LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #496 (12/30/2023)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

DEC 30, 2023

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LLAW’s THOUGHTS TONIGHT:

I believe that today was the first day in the 496 consecutive nights I have been posting the world’s news that there was not a single media story of useable merit in the “Nuclear War Threats” category. I will take this for what it is — nothing! But still an entire day without chest-pounding fear-tactic threats full of obvious lies from not one single nuclear-empowered nation in the entire world? llolloll!

That’s hard to believe — especially when there remains only tonight and tomorrow night to get that important “last word” in before we wake up to a brand new year of “I told you so’s”. We can use tomorrow night’s “Nuclear War Threats” final day of 2023 to see what countries are the most ‘diligent’ about threatening us with their phony drum-beating final tribal message to all of us to “prove” that they, by god, are serious.

This would be a fun betting game for those of us who like to make a friendly bet now and then. For my money, I’ll take North Korea. Who’s your pick? ~llaw


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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (12/30/2023):

All Things Nuclear

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Air Force said its nuclear missile silos were safe, but dangers lurked

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North Korea says it is preparing for war with the U.S. – KUNR

KUNR

So everything dealing with North Korea’s nuclear program going forward is going to be that much harder. And the real challenge here is, how do you …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

South Carolina nuclear plant’s cracked pipes get downgraded warning from officials

ABC News

… nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists. The changes from Dominion Energy seem to be “pencil-sharpening exercises that make a …

South Carolina nuclear plant’s warning from nuclear officials – The Intermountain

The Intermountain

NRC Region II Administrator Laura Dudes said in a statement. The plant runs pressurized water heated by uranium fuel through a steam generator. A …

Warning downgraded for S.C. nuclear plant’s cracked pipes – WRDW.com

WRDW.com

The plant runs …

Nuclear War

NEWS

North Korea says it is preparing for war with the U.S. | 90.5 WESA

90.5 WESA

The increase in, you know, nuclear consultation – the things that are going on with that, the North Koreans consider to be practicing war and that …

To counter China, US revamps second world war-era Pacific airfield that launched nuclear …

South China Morning Post

To counter China, US revamps second world war-era Pacific airfield that launched nuclear bombings of Japan. Beijing’s growing influence in the …

Hundreds of Air Force nuclear missile workers have cancer, documents show

LiveNOW from FOX

Survival expert shares tips on how to prepare and survive a nuclear attack. There has been an uptick in fear about a possible nuclear war with …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

South Carolina nuclear plant’s warning from nuclear officials – The Intermountain

The Intermountain

… emergency fuel line at a South Carolina nuclear plant northwest of the state capital. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission downgraded its …

North Dakota Governor Declares Emergency for Ice Storm That Left Thousands Without Power | NTD

NTD News

BISMARCK, N.D.—North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum on Friday declared a statewide emergency in response to an ice storm that felled power lines, …

North Dakota governor declares emergency for ice storm that left thousands without power

Caledonian Record

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has declared a statewide emergency because of an ice storm that felled power poles and lines, leaving more than …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Yellowstone River streamflow gage one of oldest in the United States – Billings Gazette

Billings Gazette

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

Joe Soucheray: Are we headed for another ‘Year Without Winter’? It’s too soon to tell

Pioneer Press

The Yellowstone caldera blowing up would result in a climate crisis, but that wouldn’t be man-made now, would it? According to the Minnesota …

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #495 (12/29/2023)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

DEC 29, 2023

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PG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant at Avila Beach on the California Coast

LLAW’s THOUGHTS TONIGHT:

What is it about PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric Company) that makes them by far the most dangerous utility power company on the planet? — yes this is the same outfit that has caused so much damage in California, and other border states for what seems like forever — burning down cities, poisoning the inhabitants of a city, blowing up cities — the list of critical death-filled mistakes, fabrications, and careless operations has bankrupted them multiple times over the years, yet here they are being approved to extend the operating life of the only commercial nuclear power plant still operating in California, outrageously being permitted to continue for five more years after its scheduled shutdown and mothballing in 2025 and, as a bonus, given billions of operating dollars to do so by both the U.S. government and the State of California.

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Now, just this morning, the city of San Francisco and surrounds woke up to a no-power morning from PG&E. My own phone was entirely filled with articles, columns, emergency warnings, outraged businesses and private citizens alike . . . (and I live a few hundred miles east in Nevada near the California border, llolloll!) I took screenshot after screenshot of the public outrage, not bothering to read any details because who wants to wake up to a world full of anger the very first thing in the morning. But, I thought, “here we go again . . .”

I have written several opinion pieces here on “All Things Nuclear”, including an expansive report on all the the disasters, tears, human and property damage, and outrage PG&E has done over the years, wondering all the while why the company is still allowed to operate — especially with an extremely controversial West Coast nuclear power plant that the entire United States of America, Canada, and including California itself is downwind from. The nuclear power plant, located at Avila Beach in southern California, which has been known to have radiation-leaking cracks in the reactor walls and is well past its ability to remain safe (if it ever was), and to be allowed to continue operating for 5 extended years because California needs all the power it can get is beyond irresponsible. And, as I said, both California and the United States governments have endorsed the extension and given the company with the worst reputation in the history of public utilities ever a huge cash bonus to spread their potential treachery for 5 more years.

Thousands upon thousands of people in San Francisco surrounding cities, businesses, were without power for most of the day and some still are. PG&E said the power failure was because of an incoming storm, but the storm had not even arrived when multiple cities lost power in the greater Bay Area, I will leave it up to PG&E and you to answer the questions, but PG&# routinely lies about what went wrong — although they have routinely been caught in the act and have paid the consequences of damage and death over an over and over again.

I normally wouldn’t make such a big to-do about a huge (reason unknown) outage like this one, but PG&E has been on my nuclear watch for several years now, and I have no intention of ignoring any of their spine-tingling, corrupt, dangerous, and erratic ways of doing business. Their nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon should be shut down as scheduled, because if it isn’t there will, no doubt, be “Hell” to pay . . . ~llaw


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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (12/28/2023):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

The Air Force said its nuclear missile capsules were safe. But toxins lurked, documents show

Orlando Sentinel

“We can all pretend to not know, because knowing is really hard,” Doreen Jenness said. “Knowing and doing something about it is even harder. Now, 23 …

The Air Force said its nuclear missile capsules were safe. But documents and reports of …

WWNY

“We can all pretend to …

AP Investigation: Toxins Lurked in Nuclear Missile Capsules – VOA News

VOA News

“We can all pretend to not know, because knowing is really hard,” Doreen Jenness said. “Knowing and doing something about it is even harder. Now, 23 …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Good news, and nuclear fight: 2023 in EU energy and environment – Euractiv

Euractiv

Last minute, Paris also won recognition for low-carbon hydrogen produced from nuclear electricity. In March, France did the smart thing and launched a …

