“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
Aug 23, 2024
Methuselah, who is rumored to have lived for 969 years — the longest of us all.
LLAW’s NUCLEAR ISSUES & COMMENTS, Thursday, (08/22/2024)
Wow! Today is the 2nd Anniversary of “All Things Nuclear”! How on Earth could two trips around our Sun have possibly gone so rapidly, leaving nothing but memories so seemingly quickly? And with nary a day off with a “LLAW’s All Things Nuclear” blog post That’s 730 posts, one a day following right behind the latter. That is, I will say, dedication to my purpose here, which is to warn us all around the world that we humans are rapidly moving forward to our collective deaths from ‘all things nuclear’, especially from nuclear war and nuclear power, or a combination of the two with maybe a little help from Greenhous gasses. We could turn around and go back where we came from, but we won’t, and that is the shame and horror of it all . . . but even though I, and a handful of others, know how it could be done, it takes a world of unity, and we humans will not allow unity to happen. The only thing that could save us from ourselves is an unknown intervention from a higher form of life, and even that may not be a pleasant blessing either. But we should know that a life-giving and thriving planet Earth is, in every way possible, worth saving . . . I’ve never understood why we don’t en-masse understand that, but I do know it has something to do with our ability to think and use our natural intellect conclusively and collectively, or rather the lack of it.
I have linked these daily Blog Posts from two of their several source platforms by posting them to Facebook (because Facebook reaches far more people than any other social media platform —numbering in the multiple billions world-wide. Yet, so far, I have just a handful of faithful followers and a few hundred sporadic or occasional visitors. Of course these smallish steps over the two years will not convince me to stop or to throw my hands up and quit, even though Facebook has tried to shut my blog posts down several times, and has attempted to permanently delete about 8 or 10 of them for various violations of their so-called “Community Standards” varying from ‘Cyber Security’ to ‘SPAM’. One way or another, though, I have and will continue on because I am old, set in my ways, and have long known the nuclear industry from its uranium mining roots, uranium fuel processing, and the many dangers ‘all things nuclear’ poses to all of human and other life on this beautiful blue-green planet.
Even if we humans, who have blindly allowed ourselves to be led down a crooked path toward inevitable extinction by governments, corporations, and the nuclear industry’s propaganda, there are those of us who know the industry and who understand the ‘armageddon-like’ trip to and over the proverbial cliff to our demise. But we are never able to convince a world full of apathetic, uncaring, fatalistic, or even simply fearful, nor, most of all, those millions of enthusiastic followers of the mythical future of nuclear power as our ultimate savior. Yet we should still do ourselves the intellectual favor and honor to know the true nature and mechanics of ‘all things nuclear’ and what atomic energy, nuclear fuel, nuclear power plants, and nuclear war are all about and why they will ultimately destroy us and most other innocent life, too, leaving planet Earth a barren and dead planet. Education is all-important, and that is what my anti-nuclear blog is all about.
(And, by the way, I also post my blog to “Linked In”, not only because it is of University of Wyoming origin — where I was born and raised — a venture that has grown internationally, and has a huge well-rounded professional following and I am looking for just the right Sponsor that could allow me to expand the dalily information and purposes that are provided in the blog.)
So those are the reasons I will continue on with the blog and these posts with one exception: Beginning Saturday, I will no longer post on weekends or holidays in deference to my health (both mental and physical) combined with my seemingly Methusalahian-like years of age . . . so I am more likely to be able to continue on with this dramatic global murder mystery of a tale that I have to tell you all for many more years — provided we have “many more years”, which I highly doubt, but at least until there is no more story to tell except the last chapter. ~llaw
Speaking of stories, there are several extra-interesting ones in TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS below. (I’m taking the rest of the day off . . .)
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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Thursday, (08/22/2024)
All Things Nuclear
NEWS
What does Ukraine’s incursion into Russia say about a so-called ‘red line’? – KRWG
KRWG
INSKEEP: I talk with Ukrainians. I think they felt for a long time that the U.S. was way too worried about Russian nuclear retaliation. Have the …
What does Ukraine’s incursion into Russia say about a so-called ‘red line’? – NPR
NPR
Evelyn Farkas is watching all this. She was a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Obama administration and now leads a nonpartisan think tank …
Daily Report | Air & Space Forces Magazine
Daily Report | Air & Space Forces Magazine
Get your daily fix of Air & Space Force news delivered right to your inbox every day. There’s no more reliable source for news about your Air …
Nuclear Power
NEWS
It’s time for the U.S. to lead on nuclear energy – Clean Air Task Force
Clean Air Task Force
Nuclear energy is a proven energy source that already accounts for around 10 percent of electricity generation globally and nearly 20 percent …
Putin accuses Ukraine of trying to strike Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant | Reuters
Reuters
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of trying to strike Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant in an overnight attack and said Moscow …
IAEA’s Grossi on Russia, Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant Risks – YouTube
YouTube
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi talks on Bloomberg Television about escalating safety risks at both the …
Nuclear Power Emergencies
NEWS
Telephone survey shows how many Kazakhstanis support nuclear power plant construction
Kazinform
Opponents to the construction (32.5%) associate nuclear power plants with potential emergencies and environmental consequences. At the same time …
British defence contractor to work on top secret nuclear monitoring base – The Telegraph
The Telegraph
Serco lands £250m contract to build emergency power station at Greenland space base.
WATCH NOW: DC firefighters respond to emergency call on Wisconsin Ave
DC News Now
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Several firefighters in D.C. were on the scene of an emergency … reactor at the damaged Fukushima Nuclear power plant …
Nuclear War
NEWS
If a China and America war went nuclear, who would win? – The Economist
The Economist
During the cold war America and the Soviet Union both planned to use lots of tactical nuclear weapons to destroy large and dispersed troop formations, …
Putin accuses Ukraine of trying to strike Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant – Reuters
Reuters
Acting Kursk Governor Alexei Smirnov told Putin that the situation at the Kursk plant, which has four Soviet graphite-moderated RBMK-1000 reactors, …
Putin says Ukrainian forces tried to strike Kursk nuclear plant – Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
The Russian leader does not offer any evidence for his claim but says the UN nuclear watchdog has been alerted.
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
Amid Iran, Russia Attack Threats, USA’s Major Nuclear Weapons Policy Change Revelation
YouTube
Iran Israel War | Nuclear Weapon Threat: U.S. President Joe Biden … Amid Iran, Russia Attack Threats, USA’s Major Nuclear Weapons Policy Change …
Amid Iran, Russia Attack Threats, USA’s Major Nuclear Weapons Policy Change Revelation
Hindustan Times
Watch this video for all the details. News / Videos / World News / Amid Iran, Russia Attack Threats, USA’s Major Nuclear Weapons Policy Change …
Global threats don’t happen in silos. They shouldn’t be managed separately, either.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
… opportunities to come up with more effective strategies across a range of threats. … Humans should teach AI how to avoid nuclear war—while they
Yellowstone Caldera
NEWS
The disappearing mountains and hungry volcano | NSF – National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
… Yellowstone caldera following the Huckleberry Ridge eruption over 2 million years ago. The Yellowstone volcano is a hotspot, which means the volcano …