuclear War

NEWS

World War Three is approaching fast, and too few are willing to admit why – Yahoo News

Yahoo News

True, Tehran is probably only a few years away from building nuclear warheads for ballistic missiles. But as its economy tanks, the regime may suspect …

Mass starvation after nuclear war could be partially averted with one specific food

Live Science

A nuclear winter could reduce global calorie production by as much as 90%. But vast kelp farms could help save 1.2 billion lives until …

Nuclear Deterrence Justifies Possession — Threatens Use of World’s Deadliest Weapon

IDN-InDepthNews

… nuclear weapons that has brought the world close to nuclear war on a number of occasions.” Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEW

Doug Ford government to refurbish Pickering nuclear plant as demand for electricity grows

CBC

… nuclear power plant in Canada. (Mike Crawley/CBC). Chris Keefer, a Toronto emergency physician who is president of Canadians For Nuclear Energy …

Taiwan’s Election Has Big Ramifications for Energy Security – The Diplomat

The Diplomat

Lai’s fresh mandate allows him to renew the national dialogue on nuclear energy. The global energy crisis and climate emergency prompted 22 countries, …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

US to Station Nuclear Weapons in UK Amid Growing Russian Threats: Reports

The Defense Post

US to Station Nuclear Weapons in UK Amid Growing Russian Threats: Reports · Preparing for War · A ‘Step Towards Escalation’.

Nuclear Deterrence Justifies Possession — Threatens Use of World’s Deadliest Weapon

IDN-InDepthNews

It is based on the threat to wage nuclear war, which would kill … threats of wider regional conflict and the potential for nuclear escalation become.

The Rising Threat of Kim Jong Un’s North Korea | Opinion – Newsweek

Newsweek

… threats of nuclear escalation and the potential for Chinese … If a limited North Korean attack spiraled into a nuclear exchange or a larger war …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park – WorldAtlas

World Atlas

The park is known for its volcanic activity, as the Yellowstone Caldera that it sits over is a dormant supervolcano. This activity shows itself in …

The volcano that could cause the “end of humanity” is in America: NASA seeks to cool its eruption

Ruetir

In the heart of America is one of the most impressive geological phenomena in the world: the Yellowstone supervolcano, in the United States.t

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

JAN 29, 2024

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Tonight’s Post tells you more about my background and why I am anti-nuclear in every respect possible. It should not have ever been discovered, or when discovered never allowed to be used, but left in place in the ground exactly where it came from.

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The nuclear situation is becoming extremely more dangerous daily, both from the threats of nuclear war as well as the ridiculous belief that more nuclear power plants are necessary because they are cheap and clean. Neither of those statements are true. The exact opposite is true.

Anything nuclear is a threat to all life on planet Earth and all things nuclear must be entirely removed forever from our existence in both the world’s militaries’ and the commercial power industry’s operations.

I speak from parts of three decades in the commercial nuclear power business, from the mining and milling of uranium, the fuel source, to the selling of the unrefined fuel (U308) to the industry, both in the USA and to other countries. I left the commercial nuclear energy business not long after the ‘Three-Mile Island’ disaster in late 1979 when most nuclear industry corporate leaders, began their desperate war chant to survive, “Let the Bastard Freeze to Death in the Dark”. We were wrong then and we are wrong now. I am truly ashamed, even in my old age, to have worked for many years as a responsible part of the nuclear industry.

So experience and common sense tells me that we are playing with a power source that we don’t fully understand, know how to use properly or safely, and gives the world(s) militaries and/or the commercial nuclear power generating businesses the intentional and/or accidental power of mankind to destroy virtually every living thing on the planet, including Mother Earth herself.

You ask, “Well, what can we do about it?” The probable best and only answer is for humanity to unite in a common global demand directed at the diverse world(s} of our nations’ leaders to “cease and desist and destroy” all things nuclear. Three and a half decades ago the down under country and territory of New Zealand banned by imposing this Act against all things nuclear: The New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament and Arms Control Act 1987 is arguably the strongest anti-nuclear weapon domestic legislation in the world. It bans nuclear weapons and propulsion from New Zealand’s land, sea and airspace out to the country’s 12-mile territorial limits.

