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Jan 08, 2025

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I’m wondering if this odd Ukraine attack deep within Russia has something to do with Ukraine military intelligence suspecting that Russia may be preparing to use nuclear bombers as a beginning to their previously threat to use “”tactical nuclear strikes” in their war with Ukraine.

If so, all nuclear-armed nations likely would immediately be on a high alert, concerned that such an attack, even though represented as a “tactical” nuclear attack, these weapons would possibly be as powerful, if not moreso, than the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945 that killed an estimated quarter of a million people.

This scenario has been a gradually growing concern by the U.S. and other NATO countries since Russia has made such threats during the the most recent stages of the Russia/Ukraine war. Certainly, no matter the Ukraine objectives, this is not good news. ~llaw

Ukraine says it attacked oil depot serving air base for Russian nuclear bombers

By Anastasiia Malenko

January 8, 20257:18 AM PSTUpdated 6 hours ago

KYIV, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Ukraine launched an overnight strike deep inside Russia that set fire to an oil depot that serves an air base for Russian nuclear bomber planes, the Ukrainian military said on Wednesday.

Russian regional governor Roman Busargin said the cities of Engels and Saratov, on opposite sides of the Volga river, had been subject to a “mass drone attack” and fire had broken out in Engels at an industrial site, which he did not name.

He later posted on Telegram that the blaze had spread and two firefighters had died trying to put it out. He declared a state of emergency in Engels, which has a population of some 200,000.

The Ukrainian military reported multiple explosions and a big fire at the Kristal oil depot, which it said provided fuel to the Engels-2 military airfield.

The strike “creates serious logistical problems for the strategic aviation of the Russian occupiers and significantly reduces their ability to strike at peaceful Ukrainian cities and civilian objects”, it said in a statement on Telegram.

Ukraine deployed “long-range capabilities” in the attack, presidential adviser Oleksandr Kamyshin posted on X.

He used the hashtag #MadeInUkraine to signal that the weapons used were not supplied by the West.

Ukraine’s general staff also said it had carried out a successful strike on a Russian military command post in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Donetsk region on Wednesday.

The facility has been used by Russia to coordinate attacks against Ukrainian troops and civilians, it said.

Separately, a Russian attack killed at least one person and injured three others on Wednesday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, the regional governor said.

CROSS-BORDER MISSILE STRIKES

In an escalation of the now nearly three-year-old war, Ukraine last year began firing U.S. ATACMS ballistic missiles and British Storm Shadows into Russia. Russia responded by launching a new hypersonic missile, the Oreshnik, at Ukraine. The Kremlin has pledged to retaliate each time Ukraine fires long-range Western weapons into Russia.

Russian news reports also said the fire in Engels was at an oil facility. Videos and photos published on social media showed a large fire burning, sending thick clouds of smoke into the night sky. Reuters was able to verify the location in an industrial zone of Engels, based on satellite imagery.

“There are sufficient forces and resources to localise the fire,” Busargin, the regional governor, said on Telegram.

Russia’s defence ministry said in a statement that 11 Ukrainian drones had been destroyed overnight over the Saratov region, and 21 over other parts of Russia and the Azov Sea. It did not mention any damage.

Some Engels residents posted in a Telegram chat room that they had heard dozens of explosions. Authorities told people not to panic and instructed them not to take pictures or video of drones.

The Engels air base is located about 730 km (450 miles) southeast of Moscow and hundreds of kilometres from the Ukrainian border. In December 2022, three Russian air force personnel were killed when a drone was shot down there.

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Nuclear has changed. Will the U.S. change with it? – Harvard Gazette

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Will the world fall in love with nuclear power once more? – Grist Magazine

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Tylec said. “These are all things that we brought up or have heard concerns about.” The announcement comes six months after the North Tonawanda Common …

Nuclear Power

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Nuclear has changed. Will the U.S. change with it? – Harvard Gazette

Harvard Gazette

Citing safety improvements and rising demand, Kennedy School analyst expects revival of an energy source with a checkered history.

Nuclear power may make a comeback as fears begin to shift – EHN

Environmental Health News

As the world faces increasing demand for low-carbon energy, some experts argue that nuclear power should play a bigger role in the global …

Nuclear technology could be heading to North Tonawanda crypto mining plant – WIVB

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A new partnership between NANO Nuclear Energy and Digihost Technology Inc. could bring nuclear technology to a North Tonawanda crypto mining …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

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Duke to test nuclear sirens at Brunswick plant | Port City Daily

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HAMMER Emergency Support Function Team Provides Aid During Hurricane Season

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Political Disputes Lead to Changes in South Korea’s Long-term Energy Strategy

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Nuclear War

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Ukraine claims attack on oil depot serving air base for Russian nuclear bombers – The Hindu

The Hindu

Ukraine launches strike on Russian oil depot, impacting air base; Russia retaliates with drone destruction.

Ukraine claims attack on oil depot serving air base for Russian nuclear bombers – Reuters

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Nuclear War Threats

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Iran conducts dozens of nationwide drills simulating defense from ‘new threats‘ – The Cradle

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The drill focused on simulating the defense of the nuclear site from several “aerial threats” while under “electronic warfare conditions,” according …

Vladimir Putin’s wobbly empire gives US a path to stifle Russia’s threats

New York Post

… nuclear war. Soon · Doomsday Clock reset imminent amid Israel-Hamas war and threats from Iran, North Korea and Russia’s ‘unhinged’ Putin … Instead, it …

Analysis: Tehran’s triad: propaganda, proxies, and preparedness – FDD’s Long War Journal

The Long War Journal

… War I. These exercises seemed aimed at countering threats in … Tehran’s escalating nuclear threat continues to alarm US lawmakers, and .

Yellowstone Caldera

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2024 in Yellowstone called ‘the year of the hydrothermal explosion’ – Buckrail

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Yellowstone is unlikely to erupt soon. But we should still keep an eye on it – ZME Science

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Yellowstone Volcanic Activity on the Move, Geologists Warn – MSN

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The Hanford Site pictured in 2021. Amazon announced in October that it plans to build nuclear reactors in southeast Washington that would power its data centers in Umatilla and Morrow counties, but many tribes and environmentalists are against it.

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Following is a story that could well be the most significant of All Things Nuclear’s environmental warnings, fears, and objections to nuclear power plants, nuclear waste, and military use of nuclear weapons manufacturing and testing operations all around the globe. Only nuclear war itself could or would be more potentially devastating.

If you don’t know about or have forgotten the “Hanford” never-ending nuclear fiasco and seemingly infinite mess that has long plagued agricultural, living conditions, and natural resources in parts of Oregon, Washington, and California, and wetlands, streams, and rivers including the Columbia, a refresher course is a key to this story. Dozens or even hundreds of other places in other countries if Information technology computing companies continue pushing nuclear power reactors at more and more locations, sizes, and habitat imperiled by both nuclear energy facilities, their waste as well as increasingly powerful nuclear stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction by both aggressive and defensive “deterrent” nuclear-arms-possession countries and eventual new ones like Iran and others. ~llaw

Tribes, environmentalists gather forces against Amazon’s Northwest nuclear plan

Oregon Public Broadcasting | By Antonio Sierra

Published January 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM PST

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Caution signs warn of radioactive materials at the Tank-Side Cesium Removal System process enclosure outside AP Tank Farm on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Sept. 24, 2024. Amazon announced in October that it plans to build nuclear reactors in southeast Washington that would power its data centers in Umatilla and Morrow counties, but many tribes and environmentalists are against it.

Amazon’s push for small modular nuclear reactors is just the latest development in decadeslong fight over nuclear energy.

Chuck Johnson was 25 years old when he helped bring Oregon’s nuclear energy industry to a sudden halt.

Fresh out of college, Johnson helped lead signature gathering and field organizing to pass Ballot Measure 7, which banned all new nuclear power plants in the state until the U.S. had a federally licensed permanent disposal facility. When the Oregon’s only nuclear energy facility was closed in 1992, the measure effectively ensured that nothing would take its place unless major changes happened.

For decades those changes seemed unlikely, but a new push by the power-hungry tech industry has reignited interest in nuclear energy in the region.

Amazon announced in October that it is partnering with Energy Northwest to develop and build nuclear reactors in southeast Washington that would power its data centers in Umatilla and Morrow counties. Amazon would work with its partners to develop and roll out a novel technology – small modular nuclear reactors – without brushing up against the limits of Measure 7 because the reactors would be north of the Columbia River.

For Amazon, SMRs would allow the tech and e-commerce giant to harness the immense, low-carbon power potential of nuclear energy while staying true to its climate goals, and avoiding the safety and environmental concerns that have plagued traditional reactors. More than 40 years after passing Measure 7, Johnson isn’t convinced.

“If you can’t get rid of the waste produced by these plants, it’s irresponsible for us to – for the sake of some electricity right now – leave this legacy to future generations,” he said.

Johnson is a part of a group of environmentalists, academics and American Indian tribes who are gathering force against a nuclear energy revival in the Northwest.

