LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #484 (12/18/2023)
”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
LLAW’s ISSUES & THOUGHTS TONIGHT:
Solving the death-defying mission of weaning ourselves from and reversing our daily march toward the 6th Extinction requires the active cooperation of every human on planet Earth. Saving ourselves is not just for the egghead academics, the power-consuming industries and manufacturers, the capitalistic banks, the protestors, the technological scientists, nor the power supply companies that can’t keep up with the demand from the rest of us, and so it goes on and on and on, but also exposed to you and me and our neighbors down the street. And we assume there is nothing we can do about it.
If humanity, and therefore most other innocent life on Earth, is going to survive, we — the ones who are creating this doomsday issue — must join the effort with no exceptions or we will fail. We can’t have “pie-in-the-sky” worldly political or military agreements made by politicians and self-important leaders who only pretend to “one-day in the future” accomplish this life-or-death purpose. Because if we rely on ‘agreements’, ‘compacts’, “promises”, “deterrence”, “handshakes”, and ‘I do’s”, no progress will ever be made. Why? Because ‘failure’ is built into everyone of these kinds of mutual well-intentioned but impossible to achieve concepts. It happens every time an international conference on such issues is held, including the just completed CO28 conference in Dubai where multiple, but not all, nations agreed to increase nuclear power energy by a multiple of three times by 2050.
I can assure you, that most of those who signed on to the agreement, already know it will never happen. As an example, a similar agreement was made in 2009 from which not one resolution from that agreement has been accomplished, enacted or resolved. This “by 2050 declaration” will be the same, partly because it is impossible as has been pointed out in my two previous nightly Posts — and because it’s all about nuclear energy, I am very glad to watch it fail — even though I won’t still be around in 2050 because my concerns will have permanently expired. But maybe yours and your kids and theirs’ will still be ‘facing the music’ if you’ve not already joined me from radiation and/or asphyxiation.
We, you, me, and the family down the street know what is wrong because we see it every day wherever we go, staring us in the same shame-faced flabby shape of over-indulgence. We are over-indulging ourselves to our immanent deaths because if only a few of us stop stuffing ourselves full of comforting energy, but the others don’t, we are, like all the others, the ones who also suffer on our own self-imposed diet that nobody else pays any attention to. So we all lose together as one . . .
My point is that we all — and I mean all — have to join the clean-up energy consumption party or we all die because once the Earth is polluted to a rapidly approaching certain point, we have no other place to go, so we all share the same fate, and as Pogo has warned us over and over, “We have found the enemy and he is us.” We need to remember that humans, like other animals, once lived like those other animals and survived quite well with what Mother Nature had to offer, but this idea of living our lives beyond what She has to offer is nothing more than self-inflicted death. We have created our own hell-fire and brimstone right here on this extremely gorgeous and generous and easily livable planet, and if we don’t realize that as a mutual admiration society, we will soon pay the consequences. Perhaps it will happen in what remains of my own lifetime. ~llaw
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’S ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA:
There are 5 categories (plus a bonus category at the end for news about the Yellowstone caldera and others that also play an important role in humanity’s lives) as do ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 linked most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none. The Categories are listed below in their usual appearing order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear War
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Yellowstone Caldera (There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in tonight’s Post.)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (per above). There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in this Post. If a category heading does not appear, it means there was no news reported from this category today.
(Just a reminder: When linked, the access to the media story will be underlined. If there is no link to a media story of interest you can still copy and paste the headline and lead line into your browser to find the article you are seeking. Hopefully this will never happen.)
TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (12/18/2023) :
All Things Nuclear
NEWS
Nuclear Threats Are Looming, And Nobody Knows How Many Nukes Are Out There - VICE
VICE
“Russia tends to do this fantastic thing, where, at the end of every year, the commanders of their missile forces, they all sit down for an interview ...
Nuclear expert Mycle Schneider on the COP28 pledge to triple nuclear energy production
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
I mean, the organizers were all very happy about the turnout and coverage is enormous. Diaz-Maurin: It's undoubtedly a landmark report. With over ...
Inside the world's first reactor that will power Earth using the same nuclear reaction as the Sun
Euronews.com
Moreover, the material in a fusion plant, deuterium and tritium, and the material coming out, non-radioactive helium and a neutron, are all harnessed.
Nuclear Power
NEWS
Documents Reveal Hidden Problems at Russia's Nuclear Powerhouse - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
... power grid, to generate electricity at the Astravets Nuclear Power Plant detected a mysterious and exceedingly rare problem. Resin was seeping ...
DA's Mileham spewed political propaganda - nuclear power is cheaper, safer, faster.
YouTube
... nuclear power being corrupt, expensive and outdated. Kemm spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg. Video production by Frances Hamman Your early morning ...
Ukraine and Westinghouse sign agreement for Khmelnitsky AP1000 - World Nuclear News
World Nuclear News
Ukraine's Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko, Energoatom President Petro Kotin and Westinghouse CEO Patrick Fragman have signed an agreement on ...
Nuclear War
NEWS
N. Korea test-fires ballistic missile, blasts US for provoking 'preview of nuclear war'
France 24
"The armed forces of the DPRK will thoroughly neutralize the U.S. and its vassal forces' attempt to ignite a nuclear war and thus reliably ensure ...
North Korea fires what appears to be a long-range ballistic missile - CNBC
CNBC
... nuclear attack would lead to the end of the regime. South Korea condemned ... nuclear war planning. The statement by an unnamed ministry spokesman ...
North Korea fires ballistic missile in 'preview of nuclear war' - Japan - The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post
Less than half an hour after the launch, North Korean state media carried a statement from the defense ministry criticizing "military gangsters" ...
Nuclear Power Emergencies
NEW
Emergency flood alerts across North Queensland I SBS News
SBS
US Congress passes legislation to sell nuclear-powered submarines ...
Nuclear War Threats
NEW
North Korea fires ICBM after condemning U.S. 'war' moves - CNBC
CNBC
... threat, Washington warned any nuclear attack would lead to the end of the regime. North Korea says it has a sovereign right to operate a ballistic ...
North Korea resumes missile launches in 'threat to peace and stability' - Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
... nuclear deterrence capabilities in the face of North Korea's evolving nuclear threats. ... war in Ukraine in exchange for Russian technological ...
North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Into the Sea - Time
Time
... nuclear deterrence plans against North Korean threats. South Korea's ... nuclear attack. The North has test-fired more than 100 missiles since the ...
Yellowstone Caldera
NEWS
Discover the Enchantment of Yellowstone Lakes: A Visitor's Guide | Wealth of Geeks
Wealth of Geeks
Yellowstone Lake also serves as a window into the park's unique geological features. Its location atop the Yellowstone Caldera provides visitors ...
Man Accidentally Falls Into Yellowstone Hot Spring, Dissolves Within A Day - It's Gone Viral
It's Gone Viral
However, as Yellowstone is home to the Yellowstone Caldera – sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano – it's no surprise that the ...