The rest of the world(s) must do the same to ensure our own, and other living creatures’, survival as a species. “We the People” are the only known faction that can make this happen. It will take unity from at leas 2.5 billion adults around the world. The Internet can help us do that — nothing else can . . . ~llaw

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2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear War
4. Nuclear Power Emergencies
5. Nuclear War Threats
6. Yellowstone Caldera (There are 2 Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in tonight’s Post.)

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (01/29/2024):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Sunday Puzzle: In and Out

wmky.org

All Things Considered. Next Up: 7:00 PM The World. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … Aftermath of a nuclear explosion / Slip through a trap door. 5. Contest in …

Labour struggle on green investment plans – YouTube

YouTube

US reportedly to station nuclear weapons in the UK amid Russia threat … Resisting Putin’s war: the women risking it all on the streets of Russia.

Federal notices suggest US may bring its nuclear weapons back to England

Stars and Stripes

In 2019, six locations in Europe were accidentally revealed in a report published by a NATO committee. The report referred to about 150 nuclear …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

The Future of the Zeitenwende: Scenario 5—Poland Becomes a Nuclear Power

Internationale Politik Quarterly

Russia, the largest nuclear power in the world, has made active use of its nuclear arsenal since day one of the war. While nuclear weapons have not …

Halushchenko: Khmelnitsky can become Europe’s most powerful nuclear plant

World Nuclear News

Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko says that the process of adding four new units at the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant will start …

House Bill 1071 starts groundwork to bring Uranium mining and nuclear power to South Dakota

KEVN

House Bill 1071 will …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Federal notices suggest US may bring its nuclear weapons back to England

Stars and Stripes

… nuclear weapon in the U.S. stockpile since the end of the Cold War. The U.S. is reportedly planning to move nuclear weapons to RAF Lakenheath …

Ukraine To Build 4 Nuclear Reactors As War Hits Power Supply | Barron’s

Barron’s

Energy Minister German Galushchenko said in televised comments that all four new reactors would be at the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant in western …

Talking about security, U.S. puts Europe at risk of nuclear war – CGTN

CGTN

If Washington is sincere about the security of its allies, abandoning the plan to station nuclear warheads in the UK is the first step.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Climate emergency: No official substantiation why India focusing on coal, nuclear power

Counterview

The continuing gaps and lapses in policies and practices within the electricity power sector in particular, and in the larger energy sector in general …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Turning back the clock: Did the Doomsday Clock time tick closer to midnight?

Open Access Government

The Bulletin highlighted numerous threats to this dangerous state, including the Russia-Ukraine war … Nuclear threats. The ongoing conflict between …

Experts react: Three US servicemembers were killed in Jordan. Will the US strike back at Iran?

Atlantic Council

… threats they posed to US forces in the region. Iranian-aligned forces … attack in Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. The significance of this …

Ukraine-Russia war – live: Kyiv ‘uncovers mass weapons fraud worth £32m’

The Independent

ICYMI: US nuclear weapons could be stationed in UK for first time in 15 years amid Russia threat. The US is preparing to station nuclear weapons in …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Yes, Yellowstone’s A Supervolcano, But Its Top Scientist Says Stop Calling It That

Cowboy State Daily

Yellowstone is one of the largest volcanoes on the planet and it technically qualifies as a “supervolcano,” but calling it that is misleading, …

Seasonal ground motion in Yellowstone | U.S. Geological Survey – USGS.gov

USGS.gov

A deformation update for Yellowstone caldera—October 2023 edition. Since 2015, Yellowstone caldera has been subsiding at a rate of about 2–3 cm ( …

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

JAN 28, 2024

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I can answer the following question in one word: “No” . . . ~llaw

22 countries want to triple nuclear power. Is there enough uranium to go around?

Ines Ferré

·Senior Business Reporter

Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 10:00 AM PST5 min read

Uranium has been hot this year, industry experts say. The trouble is there may not be enough to go around.