Nuclear energy opponents argue that SMRs are simply a new coat of paint on the industry’s old problems. Like traditional reactors, they say that SMRs aren’t economically feasible and risk exposing people to nuclear radiation in a region still recovering from its World War II legacy.

The X-energy command room in Rockville, Md. Amazon plans to use X-energy’s nuclear reactor design to power its Eastern Oregon data centers.

‘It’s for their profit’

M.V. Ramana’s argument against SMRs is economic as much as it is scientific.

A professor in the School of Public Affairs and Global Policy at the University of British Columbia, Ramana said the global share of electricity generated from nuclear reactors has been shrinking for decades, mainly due to the cost of building them.

Ramana pointed to the U.S.’s newest nuclear reactor project as an example. A nuclear reactor expansion at Plant Vogtle in Georgia went billions of dollars over budget before its first reactor went online in 2023.

Proponents say SMRs could solve the cost problem. At about one-tenth the size of a traditional reactor, SMR parts could be manufactured offsite, a process expected to save considerable money. While SMRs might sacrifice total capacity, their output is anticipated to far exceed other forms of low-carbon energy like solar and wind.

Ramana is skeptical of this argument, too. He said traditional reactors rely on an economy of scale: Their large size carries a great expense but it also means more energy to generate and sell. While an SMR might be one-tenth the size of a traditional reactor, Ramana said not all the costs of running and operating it are going to shrink by the same margin. SMR developers have also yet to realize decreased construction costs, Ramana said. He referenced NuScale, a Portland company whose SMR project in Idaho ballooned its cost 75% to $9.3 billion before it was canceled.

Amazon and other tech companies are backing nuclear as they promote technologies reliant on artificial intelligence because the hardware used to compute that data has extensive energy needs. The International Energy Agency projects data center energy consumption to double from 2022 to 2026. But optimistic timelines for the completion of the Amazon SMRs in Washington estimates they wouldn’t be built for at least seven years. Ramana said that’s enough time for the data demand bubble to burst.

“They need the power right now, because right now is when the market is hot,” he said. “There is no guarantee that in 10 years the market is going to be hot and they will need all this power.”

In a statement, an Amazon spokesperson said it won’t abandon its other green energy efforts as it pursues nuclear projects.

“We will continue to invest in new sources of solar, wind, and energy storage, alongside nuclear facilities … Expanding our energy investment strategy to include other forms of carbon-free energy, including nuclear, is the most viable option to bring new sources of carbon-free energy online quickly enough to help bridge this gap,” the company said in a written statement.

If Amazon and other tech companies were truly interested in protecting the world from climate change, Ramana said, they would take steps to reduce their data businesses rather than growing its energy usage.

“It’s for their profit,” he said. “It is not for the environmental good that they are doing it.”

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The Hanford Site pictured in 2021. Amazon announced in October that it plans to build nuclear reactors in southeast Washington that would power its data centers in Umatilla and Morrow counties, but many tribes and environmentalists are against it.

Hanford’s legacy

Columbia Riverkeeper staff attorney Simone Anter describes Hanford Reach as an idyllic spot, the last undammed, free flowing part of the Columbia River and an important spawning grounds for Chinook salmon.

It’s also near the most nuclear waste polluted area in the Western Hemisphere.

During World War II and the Cold War, the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington was the top producer of weapons-grade plutonium in the U.S. While Hanford stopped producing plutonium in the 1980s, the site left behind hundreds of billions of gallons of nuclear waste in underground storage tanks that leached into the soil.

Anter said Columbia Riverkeeper was formed when two groups worried about nuclear pollution in the Columbia merged.

“A lot of our work centers around this idea that Hanford is not a nuclear waste dumping ground, it is a place that has a future that people want to use and will use,” she said.

Building new nuclear reactors would be a literal barrier to clean-up efforts as new buildings could cover contaminated areas, Antor said. Columbia Riverkeeper is also concerned that SMRs could mean further nuclear pollution in the event of a meltdown.

SMR backers say that the size and technology of these reactors significantly reduces the risk of a meltdown. But even if the reactors avoid meltdowns, Ramana said they would still generate waste that will take hundreds or even thousands of years to decay.

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The Nixyaawii Governance Center in Mission, Ore., on April 30, 2024, located in Umatilla County. Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation has ceded land at Hanford and has opposed SMRs for years.

The tribes respond

Indigenous tribes often bear the brunt of the nuclear energy industry’s follies.

Tribes in the Southwest have long protested uranium mining near their communities, highlighting how radiation exposure has hurt tribal members’ health.

In the Pacific Northwest, the Yakama Nation has religious sites at Hanford and is directly involved in clean-up efforts. The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation also has ceded land at Hanford and has opposed SMRs for years. They reiterated their opposition in a December statement, writing that they were against any “expansion of nuclear energy” unless developers sought permission through the CTUIR government

Amazon has spent several years building a relationship with the CTUIR, including the establishment of an educational lab on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in 2022. But the tribes are concerned about how SMRs would affect water quality, fish and game habitat and plant life, all integral parts of the tribes’ First Foods.

Early signs also point to nuclear energy becoming a hot topic at the upcoming legislative session in Salem. State Rep. Bobby Levy, R-Echo, has already said she will sponsor a bill that would authorize an SMR pilot program in Umatilla County. A legislative committee also received a presentation on SMRs from nuclear energy officials in December.

It’s a fight Johnson, who helped curtail the nuclear energy industry by leading the effort to pass Measure 7 in 1980, hasn’t let go.

In the years that followed the measure’s passage, he worked as a fundraiser for Portland State University and Western Oregon University, but Johnson re-engaged with the nuclear issue following the 2011 nuclear power plant meltdown in Fukushima, Japan.

He steered his career track back toward nuclear opposition, becoming a program manager for the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, first moving to Boston and then Switzerland to lead the organization’s Geneva office.

Johnson intends to retire later this year and return to Oregon, where he plans to remain active in opposing nuclear energy. He sees the sudden push for SMRs as an act of hubris from the country’s “tech bros,” an unearned confidence that they could unlock the potential of nuclear energy where previous generations have failed. Given the long, uncertain timeline for SMRs, Johnson thinks it’s just a ploy for tech companies to consume however much energy they want, whether it’s low carbon or not.

“I think it’s cynical,” he said. “They’re basically saying, ‘We got a promise to be carbon free, and fortunately for us, it’s something that’s going to take a while to do.’”

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TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Tuesday, (01/07/2025)

All Things Nuclear

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Will the world fall in love with nuclear power once more? – Grist Magazine

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These fears had originally everything to do with fear of nuclear war and the fear that people would get sick from the fallout. When nuclear plants …

Tribes, environmentalists gather forces against Amazon’s Northwest nuclear plan

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But the tribes are concerned about how SMRs would affect water quality, fish and game habitat and plant life, all integral parts of the tribes’ First …

Explained: US to scrap curbs on Indian nuclear entities | India-US Nuclear deal – YouTube

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CNBC New 387K views · 13:49 · Go to channel. 7 Cybersecurity Tips NOBODY Tells You (but are EASY to do). All Things Secured•1.1M views · 1:06:24 · Go …

Nuclear Power

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Nuclear Energy Generation: A Regional Look – Visual Capitalist

Visual Capitalist

Compared to other energy sources, functioning nuclear reactors produce the fewest emissions per gigawatt hour of any fuel type–less than 1% of …

Exerting Influence: World Nuclear Association in the Media 2024

World Nuclear Association

2024 has been an extraordinary year for nuclear energy in the news, with the Association providing input to top tier media outlets

Nuclear Energy Supply Forecast by Region – Visual Capitalist

Visual Capitalist

As the world transitions toward a greener future, the demand for clean electricity like that produced by nuclear energy creates opportunities globally …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

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Salem/Hope To Test Sirens, Alert System This Morning – First State Update

First State Update

The Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) and Delaware State Police will conduct a quarterly test of the Salem/Hope Creek Nuclear Generating …

US governors declare state of emergency amid major winter storm – ABC News

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Governors in Kansas, Kentucky, Arkansas, West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland have declared states of emergency. … Topic:Nuclear Energy. Tue 7 Jan …

Russia declares state of emergency in Crimea following oil spill – SAFETY4SEA

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January 3, 2025 · russian nuclear icebreaker · Arctic · Russia receives its fourth nuclear–powered icebreaker · January 3, 2025 · china · Accidents …

Nuclear War

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To Avoid Nuclear War: America’s Most Important Obligation – Modern Diplomacy

Modern Diplomacy

For the incoming American president, one policy assumption is unchallengeable: If the United States doesn’t manage to avoid a nuclear conflict,

As Ukraine war continues, risk of nuclear war with Russia rises (Viewpoint) – MassLive.com

MassLive.com

That could easily lead to nuclear war, a catastrophe that would affect the whole world. We do more than just provide Ukraine with these missiles; our …

New administration must prep nation for nuclear threat | The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times

Recently, 92-year-old Terumi Tanaka stepped to the podium in Oslo, Norway, to accept the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. Tanaka was just 13 years old when …

Nuclear War Threats

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Doomsday Clock reset imminent amid Israel-Hamas war and threats from Iran, North Korea …

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Urkaine are putting global powers in 6. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s …

New administration must prep nation for nuclear threat | The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation was always- and ever-present. In those days, Americans managed the fear in the simplest …

Lessons from South Africa: A New Strategy for Iran’s Nuclear Threat

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Lessons from South Africa: A New Strategy for Iran’s Nuclear Threat … Iran is closer than ever to acquiring nuclear weapons. The risks to the ..