Top “Nuclear Explained” Reads in 2023 | IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

1 What are Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)?. Amidst nuclear energy making history at COP28 and discussions about its role in addressing climate change, …

South Carolina nuclear plant’s cracked pipes get downgraded warning from nuclear officials

San Diego Union-Tribune

The plant runs pressurized water heated by uranium fuel through a steam generator. A different loop of steam powers the turbine that makes electricity …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Most Read War On The Rocks Articles of 2023

War on the Rocks

At this time last year, the world was concerned about Russian nuclear weapons use in Ukraine, even while many believed that the Russian leadership was …

It’s five minutes past midnight in Armageddon – The Hill

The Hill

It takes just five times that amount of uranium, enriched to 90 percent, to sustain a nuclear chain reaction for one nuclear bomb. … War III against …

Israel-Hamas war: Iran accelerating nuclear program | LiveNOW from FOX – YouTube

YouTube

UCI Assistant Professor and Israel Institute Fellow Dr. Alon Burstein speaks with LiveNOW’s Austin Westfall. Subscribe to LiveNOW from FOX!

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

South Carolina nuclear plant’s cracked pipes get downgraded warning from officials

ABC News

… cracks discovered in a backup emergency fuel line at a South Carolina nuclear plant northwest of the state capital.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Toxic dangers lurked in U.S. nuclear missile capsules, documents show – CTV News

CTV News

… nuclear threats · Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons. “The workplace is free of health hazards,” a Dec. 30, 2001 …

Existential risks to Israel | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva

Arutz Sheva

… dangers of an unintentional nuclear war. Such potentially existential … nuclear threats against its still non-nuclear adversary in Tehran. The …

Would Hawaii Survive a Nuclear War? – EnergyPortal.eu –

EnergyPortal.eu –

Nuclear Threats: Hawaii’s remoteness and limited strategic value make it … While the threat of a nuclear war is a terrifying prospect, Hawaii’s …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Entitled tourist sparks outrage online after venturing off designated boardwalk: ‘I yelled at …

The Cool Down

… Yellowstone Caldera or a “smaller heat source” closer to the Mammoth Terraces. But that isn’t an invitation to go closer to the hot springs to try …

Plant Health Provides Early Signs Of Volcanic Unrest, Study Says | Nature World News

Nature World News

With considerable carbon dioxide emissions, Yellowstone has a sizable and active caldera system-a massive depression created by a volcano’s eruption …

Navan actor Brosnan in hot water over Yellowstone trip – LMFM

LMFM

… Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Sitting atop an active volcanic calderaYellowstone is home to more geological hydrothermal features (geysers …

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #494 (12/28/2023)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

DEC 28, 2023

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LLAW’s THOUGHTS TONIGHT:

As the history of our “modern” world comes to its annual trip around out life-giving sun carrying tons of unnecessary dangerous baggage for unnecessary reasons in every nook and cranny of our day-to-day lives I can only wish us all a better way of life for the coming trip. We all know what to do, so ought we not do it?

How we fare is, so far as I know, apparently entirely up to us, and eventually our errant ways will come to a final end one way or another. That is our destiny, so my thoughts are always on our insane worldly tendency to always add more nasty baggage to our trip every time around instead of sensibly shedding it as we go from our day-to-day lives. We all know what needs to be done, so what keeps us from doing it?

We all know what the baggage contains, so why do we keep it? Why do we hoard it? One day soon, when the sun sets on that final opportunity we had to set our collective human lives in order, we will rue the memories of the chances we allowed to slip away from us because humanity had its “golden” opportunity and literally allowed it all to consume us, taking along with us all other kinds of innocent life in the overburdened wake of our baggage. ~llaw


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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (12/28/2023):

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Putin Ally Brags About Escalating Russia’s Nuclear Threat – Newsweek

Newsweek

Former presidential adviser Sergei Karaganov defended his comments made in June calling for nuclear strikes on the West.

Iran’s Nuclear Escalation Worries US as Tensions Mount – Newsweek

Newsweek

“Iran’s nuclear escalation is all the more concerning at a time when … Iravani also dismissed talk from Israeli officials about wanting to eliminate …

Low-Flying Helicopters Will Monitor Any Nuclear Threat In Las Vegas This Weekend

Forbes

… about how this special group monitors for potential nuclear threats. … All Rights Reserved. AdChoices; Privacy Statement · Do Not Sell My Personal …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

The U.S. wants to triple worldwide nuclear energy; what could that mean for the Carolinas?

WSOC TV

CHARLOTTE — In the Carolinas, every time we flip a switch, turn on the AC, or run our laundry, we have nuclear power to thank.

The U.S. wants to triple worldwide nuclear energy; what could that mean for the … – Yahoo News

Yahoo News

In the Carolinas, every time we flip a switch, turn on the AC, or run our laundry, we have nuclear power to thank. Representing about a third of …

Ukraine war: How worried should we be about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant?

YouTube

It’s Europe’s largest nuclear power plant – and it’s situated on the frontline of the Ukraine war. It is difficult to imagine a worse place for …

How worried should we be about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant? – Facebook – Facebook

Full Coverage

Nuclear War

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Kim Jong Un calls to ‘accelerate’ war preparations following ‘confrontation moves’ from the US

The Hill

… nuclear weapons and civil defence sectors to further accelerate the war preparations,” according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). These …

North Korea Ramps Up Preparations for War With US – Newsweek

Newsweek

North Korea is putting its munitions industry and nuclear weapons sector on a war footing, following months of raised tensions with the U.S. and …

North Korea’s Kim wants to ‘accelerate’ war preparations – DW

DW

Kim asked the party to “further accelerate the war preparations” across sectors such as nuclear weapons and civil defense, the Korean Central News …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Nuclear plant sirens’ quarterly testing happens first of January – Port City Daily

Port City Daily

… NUCLEAR.DUKE-ENERGY Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant (Courtesy Duke Energy) … If it were an emergency, the Emergency Alert System (EAS) messages …

nuclearpowered ship in Murmansk started to burn. Only few locals got to know about the …

The Barents Observer

… Emergency Situations (Emercom). The first message posted at 21.17 pm … Rosatom, the state nuclear power company that operates the Sevmorput, has …

Abu Dhabi opens new emergency rescue points across the emirate – The National

The National

… nuclear plant · UAE and UK join forces to seize nuclear power’s moment · The Dubai Metro has been a phenomenal success since it began carrying …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Demron By RST – Advanced Protection Against Today’s Nuclear Threats | MENAFN.COM

menafn

In today’s world, where the threat of nuclear incidents has become increasingly prevalent, Demron’s role is more critical than ever. Its ability to …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Satellite images reveal plants know when a volcano is about to erupt – Interesting Engineering

Interesting Engineering

Yellowstone is a large and dynamic caldera system (a large depression formed when a volcano erupts and collapses) and emits significant carbon dioxide …

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #493 (12/27/2023)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

DEC 27, 2023

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The illustrator Jack Bender and the writer Carole Bender signed off in their last strip last weekend.