The squeeze on the metal, found in rocks and seawater, intensified recently after 22 countries, including the US, recently signed a pact at the UN Climate Change conference to triple their nuclear power capacity by 2050.

“There’s no other way to meet those net-zero carbon goals other than nuclear energy,” said Nicole Galloway Warland, managing director of Thor Energy (THORF), an exploration company with projects in Utah and Colorado.

The backdrop to all this is, of course, is the march towards cleaner energy. But the rise of EVs and the anticipated power demands of artificial intelligence computing are also going to create a demand crunch for clean electricity — and nuclear is seen as a power source, unlike oil or coal, without the downside of carbon dioxide emissions. 

That means the demand for uranium, the underlying fuel for nuclear plants, will be on the rise for years to come, experts and miners contend.

“Where is that uranium going to come from?,” asked Galloway Warland. “There’s not enough to go around. There’s a supply deficit.”

Earlier this month, the world’s largest uranium miner, Kazatomprom (KAP.IL), warned it will likely not meet its production targets in the next two years because of mine construction delays and a lack of sulfuric acid needed for uranium production. Uranium prices shot up to 2007 levels this month, sitting above $106 per pound.

Uranium-related stocks have also been on fire.

Shares of Canadian giant Cameco (CCJ) have gained 83% over the past year. Kazatomprom, which trades on the London stock exchange, is up more than 60% over the past six months. Shares of US-based Energy Fuels (UUUU) are up about 25% during the same period.

‘Uranium is becoming a household name’

A psychological shift surrounding nuclear is clearly helping fuel the market frenzy.

Nuclear power has been out of favor for years. But the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear disaster in 2011 prompted governments to scale back plans and shut down reactors. For much of the last decade, little investment went into the industry. Climate change, however, has changed attitudes.

“Nuclear power now has been realized as the new, vogue way of providing all this baseline power,” Duane Parnham, executive chairman and CEO of Madison Metals (GREN.CN), told Yahoo Finance.

“Uranium is becoming a household name,” he added.

Silicon Valley celeb billionaires, for example, have talked up the benefits of nuclear energy. Last year Sam Altman, the chief executive behind ChatGPT, announced his special purpose acquisition company would take nuclear energy startup Oklo public. And, of course, Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk weighed in. He tweeted last year that “The world should increase use of nuclear power!”

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (01/28/2024):

All Things Nuclear

NEW

US reportedly to station nuclear weapons in the UK amid Russia threat – YouTube

YouTube

5 BEST Things I Saw in Vegas at CES 2024. Undecided with Matt Ferrell New … Tesla Model 3 SUB-ZERO Range Test: We All Know That EV Range Is Bad In …

Iran launches three satellites into space as tensions rise | WJCT News 89.9

WJCT News

Meanwhile, Western nations remain worried about Iran’s rapidly expanding nuclear program. Footage released by Iranian state television showed a …

Iran launches three satellites into space as tensions rise – Little Rock Public Radio

Little Rock Public Radio

Next Up: 3:00 PM All Things Considered … “These concerns are reinforced by Iran’s continued nuclear escalation beyond all credible civilian …

Nuclear Power

NEW

22 countries want to triple nuclear power. Is there enough uranium to go around?

Yahoo Finance

The world wants to build more nuclear power plants as a way to solve the climate crisis. One problem: Uranium, used to power those plants, …

Will nuclear energy make a comeback in Germany? – DW

DW

Germany phased out nuclear energy nearly a year ago. But even with the multi-billion euro problem of how to store radioactive waste, …

American nuclear power plants are among the most secure in the world – EurekAlert!

EurekAlert!

Argonne uses Purdue’s research reactor to study the potential of machine learning to increase performance efficiency of nuclear energy.