Yellowstone Caldera

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Looking Back On Geological Activity In Yellowstone During 2024 – National Parks Traveler

National Parks Traveler

Yellowstone Caldera continued to subside at a rate of a few centimeters (1–2 inches) per year, temporarily interrupted during the summer months by …

Will Yellowstone Erupt Soon? Scientists Are Using New Techniques to Find Out

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Though basaltic eruptions are more common worldwide, the Yellowstone Caldera was formed by a rhyolitic eruption that launched magma with the same …

Yellowstone Won’t Erupt Anytime Soon, Scientists Confirm – Yahoo

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A close look at the supervolcano’s plumbing reveals a lack of magma necessary for a massive eruption.

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Though this drone attack on the the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine did not result in any deaths nor damages to the plant itself, there are at least two conflicting stories — one claiming Russia, the other claiming Ukraine — was guilty of the military attack. So, obviously, it stands to reason that one country is lying to the world about who is responsible for this extremely dangerous military activity, not only in Ukraine, but the entire world.

I have posted only the headline of Russia’s article claiming Ukraine itself was guilty of attacking its own facility which is enough from Russia’s questionable point of view, but I added the test of the “WNN – World Nuclear News” article in order to document, describe, and explain what happened and why the issue is so important. ~llaw

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Russia claims Ukraine conducted drone strike against Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Defense Ministry says 8 drones downed, no casualties at plant, radiation levels normal

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Zaporizhzhia NPP: IAEA’s concerns over ‘increased intensity’ of military activities

Monday, 6 January 2025

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has urged restraint after agency staff at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant reported hearing multiple explosions at various distances from the site over the weekend.

In the agency’s 5 January update it says blasts, from outside the site perimeter, were heard at 12:45 and 15:45 local time on Sunday which coincided “with reports of a drone attack on the plant’s training centre”, which is located outside the power plant’s perimeter. The update added that the IAEA has not been able to confirm any impact and also referred to its staff hearing machine-gun fire on multiple occasions.

The IAEA cited reports which said there were no casualties or impact on the nuclear power plant equipment, but Grossi said: “An attack on any nuclear power plant is completely unacceptable. In light of the increased military activity at ZNPP, I once again call for maximum restraint to avert the clear danger to its safety, and for the strict adherence to the five concrete principles established by the IAEA at the United Nations Security Council to protect the facility.”

Among these five principles are that there should not be attacks on, or from a nuclear power plant, and it should not be used as a military base for heavy weaponry or personnel.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been under Russian military control since early March 2022. All six of the unit’s reactors are currently shut down and there have been IAEA teams stationed at the site – which is on the frontline of Russian and Ukrainian forces – since September 2022 as part of measures to minimise the safety and security risks. The IAEA has not attributed blame for incidents where the plant, and nearby areas, have suffered damage during the war, with each side blaming the other side’s forces.

According to the Tass news agency, Alexei Likhachev, Director General of Russia’s nuclear power corporation Rosatom, told the Russia 24 television channel that they would continue to meet with Grossi in 2025, saying “the IAEA is probably the only organisation from the UN umbrella that has not in any way limited the activities of either Russia or the Rosatom state corporation”.

In an interview published by the company’s Strana Rosatom, Ramil Galiev, newly appointed CEO of the Zaporizhzhia NPP operating organisation, said his plans included restructuring the organisation “to the typical structure of Rosenergoatom NPPs”. He said his top priority was doing everything that could be done to ensure safety of the NPP, followed by preparing the units for switching to power generation mode: “We are preparing a package of documents for Rostekhnadzor to obtain a licence to operate the first unit. And then for the rest”.

He said the third key task was to “replenish the water supply” in the plant’s cooling pond where the “water level is decreasing due to the destruction of the Kakhovka reservoir dam. A decision has been made to manufacture new pumping station equipment and install it in the Dnieper riverbed”.

Ukraine’s nuclear operator Energoatom says that the plant “must be transferred back under the control of its legal operator, Energoatom, as soon as possible. This is the only way to guarantee the safe operation of the nuclear facility”, with Energoatom CEO Petro Kotin saying that they “receive evidence of the degradation of the equipment almost every day

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There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is 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. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning 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 is one Yellowstone Caldera bonus story available in today’s Post.)
7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)

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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, Monday, (01/06/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

This Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Power Stock Just Got a Big Boost – The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

… nuclear power firms. … It says radioisotopes are popular for their use in cancer treatment and clean energy, among other things. … All information and …

This Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Power Stock Just Got a Big Boost – The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

Updated Price for Crude Oil WTI (NYMEX: CLQ24). Charting, Price Performance, News & Related Contracts.

US Government Agrees To 10-Year Nuclear Power Plan – CleanTechnica

CleanTechnica

The GSA has struck a deal for ten years worth of nuclear power for federal offices in and around WashingtC.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Nuclear Power Industry Research 2024-2029: Modernization of – GlobeNewswire

GlobeNewswire

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), global projections for nuclear energy capacity have been revised upward, anticipating a 25 …

Zaporizhzhia NPP: IAEA’s concerns over ‘increased intensity’ of military activities

World Nuclear News

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has urged restraint after agency staff at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power …

US Government Agrees To 10-Year Nuclear Power Plan – CleanTechnica

CleanTechnica

The GSA has struck a deal for ten years worth of nuclear power for federal offices in and around Washington, DC.

2025 is a ‘big year for nuclear‘: Why Vistra and Talen are top picks – Yahoo Finance – Yahoo Finance

Full Coverage

Nuclear War

NEWS

Blinken warns Russia is close to sharing advanced satellite technology with North Korea

CNN

“The DPRK is already receiving Russian military equipment and training. Now, we have reason to believe that Moscow intends to share advance space and …

Zaporizhzhia NPP: IAEA’s concerns over ‘increased intensity’ of military activities

World Nuclear News

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has urged restraint after agency staff at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power …

Russia claims Ukraine conducted drone strike against Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Anadolu Ajansı

A statement by the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Ukraine’s military carried out the attack on the power plant and the nearby town on Sunday …

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Don’t be alarmed: Duke Energy to test Upstate nuclear sirens soon – MSN

MSN

Duke Energy will soon conduct its first siren test of 2025 around all six nuclear power plants including the Oconee Nuclear Station.

Seabrook Station brochures to be mailed soon | Massachusetts – cnhinews.com

cnhinews.com

… Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ), the 10-mile radius surrounding the nuclear power plant. Developed by emergency management officials, the annually …

IAEA recorded explosions near Zaporizhzhia NPP – all the latest news today – 112.ua

112

Accidents and Emergencies · IAEA recorded explosions near Zaporizhzhia … Nuclear Power Plant, as reported by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Could Turkey pose as great a nuclear threat as Iran? | American Enterprise Institute – AEI

American Enterprise Institute

While the world focuses on a possible Iranian nuclear breakout, however, a stealth nuclear threat looms. Turkey’s Russia-built nuclear plant will …

What Are the Prospects of Nuclear War in Ukraine? – 24/7 Wall St.

24/7 Wall St.

Russia has threatened the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine while the Biden administration has continued to arm Ukraine and warn Russia against the …

Kremlin continues nuclear blackmail, accusing Ukraine of Zaporizhzhia NPP attack

RBC-Ukraine

Russia accused Ukraine of a provocation “aimed at creating the threat of a man-made disaster.” Response from the Center for Countering Disinformation.

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Looking back on geological activity in Yellowstone during 2024 – USGS.gov

USGS.gov

Yellowstone Caldera continued to subside at a rate of a few centimeters (1–2 inches) per year, temporarily interrupted during the summer months by a …

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In order to keep abreast of the weekend nuclear news, I will post Saturday and Sunday’s news, but without editorial comment. If a weekend story warrants a critical review, it will show up on Monday’s posts . . .