LLAW’s THOUGHTS TONIGHT:

So tonight, and I suppose, till the end of this week there will be dozens of year-end media recaps of 2023’s trek through the days of fear, anger, confusion, random lies, dissolving paper agreements once more or less honored among nations, and, worst of all, an international move toward a silly belief that nuclear power is the way to solve our problem with greenhouse gasses that is far more dangerous on a day-to-day basis than the affects of global warming, climate change, and foreclosure of life ever thought of being? We are making a huge mistake by believing this never-ending, never scientifically harshly derided, ignorantly always promoted and often believed by those listening to commercial industry propaganda, that nuclear power is the darling of the future. We could live so long . . .

And yet we are doing so at a time of nuclear unrest full of war threats that include the use of existing nuclear power plants, their waste, and their reactors as weapons of mass destruction — exactly like their big brother arsenals – the nuclear bombs – of a possible, if not probable, WWIII. And, once (or ounce) again, why do we think that uranium (the fuel for all things nuclear) is anything different than all other fossil fuels when it all comes from the same source as the the other other environmental 5th Extinction elements? Someone knew what they needed to do to purify this beautiful planet Earth in order to prosper for themselves. Who could it be back then? Could it have been us seeking habitable life — the very same ones who’ve lost our way? ~llaw


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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (12/24/2023):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

How this man blew up a Russian nuclear missile | Donald Jensen – YouTube

YouTube

… Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a major milestone in ending the Cold War … THINGS FIRST. First Things First New 27K views · 20:34 · Go to channel …

Tokyo court holds only utility responsible to compensate Fukushima evacuees

The Portland Press Herald

Fukushima nuclear plant will start releasing treated radioactive water into sea. Japan Nuclear. Business … All Rights Reserved | Press Herald. Some …

Iran triples output of near-weapons grade nuclear fuel – Semafor

Semafor

It’s not all about China. Source icon. Sources: Channel News Asia. Despite all the headlines about China defining Taiwan’s election, other, more …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

World’s biggest nuclear plant in Japan to resume path towards restart – Reuters

Reuters

Japan’s nuclear power regulator on Wednesday lifted an operational ban it imposed on Tokyo Electric Power’s massive Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant …

The nuclear year in review: A renewed interest in nuclear weapons—for and against

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Russian and Ukrainian officials making decisions about the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant are challenged by a complex safety and security profile, …

Japan Lifts Operational Ban on Fukushima Nuclear Plant Owners – VOA News

VOA News

FILE – Seawater transfer pumps of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are seen during a treated water dilution and discharge facility tour for …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Doomsday Nuclear Clock 2024 Gets Reset as Weapons Fears Rise – Newsweek

Newsweek

The clock was set to 17 minutes to midnight—the farthest it has ever been set—in 1991 following the culmination of the Cold War and the signing of the …

The nuclear year in review: A renewed interest in nuclear weapons—for and against

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

… nuclear weapons, practically speaking, have no military value on the battlefield. Nearly two years into the war, however, the risk of nuclear …

Iran’s Nuclear Escalation Worries US as Tensions Mount – Newsweek

Newsweek

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have escalated since the Israel-Hamas war began following the Palestinian militant group’s October 7 attack.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Nuclear power plant watchdog group applauds Markey, Warren letter | Local News

The Daily News of Newburyport

AMESBURY — Concerned about potential increased risks with plant owner NextEra’s proposal to decrease and relocate emergency response staff, …

Feds back away from harsh rating of SC nuclear plant, but will keep an eye on it – The State

The State

… atomic reactor during an emergency. Without cooling water, reactor cores can overheat and release radiation. In an email to The State this week …

Japan lifts operational ban on world’s biggest nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture

Japan Today

Tokyo Electric Power Co’s Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant … At Fukishima they put emergency cooling equipment AT sea level to save money.

Nuclear War Threats

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Doomsday Nuclear Clock 2024 Gets Reset as Weapons Fears Rise – Newsweek

Newsweek

… nuclear threats from Russia. The clock was set to 17 minutes to midnight … Global nuclear war, which was the main threat during the Cold War, is …

Iran ratchets up uranium enrichment following threats against Israel

New York Post

Iran ratchets up uranium enrichment following threats against Israel. By … Copy. Filed under. iran · israel · Israel war 2023 · middle east · Nuclear …

South Korea sanctions North Korean spy chief over illicit cyber activities – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

North Korea has recently ramped up its nuclear and military threats … Kim said last week that Pyongyang would not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack …

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #492 (12/26/2023)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

DEC 26, 2023

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LLAW’s THOUGHTS TONIGHT:

I have a question. When we achieve nuclear fusion, but outside a laboratory, such as we apparently did this December inside the laboratory of the Livermore Labs in California, what will we do with it? As this video happens to mention early on, “What could possibly go wrong?” This video will help you to understand the futility of it all.~llaw

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/j2WOp4hIcYk?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

Mostly and realistically, this is pie-in-the-sky and will never become commercially viable nor will it solve our existing environmental problems for unpredictable human lifetimes into the future. We already know we are incapable of dealing with fission as practical manner, so what makes us think we can learn to control fusion, which functions in the same manner as our sun. Somehow, I don’t think we are quite there yet, and of course Einstein and Oppenheimer knew that and that we had already gone too far with the Manhattan Project . . . Caged in a laboratory, such experiments may be ‘almost’ safe, but what happens when we turn it loose, either accidentally or purposefully, upon ourselves? ~llaw


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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (12/24/2023):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Best of 2023: Oliver Stone on Putin, nuclear power and being an outsider – City A.M.

City A.M.

Trillions of dollars have been invested in solar and wind and hydropower. Everything possible is being discussed, except for nuclear. We had Davos …

Tokyo court only holds utility responsible to compensate Fukushima evacuees and reduces damages

Washington Post

A Tokyo court has held only the operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant responsible for paying damages to dozens of …

Belarus leader says Russian nuclear weapons shipments are completed, raising … – WROC TV

WROC TV

How concerned are you, if at allabout thefts in your area? How concerned are you, if at allabout thefts in your area? Very concerned; Somewhat …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Global First Generation IV Nuclear Power Plant Co-Constructed by Shanghai Electric Enters …

Newswire.ca

CNW/ — The world’s first nuclear power plant project equipped with Gen IV nuclear power technology – Shidaowan High-Temperature Gas-Cooled …

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India, Russia sign deal for future units at nuclear power plant | Reuters

Reuters

India said on Tuesday it had signed agreements with Russia for future units of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in the southern state of Tamil …

Tokyo court only holds utility responsible to compensate Fukushima evacuees and reduces … – NY1

NY1

A Tokyo court has held only the operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant responsible for paying damages to dozens of …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Putin Moved His Nuclear Weapons – Newsweek

Newsweek

Russian President Vladimir Putin moved some of his tactical nuclear weapons this week amid the war with Ukraine. Belarus President Alexander …

Belarus leader says Russian nuclear weapons shipments are completed, raising concern in …

AP News

Russian troops based in Belarus invaded Ukraine from the north in the war’s opening days, but Belarusian forces are not known to have participated,.

