“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

NOV 22, 2023

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LLAW’s COMMENTARY:

“The Day After”? Tonight is TV movie watching night, so I’m providing a link to this nuclear-war and human reaction story from 1983 that is recently getting a lot of media time, for anyone who wants to watch it.

What would nuclear war, or a hypothetical Doomsday really be like, and how would the general public react? I don’t think anyone really knows, but I think it would be world(s) of difference than anything we’ve seen or even dreamed of before. I have not seen this movie, but I will watch it tonight. If anyone cares, I will offer my personal review of it tomorrow evening . . . ~llaw

Here is the link to watch it on You Tube:

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Iyy9n8r16hs?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS:

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NEWS

Here’s What’s Going Wrong in the US Offshore Wind Industry | Odd Lots – YouTube

YouTube

The effort to decarbonize the US electricity grid involves a range of technologies and power sources. Solar is part of the solution, nuclear may …

Nuclear Film Heists and Heroes Make For Apathy on the Weapons Themselves – Inkstick

Inkstick Media

As diverse as the plotlines of these nuclear films are, they all reaffirm a similar notion: exceptionalism. … about their ability to make a difference …

North Korea says it successfully launched a spy satellite. Did Russia play a role? – NHPR

NHPR

Weekend All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM Live from the Word Barn … nuclear crisis and the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster. See …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Termination of NuScale’s first small modular nuclear reactor plant won’t affect Virginia’s …

Cardinal News

NuScale Power Corp. earlier this month pulled the plug on its U.S. SMR project. The termination of the first small modular nuclear reactor power plant …

Wyoming nuclear plant on track despite industry setback, developer says

The Sheridan Press

Factors that led to the recent demise of a “small modular reactor” energy project in Utah do not directly apply to TerraPower’s nuclear energy …

IAEA says Zaporizhzhia unit 5 switched to cold shutdown – World Nuclear News

World Nuclear News

The International Atomic Energy Agency says the fifth unit at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is switching from hot to cold shutdown to allow …

Nuclear War

NEWS

When Hollywood Put World War III on Television – The Atlantic

The Atlantic

The ABC made-for-television movie The Day After premiered on November 20, 1983. It changed the way many Americans thought about nuclear war—but …

What Would It Mean to ‘Absorb’ a Nuclear Attack? – Scientific American

Scientific American

The missiles on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota make it a potential target for a nuclear attack. And that doesn’t come close to …

The Russian nuclear industry during wartime, 2022 and early 2023 – Bellona.org

Bellona.org

In the early days of the war, Moscow’s troops marched into Chernobyl, site of the world’s worst nuclear accident and now the host of numerous …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Update 195 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

International Atomic Energy Agency

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is transitioning its reactor … “We look forward to observing the emergency response exercise at the …

Portland nuclear power startup NuScale hit with investor lawsuit – OPB

Oregon Public Broadcasting

They are touted as being safer than traditional nuclear power plants in part because emergencies are easier to contain. Small modular reactors …

IAEA says Zaporizhzhia unit 5 switched to cold shutdown – World Nuclear News

World Nuclear News

… Atomic Energy Agency says the fifth unit at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant … plant are also set to observe the plant’s planned emergency …

Nuclear War Threats

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Ukraine war latest: Russia using ‘hybrid warfare tactic’ against Finland – Sky News

Sky News

Russia appears to be using a “known hybrid warfare tactic” in an attempt to create a migrant crisis on the Finnish border, it has been suggested.

Bitumen the answer to Alberta’s energy woes – Yahoo News Canada

Yahoo News Canada

The reasons time is running out: threat of nuclear weapon use from Russia, biological threats and disease outbreaks, cyber-crimes, and of course, …

Iran’s Nuclear Program, a Rising Threat to Global Security – Jerusalem Studio | TV7 Israel News

Jerusalem Studio | TV7 Israel News

… Threat to Global Security : Israel at War – Jerusalem Studio 814. The massacre perpetrated by the Iran-backed Hamas murderers on October 7 and the war …

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“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

NOV 20, 2023

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LLAW’s COMMENTARY: (Why do we keep making excuses for All Things Nuclear?)