If you are not familiar with the weekday daily blog post, this is how the nuclear news post works . . . llaw

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

There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is 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. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning 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 three Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available on this weekend’s Post.)
7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)

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, Sunday,(01/05/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

US avoided direct conflict with Russia amid nuclear threats from Kremlin – Blinken

RBC-Ukraine

All of those things factored into the decisions we made on what to give them and when to give it,” Blinken explained. On the possibility of ending …

How influencers are impacting journalism | WJCT News 89.9

WJCT News

What’s Health Got to Do with It? Morning Edition · All Things Considered … Spehar: One thing about … nuclear meltdown, elections, political upheaval …

Lessons from South Korea’s (and the U.S.’s) self-inflicted blows to democracy | WSIU

WSIU

All Things Considered · Morning Edition · Law … KANG: (Through interpreter) It was all … nuclear crisis and the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Going nuclear: stars align for ‘multi-year’ uranium bull market – AFR

AFR

And in a positive start to 2025, prices are back above US$76. Cooling towers of a nuclear power plant. Getty Images. This has driven a solid rally …

World’s First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Being Built in the U.S.

Tomorrow’s World Today

The private fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) recently announced that the world’s first commercial nuclear fusion plant will be …

Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant reports drone attack from Ukraine – Xinhua

Xinhua

MOSCOW, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) — A training center building of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) was attacked by a Ukrainian drone on Sunday, …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Nuclear war can start within a few minutes. What did Lukashenko warn West about five years ago?

BelTA – News from Belarus – БелТА

Five years ago Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko rang the alarm bell saying that Russia and NATO, for example, cou from an ..

Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor, who devoted his life for peace, dies at 93

The Washington Post

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear .

Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor, who devoted his life for peace, dies at 93 – ABC News

ABC News – The Walt Disney Company

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace has died.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

US avoided direct conflict with Russia amid nuclear threats from Kremlin – Blinken

RBC-Ukraine

US avoided direct conflict with Russia amid nuclear threats from Kremlin – Blinken … The US was able to manage the threat of potential nuclear weapon ..

Britain vulnerable to ballistic missiles as holes in defence revealed – The Times

The Times

… nuclear war. Iran now has an arsenal of approximately 3,000 ballistic … threats more than 70 miles away. They recently helped to ward off …

US warns of escalating risks in Russia’s nuclear doctrine – Weekly Blitz

Weekly Blitz

… nuclear war. “We resolutely advocate doing … risks normalizing the idea of nuclear conflict as a plausible response to conventional warfare

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Scientists reveal why the mighty Yellowstone isn’t ready to blow – Mashable

Mashable

There are different reservoirs, or pods, of magma below the Yellowstone Caldera, which is the sprawling basin formed during an immense eruption and …

Will Yellowstone’s Supervolcano Erupt Again? New Research Has Answers. – VICE

VICE

Some 640,000 years ago, the supervolcano that lies beneath Yellowstone National Park erupted, covering the continental U.S. in volcanic ash, …

Yellowstone supervolcano shift stirs fears of eruption | news.com.au

News.com.au

The Yellowstone Caldera is a 70 by 45 kilometre-wide crater in northwestern Wyoming, blasted out of the Earth’s crust some 640,000 years ago in a …

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Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Jan 04, 2025

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In order to keep abreast of the weekend nuclear news, I will post Saturday and Sunday’s news, but without editorial comment. If a weekend story warrants a critical review, it will show up on Monday’s posts . . .

If you are not familiar with the weekday daily blog post, this is how the nuclear news post works . . . llaw

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

There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is 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. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning 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 three Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available on this weekend’s Post.)
7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)

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, Saturday,(01/04/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Modern Marvels: Man’s DEADLIEST Weapons *2 Hour Marathon* – YouTube

YouTube

https://histv.co/Twitter “Modern Marvels” goes beyond the basics to provide insight and history into things we wonder about and that impact our lives.

Nuclear-Energy Stocks Gain After Easing of Hydrogen Tax-Credit Rules – WSJ

WSJ

… All Things with Kim Strassel · Potomac Watch Podcast · Foreign Edition … Nuclear-Energy Stocks Gain After Easing of Hydrogen Tax-Credit Rules …

Lessons from South Korea’s (and the U.S.’s) self-inflicted blows to democracy | WAER

WAER

All Things Considered · Facebook · Twitter · LinkedIn · Email · Anthony Kuhn … nuclear crisis and the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster. See …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

‘The Power of Nuclear‘ Review: Reactors and Detractors – WSJ

WSJ

Thanks to pressure from the environmental group Riverkeeper and the ambitions of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a deal was struck in 2017 requiring Indian Point ..

‘The Power of Nuclear‘ Review: Reactors and Detractors – WSJ

WSJ

The Indian Point nuclear power plant, on the banks of the Hudson River about 30 miles north of New York City, first opened in 1962 and was greatly …

3 Top Nuclear Stocks to Buy in January – Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance

That opens the door for nuclear power, which is efficient and clean. AI’s long-term energy needs could help fuel growth in companies exposed to …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Energy, Calenda: “Costs are an emergency, start the process of reintroducing nuclear power”

Agenzia Nova

Energy, Calenda: “Costs are an emergency, start the process of reintroducing nuclear” Read the news on Agenzia Nova.

Nuclear War

NEWS

Donald Trump’s Iron Dome? Proposal to Counter Nuclear Attack Takes Shape – Newsweek

Newsweek

North Korea has forged ahead with its nuclear and missile development programs—likely nudged on by Russia—and Moscow’s war in Ukraine has brought …

‘First, we will defend the homeland’: The case for homeland missile defense

Atlantic Council

… war will be sufficient to paralyze direct … attack against US nuclear forces and command and control designed to prevent nuclear retaliation.

China may have stopped Putin from using nuclear weapons, Blinken says – The Kyiv Independent

The Kyiv Independent

China may have talked Russian President Vladimir Putin out of deploying nuclear weapons amid Russia’s war against Ukraine, outgoing U.S. Secretary …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

China Told Putin Not To Use Nuclear Weapons, Blinken Says – Newsweek

Newsweek

The war has rolled into another year and it is unclear whether Putin will continue to reiterate his nuclear threats which remain ambiguous, especially …

‘First, we will defend the homeland’: The case for homeland missile defense

Atlantic Council

The scale and scope of these multi-dimensional threats present significant risks to the American people and the homeland.” ¹⁴John Plumb, “Missile …

FT: China warned Russia over nuclear threats, Blinken reveals – Euromaidan Press

Euromaidan Press

… nuclear threats · Russian Patriarch Kirill declared threat to very existence of Russia, this is written in nuclear doctrine · US locates Russia’s

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Magma Beneath Yellowstone Appears to be on the Move | Discover Magazine

Discover Magazine

Those events are labeled “caldera forming,” because the molten rock vacating the underground reservoirs leaves an empty space, which leads to the land …

Will Yellowstone’s volcano erupt again? Here’s what a new study says – PennLive.com

PennLive.com

“Magma storage beneath west Yellowstone Caldera is isolated from lower-crustal basalts, and we suggest that rhyolitic volcanism in this region is …

One less thing to worry about in 2025: Yellowstone probably won’t go boom – Ars Technica

Ars Technica

… caldera formed by past eruptions. Understanding Yellowstone. Yellowstone is fueled by what’s known as a hotspot, where molten material from the …

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Jan 03, 2025

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LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY with THE RISKS & CONSEQUENCES OF TOMORROW

The following excellent Post from the “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists” — long ago originated by Albert Einstein and other Manhattan Project scientists in December of 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. — contains this lead article as well as 5 other very important links to stories that every concerned (or curios) human being on planet Earth should read, contemplate, and assimilate.

We have had 79 years now to recognize and correct the nuclear errors of our ways, but we’ve failed miserably. Instead, we have made “all things nuclear” nearly ultimately or even infinitely worse. Let’s hope this year — number 80, during all of which I have lived, plus a few more — is the year that saves us and other innocent life from thoughtless “nuclear genocide”.

I realize none of us can knowingly and/or accurately predict the future of mankind and other life on planet Earth, but awareness and assimilation of the threatening dangers, including the possibility of our Earth’s 6th Extinction, ought to be forefront in our collective minds, especially the ultimate question of “What can we do to prevent it?”.

But, should this incredible travesty happen, humanity will be solely responsible for the loss of our own lives as well as for most other living presences on our Mother Earth. During the previous 5 extinctions, we simply hadn’t arrived here yet . . . Think seriously about that! ~llaw

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The nuclear year in review: Welcome to the antechamber of the next nuclear crisis

By François Diaz-Maurin | January 3, 2025

The biggest change this year in international security is, arguably, the instability now at the doors of nuclear powers, and the looming possibility of a nuclear crisis. (Illustration by François Diaz-Maurin; original photos by Korea Central News Agency/KCNA via KNS, depositphotos.com)

This past year, there has not been a single week without a reminder of the danger posed by nuclear weapons. Nuclear noise and signaling were evident; officials made implicit or explicit references to nuclear weapons and their possible use—seeming, for some observers, to call almost everything a nuclear threat. But the biggest change this year in international security is, arguably, the instability now at the doors of nuclear powers, and the looming possibility of a nuclear crisis.

The country with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal—Russia—is still ferociously waging its war against Ukraine and has now brought in North Korean troops to support its effort. Russia also updated its nuclear doctrine, expanding the conditions under which it might use nuclear weapons.