Russia has completed delivery of nuclear weapons to Belarus, Lukashenko says – UPI.com

UPI

President Vladimir Putin of Russia announced in March that short-ranged land-based tactical nuclear weapons would be station in Belarus, amid its war …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Ko Wen-je criticizes DPP, KMT plans for Taiwan’s nuclear power | 2023-12-26 20:24:00

Taiwan News

… nuclear power, the plants will be maintained for use during emergencies. Ko questioned the possibility of turning the nuclear power plants on and …

Queensland emergency services received more than 600 calls | Watch – MSN

MSN

Russian only nuclearpowered icebreaker transport ship Sevmorput caught fire late on 24 December 2023. Panic in the Arctic as mystery fire breaks …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Putin Moved His Nuclear Weapons – Newsweek

Newsweek

… threats from Poland, a member of NATO, amid Moscow’s war with Ukraine. Newsweek reached out to the Russian and Belarusian Ministries of Foreign …

Iran sends chilling threat to Israel after top official dies in airstrike: ‘You will pay!’ | World

Daily Express

Proxy terror groups across the Middle East have ramped up their threats … uk nuclear war china taiwan ww3. UK hit with chilling nuclear warning over …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

How Yellowstone National Park’s thermal features get their names – Idaho Capital Sun

Idaho Capital Sun

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. SUPPORT NEWS YOU …

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #491 (12/25/2023)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

DEC 25, 2023

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LLAW’s THOUGHTS and OPINIONS TONIGHT:

Just a few more stories tonight than I’d expected on a Christmas day, and such stories as the one about using nuclear rockets to destroy incoming asteroids makes me laugh with sarcasm. Sounds like a great script for a new Michael Crichton movie, llolloll! If the dinosaurs had had that capability, we humans would never have evolved only to find that nuclear radiation was was what killed them off and that their demise allowed us to arrive and eventually get to know all about nuclear radiation causing the 5th Extinction. With our ‘tinkering’ help, of course, the same could be the reason for the coming 6th Extinction. Where did we get the laughable idea that we are intelligent enough to control “All Things Nuclear”? We don’t even know what to do with our nuclear power plant waste, much less how to control such things as nuclear weapons, fusion, and fission . . .

My largest issue of concern, as always, is to consider the power of “All Things Nuclear” to be our friend, ally, and savior, when, in fact it is exactly the opposite. We have no idea what we are doing with such an element that arrived here by accident in the first place . . . ~llaw


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  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 (12/25/2023):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

The best multimedia stories of 2023 – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

… Nuclear Emergency Support Team that is trained to run straight at nuclear danger. … All rights reserved. Terms of UsePrivacy Policy. 1307 East 60th …

UPDATE 1-Fire briefly breaks out on Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker – Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance

Earlier, the ministry said that the fire broke out in one of the cabins of the Sevmporput ship in an area of about 30 square meters (323 square feet).

Scientists considering using nuclear explosions to stop asteroids, new study shows

The National Desk

… ALL PHOTOS. View All Photos. FILE – This … “I just had people holding my hands and thinking about things before I could process it,” Racheal said.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Russia says fire has been put out on nuclearpowered cargo ship | Reuters

Reuters

Russia said on Monday that emergency workers had put out a fire on a Soviet-era nuclearpowered cargo-icebreaker ship and the state company which …

Scientists developed portable nuclear reactor with amazing feature: ‘Transformative for our …

Yahoo

For reference, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported in 2012 that a single megawatt of capacity for a conventional power plant produces energy …

Ky. lawmakers draft legislation for nuclear power recommendations – Hoptown Chronicle

Hoptown Chronicle

Kentucky lawmakers are taking steps to bring nuclear power to the state, but the process won’t be quick.

Nuclear War

NEWS

Able Archer: How NATO vs. Russia Nuclear World War III Almost Started?

The National Interest

Few in the West initially knew how close we may have come to a nuclear war, yet, it was only a week later that the Soviet Minister of Defense warned …

Fire breaks out on Russian nuclear ship Sevmorput but is quickly extinguished, authorities say

AP News

All Rights Reserved. Israel-Hamas war · Manchester United sale · Santa Tracker · Christmas day store openings · NFL · World News … MOSCOW (AP) — …

Fire breaks out on Russian nuclear ship Sevmorput but is quickly extinguished, authorities say

The Washington Post

WorldWar In Ukraine Africa Americas Asia Europe Middle East. Fire breaks … The 260-meter (830-foot) Sevmorput is the only nuclear cargo ship in …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Fire breaks out on Russian nuclear ship Sevmorput but is quickly extinguished, authorities say

The Boston Globe

Russia’s emergencies ministry says a fire broke out on a nuclearpowered container ship and icebreaker in the northern port of Murmansk but was …

Fire on Russian nuclearpowered icebreaker extinguished –emergency ministry

Yahoo Finance

A fire that broke out on a Russian nuclearpowered icebreaker in the Murmansk region was extinguished, the local branch of Russia’s emergency …

Russian NuclearPowered Cargo Ship Catches Fire in Arctic – The Moscow Times

The Moscow Times

Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said it had dispatched crews to vessel manager Atomflot’s base outside the Arctic city of Murmansk late on …

Nuclear War Threats

NEW

US facing a ‘very challenging threat environment’: Lisa Monaco – YouTube

YouTube

President Biden to Vladimir Putin on threat of nuclear war: Don’t | 60 Minutes … FBI recording increase in war related threats | 3 things to know.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 24, 2023 | Critical Threats

Critical Threats

… war “until the final victory.”[1] Borrell reported on December 24 that … [71] Ukrainian nuclear energy operator Energoatom reported on November …

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #490 (12/24/2023)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

DEC 24, 2023

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LLAW’s OPINION TONIGHT:

We have a very short index of Nuclear News for tonight’s Christmas eve, and I fully understand why that is. I would expect the same for Christmas Day! I see that even an article from the Black Hills Pioneer of South Dakota — a story something about cookies or cookie cutters — made it. I decided to leave it in, but didn’t sign in . . . We are all due for a rest! After all, it may be a timely and well-told story, and I will have a look at it later . . . Merry Christmas to everyone around the globe! ~llaw


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  1. All Things Nuclear
  2. Nuclear Power
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  4. Nuclear Power Emergencies
  5. Nuclear War Threats
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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (12/24/2023):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Scramble for uranium supplies on new nuclear Silk Road – The Telegraph

The Telegraph

… (about 454,000 tonnes) of the metal, equivalent to roughly half of all global supplies if production remained static. Other factors are pushing up …

Nuclear power’s future opposed by some progressive groups | National – Watauga Democrat

Watauga Democrat

… (The Center Square) – One nuclear power plant can produce the same amount of electricity as 2077 wind turbines … All About Women · HighCountryNC …

Nuclear power’s future opposed by some progressive groups | National World News | bhpioneer.com

Black Hills Pioneer

Dorene N. German Kuchen · There are so many things we love about this Christmas cookie cutout recipe. … Select All / None. CAPTCHA. Create Account.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Nuclear power’s future opposed by some progressive groups | National | elpasoinc.com

El Paso Inc.