Our media responses today (they are obvious in our nuclear news media digest tonight including the ridiculous and sublime such as, “If You Had a Nuclear Weapon in Your Neighborhood, Would You Want to Know about It? , or We’re long past nuclear deterrence: Bring on mutually assured prevention ,or (just one more) How ‘The Day After’ terrified Americans 40 years ago: ‘Nuclear war on a good day’ – Yahoo to questions about all things nuclear are unbelievably ridiculous. I will answer the 1st one for you: “We do have nuclear weapons of mass destruction with missiles in silos, but we also have nuclear power plants near our largest central and eastern cities that are also nuclear weapons that an enemy has only to bomb as well to create a free additional nuclear bomb.” You ought to easily be able to answer #2 and #3 yourselves, although I will lend a hand about ‘deterrence’.

It is clear that as a human race, we have no more understanding of ‘all things nuclear’ than a looney tune rabbit or coyote trying to kill each other – or any other species of animals on planet Earth doing their level best to survive, because they are blissfully ignorant of ‘all things nuclear’. Let me point out how that is and what it means, not only to us humans, but also to all other living critters and creatures on Earth . . .

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These three lame examples above of media news stories today annoyed me enough today that I decided to expand what I believe to be a presently human-inhabited world of the massively uninformed, and to make matters worse my entire purpose of this nightly Post is based on the proposition of specifically informing the deathly humankind world(s) of ‘all things nuclear’ that we human created. So, once again, I am on the warpath about unnecessary ignorance and apathy handed out as gospel from uninformed media sources who simply mimic what they are told by an unscrupulous world of wealth-seeking bandits that can best be described as the ‘nuclear industry’.

To change our death-wish direction, we must open our myopic eyes to reality and remove the entire world of nuclear-everything from this world of uranium and its nuclear products. I wonder, knowing from my own long ago education and occupational profession how nuclear radiation came to be present long after the 5th Extinction that was caused by a meteorite that somehow (likely from its own uranium-rich earth), created and left behind the fossil fuel we are presently excavating and refining these days from that former reptilian world of known existence, eons prior to our human arrival, leaving behind the fossil fuels that provided the radiation that we are presently using to potentially annihilate ourselves today.

We have only known about the destructive nature of uranium for a few short human generations, and many of us are still alive (including me) after the USA constructed two atomic bombs and dropped them on the civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, promptly ending WWII. It took a mass murder of a few hundred thousand Japanese citizens, absolutely far beyond the scope of a military war, to stop us earthly humans, for a very short time, from killing off those who might not agree with our particular agenda, although we have not yet stooped once more to using nuclear weapons as weapons of mass destruction, but rather as weapons of ‘deterrence’, which is finally being recognized for what it is – useless and impossible to control. We were proud of ourselves when we so brutally ended WWII, and today it seems that we still are, so we (and other countries) are building more powerful nuclear weapons of mass destruction to some illogically insane way to prevent WWIII by this moronic thing called ‘deterrence’. Stalwart, thoughtful, and knowledgeable men, such as Albert Einstein, for instance, have stated that WWIII will end all wars. Einstein remarked that all future wars “will be fought with sticks and stones.

If nothing else, perhaps all of us, including our elite scientific community, should think about about all that. If we do, we might well begin to understand that the 5th Extinction was more than an act of ‘god’ or ‘nature’, but an other-worldly humanoid intentional method of getting rid of the kind of cold-blooded life existing on our planet Earth 65+ million years ago. And could it be that ‘human life’ came along intentionally and knowingly later after the half-life radiation decay of the 5rh Extinction made new life here a possibility allowing early forms of human and other warm-blooded animals to survive here on our beautiful blue/green planet Earth?

There are some brave human souls today who believe that planet Earth was designated and designed, before, during, or after the 5th Extinction, to be a penal colony for an inferior humanoid race. That certainly could be us because here we are destroying planet Earth by the parasitical way we live, and also insanely trying, consciously or not, to destroy ourselves while we’re at it. Who can categorically say that’s not true? No one. ~llaw

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS:

All Things Nuclear

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If You Had a Nuclear Weapon in Your Neighborhood, Would You Want to Know about It?