In another major development, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France authorized Ukraine to use their missile systems to strike targets inside Russia. A few days later, Russia responded by using a new intermediate-range missile against Ukraine. This new missile can reach European capitals in less than 15 minutes and can be loaded with one of several nuclear warheads, significantly increasing the risk of a potentially catastrophic misunderstanding.

In the Middle East, Iran launched large barrages of ballistic missiles against Israel—an undeclared nuclear-weapon state—on two occasions. The faceoff prompted fears that Israel might attack Iran’s nuclear sites in retaliation—a move that could have ripple effects on nuclear proliferation in the region. Several weeks ago, the United States reportedly also discussed plans to strike Iran’s nuclear sites should Tehran rush to build a nuclear weapon before the presidential inauguration on January 20.

Most recently, South Korean president made an out-of-the-blue decision to impose martial law without notifying the United States. This could have created a crisis had North Korea seized this moment of political chaos to take action against its neighbor. A longstanding mutual defense treaty binds South Korea and the United States. This year, North Korea and Russia signed their own mutual defense treaty, opening another front for a potential conflict between the two great powers.

I want to make special mention of a nuclear story from 2024 that met, in extraordinary fashion, the Bulletin’s mission by providing expertly crafted, timely information and, thereby, contributing to the reduction of nuclear risk in a crisis.

Iran vs. Israel redux: The enormous difficulties and ramifications if Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear sites
By Darya Dolzikova, Matthew Savill
This article was originally published in April, after an Iranian attack on Israel and Israel’s military response. It was republished in October because of its relevance to Iran’s second massive missile attack against Israel and the near-certainty of some sort of Israeli retaliation at the time. In this article, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) experts Darya Dolzikova and Matthew Savill explain how an Israel attack against Iran’s nuclear sites would not only be enormously difficult but could be counterproductive, pushing the Iranian regime even closer to the actual weaponization of its nuclear program.

Here are five other Bulletin nuclear stories that stood out in 2024—and that you should read.

Trump has a strategic plan for the country: Gearing up for nuclear war
By Joe Cirincione
For this piece, nuclear policy analyst and author Joe Cirincione went through the 900-page book “Mandate for Leadership” of Project 2025, which is widely seen as the template for the incoming Trump administration. The document reveals how President Trump might put nuclear weapons programs on steroids, trash what remains of the global arms control regime, and trigger new nuclear weapons programs in more other nations than we have seen at any time since the early 1960s.

The new red line: Why a prolonged conflict in Ukraine makes a nuclear attack more likely
By Phillips P. O’Brien
There should have been a nuclear war by now—at least if the wargames and academic models of state behavior are to be believed. For the last two-and-a-half years, Ukraine has repeatedly and in an escalatory fashion continued to flout the warnings of nuclear-armed Russia. Assumptions on reaching the threshold of nuclear weapons were overwrought, but those assumptions have made a nuclear conflict far more likely, professor and historian Phillips P. O’Brien argues.

Why a substantive and verifiable no-first-use treaty for nuclear weapons is possible
By Li Bin
Successive US administrations have failed to formally adopt a “sole-purpose” nuclear policy, nor have they responded positively to China’s no-first-use proposals. Chinese professor and expert Li Bin explains the many benefits of a no-first-use policy and why the next US administration should respond positively to China’s invitation to negotiate a no-first-use treaty on nuclear weapons.

The fallout never ended
By Robert Alvarez
Decades of nuclear weapons tests and other radioactive experiments injured or killed scientists, soldiers, and innocent bystanders. Many of them, and their relatives, have never been compensated, but new efforts may change that. In this special report, former Senate staffer and expert on the US nuclear program Robert Alvarez looks back at its harmful effects, and how the government addressed them—or didn’t.

AI goes nuclear
By Dawn Stover
Big tech is turning to old reactors (and planning new ones) to power the energy-hungry data centers that artificial intelligence systems need. In this feature article, Bulletin’s contributing editor Dawn Stover explains how the downsides of nuclear power—including the potential for nuclear weapons proliferation—have been minimized or simply ignored.

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There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is 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. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning 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 three Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
7. IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)

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, (01/03/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Youngkin’s energy legacy may be nuclear – WVTF

WVTF

“So as long as we are investing in something that is pollution intensive, innocent people suffer every time. And those people pay taxes too,” Cywinski ..

The US government announced a ‘historic’ nuclear energy deal – The Verge

The Verge

This agreement is another powerful example of how things … Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft have all inked splashy nuclear energy deals over the …

Jim Cramer cautions against speculating on nuclear power and quantum computing

NBC Connecticut

“This year, I see two themes that I want to caution people about: nuclear power and quantum computing,” he said. … All rights reserved. Close Menu.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

The US government announced a ‘historic’ nuclear energy deal – The Verge

The Verge

A major federal contract to purchase nuclear energy comes on the heels of similar deals made by Microsoft and other tech companies.

How 2024, the Year That Re-Energized Nuclear Power, Foretells Ongoing ‘New Nuclear …

Data Center Frontier

It’s not all because of data centers, but the industry’s energy demands are a prime motivator for the resurgence in nuclear power stakes.

Jim Cramer talks being cautious with nuclear power and quantum computing stocks

YouTube

… Jim Cramer talks being cautious with nuclear power and quantum computing stocks. No views · 1 minute ago …more. CNBC Television. 2.92M.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Enhancing EOCs with AI: A New Frontier in Emergency Management – Firehouse Magazine

Firehouse Magazine

… nuclear power plant’s emergency preparedness efforts. A Certified Emergency Manager through the International Association of Emergency Managers …

IAEA Raises Concerns Over Risks to Ukraine’s Nuclear Safety Amid Energy Infrastructure Attacks

Devdiscourse

Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant Updates. At the ZNPP … Emergency generators maintained operations until power was restored five hours later.

Nuclear War

NEWS

Working on a world free of nuclear arms | Nuclear weapons – The Guardian

The Guardian

Letters: Readers Aaron Tovish, Diana Francis and Caroline Westgate respond to our editorial about arms control to prevent nuclear war.

The rising demand for nuclear bunkers | The Week

The Week

Fears of nuclear war have caused an increase in shelter sales, but experts are sceptical of their usefulness.

The nuclear year in review: Welcome to the antechamber of the next nuclear crisis

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The country with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal—Russia—is still ferociously waging its war against Ukraine and has now brought in North Korean …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

The rising demand for nuclear bunkers | The Week

The Week

… nuclear threats are growing”. In response, more people are investing in at-home shelters, hoping to dodge theoretical warfare. Some experts say …

Close Calls: When the Cold War Almost Went Nuclear – JSTOR Daily

JSTOR Daily

Some 1,152 went to the second stage “to evaluate possible threats” and six of these went to the third and final state of threat assessment. After the …

“Scientific Disinformation” is the Latest Existential Threat to Humanity (aided by Religion)

Daily Kos

… threat to civilization and our planet. This NextGen MAD consists of three synergistic components. The authors in no way dismiss the threats of war …

Yellowstone Caldera

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Yellowstone’s volcanic activity is shifting to the northeast, geologists find – Phys.org

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The Yellowstone Caldera is a volcanic caldera and super-volcano in Yellowstone National Park, located in the Western United States—it has sometimes …

Study estimates when Yellowstone National Park’s giant supervolcano will erupt again

FOX Weather

A study on the Yellowstone Caldera, located at the center of the eponymous park and is one of the largest volcanic systems in the world, identified …

Yellowstone’s volcanic activity could be shifting northeast, study finds – The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post

The Yellowstone Caldera is a large crater located in the western-central portion of Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming. The park …

IAEA Weekly News

3 January 2025

Kick off the new year with a roundup of this week’s highlights! Read the top news and stories published on IAEA.org and stay updated on the latest developments shaping the year ahead.

2 January 2025

Update 268 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is assessing observations and information collected from its recent missions to Ukraine’s electrical substations, conducted in the aftermath of attacks on the nation’s energy infrastructure, as part of the Agency’s ongoing commitment to monitoring nuclear safety and security, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today. Read more →

2 January 2025

How Nuclear Science Uncovers the Story of Coffee

The IAEA and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations support countries in using nuclear techniques to ensure coffee quality and authenticity. Read more →

30 December 2024

Nuclear Human Resource Development for a Net Zero Future

Human resource development is fundamental to the long-term sustainability and expansion of nuclear power. Read more →

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The human error destroyed Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine that is still being cleaned up to this day. Nuclear Power is obviously neither safe nor provides reliable power production. ~llaw

Finally, a media news outlet, “POWER”, has figured out that nuclear power and their facilities and plants along with their nuclear waste are in reality potential partners in nuclear war. This story needs to be told by the media every day, and in every possible way.

Although I strongly disagree with the article relative to its high opinion that nuclear power is an important and reliable energy source and provider for any country’s needs, including the looming information technology (IT), especially that industry’s proposed AI and cloud computing needs, I do take my hat off to POWER’s executive editor Aaron Larson is r. for this well-written article and his serious warnings, a subject I have been harping about for months . . . ~llaw

War and Nuclear Energy: Risks Are Enormous for Power Industry and World

Nuclear power can be a highly important component of a country’s energy security strategy. This is true for several reasons.