Nuclear War

NEW

US to keep nuclear weapons in UK for 1st time in 15 years as fears of European war edge ever closer

YouTube

The United States plans to station nuclear weapons in Britain to counter Russian threats. Pentagon documents reveal intentions to place B61-12 …

Ukraine-Russia war – live: US ‘to station nuclear weapons in UK’ amid Putin threat

The Independent

Ukraine says there’s no evidence for Russia’s claim that dozens of POWs died in a plane crash. Officials in Ukraine said Russia has provided no …

Telegraph: US to deploy nuclear weapons in UK to counter Moscow’s threat – Yahoo News

Yahoo News

Washington removed its nuclear weaponry from the U.K. soil in 2008, after they had been stationed there since the Cold War. The move was meant to …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Ruusia affirming adherence to IAEA principles – Breaking The News

Breaking The News

… Energy Agency’s (IAEA) five safety principles for the plant … power supply in case of emergencies or external network issues. iaeanuclear powerrosatom.

Nuclear War Threats

NEW

US to keep nuclear weapons in UK for 1st time in 15 years as fears of European war edge ever closer

YouTube

… War threats. Nato-wide program upgrades nuclear sites amid rising tensions with the Kremlin. Procurement contracts detail construction plans for a …

Ukraine-Russia war – live: US ‘to station nuclear weapons in UK’ amid Putin threat

The Independent

Ukraine-Russia war – live: US ‘to station nuclear weapons in UK’ amid Putin threat. Under the proposals, warheads three times as strong as the …

US stationing nuclear warheads in UK sends political message to ‘full of s**t’ Putin

The Mirror

… nuclear threats for attention. But no … Prior to 2008, when Moscow’s cold war threat subsided, the US stationed nuclear missiles at RAF Lakenheath.

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Racers take off in cardboard sleds at Winterfest 2024 in Grand Haven – YouTube

YouTube

8:10. Go to channel · Horrible Today: Lava Dome Eruption in Yellowstone Caldera was more dramatic than scientists expected. USA UPDATE New 3.7K views.

Lunar New Year celebrations kick off in Elk Grove – YouTube

YouTube

8:10 · Go to channel · Horrible Today: Lava Dome Eruption in Yellowstone Caldera was more dramatic than scientists expected. USA UPDATE New 3.7K views.

EUROVIZIJA.LT | Sid Hallow – „Here We Go Again“ – YouTube

YouTube

Go to channel · Horrible Today: Lava Dome Eruption in Yellowstone Caldera was more dramatic than scientists expected. USA UPDATE New 3.7K views · 10: …

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

JAN 27, 2024

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Nuclear Waste: Small in Volume, Big in Energy Discussions | OilPrice.com

Oil Price

“Nuclear power is a safe, clean source of energy, making it a critical part of the clean energy transition, but nuclear waste remains a concern.” ~ Oil Price Oil and Energy News

The statement above is a headline and lead-in to an article by Oil Price today. It plainly demonstrates the serious problems with natural resource language and misleading propaganda. These news organizations seem to magically talk out of both sides of their mouths at the same time. If nuclear energy and its waste is a concern, how can it be safe and clean at the same time? I see this kind of vailed ambiguity all the time in nuclear energy news. It is disgusting and it is intentionally deceiving.

I see constantly see underestimated costs and timeliness of both creating and operating a nuclear power plant. The latest new one, in Georgia, had an overrun in their 1st of 2 units of Georgia nuclear rebirth arrives 7 years late, $17B over cost. And who has to pay for it? The public consumers. Nuclear energy is neither safe nor clean and it is definitely not cheap. ~llaw

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (01/27/2024):

All Things Nuclear

NEW

Putin prepares for nuclear explosion, NATO holds largest drills – YouTube

YouTube

As the war in Ukraine continues, NATO has kicked off its largest military drills all … 5 BEST Things I Saw in Vegas at CES 2024. Undecided with Matt …

Putin Looks to Expand Into Arctic With Nuclear Icebreaker – Newsweek

Newsweek

“There in Chukotka, in Yamal, in Taimyr, in Yakutia, in all our other … Tears As Golden Retriever Packs Own Things When Owner Gets Suitcase Out.