Scientific American

And I tell them no, there wasn’t one at all, that everyone here knew that there were silos on the reservation, but there was just, like, little-to-no …t

How ‘The Day After’ terrified Americans 40 years ago: ‘Nuclear war on a good day’ – Yahoo

Yahoo

I still get letters and e-mails about that movie every day.” — This post was originally published on April 8, 2022. It has been updated to reflect …

$1.6 million on the line for Wiscasset in dispute over nuclear waste facility

The Portland Press Herald

“And one of the things that Maine Yankee has to prove in that litigation, is that all of the spending … is ‘just and reasonable.’ ” Advertisement.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Finland’s OL3 nuclear reactor suffers unexpected outage – Reuters

Reuters

Finland’s Olkiluoto 3, Europe’s largest nuclear power generator as measured by output, suffered an unexpected outage on Sunday due to a turbine …

Finland extends nuclear reactor outage, pushing up power price | Reuters

Reuters

Finnish power company TVO said on Monday it had extended an outage at Olkiluoto 3, Europe’s largest nuclear power generator, while it undertakes …

nuclear power satellites space stations – Military & Aerospace Electronics

Military & Aerospace Electronics

The aerospace contractors to design space nuclear power through the Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-orbit Nuclear Power (JETSON) project.

Nuclear War

NEWS

We’re long past nuclear deterrence: Bring on mutually assured prevention | The Hill

The Hill

… nuclear war under the mutually assured destruction umbrella. The Cold War ended without a shot or nuclear weapon being fired in anger by the U.S. or …

How ‘The Day After’ terrified Americans 40 years ago: ‘Nuclear war on a good day’ – Yahoo

Yahoo

… nuclear bomb blast. Nicholas Meyer’s seminal 1983 TV movie The Day After dramatizes the beginning and aftermath of a nuclear war. (Photo: ABC …

The Day After: The nuclear war drama that traumatised a nation – Yahoo Movies UK

Yahoo Movies UK

Forty years ago nuclear war drama The Day After shocked America. And it’s more relevant today than ever, says director Nicholas Meyer.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Nuclear power plant Krško back online after emergency repair – Balkan Green Energy News

Balkan Green Energy News

Pipelines in the Krško nuclear plant were replaced as a precaution due to a leakage detected on the reducer section in early October.

Japan has completed the third stage of discharge of treated water from the Fukushima-1 …

Political Lore

The operator of the emergency Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in Japan, the TERCO company, has completed the third stage of discharging treated …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

A Misleading Metaphor: The Nuclear “Arms Race” – War on the Rocks

War on the Rocks

… threats. Critics … The upshot: the Cold War rivals built distinctive nuclear arsenals for reasons that transcended the external threat environment.

Bridging the gap between nuclear ban treaty supporters and opponents

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

… nuclear threats, most notably the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The … nuclear intimidation, and Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling in the war in Ukraine.

Russian propagandist threatens that nuclear war is inevitable: ‘No doubt about it’

Ohmymag UK

Here’s what he said and how he justified this viewpoint. Vladimir Solovyov’s nuclear threat. This is not the first time that Solovyov has expressed a …

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

NOV 19, 2023

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LLAW’s COMMENTARY: (A basic Primer on Plutonium and other Nuclear Waste, and Why it is so Dangerous)

To get back to some of my earlier introductory Posts where I often demonstrated how the the many steps and processes of mining, milling, refining, and eventually burning uranium fuel in nuclear reactors to provide electricity for human use from nuclear power plants, so tonight’s short lesson will be limited to the most dangerous waste product of all called plutonium and why the United States, which operates the most nuclear power plants in the nuclear power plant world doesn’t recycle plutonium (which has a half-life of 24,000, yes 24 thousand years) but insanely adds it to the very, very, serious radiation dangers of storing it all over the surface of our country in concrete, water, or earthen containers or caskets.

Following is an easily understood, well written paragraph from “Quora” addressing the prevailing opinion about why nuclear fuel, including plutonium and cesium, should be recycled: “The United States has erroneously been under the perception that it’s not cost-effective to recycle spent nuclear fuel. It also has fear that recycling could lead to building new nuclear weapons. The USA can thank former President Jimmy Carter for the ignorance he spread in 1977 when [he] ordered the USA to bury spent nuclear fuel deep underground. (I will add, though, that Jimmy Carter was not ignorant at all; he was absolutely correct, except that in a real world of care and caution, there would be no such thing as nuclear bombs, nuclear power plants, or anything else nuclear. (The Carter era was the last time we had a chance to internationally ban ‘all things nuclear, although JFK called for ending ‘all things nuclear’ in the early ’60s.)