Nuclear plants provide consistent baseload power that is not dependent on weather conditions or a constant fuel delivery system. Unlike solar or wind energy, nuclear power can generate electricity 24/7 with very high capacity factors, often 90% or more, which ensures a steady and predictable energy supply.

Nuclear power reduces dependence on foreign energy imports, particularly coal, oil, and natural gas. Countries with nuclear power plants can generate substantial electricity domestically, enhancing their energy independence and reducing geopolitical vulnerabilities associated with energy supply chains.

Meanwhile, nuclear fuel (uranium) is relatively abundant and concentrated, meaning a small volume of fuel can generate massive amounts of electricity. This characteristic leads to more stable and predictable energy pricing compared to fossil fuels, which are subject to significant market volatility. Uranium reserves are widely distributed globally, and modern reactor designs can use fuel very efficiently. Some advanced reactor concepts even propose recycling nuclear fuel, potentially extending fuel availability for decades or centuries.

By incorporating nuclear power into their energy mix, countries can diversify their electricity sources, reducing risks associated with over-reliance on any single energy technology or fuel type. This diversification enhances overall energy system resilience.

The Risks in War Zones

However, nuclear power plants present significant vulnerabilities during wartime, which can pose catastrophic risks to both military personnel and civilian populations. For example, a direct military strike or significant damage to a nuclear power plant could cause a massive radiological release, creating an environmental catastrophe far beyond the immediate conflict zone. The Chernobyl and Fukushima incidents have demonstrated how nuclear facility damage can create long-lasting contamination spanning hundreds of square miles.

Nuclear power plants are high-value strategic targets. An attacking force might intentionally target these facilities to create widespread environmental disruption, cause massive civilian displacement, generate long-term economic and environmental damage, or potentially contaminate critical infrastructure and agricultural lands. Unlike conventional military targets, damage to nuclear facilities can create radioactive exclusion zones, render surrounding areas uninhabitable for decades, contaminate water sources, cause long-term health risks through radiation exposure, and disrupt agricultural and economic activities in vast regions.

Protecting nuclear facilities during conflict is extremely challenging. Reactors require continuous cooling systems, robust infrastructure maintenance, specialized personnel to prevent potential meltdown scenarios, and extreme security measures that become exponentially more difficult during active combat. Meanwhile, the mere threat of nuclear facility damage can create significant psychological pressure, potentially forcing strategic withdrawals or negotiations due to the potential for catastrophic consequences.

A Real-World Problem

The risks associated with war and nuclear power are not just a thought exercise today—there’s been a real situation at hand for nearly three years. Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Notably, the largest nuclear plant in Europe—the Zaporizhzhia facility, which has six VVER-1000 units each with a capacity of about 950 MW—was seized almost immediately by Russian forces on March 4, 2022. Fighting in the territory surrounding the Zaporizhzhia plant quickly raised concerns that its reactors could be critically damaged in the crossfire. Concerns were heightened in August 2022 when two of the four high-voltage (750-kV) offsite power lines to the site were damaged by an attack.

Representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), including Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, visited the plant in late August 2022 to assess the threat of a nuclear accident. Grossi addressed the United Nations Security Council via video link on Sept. 6, 2022, saying the establishment of a “Nuclear Safety and Security Protection Zone” was urgently needed at the Zaporizhzhia site to ensure that the physical integrity of the plant was not compromised.

While no agreement was ever reached to formally implement a protection zone at Zaporizhzhia, the IAEA has continued to closely monitor and assess the situation at the site on a daily basis. It has prioritized nuclear safety and security implications, alongside ongoing verification activities.

At the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference and Expo in Orlando, Florida, on Nov. 18, 2024, Grossi spoke about the work the IAEA has done in Ukraine during the war. He specifically highlighted an attack that had taken place just days before the Orlando event. “A tremendous, ferocious attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure reminded us once again that nuclear has sometimes unexpected challenges,” he said. Grossi noted that monitoring activities at a nuclear plant on the front lines of a war is “an amazing challenge.” Still, he said it was incredibly important for the IAEA to be there.

“This is why today I have teams of dedicated staff, not only in Zaporizhzhia, but also in Rivne, in Khmelnitski, in South Ukraine, in Chernobyl,” he said, referring to all the nuclear facilities in Ukraine, which total 15 operable reactors and four permanently shut down reactors. “Every three weeks crossing the front lines. I’ve done it myself five times. They do it all the time. And sometimes we’ve done it under fire. The proud flag of the IAEA, which represents us all, is there to remind those who are in conflict that nuclear energy is for peace.”

The nuclear industry has a safety maxim that posits “an accident anywhere is an accident everywhere.” In the case of war and nuclear power, the stakes are high for everyone and an accident must be avoided at all costs.

—Aaron Larson is POWER’s executive editor.

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

UK, France and Germany reopen nuclear talks with Iran – Yahoo

Yahoo

Meanwhile, speculation about a looming Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear … (Bloomberg) — For all the exuberance about Tesla Inc. benefiting from …

In Quotes: What to watch out for in 2025 – World Nuclear News

World Nuclear News

If we as an industry don’t get ready to invest in ourselves, whether it is the supply chain or workforce or everything else, then when will we do this …

That time we almost destroyed the world | WUNC

WUNC

Any plane crash is bad, but this one was particularly dangerous because onboard that bomber were two nuclear weapons. The event was perhaps the …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Launch the Next Nuclear Corps for a More Flexible Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Federation of American Scientists

The potential of new nuclear power plants to meet energy demand, increase energy security, and revitalize local economies depends on new …

War and Nuclear Energy: Risks Are Enormous for Power Industry and World

POWER Magazine

Nuclear power can be a highly important component of a country’s energy security strategy. This is true for several reasons.

Constellation secures $1 bln in contracts to supply US government with nuclear power | Reuters

Reuters

Constellation Energy Corp. has been awarded a record $1 billion in contracts to supply nuclear power to the U.S. government, the company said on …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Duke Energy, county officials to test sirens around Harris Nuclear Plant next week

WRAL.com

… Emergency Alert System (EAS) messages. If there was ever a real emergency at the plant requiring the sirens to be sounded, local radio and …

EMA director Smitherman keeps state ahead of emergencies – Alabama Political Reporter

Alabama Political Reporter

We do a lot with the planning preparations with our nuclear power plants. There are two active ones in the state; the work we do witm allows ..

Jimmy Carter’s death invites us to consider his legacy of nuclear emergency response and …

Winnipeg Free Press

… nuclear reactor expert. In this role, he was directly involved in the emergency response to the world’s first nuclear meltdown of a reactor cor

Nuclear War

NEWS

War and Nuclear Energy: Risks Are Enormous for Power Industry and World

POWER Magazine

The Risks in War Zones. However, nuclear power plants present significant vulnerabilities during wartime, which can pose catastrophic risks to both ..

What if Russia wins in Ukraine? We can already see the shadows of a dark 2025 | ECFR

European Council on Foreign Relations

Instability is growing, Putin’s hybrid war in Europe is heating up, and for fear of escalation we have encouraged global nuclear proliferation.

Ukraine War: Russia Warns Of Nuclear War With US & NATO Over Weapons & Explosives

Fathom Journal

The deputy head of Russia’s security council expressed outrage on Friday and warned this could lead Moscow into a nuclear war with the US and NATO.

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Editors’ picks for 2024: ‘As important as Ukraine is, a Taiwan war must be Australia’s biggest worry’

ASPI Strategist

The purpose of this analysis has been to demonstrate the dangers of listening to those who focus only on the risks of resisting and deterring China.

Is Trump’s Bombast Good Diplomacy? – The American Conservative

The American Conservative

Threats and braggadocio yield diminishing returns. Us,President,Donald,Trump,Arrives,For,His,Final,. Doug Bandow. Jan 2, 2025 12:03 AM. President Joe …

Procurement: Norway Pays To Survive

StrategyPage

After World War II, Russia, Britain, and France developed nuclear weapons and the threat of those weapons being used again has made possible the ..

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Scientists track changes at the Yellowstone supervolcano. Could it blow again?

USA Today

The caldera is the enormous volcanic crater left from the last time Yellowstone experienced a giant eruption, 640,000 years ago. It covers an area …

Yellowstone Volcanic Activity on the Move, Geologists Warn – Newsweek

Newsweek

“Caldera-forming eruptions at Yellowstone are sourced by rhyolitic melts stored within the mid-to-upper crust,” the researchers explained in their …

The progression of basaltic–rhyolitic melt storage at Yellowstone Caldera | Nature

Nature

Yellowstone Caldera is one of the largest volcanic systems on Earth, hosting three major caldera-forming eruptions in the past two million years, …

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This article is from Saturday’s weekend “LLAW’a ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA“ posts, primarily because today’s nuclear media posts were mostly stories that had little or nothing to add to earlier articles. This article with video from CNBC at least offers some original information about the massive drive for nuclear power produced electricity that could dwarf the entire demand from a major city. I can’t help but wonder: WHY?