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

The Drive

The vehicular entrance to the massive underground Marieberget bomb shelter in Vasteras, Sweden. The nuclear shelter, which houses youth centers, a …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

What if American nuclear power plants could be less expensive – Tech Xplore

Tech Xplore

American nuclear power plants generate more than 20% of the electricity, and half of the carbon-free electricity, in the United States.

Nuclear Waste: Small in Volume, Big in Energy Discussions | OilPrice.com

Oil Price

Nuclear power is a safe, clean source of energy, making it a critical part of the clean energy transition, but nuclear waste remains a concern for …

Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning Market Poised for Growth Amid Aging Infrastructure and …

Yahoo Finance

Dublin, Jan. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning Market Report 2023-2033″ report has been added to …

Nuclear War

NEW

Ukraine war latest: US to station nuclear weapons in Britain ‘imminently’, report claims – Sky News

Sky News

The UK must keep Ukraine at the top of the agenda “because they’re fighting for us out there”, a former NATO secretary general has told Sky News.

Russia Vs NATO War Fears: U.S. To Send Nuclear Bombers To British Air Base – YouTube

YouTube

United States plans to redeploy nuclear weapons in the UK after 15 years. Pentagon documents showed that Washington has procured a new facility at …

US planning to station nuclear weapons in UK amid threat from Russia – report

The Guardian

Missiles would be placed at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk in case of potential war between Nato and Russia.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

US planning to station nuclear weapons in UK amid threat from Russia – report

The Guardian

The US previously placed nuclear missiles at RAF Lakenheath and removed them in 2008 after the cold war threat from Moscow receded. Pentagon …

US to station nuclear weapons in UK to counter threat from Russia – The Telegraph

The Telegraph

The US removed nuclear missiles from the UK in 2008, judging that the Cold War threat from Moscow had diminished. … nuclear threats to the homeland …

‘Doomsday Clock’ signals existential threats of nuclear war, climate disasters and AI

Mount Airy News

‘Doomsday Clock’ signals existential threats of nuclear war, climate disasters and AI … It cited nuclear threat in Russia’s war on Ukraine as well as …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Norris Geyser Basin hydrothermal monitoring equipment installed – The Missoulian

The Missoulian

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

The Roundup: Earthquakes And Volcanoes In Yellowstone With Geophysicist Mike Poland

Cowboy State Daily

Geophysicist Mike Poland joins Cowboy State Daily’s Wendy Corr on “The Roundup” about the super-volcano in Yellowstone, the thousands of …

What would Toba’s supereruption have been like for our ancient relatives? | Live Science

Live Science

The caldera is so vast that from the ground it is hard to get the … —Yellowstone volcano super-eruptions appear to involve multiple explosive events.

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

JAN 26, 2024

LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #522 (01/26/2024)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

JAN 26, 2024

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LLAW’s THOUGHTS & COMMENTS:

OMG! So now we ‘have to have’ floating transportable mini-nuclear power plants drifting up and down our shorelines? I can think of all kinds of unmerciful accidents and/or terrorism spreading radiation up and down populated coasts everywhere. My thoughts immediately drift to the military use of such a nuclear plant, much like the Russian military controlling the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant that has become “the center of an ongoing nuclear safety crisis, described by Ukraine as an act of nuclear terrorism by Russia”, but with the added danger of portability. Our nuclear insanity is on the verge of essentially annihilating life on planet Earth.

Read the article and weep. Russia apparently has the only operational ‘floating nuclear power plant’, but apparently more are in design or being built. And whomever was it who said this about that?: [This is] a sector that has gained traction recently due to the global need for new nuclear capacity. Only the nuclear power industry itself would say that. And Russia controls upwards of 80% of that market. This whole issue of nuclear power plants everywhere including outer space is pure unadulterated insanity. We seem to be on an unlimited mission to annihilate ourselves sooner rather than later. Mercy! ~llaw

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Floating Nuclear Reactor Project Set for 2030 Debut in Canada

January 25, 2024 12:22 PM JP Alegre 0 Comments floating nuclear power plant, nuclear power, transportable nuclear power plant

Westinghouse has partnered with Canadian firm Prodigy Clean Energy to develop a transportable nuclear power plant (TNPP) featuring an eVinci microreactor. The ambitious project aims to launch its first venture in Canada by 2030. 