“France, for example, uses up to 80% recycled fuel. They save a ton of money by reducing storage costs . . . [A] non-cost effective thing would be to try to separate bomb related materials from spent fuel. The chemistry requirements are staggering and you are dealing with a highly radioactive material. So, the USA need[s] only to overcome fear and ignorance to be able to recycle spent nuclear fuel.” (This last sentence is also wrong, only because ‘fear and ignorance’ prevails in the entire perspective of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants, but in absolute opposing perspectives.)

The following simple graph of how the nuclear power process works is posted below. The diagram of how plutonium is to be recycled, according to proper operating procedures is shown below. You can easily see that in the case of recycling nuclear waste (such as plutonium (that shows plutonium returning from ‘spent fuel reprocessing’ back to ‘fuel reprocessing’ when in actuality the highly radioactive plutonium goes straight down to ‘interim storage’ and on to ‘permanent storage’ (which does not exist, by the way, so that’s another lie); so you see, we are living a dangerous set of more lies, among an abundance of others from the nuclear industry here in the USA, once again subjecting ourselves to entirely unnecessary risks and nuclear radiation danger in the dirty, dangerous world of “All Things Nuclear”, including the cycling process of our own nuclear power plants – of which the USA has by far the most of than any other nation. ~llaw

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS:

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

A four-decade-old Pacific treaty was meant to preserve the ‘peaceful region’. Now experts …

The Guardian

… nuclear weapons states “are all opposed”. But Mangioni, a member of the … about nuclear testing legacies. It’s the same regional sentiment that …

Why North Korean Nuclear Blackmail Is Unlikely – Analysis – Eurasia Review

Eurasia Review

… all North Korean territory, but also the military superpower USA, which has … things-worse_toby-daltonvan-jackson; Brad Roberts, “The Plausible …

$1.6 million in tax revenue on the line for Wiscasset in dispute over nuclear waste facility

The Maine Monitor

“And one of the things that Maine Yankee has to prove in that litigation, is that all of the spending … is ‘just and reasonable.’ ” Not taking …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

France test-fires long-range ballistic missile to boost nuclear deterrence

France 24

… powered by continuous thrust until they reach their target. (Reuters) … North Korea amends constitution to reinforce nuclear power status. On …

Eiffage wins 4 bln euro order for French next-generation nuclear plants – Reuters

Reuters

French construction group Eiffage late on Thursday said it won a contract worth more than 4 billion euros ($4.34 billion) to carry out the main …

The genealogy of nuclear fear | Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski | The Critic Magazine

The Critic

… nuclear renaissance, but rather the onset of nuclear schizophrenia. In 1956, the UK built its first commercial nuclear power plant. The atmosphere …

Nuclear War

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Exclusive: Jill Stein’s Ominous Warning on Growing Threat of Nuclear War – Newsweek

Newsweek

… nuclear submarine.” “The world won’t survive this,” she warned. “And yes, we’re not at nuclear war now, but could a nuclear war be triggered?

Growing geopolitical risk stoking East Asian nuclear concerns, says expert – Nikkei Asia

Nikkei Asia

… nuclear bombs in any Taiwan war. If China attacks Taiwan, it will “highly likely use its nuclear threat … to urge Japan to remain neutral,” says …

Opinion | How to slow the U.S.-Russia-China nuclear arms race – The Washington Post

The Washington Post

While a nuclear weapon has not been used in combat since World War … Moreover, Russia has repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons during its war …t

Nuclear War Threats

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Israeli threat to nuke Gaza turns spotlight back on regime’s nuclear weapons – Press TV

Press TV

Israel’s reckless nuclear threats have drawn sharp criticism from … Israel Palestine Gaza war Gaza Strip nuclear weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty …

Why North Korean Nuclear Blackmail Is Unlikely – Analysis – Eurasia Review

Eurasia Review

First, North Korea might use or threaten to use nuclear weapons to prevent its own defeat amidst an ongoing war—either verbally threatening to …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Yellowstone supervolcano warning as eruption would ‘bring world to its knees’ | Science