(The Center Square) – One nuclear power plant can produce the same amount of electricity as 2077 wind turbines. And some of the larger wind …

US expresses serious concern over signs of NK commissioning light-water reactor

The Korea Times

The United States has expressed serious concern over North Korea showing signs of starting the operation of a new light-water nuclear reactor in a …

Nuclear Made Historical Entry Into Energy Transition At COP28 – The Independent Uganda

The Independent Uganda

Uganda aims to reach net zero emissions in the energy sector by 2065. Uganda plans to have its first 2000-megawatt nuclear power plant running by the …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Satellite photos reveal China’s terrifying nuclear plans | news.com.au

News.com.au

… nuclear weapons to bully China, as it did during the Korean War and the Taiwan Straits crises in the 1950s,” Guo concludes. Nuclear arms race.

Russia Tried to Build a Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier (What a Mess)

The National Interest

… nuclear-powered aircraft carrier … Print. December 23, 2023 Topic: military Region: Europe Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: RussiaAircraft CarriersCold War …

Express readers reach verdict on Britain’s defence as Putin threatens World War III

Daily Express

After noting his men and women are “paying the highest price”, Mr Zelensky added: “We are fighting for real with a nuclear state that threatens to …

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #489 (12/23/2023)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

DEC 23, 2023

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LLAW’s THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS TONIGHT:

Okay, now after two nights of fairytales and mysterious dreams about somehow saving the world from ourselves, it is time to return to reality and face the world(s) of nuclear war threats, propaganda fabrications, proposed mayhem and chaos that I call the insanity of “All Things Nuclear”. And, truth be known, the imaginary world of the past and future is no more clear than todays lies, threats, and rumors of world war and/or atmospheric extinction.

But first, there is this: “NASA Has a $3.5bn Plan to Save the Planet From the Yellowstone Supervolcano”, and at the same time harness supervolcano energy that could support human energy needs for thousands of years to come. Could it be the 2nd step in using the world’s geothermal energy to entirely do away with both fossil fuels’ CO2/GHG asphyxiation extinction program and/or the uranium/nuclear radiation poisoning extinction program. The 1st step (as I have written about on these Posts several times) has already been taken by science that proves that such a world-wide enterprise, with Yellowstone as the creator/savior, is more than just feasible, but, compared to all other proposed human “fixes” easily, cleanly, and cheaply accomplished. The entire world of futuristic energy developers, including the entire commercial energy business itself should be stumbling all over themselves getting in line to help save themselves and us from an uninhabited dead planet that we have already been facing with no progress for far too long. ~llaw

And it comes with cheap electricity.

Earth & Energy/ NASA/ Volcanic Eruption/ Yellowstone

Philippe Bourseiller/Getty

Image by Philippe Bourseiller/Getty

YELLOWSTONE

Scientists at NASA have developed a hugely ambitious strategy to counter the looming threat of an apocalyptic supereruption from the Yellowstone Caldera.

Against such a backdrop, NASA has been working on a plan to counter this potentially far off but ultimately inevitable circumstance, which could be graver than even the nightmare scenario of a planet-devastating asteroid strike.

“I was a member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defence which studied ways for NASA to defend the planet from asteroids and comets,” researcher Brian Wilcox from the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told the BBC.

“I came to the conclusion during that study that the supervolcano threat is substantially greater than the asteroid or comet threat.”

As recently as 2011, NASA was downplaying the immediate risks of supereruptions, given the staggeringly long timeframes between which they occur – roughly every 100,000 to 1 million years.

This, a NASA guide explains, means that large-scale eruptions from supervolcanoes are “exceedingly rare and the odds that one will occur in the lifetime of anybody reading this article are vanishingly small”.

The good news is those reassuring odds still hold, but consider this: Yellowstone itself is thought to erupt once every 600,000 years or so, and it’s been about that long since its last supereruption.

While the chances of it exploding in any given year remain low, it’s clear we’re edging ever closer to its thermal crisis point.

Which is why scientists at NASA compiled an as yet unpublished report – largely unknown outside the space agency, but seen by the BBC and other media outlets.

Their research concludes that the most logical way to address the threat is to try to cool down the enormous magma chambers inside a supervolcano.

Yellowstone is thought to leak about 60–70 percent of the heat it generates into the atmosphere, released through the hot springs that populate Yellowstone National Park.

The remaining, unvented heat is trapped inside the supervolcano’s magma chambers, and if enough heat builds up, it can ultimately trigger an explosive supereruption.

EPIC COLD SHOWER

Fortunately, NASA thinks Yellowstone would only need to undergo a 35 percent heat reduction to avert such a catastrophe, and they’ve got an idea for how you could pull off this epic cold shower.

By drilling as far down as 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) deep inside Yellowstone, the space agency thinks it would be possible to pump high-pressure water down into the supervolcano – circulating cool water in, which would absorb scorching levels of heat before being pumped out again.

NASA estimates the piping hot water making the return trip to the surface would have a temperature of about 350 degrees Celsius (662 degrees Fahrenheit) – and there’s something pretty great we could do with all that supervolcanic heat.

“Through drilling in this way, it could be used to create a geothermal plant, which generates electric power at extremely competitive prices of around $0.10/kWh,” Wilcox explained to the BBC.

“[You would] get electricity which can power the surrounding area for a period of potentially tens of thousands of years. And the long-term benefit is that you prevent a future supervolcano eruption which would devastate humanity.”

So, the benefits are not only economic – they’re potentially planet-saving – but the estimated costs of building the project are almost as insurmountable as a supervolcano.

NASA puts the price tag for the infrastructure at about $3.46 billion, but as gargantuan as that fee is, it pales beside an even bigger potential drawback with the plan – which is if something goes wrong.

“If you drill into the top of the magma chamber and try and cool it from there, this would be very risky,” Wilcox said.

“This could make the cap over the magma chamber more brittle and prone to fracture. And you might trigger the release of harmful volatile gases in the magma at the top of the chamber which would otherwise not be released.”

In the worst case scenario, a botched effort to drill inside the supervolcano could hypothetically induce a supereruption, so humanity will have to tread very carefully if it intends to pursue a plan like the one NASA’s come up with.

It’s unclear quite where the strategy is up to, and whether NASA will be officially releasing their report in the near future.