The TNPP will integrate one or more 5-MWe eVinci microreactors into a Prodigy Microreactor Power Station, a specialized floating facility likely situated along shorelines. It’s designed to be pre-fabricated and easily transported to various locations, providing dependable power and heat to remote areas, data centers, defense installations, and islands.

Prodigy Clean Energy is entering the global floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) market, a sector that has gained traction recently due to the global need for new nuclear capacity. FNPPs, traditionally used in naval and icebreaker applications, are now seen as a solution for powering remote and off-grid areas, supporting renewable energy grids, and supplying energy-intensive industries. The Akademik Lomonosov in Russia is currently the only operational purpose-built FNPP, but several other designs are in advanced stages of development.

Prodigy’s approach uniquely combines nuclear, maritime, and transport industry expertise to create a standardized, scalable, and fully transportable nuclear power plant system. The company is focusing on two main programs: the Microreactor Power Station and the Grid-Scale Station. Prodigy has already partnered with NuScale Power for a grid-scale marine TNPP project and is working with Kinectrics for nuclear safety analysis.

The eVinci microreactor, a Westinghouse design introduced in 2017, is a fully passive, heat pipe–cooled system using TRISO fuel and alkali metal heat pipe technology. It operates without water and can run for over eight years without refueling. The Saskatchewan Research Council in Canada plans to pilot an eVinci microreactor by 2029, subject to regulatory approvals.

Related: Canada Adds Nuclear Energy to Green Bond Framework

The development and deployment of FNPPs pose complex challenges, including regulatory and legal hurdles. Companies like Danish firm Seaborg are exploring innovative solutions like the Compact Molten Salt Reactor power barge. Meanwhile, Russia continues to advance in the FNPP sector with its Optimized Floating Power Units and the RITM-200M reactors.

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (01/26/2024):

All Things Nuclear

NEW

U.S. election primaries: Even more chaotic than usual? | About That – YouTube

YouTube

All about the base: Trump rules Republican primaries, but what about November? … Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough; Powering Electric Vehicles; Carbon …

The Destroyers scheduled to come to Sandler Center – YouTube

YouTube

Stay in the loop about all things family, food and fun! https://www … David Lee Roth Goes Nuclear On Wolfgang Van Halen. The Real Music Observer …

Q&A: Getting Back to War Footing | Air & Space Forces Magazine

Air & Space Forces Magazine

We’re looking at making sure we have a senior leader who is in charge of everything that supports the nuclear warfighting part of the force, both in …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

New Tool to Extend the Life of Nuclear Reactors | IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

As the world looks to significantly increase nuclear power capacity to meet climate and energy security goals, several countries are considering …

Nuclear energy production could reach record high in 2025 – IEA report – Power Technology

Power Technology

Nuclear power plant in Pakistan. Asian nations have been at the heart of the nuclear push. Credit: Bojan Spasovski/Shutterstock.com. Global nuclear …

UN Nuclear Chief Says ‘Very Real’ Threat Remains at Moscow-Held Zaporizhzhia Plant

The Moscow Times

The possibility of a nuclear disaster at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine remains “very real,” according to the head of the …

Security situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant ‘extremely fragile’: IAEA – Anadolu Ajansı

Full Coverage

Nuclear War

NEW

Ukraine war latest: High-ranking Russian officials told not to board crashed plane at last …

Sky News

Three nuclear power plants in Ukraine-controlled territory produce more than 55% of the country’s electricity needs, but Kyiv wants to expand the …

Opinion: Doomsday Clock still set at 90 seconds to midnight, we need to stop it

Hartford Courant

The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation.” With nuclear arms control …

Nuclear arsenal agency’s construction oversight may hide overruns: GAO – Federal Times