Daily Express

Yellowstone volcano’s magma chamber mapped in documentary … Supervolcanoes are among the most sinister natural creations Earth has to offer. They go …

Reykjanes Volcano Update: Latest InSAR Image | VolcanoDiscovery

Volcano Discovery

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

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To Be or Not to be: l “End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

NOV 17, 2023

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LLAW’s COMMENTARY:

Sometimes, it seems to me, that we fail to acknowledge or to even consider the inevitable unwavering approaches toward extinction that the present paths we are following in brainless multiple efforts to exterminate ourselves because we simply cannot bear to so much as consider the reality of that very thing we refuse to do anything about. So, instead, what do we do? We do nothing, somehow relenting to the idea that there isn’t anything that can be done to alter, change, or navigate, somehow reversing the road we are on even though we know implicitly that we are drifting along in precisely the wrong direction.

We pretend it’s not so bad as we think it is, or that we’re too busy living half a life to think about the reality of not living, wrongly theinking that our obligations to others, including our jobs and family, are a responsibility that has priority over all else. But, in truth, intentionally ignoring the very concept of correcting the mess we’ve made of this planet, we have done a great disservice, not only to ourselves but those we think we are ‘taking care of’. Of course we have to do those things we already do in the best way we can, but we are leaving the ‘future’ out of the every day equation because we don’t want to acknowledge and understand what we know is already happening today, tomorrow or sometime further down the road. It’s like as soon as our ‘day’ is over, everything stops and we will repeat what we did yesterday exactly the same as we did today, as if repetition is the only thing that will keep us going and somehow get us by. We have forgotten how to plan ahead and ‘build’ for a better tomorrow.

Of course we may be fortunate enough to lay away a few dollars a month for tomorrow, take a vacation, buy a new car, or even relocate to a better neighborhood because of our ‘hard’ work, and that seems genuinely rewarding for the immediate time, but in reality nothing much has changed concerning the world(s) of issues we don’t face that we are darkly breeding subconsciously within ourselves like mindless human ostriches and lemmings, hiding from ourselves because somebody else somewhere on planet Earth wants to eliminate us. Such is, more than ever before, the way of a nuclear new world order.

There is a way to reverse the direction we are so rapidly heading in, and, once again, common sense is calling out for us to ‘unite’ collectively as a universally peaceful human species rather than live on as tribes of separate species, always inferring one tribe is better than the other, and by god we will fight to our deaths to prove it. How childish is that?

And it is so very obvious that people are beginning to question, in this new era, if we may be destined by our id and the evolutionary demand of the ‘superego’ that all day every day silently screams internally, yet is never able to escape our own hidden voices of self-importance, “What’s mine is mine; and what’s yours is mine, too.” When will we ever learn? And will we learn in time? Thus far the answer is obviously, “no”. ~llaw

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS:

Nuclear Power

NEWS

US, Philippines sign landmark nuclear deal – Reuters

Reuters

… nuclear technology and material to Manila, which is exploring the use of nuclear power to decarbonise and boost energy independence.

Investors are turning bullish on nuclear – Reuters

Reuters

After years of disinterest, energy security concerns and the push for net zero are leading investors to bet on nuclear power.

Sweden plans ‘massive’ expansion of nuclear energy

World Nuclear News

Sweden plans ‘massive’ expansion of nuclear energy. 17 November 2023. Share. The Swedish government unveils a roadmap which envisages the construction …

All Things Nuclear

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History of Three Mile Island; the United States’ worst commercial nuclear accident – ABC27

ABC27

You can find excellent discounts on everything from gifts to games to holiday decor. The 12 best camping gifts as stocking stuffers · BestReviews / 4 …

Dems want cost estimates Congress didn’t ask for in nuke modernization report

ExchangeMonitor

… every question about how much nuclear modernization would cost. “I … “Our writ did not include the development of cost estimates for all these things, …

UN nuclear watchdog: Iran has enough enriched uranium to make 3 nuclear bombs

All Israel News

UN nuclear watchdog: Iran has enough enriched uranium to make 3 nuclear bombs. All … nuclear deal from 2015 was set at 202.8 kgs (about 447 lbs). An …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Ukraine war latest: Thousands of Ukrainian children ‘taken to Belarus’; Russia loads … – Sky News

Sky News

Ukraine war latest: Thousands of Ukrainian children ‘taken to Belarus’; Russia loads missile with nuclear-capable glide vehicle into launch silo.

