LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #619, Friday, (05/03/2024)

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

MAY 04, 2024

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LLAW’s NUCLEAR ISSUES & COMMENTS, Friday, (05/03/2024)

The Nuclear Power News category (Category 2) of the ‘All Things Nuclear’ daily media headlines below is an accidental model of how media stories confuse the casual American or international citizen(s) by contradicting one another or themselves, even unintentionally. If you do nothing more than scan down and read the 3 headlines from the New York Times, WVTF, and the Iowa State Daily, you will plainly see what it is that continues to fracture any idea of understanding the past, present, and future of nuclear power plants and why they are claimed to be clean or dirty, cheap or expensive, and whether or not nuclear power plants are in favor or disfavor as a functional tool for becoming more or less popular for producing electricity.

Similar to the never ending media political division of opinion, nuclear media stories often lead to bitter misunderstandings about whether nuclear power of any kind is good or bad for human use, but in every case if one reads between the lines the reader will find that, no matter the issue, there is a dark side to the whole concept of nuclear power viability, including many that are seldom discussed at all, the most important of which is that nuclear power plants are easily subject to be used as extremely powerful and dangerous weapons of massive elimination of human and other life on planet Earth.

As an example, there is an international (Article 15 of the 1977 Geneva Convention) pact among armed nations that it is against all military powers-that-be to involve nuclear power plants in war, but still right now today we continue to see the war between Russia and Ukraine dangerously fighting over military control of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine that is threatening the existence of not only Ukraine but other countries in Europe as well. As I have said many times before in this blog, human made agreements are useless because they are meaningless even before the ink is dry. Militaries and their countries’ leaders operate by this old WWII axion: “If you win, you don’t have to explain.” ~llaw


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

There are 6 categories, including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives, as do ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links in each category about 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 Power Emergencies
  4. Nuclear War
  5. Nuclear War Threats
  6. Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are no 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.

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.


TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Friday, (05/03/2024)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

A new nuclear energy law will likely mean higher utility bills | WVTF

WVTF

All Things Considered · BBC World Service · Fresh … nuclear power facilities – things like permitting, for example. … Utility customers don’t usually …

Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko on the horror and absurdity of Russia’s senseless …

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

It holds beautiful and ugly things all together.” … nuclear threat. For … Now, I ask, what does he want the world to know about nuclear risk?

‘Doomsday’ plane to be built in Colorado

Colorado Public Radio

Part of the production for the next generation of the plane meant to keep U.S. military airborne during nuclear war will happen in Englewood.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Opinion | Nuclear Power as a Clean Energy Tool? – The New York Times

The New York Times

In fact, nuclear energy is extremely environmentally unfriendly. All nuclear power plants regularly emit low-level radiation into the atmosphere and …

A new nuclear energy law will likely mean higher utility bills | WVTF

WVTF

A new law signed by Governor Glenn Youngkin that allows for utilities to make customers pay for the costs of developing nuclear power facilities.

Nuclear energy education creates more favorable perception – Iowa State Daily

Iowa State Daily

The reactor’s closing signified a trend that nuclear power was not taking off at the rate that nuclear advocates hoped. The 1996 Daily interview with …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Shuts Down Again Due to Russian Missile … – VOI

VOI

The plant briefly switched to emergency diesel generators, the last line of defense to keep the reactor fuel cool and prevent a potential catastrophic …

Zelenskyy discusses air defense and safety of local nuclear power plant in Khmelnytskyi

unn.ua

УНН War ✎ President Zelenskyy visited Khmelnytskyy region to discuss security, air defense, safety of the Khmelnytskyy nuclear power plant, …

Ukraine again takes emergency electricity aid from the EU, restrictions still in place in two regions

unn.ua

УНН Society ✎ Yesterday, the electricity needs of consumers were covered by their own generation, commercial imports and emergency assistance …

Nuclear War

NEWS

In deterrence we trust? Cold War nuclear questions make a comeback. – CSMonitor.com

The Christian Science Monitor

American trust in nuclear weapons. In the nearly 80 years since the U.S. dropped the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war, movements to abolish …

Rewind and Reconnoiter: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and NATO’s Crisis of Nuclear …

War on the Rocks

In 2022, Tyler Bowen wrote “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and NATO’s Crisis of Nuclear Credibility” for War on the Rocks, in which he argued that …

World leaders must curb nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and beyond | Chatham House

Chatham House

The threat of nuclear weapons is resurging in a manner not seen since the height of the Cold War. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

In deterrence we trust? Cold War nuclear questions make a comeback. – CSMonitor.com

The Christian Science Monitor

The risks of nuclear weapons have reappeared in global headlines. Containing those risks may hinge on communication as well as a “peace through …

World leaders must curb nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and beyond

Chatham House

The threat of nuclear weapons is resurging in a manner not seen since the height of the Cold War. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made …

CIA Director Haines’s Testimony to the US Senate Armed Services Committee on Global Threats

YouTube

LIVE: CIA Director Haines’s Testimony to the US Senate Armed Services Committee on Global Threats U.S. Director of Intelligence Avril Haines and …

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