Federal Times

… nuclear war and would mean less risk of miscalculation in a crisis. Gen. James Cartwright, who headed Strategic Command from 2004-07 and served as …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

UN Nuclear Chief Says ‘Very Real’ Threat Remains at Moscow-Held Zaporizhzhia Plant

The Moscow Times

… power could lead to a disaster at the Moscow-controlled nuclear plant. Emergency diesel generators are now “the last line of defense against a nuclear …

Floating Nuclear Reactor Project Set for 2030 Debut in Canada | the deep dive

the deep dive

Westinghouse has partnered with Canadian firm Prodigy Clean Energy to develop a transportable nuclear power plant (TNPP) featuring an eVinci …

Security situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant ‘extremely fragile’: IAEA | Politics

yenisafak.com

… power and had to rely on emergency diesel generators, the last line of defense against a nuclear accident, to provide essential cooling of the …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

The New Cold War and the risk of nuclear annihilation – Asia Times

Asia Times

… threats, while very dangerous, can likely be managed without a massive … Pointing to the need to focus anew on the extinction threat of nuclear war …

US Army Practices Nuclear Deterrence Amid Increasing Threats – The Defense Post

The Defense Post

The nuclear deterrence training comes amid the significantly increasing nuclear threats from US adversaries. … War & Conflict · Africa · Americas …

N. Korea could turn to nukes ‘more easily’ in crisis: U.S. think tank report

Yonhap News Agency

… nuclear threats to coerce Seoul into accepting regime demands,” the report said. “The regime could use threats of nuclear attack to force Tokyo to …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Knox Co. Schools discusses priorities and plans for drafting 2024-2025 fiscal year budget

YouTube

10:20 · Go to channel · Another Large Earthquake Shakes Yellowstone Caldera, Thin One In Chile, Magnitude 5.0. Mary Greeley News New 5.2K views · 19: …

World’s Largest Cruise, Icon Of The Seas, Set To Sail On January 27: Price, Amenities & More | Messi

YouTube

8:10 · Go to channel. Horrible Today: Lava Dome Eruption in Yellowstone Caldera was more dramatic than scientists expected. USA UPDATE New 314 views.

All-News4JAX boys swimming: Bolles’ Carter Lancaster headlines 2023 squad – YouTube

YouTube

10:20 · Go to channel · Another Large Earthquake Shakes Yellowstone Caldera, Thin One In Chile, Magnitude 5.0. Mary Greeley News New 4.9K views · 2:55

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

JAN 25, 2024

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Buffalo grazing near geo-thermal geysers releasing underground steam in Yellowstone National Park. Do we have enough common sense to harness it?

LLAW’s THOUGHTS & COMMENTS:

Yellowstone National Park is larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined, and the Park contains over 500 geysers — more than half of all geysers in the world. We need to harness some of that steam, which could allow us, with the help of others to spread pure energy around the world, allowing us to forget about ever having used the filthy waste of greenhouse gasses from fossil fuels, including the radioactive uranium/nuclear version. Such a system of tapping into these calderas has been studied by NASA, universities, and teams of scientists, and the possibility of doing just that has been proven, at least on paper and in reality in smaller geo-thermal projects around the world, to be massively feasible. All we need do is to change our sources of fuels from poisonous killers to hydro-thermal steam. It should be easy to do, but it won’t be because of politics and, of course, the almighty dollar.

The question is, will the existing infrastructure, political stooges, and corporate magnates allow it to happen or would they rather continue in the same old suicidal way to certain extinction ways for the sake of politics and money over common sense? We presently fail to realize that much of our existing infrastructure, such as utility power plants, buildings and facilities, equipment, and especially our grid systems could still be of value to a brand new international industry of mining and refining volcanic steam that may be renewable beyond our wildest dreams. If there’s a will, there’s a way, somebody said once upon a time . . .