At the very least, Wilcox and his fellow researchers hope that, by talking about their idea, it might encourage a serious scientific discussion around ways to mitigate the impending threat of supervolcanoes.

Because one thing’s for sure – these ancient, colossal time bombs aren’t going anywhere, and their clocks are ticking louder than ever.


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  2. Nuclear Power
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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (12/21/2023):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Lawmakers drafting legislation to create a Ky. nuclear authority following report recommendations

WKMS

“You hear nuclear, and the first thing people think of is Three Mile Island … Learn All About WKMS Vehicle Donation! Looking for Something to Do …

Will SMRs Launch a Nuclear Power Bull Market? – Energy and Capital

Energy and Capital

And when it comes to SMRs, it all boils down to the fuel that is required to run these things. In the case of SMRs, it’s called Tri-Fuel 238, and …

Biden administration unveils hydrogen tax credit plan to jump-start industry

Alabama Public Radio

All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM Marketplace. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … nuclear plant operators. Frank Wolak, the association’s president, said …

Nuclear War

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Scientists repeat nuclear fusion breakthrough 3 times | The Hill

The Hill

Federal scientists have repeated their breakthrough toward nuclear fusion energy three times this year — and now say they can “consistently” …

North Korea Potentially Operating New Nuclear Reactor—Here’s What To Know – Forbes

Forbes

North Korea’s potential building and operating of its nuclear reactor would be a violation of UN sanctions.

Nuclear energy in Europe: Who is for and against it and why? | Euronews

Euronews.com

Unlike solar and wind resources, nuclear energy plants operate independently without relying on the weather conditions. Nuclear energy can serve to be …

NEW

Scientists repeat nuclear fusion breakthrough three times | The Hill

The Hill

… nuclear fusion reaction for the first time. It later announced … Israel-Hamas War · The Hill on NewsNation. sponsored: Content from Wells …

UN suspects North Korea of building up nuclear arsenal | National – rrdailyherald.com

rrdailyherald.com

Nuclear Weapons · South Korea · Nuclear War · Missiles · Uranium · South Korean Military · Videoelephant · Facebook · Twitter · WhatsApp · SMS · Email …

Russia-Ukraine war live: frontline troops suffering from ‘exceptional levels of rat and mice infestation’

The Guardian

Troops from both sides suffering as a result of mild autumn and abundance of food for rodents, says UK intelligence.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Express readers reach verdict on Britain’s defence as Putin threatens World War III

Daily Express

Vladimir Putin has issued several threats against the West in recent months (Image: GETTY) … threatened to unleash nuclear war against the West.

North Korean Leader And Sister Issue Nuclear Threats Against US And South Korea

WE News –

… nuclear threats against the United States and South. … The North Korean leader warned of a potential nuclear attack if provoked by nuclear weapons …

As Russia Ramps Up ‘Traditional Values’ Rhetoric, It’s Won Putin Far-Right Fans Abroad

Religion Unplugged

… threats to their vision for society — and are not deterred by … After World War II, as Americans grappled with the looming threat of nuclear war …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Authorities Ask Tourists to Stop Flocking to Site of Volcanic Eruption – Futurism

Futurism

… Yellowstone Supervolcano featured image. Nasa Has a $3.5bn Plan to Save the Planet From the Yellowstone Supervolcano. 8. 25. 17. Read More.

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #488 (12/22/2023)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

DEC 22, 2023

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LLAW’s THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS TONIGHT:

To continue on with a bit more optimism than my pessimistic rant from last night, could it be that humanity might be rescued from our urge to annihilate ourselves? Do we know what other life is out there watching us fail? I have long felt that there is at least one, but perhaps more, similar or other human or human-like species , and of course there are many religions, sciences, philosophies, psychologies, and other human concepts tht have long believed that we are not alone.

There are lots of mindful and physical evidence that we are not alone in the universe, but do we know that whomever or whatever is out there has our best interests at heart? Or could they be looking for a planet of their own to inhabit without us and are only waiting for us to disappear into the sunset? I have some personal experiences reasons to believe that there is at least one kind of transcendent humanoid kind of life that sees some value in us and does not want to watch us destroy our own humanity. Tonight I will tell you just a little of what I believe that may well at least suspend our lemming-line path toward extinction . . . (Note that this “bearing” of the soul is linked to my decision from last night’s commentary to back away from a multitude of military, political, and scientific projects to save our collective selves, since most of it all is only perceived or imagined “what ifs”, or little more believable than describing it all in simple hopeful or wishful thinking and related fictional writings about the future of mankind. The fact is, no one knows the future and we ought to be sick and tired of living top-down propaganda-generated stories about how 30 or 50 years from now we will have succeeded in eliminating what ails us.)

Writing what I wrote last night made me feel a weakness in my own humanity that I had never felt before — at least for two full decades. It made me feel forlorn, or useless, or of no importance to my own human world. It let me know that humans cannot survive as a species without some kind of supervision from somewhere beyond what we know of the universe that we are a tiny part of.

I have, in years past, when I was studying Gnosticism and its relationships to and otherwise opposed to Christianity during which time I came to the conclusion that Christian and Muslim beliefs no longer exists without reasonable questions about authenticity, but that Gnosticism is not the perfect human future either, simply because we don’t know much about what we are talking about because, like in all religions the human hand is writing the stories. So my own concepts and thoughts are based on what they have to be: Fiction. Prophesy is fiction, plain and simple.

So the following is a summary of how my story came to be . . . Two or three times over two or three years (I do know how many, but will generalize here.) in the middle of deep sleep I imagined (or maybe actually experienced) a lovely goddess-like woman appear in my prison cell, or more accurately, a part of her, upside down penetrating, emanating, or somehow radiating through the concrete ceiling, her arms reaching down toward me, her body’s lower half hidden by the ceiling, telling me with a soft but firm English-speaking voice to learn about her and to follow her way in such a manner as the Gnostics described her. Not knowing until a couple of years later that I had no idea what she was talking about I began to write several novels about the feminine way and their desire to create a better human world. And I began to assimilate knowledge of Gnosticism and the feminine way, unsure of just what I was writing about or why until I had written six large related books, all by my own mysteriously guided hand.

After the night of Her final appearance some three years after Her first, a security guard unlocked my cell door and handed a small white, pink, and black paperback book to me, the title of which was “To Be a Woman” edited by someone named Connie Zweig. The book’s spine was broken and many pages were loose, but it seemed to be intact. The Correctional Officer said she had found it during the night lying on the concrete next to my cell door. By the end of that day I had a reasonable idea of what Gnosticism was supposed to be and how they related to the books I had written. At the end of the day I returned the book to what I assumed had been taken from the prison library, but was told by the librarian that there was no such book in the library and to just keep it.