Iran enriches more uranium as Gaza war rages, US vote looms – Reuters

Reuters

The US and its allies have few routes left to rein in Iran’s nuclear work with prospects for talks long buried and tougher actions against Tehran …

Nuclear War Will Happen, Putin Ally Warns – Newsweek

Newsweek

A Russian propagandist with close ties to Vladimir Putin has warned nuclear war is “unavoidable” but that it won’t lead to the collapse of …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Map reveals what would happen if Europe’s largest nuclear power plant explodes – MSN

MSN

The safety of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been ‘jeopardised’ after a number of ‘emergency incidents’ this week.

There is a leak from the first circuit of the reactor at Unit 5 of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Odessa Journal

This can, at any moment, lead to an emergency situation,” Kotin emphasized. Furthermore, similar manipulations are occurring with Unit 3. Specifically …

Enhancing National Safeguards Infrastructure to Support the Introduction of Nuclear Power

International Atomic Energy Agency

The IAEA has developed the Milestones Approach to help Member States embarking on nuclear power to plan and develop the necessary infrastructure in a …

Nuclear War Threats

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Nuclear War Will Happen, Putin Ally Warns – Newsweek

Newsweek

It is not the first time Solovyov or other Russian propagandists have threatened nuclear war … Threats. By Tom Rogers. Premium Subscription. Digital + …

Is Israel’s war in Gaza distracting the West from Iran’s nuclear threat? – analysis

The Jerusalem Post

Is Israel’s war in Gaza distracting the West from Iran’s nuclear threat? … Iran’s build-up of Hamas, threats to Israel. Why? Because they do not want …

Russia Loads Nuclear-Capable Missile in Ominous Video – Newsweek

Newsweek

… third World War sparked by threats of nuclear escalation made by current and former Russian officials and political commentators. The largest nuclear …

Yellowstone Caldera

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Sakurajima Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: EXPLODED AT 20231116/2129Z OVER FL070 …

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Reports, maps and list of aftershocks. Did you know the seismic waves were recorded everywhere in the world? Yellowstone quakes · Yellowstone quakes.

“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

A 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

A 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 …

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”

LLOYD A. WILLIAMS-PENDERGRAFT

NOV 14, 2023

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LLAW’s COMMENTARY:

If the “Scientific American” can say it, I sure as hell can too! My mission, as always is to convince the human population to wake up, understand, and realize the critical nuclear war situation we are in and to convince a majority of us to stand up and put a stop to it. I am daily capable of reaching out, primarily through Facebook, to at least a third of the earth’s human population who can read my Posts via Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and other social media. This Post is also on Substack and my website (from where you are reading this now), and will be even more available as I locate the connections I need to accomplish what need not be a failed effort but unless there is soon to be a strong popular movement toward destroying “All Things Nuclear”, all things nuclear may well destroy us, creating Earth’s 6th Extinction. Yes, it is that serious . . .

Today I am Posting an editorial article from “Scientific American” that describes, in part, what I have been warning the human population about in my nightly Posts for the last year and a quarter. I have also mentioned this incredibly poor decision by the U.S. government and its military previously in my own Posts.

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The editors of this upscale periodical publication report in their headline and leadline nearly all that needs to be said if the world’s People population would simply open their eyes and pay attention to what we are on the verge of doing to our planet Earth as well as ourselves and all other life on our only home: ~llaw

The U.S.’s Plans to Modernize Nuclear Weapons Are Dangerous and Unnecessary

The U.S. should back away from updating its obsolescent nuclear weapons, in particular silo-launched missiles that needlessly risk catastrophe

And then there is this: “Perfectly poised to refight the cold war, these overhauled bombs will waste $1.5 trillion and threaten life on Earth for the century to come.”

I would have said this in a more dark and urgent way by not putting an extended timeline on the awaiting disaster. The disaster could happen, as nothing more than the U.S.’s announced plans could begin to happen as early as tomorrow morning.