And doing so might provide another benefit to humanity and other life on planet Earth. Releasing more steam from these calderas, particularly Yellowstone, could relieve dangerous pressure within volcanic calderas that otherwise could create massive eruptions that could easily kill millions of people if the pressure is allowed to grow indefinitely as it does now. The possible dangers as well as the possible benefits are particularly important at Yellowstone, which alone could provide heat and electricity to the entire North American continent with enough left over for other continents in urgent need for centuries to come, and perhaps then some. ~llaw

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (01/25/2024):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

‘Doomsday Clock’ signals existential threats of nuclear war, climate disasters and AI

Alabama Public Radio

All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM Marketplace. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … It cited nuclear threat in Russia’s war on Ukraine as well as the Oct.

‘Doomsday Clock’ signals existential threats of nuclear war, climate disasters and AI – WQLN – WQLN

Full Coverage

‘Doomsday Clock’ signals existential threats of nuclear war, climate disasters and AI – KUOW

KUOW

It cited nuclear threat in Russia’s war on Ukraine as well as the Oct. 7 attack … All Things Considered. 3:00 PM PST. Today, Explained. 6:00 PM PST.

As Trump looms, top EU politician calls for European nuclear deterrent – POLITICO.eu

POLITICO.eu

Within the EU, the only country that would be able to play a larger role is France, which has about 300 nuclear warheads. … all in one place.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Clean sources of generation are set to cover all of the world’s additional electricity demand …

International Energy Agency

However, record-setting electricity generation from low-emissions sources – comprising renewables, such as solar, wind and hydro, as well as nuclear …

Exclusive: Ukraine to start building 4 new nuclear reactors this year – Reuters

Reuters

Ukraine expects to start construction work on four new nuclear power reactors this summer or autumn, Energy Minister German Galushchenko told …

International Day of Clean Energy: Why Nuclear Power? | IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

Nuclear energy already provides around a quarter of the world’s low-carbon electricity. It offers large amount of reliable, dispatchable power …

Nuclear War

NEWS

How the Ukraine war ramped up Russia’s reliance on nuclear weapons – The Hill

The Hill

The war in Ukraine has shifted Russia’s posture on nuclear weapons as Ukraine’s defenses, backed by Western help, have shown the limits of Kremlin …

“Nuclear War With Russia Could End The World Tomorrow” Colonel Reacts To Doomsday …

YouTube

In a world filled with various global crises, it is easy to overlook the looming threat of nuclear war. However, recent events have brought this …

Russia-Ukraine war live news: Moscow says it ‘warned’ Kyiv about plane – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

“The US and NATO’s commitment to escalating the Ukrainian crisis” is pushing nuclear powers towards a direct military clash “with catastrophic …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Self-powered emergency seawall could generate power during tsunamis – New Atlas

New Atlas

Tsunami-hit Japanese nuclear reactor gets restart approval. TechXplore.com, 2020. Japan court: Nuclear plant’s tsunami safeguards inadequate. by Mari …

Invoking Emergencies Act wasn’t justified, plus other letters for Jan. 25 – The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

In today’s letters to the editor: the Emergencies Act; nuclear energy; Gildan; Sammy Yatim coroner’s inquest.

Letter: Nuclear power is the answer for ND – The Bismarck Tribune

The Bismarck Tribune

… energy hogs to produce. Only Propane is usable as it is easily stored to power emergency generators when needed. Also the EPA is so sweet to give …

Nuclear War Threats

NEW

“Nuclear War With Russia Could End The World Tomorrow” Colonel Reacts To Doomsday …

YouTube

In a world filled with various global crises, it is easy to overlook the looming threat of nuclear war … threats. It is imperative that the UK …

How the Ukraine war ramped up Russia’s reliance on nuclear weapons – The Hill

The Hill

While the use of nuclear weapons has long been seen as unrealistic given the threat of escalation, Russia, “knowing that the West is casualty and risk …

Smithsonian Magazine

The Bulletin cited a number of potential nuclear threats facing the world today. For one, Russia could possibly use nuclear weapons in their war …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

10 Incredible Facts About Yellowstone National Park – A-Z Animals

A-Z Animals

One of the most incredible things about Yellowstone National Park is that it is actually an active volcano. Within the park is a huge caldera which is …