For what, you may also ask? Well it is apparently to create a “world” of Artificial Intelligence (AI to guide humanity, etc. into our already questionable future (I think) and add something called Cloud Computing”, both of which seem too futuristic to me to be anything other than downright nightmarish for the minds of human understanding and consumption — or so it seems from my own long-considered points of view. To me, it’s a feeling of ignoring and even violating our long dependence on our own basic intelligence levels and also increasingly violating our dwindling relationship with Mother Nature and the Earth itself. ~llaw

Why tech giants such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta are betting big on nuclear power

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Data centers powering artificial intelligence and cloud computing are pushing energy demand and production to new limits. Global electricity use could rise as much as 75% by 2050, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, with the tech industry’s AI ambitions driving much of the surge.

Data centers powering AI and cloud computing could soon grow so large that they could use more electricity than entire cities.

As leaders in the AI race push for further technological advancements and deployment, many are finding their energy needs increasingly at odds with their sustainability goals.

“A new data center that needs the same amount of electricity as say, Chicago, cannot just build its way out of the problem unless they understand their power needs,” said Mark Nelson, managing director of Radiant Energy Group. “Those power needs. Steady, straight through, 100% power, 24 hours a day, 365,” he added.

After years of focusing on renewables, major tech companies are now turning to nuclear power for its ability to provide massive energy in a more efficient and sustainable fashion.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are among the most recognizable names exploring or investing in nuclear power projects. Driven by the energy demands of their data centers and AI models, their announcements mark the beginning of an industrywide trend.

“What we’re seeing is nuclear power has a lot of benefits,” said Michael Terrell, senior director of energy and climate at Google. “It’s a carbon-free source of electricity. It’s a source of electricity that can be always on and run all the time. And it provides tremendous economic impact.”

After nuclear was largely written off in the past due to widespread fears about meltdowns and safety risks — and misinformation that dramatized those concerns — experts are touting tech’s recent investments as the start of a “nuclear revival” that could accelerate an energy transformation in the U.S. and around the world.

Watch the video above to learn why Big Tech is investing in nuclear power, the opposition they face and when their nuclear ambitions could actually become a reality.

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TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Wednesday, (01/01/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

All Crash Victims Identified | Next Iran Nuclear Talks on Jan 13 | WION Headlines – YouTube

YouTube

Top headlines of the hour: – Bulgeria, Romania in Schengen area – South Korea: All Crash Victims Identified – Next Iran Nuclear … Things To Anyone!

Pakistan and India conduct annual exchange of lists of nuclear assets under bilateral pact

Star Tribune

The two sides exchange such lists on the first day of January every year. In a statement on Wednesday, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the …

Will China Invade Taiwan? Will Trump Keep His Promises? And Is Polyamory Finally Out?

The Free Press

I also think cigarettes, video games, mindfulness, breath work—all of those things are out. … nuclear facilities, with U.S. support? NB: Do you …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

US to issue hydrogen credit rule this week, with path for nuclear, sources say | Reuters

Reuters

The question of whether existing nuclear plants should be eligible for the hydrogen subsidy has been a major sticking point for the rule, with …

Iran to hold nuclear talks with France, UK, Germany on January 13: Report – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

Tehran insists on its right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and has consistently denied any ambition of developing nuclear weapons capability.

Russia doubled down on nuclear threats in Europe: 2024 in review – Breaking Defense

Breaking Defense

Russia’s new nuclear doctrine, signed by Putin in November, laid out in clear terms that any non nuclear power aligned with a nuclear state, or …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Next nuclear talks between Iran and three European countries due on Jan 13 | Reuters

Reuters

13 in Geneva, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency cited the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi as saying on Wednesday. Iran held …

Next nuclear talks between Iran and three European countries due on Jan 13 | Reuters

Reuters

The next round of nuclear talks between Iran and three European countries will take place on Jan … Israel and Hamas at War · Japan · Middle East …

Guest columnist John Berkowitz: Negotiate Ukraine peace now, not risk nuclear war with Russia

Daily Hampshire Gazette

While I agree with some of Richard Fein’s ideas in his Dec. 23 column about the need to negotiate …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Russia ‘can’t sustain’ enormous levels of casualty losses it faced in 2024 – YouTube

YouTube

1:07:42. Go to channel · How Putin’s nuclear threats failed to stop Storm Shadow strikes in Russia | Frontline. Times Radio•255K views · 16:59. Go to …

US and Ally Draft Nuclear Weapons Rules Amid China, North Korea Threat – MSN

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… nuclear weapons, amid persistent threats posed to the security alliance by nuclear-armed China and North Korea. How To Get Cash From Your Home …

COMMENTARY: Nostalgic Sarcasm: Surviving Nuclear Threats with a Sense of Humor

WGNS Radio

COMMENTARY: Nostalgic Sarcasm: Surviving Nuclear Threats with a Sense of Humor … The system aimed to reassure citizens and support Cold War policies .

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Attention Montana plaintiffs: Only you, as Greta Thunberg might say, can prevent climate change

Manteca Bulletin

The Yellowstone caldera — defined by a massive crater left after the … Yellowstone as an active volcano,. Included in the USGS active column …

What’s the difference between an active, dormant and extinct volcano? – MSN

MSN

These are often clearly active volcanic systems that haven’t erupted in the Holocene. The Yellowstone Caldera, for example, has moving magma …

Mag. 2.1 quake – East China Sea, 20 km southwest of Nishinoomote, Kagoshima, Japan, on …

Volcano Discovery

Its vast caldera has an … Follow the latest developments! Yellowstone quakes · Yellowstone quakes · Latest earthquakes under Yellowstone volcano

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I will finish the 2024 year with a bit of the lighter side of “All Things Nuclear”, but the point mood, moral, and deep meaning (with a “Catch 22”) of the following very short article, inspired from a 1980’s episode of the reborn Twilight Zone” , by “The Atlantic” guest Author Adam Kirsch, is especially relevant in today’s comparative nuclear world.

May the New Year bring you all a much needed sense of a world of a new kind of peace, comfort, and unity, wherever you are on planet Earth. ~llaw

Apocalypse, Constantly

Humans love to imagine their own demise.

By Adam Kirsch

December 31, 2024, 8 AM ET

In 1985, when I was 9 years old, I watched the first episode of the new Twilight Zone, a reboot of the classic early-1960s TV series. People rarely talk about the ’80s version, which ran for just three seasons. But there must be other viewers around my age who have never forgotten “A Little Peace and Quiet,” the second story in that debut episode. It’s about a woman who discovers a magic pendant in the shape of a sundial that gives her the power to stop time. Whenever she says “Shut up,” everyone and everything in the world except her comes to a halt, resuming only when she says, “Start talking.”

At first she uses the device to give herself a break from her irritating husband and chattering children. But at the end of the episode, she hears an announcement that the Soviets have launched a nuclear attack on the United States, and she deploys the magic phrase to arrest time. In the last scene, she walks out of her house and looks up to see ICBMs frozen in midair, leaving her with an impossible choice: to unfreeze time and be destroyed along with all of humanity, or to spend eternity as the sole living person in the world.

I remember that TV image better than most of the things I saw in real life as a child. It was the perfect symbol of an understanding of history that Generation X couldn’t help but absorb—if not from The Twilight Zone, then from movies such as The Day After and WarGames. The nuclear-arms race meant that humanity’s destruction was imminent, even though no one actually wanted it, because we were collectively too stupid and frivolous to prevent it. We were terrified of the future, like the woman in the TV show—yet we also secretly longed for the arrival of the catastrophe because only it could release us from the anxiety of waiting.

About the Author

Adam Kirsch

Adam Kirsch is an editor of The Wall Street Journal’s weekend Review section and the author of The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us.

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TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Tuesday, (12/31/2024)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Apocalypse, Constantly – The Atlantic

The Atlantic

Humans love to imagine their own demise. By Adam Kirsch. collage illustration with images from disaster movies including Planet of the Apes, Don’t.

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work – The Business Journal

The Business Journal

There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor …

South Korea mourns plane crash that killed ut of 181 on board – WUSF

WUSF

The day after the worst plane crash by a South Korean airline on Korean soil, the focus turned to returning victims’ bodies to their families and .

