All Things Nuclear
LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #372 (08/28/2023)
“End nuclear insanity before nuclear insanity ends humanity”
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Commentary
Working on the transfer of my nightly “All Things Nuclear” Post to my website so that I can develop it beyond the confines and limitations of Facebook, and where I can add structure and my own style and look to the nightly Post. Tomorrow morning I will repost this Post tonight to give you another glimpse at how I am putting the website version together. One good thing that I will be using frequently is that I can post several photos instead of just one (without jumping through hoops on Facebook’s format, and I can also explain the photo and even caption it for understanding and give credit to the origination of the image.
This week’s top story is that all eyes are on Japan’s dumping of nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean, and I can tell you that whether or not the fishery will be affected immediately, it is over time, the worst possible thing we can do to our oceans. I will be looking into the long term fading (or not) of the chemical treatment that is apparently neutralizing the radiation for now, but will it last indefinitely as the radioactive waste disseminates in ocean waters?
And, even more scary, that in the near future virtually all storage nuclear waste water from years of storage all over the world(s) will be allowed to legally dump nuclear waste of all kinds into the oceans, and, as we all know what is legal leads to illegal practices.
What the UN and Japan have done is extremely bad for the future, accountability or not. There are always ways to falsify reports and, likewise, to flaunt International laws. And to my mind, it goes even deeper than that: It adds to the chances of the complete demise of life on planet Earth. ~llaw
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Major nuclear media headlines are listed below by Category. The link to Sky News’ coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war is available at the end of this Post.
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All Things Nuclear
NEWS
Science behind the Fukushima Daiichi radioactive water release : Short Wave – NPR
NPR
BRUMFIEL: Right. And a reactor meltdown is every bit as bad as it sounds. Basically, what it means is the nuclear fuel inside the reactor gets so hot, …
How Nuclear Threats, Not Weapons, Have Shaped the War in Ukraine – Bloomberg
Russia would defend this land “with all the powers and means at our disposal,” he declared, adding that America’s use of nuclear weapons against …
Nuclear Weapons, Fusion and AI: Will Scientific Breakthroughs Break the World? – Bloomberg
But might there be an alternative to an all-out AI arms race? … the world to a new era of nuclear brinkmanship, one that is “both a throwback to …
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Nuclear Power
NEWS
Japan complains of harassment calls from China over Fukushima water release | Reuters
Reuters
… likely from China, after the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific.
At a Japanese nuclear plant, a contentious treated water release is just the start of decommissioning
AP News
… down to an underground secondary pool could be heard from beneath the ground during a media tour of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Granderson: Nuclear power could save our air quality. At what cost to the water?
Los Angeles Times
Nuclear energy creates a problem no one has yet solved. Japan is dumping toxic water into the ocean. Canada proposes storing waste near Lake …
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Nuclear War
NEWS
How Nuclear Threats, Not Weapons, Have Shaped the War in Ukraine – Bloomberg
The Ukraine war is the first great-power nuclear crisis of the 21st century — and it won’t be the last. Since February 2022, Russian President …
US wants to bring world closer to nuclear war by supplying F-16s to Ukraine: North Korea
Republic World
The plan to transfer US-made F-16 fighter planes to Ukraine brings the world closer to nuclear war between Washington and Moscow, North Korea said …
Global Health Professionals Must Prevent Nuclear War – Medscape
Medscape
The Hiroshima bomb ended WWII with Japan. Nagasaki resulted from faulty communication. No nuclear explosion in warfare has occurred since then, in no …
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Nuclear Power Emergencies
NEWS
Nuclear Disablement Team validates mission at simulated nuclear power plant in Alabama
DVIDS
“The possibility of dealing with a damaged nuclear power station or emergencies involving nuclear reactors in a hostile environment is an emerging …
Japan drafts plan to build underground shelters for emergencies | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
nhk.or.jp
… emergency power source. It says local municipalities will use financial … Tritium ‘not detectable’ in fish caught off Fukushima nuclear plant.
Reporter’s Notebook: Biden is under pressure to declare climate emergency
Washington Examiner
… emergency, what the pushback would be for such from Capitol Hill, and Japan releasing treated wastewater from a nuclear power plant.
NEWS.SKY.COM
Ukraine war latest: Ukraine ‘liberates southern area’ – and why it could be important; Russian paramilitary group ‘threatens to rebel’
The southeastern settlement of Robotyne has been liberated, Ukraine says.
Comments are always welcome.