LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #452 (11/16/2023)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

NOV 16, 2023

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LLAW’s COMMENTARY: (How to Create a Dystopian Doomsday)

A nuclear world means a dystopian world, and it won’t take a nuclear war to make it that way, but no doubt militaries with nuclear weapons of mass destruction will be a part of the “action”. Failed aged and broken nuclear power plants will, sooner or later, make it that way, even if some of them aren’t even o the drawing table yet, because there are already plenty of them to do the job.

Leaking radioactivity from cracked housing for reactors, improper storage of nuclear waste cast aside like old tires because there is nowhere to safely store the waste will never go away, but rather just grow until we haul it to the nuclear dump landfill or dump it in the ocean (which is already underway in the case of Japan’s dead Fukushima power plant), and most of all, nuclear accidents caused by human error or AI fervor (or both) will help make it that way. And we think we are smart enough to build nuclear power plants safely in outer space! And, oh yes, there are all the nuclear armed militaries chomping at the bit for WWIII in order to blow one-anothers’ countries and their civilian inhabitants to an uninhabitable radioactive dust in the wind where no one could survive after such a war, whether they were involved in such a war or not. The concept of a nuclear WWIII is like something called “global genocide”.

From their very conception, engineering design, nuclear safety standards, federal approval, plant and reactor construction, more federal approval handling of nuclear fuel, and final federal approval, along with the startup and operation of any nuclear power plant is far different and far more serious than any other non-nuclear process of construction on the planet. When a similar plant of a non-nuclear or fossil fuel power plant goes awry at any stage, including as late as after years of operation, the problem can be dealt with and the fix will likely (at their customers’ cost) be successful; with nuclear (radioactive) power plants the opposite is true. Nuclear power plants are death machines waiting to happen – and the danger goes far beyond the physical location of the plant. A plant in California could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people and other life somewhere back East, for instance. And the failures are already happening, have been happening for dozens of years, and they will continue to happen. The more we build, the more will fail. More than 700 nuclear facilities have been decommissioned, shut down, or failed since the mid-1950s and, as I say, the more we build, the more failed and dangerous nuclear power plants we will have. Are we on a self-imposed doomsday mission, and just too stupid, ignorant, or lazy to recognize that we have a problem?

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Climate change and global warming are bad enough, and CO2 may kill us before uranium does, or maybe they will do it together, but either way our lack of care, concern, and inattention has us headed straight along the proverbial lemming trail leading us over the precipice to our forever deaths. How can we be so lethargic as to not even try to save our own lives? ~llaw

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS:

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

The growing evidence of North Korean weapons trade with Russia – Ep. 315 – YouTube

YouTube

… About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot (@JaccoZed) exclusively for NK News, covering all things …

New Report: US Must Modernize Nuclear Posture for Tri-Polar World

Air & Space Forces Magazine

China has built up its nuclear weapons stockpile at a pace that is … At the same time, Kyl told lawmakers that in all nuclear systems, and …

CNTA names winner of 2023 Nuclear Service Award | Aiken Area News – Post and Courier

Post and Courier

His dedicated service extended beyond the site’s boundaries to our community’s classrooms where he championed all things nuclear to the rising …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Sweden plans new nuclear reactors by 2035, will share costs – Reuters

Reuters

Energy Minister Ebba Busch said the government was planning a “massive build out” of new nuclear power by 2045. “It’s decisive for the green …t

how modelling is unlocking the potential of nuclear power – – Queen Mary University of London

– Queen Mary University of London

But radioactive waste from nuclear power plants has been one of the most significant environmental challenges of recent decades. Spent fuel from …

Broken turbine blades cause shutdown at Russian nuclear plant – Reuters

Reuters

Russia’s state nuclear power corporation has reported that turbine blades broke at a plant where the company has installed two reactors of a type …

Nuclear War

NEWS

‘Devastating’ impact: Nuclear war in US would wipe out 300 million, report says

The Times of India

US News: A report in Scientific American warns of the catastrophic consequences of a nuclear attack on the United States, with an estimated 300 …

Ukraine-Russia war – latest: Poll reveals much of world doesn’t have same view of war as West

Sky News

North Korea is specifically after a military satellite and its own nuclear weapons programme. Today there has been potential progress on this, as …

Flag as irrelevanNuclear war in the US would wipe out 300 MILLION: New models reveal the ‘devastating …

Daily Mail

nuclear attack on the United States’ missile silos would blow radioactive fallout to every state and parts of Mexico and Canada, killing more …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Radiological Health – Iowa Department of Health and Human Services

Iowa Department of Health and Human Services

nuclear power plant accident, a nuclear explosion or a dirty bomb are examples of radiation emergencies. During a radiation emergency, the goal is …

A new climate emergency emerges in adaptation finance needs – Frontline – The Hindu

Frontline – The Hindu

A new climate emergency emerges in adaptation finance needs. The latest … nuclear power plant. In a work published recently in the journal …

Myanmar orders civil servants, ex-military to prepare for emergencies – Inquirer.net

Inquirer.net

The military ruled Myanmar with an iron fist for 50 years after seizing power … nuclear energy‘. MOST READ. Camilon case: Cop exec says sorry to PNP …

Nuclear War Threats

NEW

On NATO’s Arctic front line, watching Russia’s nuclear threat | The Hill

The Hill

… threats and naivete about Moscow. “It might be hard to … Tags NATO nuclear threat Russia-Norway border Russia-Ukraine war ukraine Vladimir Putin …

Doomsday Clock Nears Midnight as Global Tensions and Nuclear Threats Escalate

nbcrightnow.com

… War, its purpose was to highlight the perils of nuclear weapons. However, its scope has expanded to include the threat of climate change since 2007.

Doomsday Clock Nears Midnight as Global Tensions and Nuclear Threats Escalate | National

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Current status of Yellowstone volcano – is it due to erupt? – NationalWorld

NationalWorld

Yellowstone Caldera, commonly known as Yellowstone Supervolcano, has been subject to constant apocalyptic speculation over its eruption date. Even …

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