Nuclear Power

NEWS

11 Big Wins for Nuclear Energy in 2024

Department of Energy

From welcoming a new reactor online for a second straight year to seeing two retired units pursuing historic restarts, nuclear power is definitely …

A gas boom, new nuclear opportunities and more: Power Engineering’s top articles of 2024

Power Engineering

Georgia Power announced a significant step with Vogtle Unit 4, marking the achievement of initial criticality, a key milestone in nuclear reactor …

Pushback: Happy Nuke Year for tech kings, industry – Greenfield Recorder

Greenfield Recorder

“Nuclear power is one part of that mix,” an Amazon promotion reads. Bezos is pursuing Small …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

NRC approves NextEra’s revised emergency plan after two-year review

Seacoastonline.com

NextEra owns nuclear power generating facilities at Turkey Point and St. Lucie in Florida, Point Beach in Wisconsin, as well as Seabrook Stat

Jimmy Carter’s death invites us to consider his legacy of nuclear emergency response and …

The Conversation

The Chalk River accident. In the early 1950s, before entering politics, Carter was a nuclear reactor expert. In this role, he was directly involved in …

Duke Energy and county officials to test sirens around Brunswick Nuclear Plant

Brunswick County

Follow-up testing after siren maintenance may be required after 11 a.m.. Testing is performed in cooperation with emergency officials in Brunswick and …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Russia doubled down on nuclear threats in Europe: 2024 in review – Breaking Defense

Breaking Defense

On the ground in Ukraine, another 12 months have passed, over 1000 days in all since the war started, without either side able to strike a winning …

Opinion | Pulling Back From the Nuclear Brink – The New York Times

The New York Times

… Nuclear War. To the Editor: While your editorial focuses on the first use of nuclear weapons, any decision to order their use — whether first use …

With Trump at the Helm, Nuclear Uncertainty Is Set to Grow in 2025 | Truthout

Truthout

From the volatility of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and potential clashes around Taiwan and the …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Russia doubled down on nuclear threats in Europe: 2024 in review – Breaking Defense

Breaking Defense

He added, “But by expanding the role of nuclear weapons beyond … deterrence, and by expanding the dangers that could become threats — to include …

US and Ally Draft Nuclear Weapons Rules Amid China, North Korea Threat – Newsweek

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… nuclear weapons, amid persistent threats posed to the security alliance by nuclear-armed China and North Korea. Newsweek contacted the Chinese …

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“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw

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Dec 30, 2024

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LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY AND THE RISKS & CONSEQUENCES OF TOMORROW

How we can continue to represent that nuclear power fuel (uranium) produces clean power for human consumption boggles the mind of anyone who knows anything about “all things nuclear”. The stuff is, without doubt, the dirtiest and most dangerous power-producing fuel of any kind on planet Earth, and nuclear power plants themselves are also likely targets in any global conflict that will have the unique ability to eliminate human and other species of life from existence. All one has to do is understand this duplicitous contradiction is to follow the Russia/Ukraine war . . .

We are deathly afraid of nuclear weapons of mass destruction (nuclear bombs), but we are in love with the world-wide concept of nuclear power plants — that are nothing less than stationary nuclear bombs — and their mission to help create the very scary idea of a new kind of a robotic controlled human world with something called “Artificial Intelligence” (AI). ~llaw

Here’s what our nuclear/AI world is projected to be all about from “Business Insider”:

Big Tech’s AI bets are driving a nuclear renaissance. Not everyone is buying the hype.

Riddhi Kanetkar and Hasan Chowdhury

Dec 30, 2024, 12:30 AM PST

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• Big Tech is investing in nuclear power to meet AI data-center energy demands.
• Nuclear is seen as a clean-energy source, but investors are skeptical about scalability and returns.
• While VC interest in nuclear investment is growing, startups face key bottlenecks.

The generative AI boom has made nuclear power a major new obsession for Big Tech. Some industry watchers aren’t fully convinced that it should be — or that nuclear startups will be able to capitalize on the hype.

This year, companies at the forefront of AI development have been in a frenzy over nuclear power as they’ve searched for clean sources of electricity to run the energy-hungry data centers being built to serve their prized AI models.

Microsoft made a stunning move in September when it struck a 20-year power-purchase agreement with Constellation Energy to awaken one of two dormant nuclear plants on Three Mile Island — the site of one of the most high-profile nuclear accidents in US history.

In October, Amazon took a stake in X-energy, a developer of small modular reactors, or SMRs, which promise greater efficiency than large nuclear reactors. That same month, Google announced a clean-energy agreement with Kairos Power, a company developing SMRs.

These deals have emerged at speed for a simple reason: An arms race in the tech sector between companies vying for control of the most powerful AI models is set to drive data-center power demand through the roof, with Goldman Sachs estimating a 160% jump by 2030.

However, while Big Tech’s ambitions to build the world’s most potent AI models have invigorated their interest in nuclear power, investors, energy experts, and analysts are feeling split about whether it will help startups scale at pace and deliver fruitful returns.

Why nuclear might not be a quick-fix solution

Skeptics say nuclear reactors won’t come online quickly enough or at the scale needed to meet the demands of energy-hungry data centers.

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Jill McArdle, a campaigner at the European nonprofit Beyond Fossil Fuels, told Business Insider that nuclear power is “completely off topic” as a current solution for powering data centers, particularly if tech companies are serious about the looming deadlines they’ve set to meet emissions targets.

Google aims to achieve net-zero emissions across all of its operations by 2030. Microsoft, meanwhile, has committed to being carbon-negative by 2030. “What we are talking about, especially now, is the next five years of how are we going to power this massive boom in data centers,” McArdle said.

She added that the more compact SMRs favored by Big Tech remain largely untested. Google’s corporate agreement with Kairos Power, for instance, is expected to see the startup’s first SMR come online by 2030, with others added through to 2035.

One concern around large nuclear solutions is expense, with the likes of Microsoft’s Three Mile Island deal unlikely to be replicated elsewhere. As McArdle put it: “Traditional nuclear just isn’t going to be coming online at the scale and in the budget that we need to get it done.”

Venture capitalists have echoed this concern.

“The length of the investment is not compatible with private-equity funds — maybe it’s one for evergreen funds,” said Guillaume Sarlat, a partner at the France-headquartered VC firm Axeleo Capital, which has deliberately excluded nuclear from its investment policy. “The other problem is, what are the economic conditions going to be when nuclear startups are ready to sell their product? What is going to be the cost of the electricity that they’re going to produce in 20 years?”

He speculated that funds backing nuclear could aim for an internal rate of return of 15%, but the two main parameters to determine that would be productivity gains and the competitiveness of the nuclear solution. He said these factors could be affected by the price of gas and photovoltaic materials, making it a risky bet.

Startups face key bottlenecks

On the technical side, nuclear startups will have to work hard to differentiate themselves from existing fission technologies and “persuade investors that that marginal improvement is worth waiting another 10 years,” Matthew Blain, a principal at the climate tech fund Voyager Ventures, said.

While Blain has seen “excitement” for nuclear-fusion technology, he said these startups would first need to demonstrate a believable pathway down the cost curve. “Your first dollars per megawatt of your first fusion plant will be astronomically expensive, and that will be competing on a 20- to 30-year timeframe with the cost of energy and battery storage,” he told BI.

It’s part of the reason investment in nuclear-energy startups has fluctuated over the past five years. The industry had a banner year in 2021, with startups raking in $3.57 billion in VC funding, per PitchBook data. Figures subsequently dipped in 2022 and 2023, with VCs pouring $2.67 billion and $1.17 billion into startups, respectively.

“Nuclear energy requires a centralized infrastructure that is harder to scale incrementally,” Nicolas Heuzé, the cofounder and CEO of the osmotic-energy startup Sweetch Energy, said. “And investors and governments often favor proven solutions, even though they are not perfect, over novel ones associated with emerging technology.”

The case for being bullish on nuclear

Despite the concerns, certain quarters of the tech sector remain convinced that nuclear is the way forward to support the AI data-center boom.

A16z, the venture-capital firm led by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, named “the resurgence of nuclear” as one of the big ideas driving its “American dynamism” investment theme in 2025.

“A perfect storm of regulatory reform, public enthusiasm, capital infusions, and insatiable energy needs — particularly from AI data centers — will accelerate orders for new reactors for the first time in decades,” is how David Ulevitch, a general partner at A16z, put it.

A few things still need to be figured out. Blain said that VCs will need to see if there’s profit to be made on a technology that may offer “more of an infrastructure return” typically made through debt investments than the kind of outsize return a VC typically seeks from a bet on a software business. Nuclear startups may also opt to “take the trajectory of companies like SpaceX by staying private for a long period of time,” he said.

That said, it’s clear that money is flowing into the industry again, as VCs have deployed $2.62 billion into nuclear startups this year. Notable raises included X Energy’s $500 million round and the $151 million raised by Paris-headquartered Newcleo, which is building SMRs using repurposed radioactive waste.

Newcleo’s COO, Elisabeth Rizzotti, told BI that a Big Tech-fueled boom in demand for clean energy had made it an “attractive” option for investors. She added that the startup was potentially eyeing an IPO once it met two key milestones: building its first prototype in 2026 and getting pre-authorization to build its first reactor in France by early 2027.

Companies trying to sell the world on nuclear power will have to accept a hard reality, however: The clock’s ticking on their opportunity to prove their solutions can meet the extraordinary energy demands of the AI industry. The data centers will keep on coming.

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