During the following few weeks I had virtually memorized the content of the book and was amazed at how it dove-tailed with my own writings, all of which were all about Gnosticism, and then I was suddenly unexpectedly released from prison. I was thoroughly lost and confused when my attorney told me a few days later that I was no longer a prisoner, and she helped me move my belongings and my personal writings, taking them into her custody including that poor pathetic physically damaged book that had explicitly defined something to me that had never before existed as a title in my life. My lawyer had even rented an apartment for me to live. The entire episode was like a purposeful extension of that visit from an apparition that could penetrate concrete walls and speak with me.

The final time this strange visitation happened, months later, (identically in manner except the roof was not concrete), I began to pay attention, and I soon identified her as Sophia, the subject of that old broken-backed book. In later years when I had finished reading everything I could get my hands on about Sophia and what she stood for in regard to humanity, I began to feel that she was a real person reaching out to me (and maybe, for all I knew, thousands of others one at a time for her same reasons). I read all the Russian philosophy books about her, all the Gnostic stories, the “Gnostic Bible” and the “Nag Hammadi Library”, and all the mythology about her that I could find. And then I sat down and wrote about her – hundreds of pages of how and why she existed to save humanity. Her story was far from ‘divine’, but rather that of a compromised female voluntarily subjecting herself to the depths of humanity to learn what made us whatever we are, and to use her whorish experiences, derived from hubristic men of god, to learn to raise ourselves from ‘trash’ to the transcendent power of moral felicity, kindness, and togetherness that humanity was meant to be.

And then I wrote an entire novel about her, and how it was that the feminine way and higher races of humanity would eventually save us from ourselves. During my commentary last night I realized that without the help we need, we are not capable of saving our own kind, and we have proven it all by being the parasitic ruthless executioners that we are, killing off thousands of species in our wake, not to mention constantly attacking our own kind.

So from Her first visit on, I had written more books about man’s inhumanity to man, and all that writing makes up the other six modern day scenarios of novels I wrote by hand, my hand apparently being guided by a knowledge superior to my own. Yet I couldn’t find a way to end the story. I have searched for the final story since 2005, but it never came to me until I began to remember my own life’s background and my participation in the nuclear industry, and how it came to me that we were going to destroy ourselves unless someone from somewhere stepped up and forced us to become what the meaning of humanity was meant to be . . . I think now I have the final episode lodged in my brain and some of it already written — and it has to do with an unexplained power known by perhaps Einstein and Jung, and probably Tesla, and a few others, including some of it that the old-world Russian philosophers understood, and that much of the philosophical knowledge came from Sophia.

So the nuclear story will be a large part of the essence of my next book of fiction (because there is no other way to tell the story), and the others in between ‘Sweetwater’ and ‘El Nuclear Diablo’ will fill in the blanks and vacuums from what I believe radiation actually is and how it has been misunderstood from then to now and maybe on into forever. The presence of Her radiating through ceilings of concrete as if they were water has enthralled me since 2005 and that’s why I mentioned that date in my rant from last night . . . ~llaw


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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (12/21/2023):

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

ICBM Test May Soon Bring All of US Within North Korean Nuclear Range – VOA News

VOA News

“But there are other things that go into it as well,” such as whether it could reliably strike a far-distant target. The day Pyongyang launched the …

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un again threatens nuclear strike as he lauds troops for long-range …

FOX 13 Seattle

… all sorts of military provocations all year round.” The North’s latest … Things To Do · True Northwest · Submit your Weather Photo/Video · Pet Tricks …

North Korea Leader Warns of Nuclear Attack if Provoked | News | 2news.com

KTVN

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un is warning the U.S. and its allies of a nuclear attack if provoked. Facebook · Twitter · WhatsApp · SMS · Email …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

US unveils clean hydrogen plan, nuclear power role uncertain | Reuters

Reuters

That has concerned nuclear power producers looking to produce hydrogen using their virtually emissions-free electricity. Existing nuclear power is …

The National Ignition Facility Repeatedly Creates Fusion Ignition – Business Insider

Business Insider

It takes a lot of energy to power those lasers. When NIF … Right now nuclear reactors run on fission, the energy created when atoms split apart.

Second North Korean nuclear reactor appears to be using fuel, IAEA says | Reuters

Reuters

reactor at North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear complex appears for the first time to be using atomic fuel, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said late on …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Kim Jong Un warns he is prepared to nuke the US if he is ‘provoked’ – Daily Mail

Daily Mail

But Kim told his military’s missile bureau ‘not to hesitate (launching) even a nuclear attack when the enemy provokes it with nukes,’ Pyongyang’s …

North Korea’s Kim Warns of ‘Nuclear Attack‘ if Provoked with Nukes – VOA

VOA

North Korea said this week it had tested its newest ICBM on Monday to gauge the war readiness of its nuclear forces against mounting U.S. …

North Korea’s Kim warns of ‘nuclear attack‘ if provoked with nukes | The Business Standard

The Business Standard

North Korea tested its newest ICBM on Monday to gauge the war readiness of its nuclear forces.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Senators Markey and Warren Call for Strong Review of Proposed Changes to Emergency …

Senator Edward Markey

… emergency response facility and nuclear power plants managed by NextEra. As a result, communities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire that live …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

N. Korea’s Kim threatens tit-for-tat nuke attack if ‘provoked’ | Daily Sabah

Daily Sabah

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened tit-for-tat nuclear attacks if Pyongyang was ‘provoked with nukes,’ state media said Thursday. Kim’s…

Policy makers should plan for superintelligent AI, even if it never happens

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The threat. Traditional existential threats like nuclear or biological warfare can directly harm humanity, but artificial superintelligence could …

Kim Jong Un Threatens Nuclear Attack on U.S. If ‘Provoked’ Following American Bomber …

MSN

… threat against the country. Kim told state media Thursday, December 21, that he would not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. if his …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Mapping magma chambers under the Hunga volcano before and after the 2022 eruption

Phys.org

… volcano during the eruption, leading the caldera to collapse. The … More magma found below Yellowstone Caldera than expected. Dec 5, 2022.

LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #487 (12/21/2023)

”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

DEC 21, 2023

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LLAW’s THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS TONIGHT:

How it is that pawns will never rule the world(s) of humanity — as they should . . .

What to say about my thoughts tonight? I have no words that really fit. I spent several hours today contemplating discontinuing this nightly post because it is not moving forward as I once expected it to do. But when I learned tonight that the social security increase was just a miserable 3% for next year, I laughed and threw my personal notification into file 13. But then I got to thinking about all the aging people (and younger ones, too) who rely only on Social Security to live an actual reasonably livable lifestyle. And then I thought about all the other nations’ people on planet Earth who can’t or don’t support their citizens to the degree that we in America pretend to do, and wondered how anyone, including millions of Americans, can continue to survive if they are intentionally cut off from the ability to survive from a decent capitalistic money-driven life-style with no additional financial help from anywhere.