The Text from Scientific American:

DECEMBER 1, 2023

4 MIN READ

The U.S.’s Plans to Modernize Nuclear Weapons Are Dangerous and Unnecessary

The U.S. should back away from updating its obsolescent nuclear weapons, in particular silo-launched missiles that needlessly risk catastrophe

BY THE EDITORS

December 2023 Issue

Defense

This article is part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal.

The U.S. is planning to modernize its unwanted, unneeded and unsafe nuclear triad of land-, sea- and air-based weapons. Perfectly poised to refight the cold war, these overhauled bombs will waste $1.5 trillion and threaten life on Earth for the century to come. We should rethink this miserable folly rather than once again squandering our wealth while driving a new arms race.

As detailed in this issue of Scientific American, this plan to burn money while imperiling the world has been widely criticized in nuclear policy circles. “Russia and the United States have already been through one nuclear arms race. We spent trillions of dollars and took incredible risks in a misguided quest for security,” former U.S. defense secretary William J. Perry wrote in 2016 as the plans first materialized. “There is only one way to win an arms race: refuse to run.”

Although the Biden administration canceled proposed Trump-era sea-launched missiles, the U.S. nuclear arsenal still bristles with some 3,700 weapons, around 1,700 of them deployed for military use and the rest in storage overseen by the Department of Energy. This quantity is more than enough to threaten the destruction of humanity and Earth’s biosphere—and it is only a fraction of the world’s total, leaving out Russia’s similarly large stockpile and smaller ones in China and other nations. Lowering the numbers and thus the risks of these weapons is a responsibility the U.S. and the Soviet Union first recognized at the end of the 1960s, and this goal should drive military and political decision-making now.

Instead the U.S. is sleepwalking into an ill-considered and little-discussed resurrection of its three-pronged cold war nuclear forces. Meanwhile China is expanding its own arsenal (to one-fourth the size of the U.S.’s). New submarines, missiles and planes, all designed to fit into a military strategy first conceived before the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, will by 2050 leave the dead hand of the past steering us into another century of pointless risks. In this future, a mistake or misjudgment could exterminate humanity, as nearly happened repeatedly throughout the cold war. We are simply fortunate, nothing more, to have survived the hundreds of false alarms that rang over those decades.

At the center of the government’s proposal is a $100-billion bid to fill 450 nuclear silos in five inland states with hundreds of new nuclear missiles set to launch on hair triggers. Built before submarine-launched missiles became large, accurate and untraceable, these relics are now justified as a “nuclear sponge” to absorb a Russian attack on the U.S. Why plant a $100-billion nuclear “kick me” sign on the country’s breadbasket?

We cannot store the nuclear waste we have now, never mind the additional waste that will result from building these missiles. The so-called nuclear sponging mapped in this month’s issue [see “Sacrifice Zones”] would kill up to several million from radiation exposure, with hundreds of millions in North America being at risk of exposure to lethal fallout. Even a limited nuclear war between India and Pakistan would kill tens of millions worldwide and cause global famine—but how can the U.S. argue for other nations to disarm while burnishing its own nuclear sword in such a heedless fashion?

We aimed this Damoclean sword at ourselves during the cold war when we produced 70,000 of the plutonium “pits” that trigger thermonuclear warhead explosions. Weapons tests of these blasts have left every part of Earth’s surface contaminated with plutonium, with hotspots such as the Rocky Flats in Colorado and the Hanford sites in Washington State still requiring tens of billions of dollars for cleanup. Faltering efforts to restart pit production for the nuclear-modernization effort have cost $18 billion to $24 billion, much of it wasted, and, by the admission of weapons officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, they don’t even seem to be immediately necessary.

Why are we risking so much when the lessons of the 20th century are so clear? In the words of the 1991 START Treaty that capped the cold war, “nuclear war would have devastating consequences for all humanity … it cannot be won and must never be fought.” Disregarding Russia’s inability to turn its nuclear arsenal to military advantage while being bombarded by Ukrainian drones, our political class has fumbled away hard-won wisdom about the deadly futility of the arms race. We are recapitulating the dangers the world turned away from decades ago.

Who today benefits from disinterring the arms race? Only defense-industry shareholders and military contractors near silos in North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. This, in a nation where we have just doubled child poverty out of a refusal to help lower-income families. Surely it would be cheaper, safer and smarter to build factories or universities or research labs in these places, construct low-cost housing next to new engineering or biomedical campuses there, and watch them boom, in a good way, for the next century at a fraction of the silo-overhaul price tag. The 900 nuclear missiles onboard U.S. submarines will meanwhile deter the feared nuclear first strike the obsolescent land missiles were meant to discourage at the dawn of the cold war.

“A worrisome new arms race is brewing,” United Nations secretary-general António Guterres said in September. “This is madness. We must reverse course.” We agree. The only real way to use nuclear weapons is never. They should exist only in numbers large enough to deter their use by others, which they already abundantly do, with not one warhead more.

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Today’s nuclear world’s News:

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Duke Energy says cancellation of first commercial small nuclear project won’t affect its NC plans

WHQR

Weekend All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM A Way With Words. 0:00. 0 … The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently approved NuScale’s design for …

Inside the $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program You’ve Never Heard Of

Scientific American

According to an air force spokesperson, 17 samples taken at Warren tested positive for PCB, but all were below acceptable levels. … things will happen …

What Radioactive Fallout Tells Us about Our Nuclear Future – Scientific American

Scientific American

At this pace, by 2080, all 4,000 nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal will have new nuclear pits installed. … things. This is why we take sometimes …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

NuScale CEO defends modular nuclear plants after project cancellation – Reuters

Reuters

The CEO of NuScale defended his small, modular nuclear reactor business on Tuesday, saying work continues in the U.S. and two other countries …

The future of nuclear power is smaller, more modular – YouTube

YouTube

WRAL Investigates dives into the future of power production coming to North Carolina. The real question remains: What will happen to my power bill …

Russian nickel miner wants nuclear power for Arctic plant – The Barents Observer

The Barents Observer

Nornickel starts talks with Russia’s state nuclear energy company Rosatom on the building of a small-scale nuclear power station in Norilsk.

Nuclear War

NEW

Nuclear Attack Worst-Case Scenario Would See 90% of Americans Wiped Out – Newsweek

Newsweek

As if nuclear strikes on U.S. cities weren’t potentially damaging enough, an attack on America’s missile silos would kill millions due to acute …

Five Works That Imagine Nuclear War and Its Aftermath | Tor.com

Tor.com

Their purpose is not to forestall nuclear attack but rather to document it, providing vital information that survivors (civilians, military staff, and …

The U.S.’s Plans to Modernize Nuclear Weapons Are Dangerous and Unnecessary

Scientific American

Perfectly poised to refight the cold war, these overhauled bombs will waste $1.5 trillion and threaten life on Earth for the century to come. We …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

South Korea and members of the US-led UN command warn North Korea over its nuclear threat

AP News

… nuclear ambitions and threats … nuclear weapons to protect the South in case of a North Korean nuclear attack.

South Korea and members of the US-led UN command warn North Korea over its nuclear threat

ABC News

… nuclear threat. Defense officials from South Korea, the United States and other nations have warned North Korea over its nuclear ambitions and threats.

Nations Condemn Israeli Minister’s Comments About Dropping Nuclear Bomb on Gaza

Time

… war, calling it a threat to the world … Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Iravani told the conference the nuclear threats …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Steamboat Geyser Rare Eruption in October – Jackson Hole Radio

Jackson Hole Radio

Another aspect of Yellowstone’s geological monitoring is ground deformation. GPS stations in the Yellowstone caldera showed a return to subsidence …

Plant Health As A New Effective Monitoring System For Volcanic Activity

Nation World News

… Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming, US, to determine their reaction to hydrothermal activity (circulating fluids around the magma source are hot water …

New Insights into the Impact of Volcanic Activity on Plant Health – CityLife

CityLife

The research, led by Robert Bogue from McGill University, focused on the Tern Lake thermal area within the Yellowstone Caldera in Wyoming, U.S. By …

Sky News is no longer covering a section devoted only to the Russia/Ukraine war. So, unless the Brit paper changes its mind, we are all on our own for the latest news. They have done a brilliant job of providing the ‘actual’ news out of Ukraine and Russia involving this insidious war. ~llaw