The simple answer that came to mind was, “They can’t.” And then I began to register the on-going, never-ending, latest news stories about street people living all over America in tents near downtown rivers and streams in order to even have the basic pretenses of life that no longer exists, and how local police departments are instructed to tear down their camps and force them to move on to somewhere else. Following those thoughts, I have been reading recently about residents of poor foreign countries, such as Bangladesh, where they are housed as captives by the millions in huge highly populated controlled communities, where they are fed and sheltered (I thought of cattle on a ranch), but never allowed to leave unless they escape.

It was then that I realized that planet Earth’s Mother Nature has lost Her capability to provide humanity with a way of life that forever in past ages has been gradually removed from Her help to a man-made controlling human way of help that is provided by the haves to administer to the have-nots, herding them together like cattle or other domestic animals, and allowing them to survive with only the necessary essentials. And that made me wonder, “For what reason?” These people are not prisoners for committing crimes against other humans, but they are controlled like they are. I thought of slavery, and even slavery, as horrifying as it is, does not fit. And finally I thought of what mankind has done to ourselves by rejecting nature’s way in favor of the ‘human way’, and when I felt the meaning of that emotion sweep over me I knew all the answers to my question.

They are the same answers that I have been writing about for months: We think we are smarter, more intelligent and ingenuous, and that Mother Nature has nothing left to offer us, the elite, in today’s world(s). So my fears of nuclear war or nuclear power plants or fossil fuel plants or the roundups of homeless people or imprisonment of common everyday law abiding citizens and our failing lifestyles for all in favor of the few awakened me with a realization that we are not all in this together, and that humanity is going to fail for failing to respect what nature’s world(s) have to offer . . . And that my pleas for “oneness” may well never happen because humanity has nothing to do with the meaning of humanity.

It all brought me back to my own sense of reality that I have been denying within even myself (but always recognizing), but only capturing that reality in many stories over the years that I have written about man’s inhumanity to man, mainly for just myself. Soon, though, I will be publishing a novel in two parts that provides an analogy on a small, but important, scale that demonstrates how mankind has greedily dismissed humanity for something one might call “superiority”, or “imperialism”, or maybe even “supremacy”, meaning that the poor pathetic ‘pawns’ of us should remain, always, the “useless, downtrodden, and underprivileged”.

So it is, that when I laughed about my annualized 3% increase in my social security compared to cost of living indices for housing and food as much as ten times that, and growing, that it occurred to me that if I had only my social security to live on, I could not live. And what about those who have no social security at all? There is no way that they can spend their days worrying about the cause of the coming 6th Extinction. In fact many of our species may very well welcome it. So, in my depression tonight, I have to say that my heartfelt wish for the ‘world(s) of humanity to join as ‘one’ will never happen.

But, even so, I am not giving up — only regressing to the messages from my heartfelt stories —and the first one you will be able to see and read tells you quite a lot about American human life in the late 1800s, and the one following that will tell you about what an overly optimistic post-nuclear world might look like from, say, 2005, on into the future. And, if there is still a future after that, there are six or seven other stories, within the historical reality of human nature, about man’s all-inclusive inhumanity to man, and how it all has to end someday whether for the better or for the worse . . . ~llaw


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

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

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

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

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(Just a reminder: When linked, the access to the media story will be underlined. If there is no link to a media story of interest you can still copy and paste the headline and lead line into your browser to find the article you are seeking. Hopefully this will never happen.)

TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (12/21/2023):

All Things Nuclear

NEW

Communicating with North Korea through faxes and phone calls | Michael Bosack – Ep. 321

YouTube

… all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts … Korea, U.S. hold nuclear talks to deter threats. Arirang News New 18K …

Nuclear energy makes a huge showing at worldwide climate summit – Deseret News

Deseret News

Again, if everything was to break simultaneously in this reactor, it would passively cool. It is very, very safe and gives you 15 years of power and …

In Response to Surging Prices, Supportive Government Policies, and a Domestic Focus on …

PR Newswire

Nuclear enjoys strong bipartisan support across the U.S. government. The current fleet of U.S. nuclear plants provides about 20% of all electricity in …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

France and Swedish plan nuclear cooperation

World Nuclear News

France and Sweden have signed a declaration of intent to develop long-term cooperation in the field of nuclear energy.

Nuclear energy makes a huge showing at worldwide climate summit – Deseret News

Deseret News

In the United States, nuclear power represents 18% of the country’s energy portfolio. Fossil fuels, which include natural gas, coal, petroleum and …

The DOE is set on “building bridges” to a fusion energy future – American Nuclear Society – American Nuclear Society

Full Coverage

Nuclear plant near Richland begins new 20-year operation | Tacoma News Tribune

The News Tribune

Columbia Generating Station, Northwest’s only nuclear power plant, completes initial 40-year operation, starts a new 20-year phase Thursday.

Nuclear War

NEWS

Explainer: How could North Korea use its nuclear weapons? – Reuters

Reuters

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said a missile test this week shows his country would not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if an enemy provokes …

North Korea’s Kim warns of ‘nuclear attack‘ if provoked with nukes -KCNA | Reuters

Reuters

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Pyongyang would not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if an enemy provokes it with nuclear weapons, …

Ex-CIA Analyst Says Putin Could Use a Nuclear Weapon on NATO – Business Insider

Business Insider

An ex-CIA analyst says Russia might risk nuclear war with NATO to prevail in their war with Ukraine. · Peter Schroeder says Putin has been “remarkably …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

One fifth of councils oppose clean energy projects despite declaring a climate emergency

Daily Express

A fifth of councils have opposed clean energy projects despite having declared a climate emergency. … Mammoth £20bn UK nuclear power station huge step …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

N. Korea’s Kim warns of ‘nuclear attack‘ if ‘provoked’ with nukes – France 24

France 24

… nuclear war provocative moves of the US”. Pyongyang sees drills by the … threats from someone,” she said, according to KCNA. “And the frequent …

Kim Jong Un warns of nuclear attack if provoked, despite warnings from US, South Korea

YouTube

Comments11 · Kim Jong Un reacts to Trump’s UN speech · India Deploys Warships to Red Sea Amid Houthi Threat | Vantage with Palki Sharma · North Korea’s …

N. Korea’s Kim warns of ‘nuclear attack‘ if ‘provoked’ with nukes – Yahoo News

Yahoo News

The two Koreas are at a “peak of escalating rhetoric and pre-emptive strike threats,” Yang Moo-jin, president of the University of North Korean …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

These Are the 10 Oldest National Parks in America – A-Z Animals

A-Z Animals

Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. View of the caldera of the Kilauea volcano, the most active of the five volcanoes … Yellowstone National Park.

Krakatau Volcano (Sunda Strait) – Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for …

Volcano Discovery

Yellowstone quakes · Latest earthquakes under Yellowstone volcano. List and interactive map of current and past earthquakes near Yellowstone volcano.