LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #530 (02/03/2024)
LLAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #530 (02/03/2024)
“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
This is a photo of some of the thousands of tanks containing some 350 million gallons of Fukushima nuclear waste. Approved by the United Nations. A preface of our future?
LLAW’s THOUGHTS & COMMENTS:
Continuing with the final segment of the Introduction (Preface) presented daily beginning with Post #528 on February 1st in continuity of this short Prologue leading up to the beginning of the dark story of “El Nuclear Diablo”, a novel I will be serializing here on ‘All Things Nuclear’ on a weekly basis . . .
# Introduction to “El Nuclear Diablo” a Novel by Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft
These last several days we have followed spring’s warming north along the western United States and British Columbia coasts by yacht. Any boat is ripe for the pickings of choice at any deserted marina, which would likely be most all of them, although fortunately for our personal and legal comfort, two of our crew also happen to be the legitimate owners of our schooner, allowing us all some conscientious relief.
California, Oregon, and Washington (other than the shoddy and extremely dangerous shutdown activity at El Diablo, have long been devoid of operational nuclear power plants with the exception of Washington’s inland Richmond plant (known as the “Columbia River Generating Station”), which, unlike PG&E’s El Diablo Canyon plant was, is not in the process of closing, leaving it to be the only functional nuclear power facility anywhere in the entire Pacific Northwest or anywhere else along the western Pacific coastline from the Aleutians to Tierra del Fuego.
We will soon be looking forward to scientific and experienced help from the governmental and corporate experts in eastern Washington who are still to this day handling and cleaning up the fallout from the infamous Hanford plutonium military arms manufacturing disaster that has contaminated wide swaths of earth and the Columbia River for decades. Oregon has not had an operating nuclear power plant since the mid-1990s when their only facility, near Mt. St. Helens, developed structural cracks forcing the plant to close, and British Columbia has, quite honorably, never built one. Alaska’s only nuclear facility was shut down more than fifty years ago, and today it uses diesel engines to generate steam. Juneau is the closest downwind haven from nuclear airborne protection and freedom from contamination that the climate and geography can offer, along with the fortunate absence of nearby previously operational nuclear power facilities, providing at least a temporary refuge from the eastern Asian Pacific together with the central and eastern United States, eastern Canada, and European soon-to- be extinction level atmospheric conditions.
Some of the oceanographers, atmospheric scientists, and meteorologists who were already here in Juneau are trying to determine predictable, but limited few and far-between, world-wide safe zones and timelines, comparing Juneau’s and its surrounding weather patterns and wind history. They have long understood the favorable high-altitude wind currents and conditions that hopefully will carry airborne radiation far above and around us for a few months at least, giving us critical time to figure out just where the world’s few survivors will need to migrate and congregate. We know, too, that global communications will be inadequate to the point of probable futility, possibly requiring some of us to travel, sometimes long distances afoot, to gather these groups together and guide them to new promising safelands.
Our future could turn out to be very much like an extended encore and final Mad Max film, although, ironically, Australia has no nuclear energy power plants, which they banned officially in 1998. But true isolated tribalism will return everywhere to the few of us who are left to make our way on a mostly neutered and dead planet that will eventually consume Australia as well, although it may be the last bastion of life along with New Zealand, whose leaders have also banned nuclear reactors save for the conjoined U.S. military/Australia world-wide espionage Pine Ridge project near Alice Springs. Yet this death threat by human hands meddling with something akin to the fusion power of the sun will eventually be a negatively significant part of their survival story, or lack of it, as well as our own.
A new way of life in a desolate no doubt cruel but lonesome world does not normally make for a pretty picture — nor a heart-warming romantic adventure tale. But still…so long as there is hope there is a story… ~llaw (Spring, 2028)
End of “El Nuclear Diablo” Introduction: Chapter One will begin in two weeks, providing me with a week’s head start, from today on this “All Things Nuclear” platform. May this dystopian doomsday story awaken us all to seek a more immediate and nuclear-free forever-extended life on planet Earth. ~Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft (Author)
In the meantime I will continue with my commentary and opinion on the everyday ‘All Things Nuclear” categorized as always by your reader interests in this pathetic and dangerous nuclear world. My opinion for today: “We know not what we are doing!” ~llaw
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’S ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA:
There are 6 categories (including a bonus category at the end for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity 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 links to 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:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear War
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Yellowstone Caldera (There are no 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). If a category heading does not appear, it means there was no news reported from this category today. There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available at the end of this Post.
(A reminder, just in case: 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 (02/03/2024):
All Things Nuclear
NEWS
Police: Inert Cold War-era missile found in garage of Washington state home - WFMZ.com
WFMZ.com
... that is designed to carry a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead. ... How concerned are you, if at all, about the recent waves of layoffs at major companies in ...
Vibrations in cooling system mean new Georgia nuclear reactor will again be delayed
WUGA
A new nuclear reactor is delayed in construction due to a vibrating ... All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:30 PM Marketplace. 0:00. 0:00. All Things ...
Could a Rogue Billionaire Make a Nuclear Weapon? - WSJ
WSJ
... about it every day. He said the study was sparked by the way gas centrifuges had lowered the bar to entry when it came to nuclear weapons. In the ...
Nuclear Power
NEWS
Biden poised to approve $1.5B loan to reopen Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan
WDET 101.9 FM
The federal government is expected to approve a $1.5 billion loan to restart the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan, according to a report ...
Nuclear reactor in Georgia delayed due to vibrations in cooling system | Fox News
Fox News
Vibrations found in Georgia's newest nuclear reactor will delay the start date for when the unit starts generating power, making the project much ...
Nuclear power on the moon: NASA wraps up 1st phase of ambitious reactor project
Space.com
NASA is wrapping up the design phase of a project to develop concepts for a small, electricity-generating nuclear fission reactor for use on the ...
Nuclear War
NEWS
AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames | New Scientist
New Scientist
“Given that OpenAI recently changed their terms of service to no longer prohibit military and warfare use cases, understanding the implications of ...
Iran could spark terrifying nuclear world war 'in the blink of an eye' - The US Sun
The US Sun
Observers have long accused Iran of aggressively growing its uranium stockpile in breach of the 2015 nuclear deal that aimed to curb the Tehran's nuke ...
World War 3 fears explode as Iran could trigger nuclear war 'in the blink of an eye'
Daily Express
Iran accelerated in late 2023 the rate at which it is producing near weapons-grade uranium, the UN atomic watchdog said.
Nuclear Power Emergencies
NEWS
Nuclear Emergency Guidelines to Be Reviewed after Noto Quake - JIJI PRESS
JIJI PRESS
... nuclear power station set to be used by local residents during evacuation. The 7.6-magnitude quake also damaged many buildings, leaving some areas ...
Residents Petition Against Nuclear Reactor Restart - Safety Concerns Rise After Earthquake
Medriva
In light of the recent disaster and the subsequent damage to the Shika plant, experts have highlighted the need to revise nuclear emergency response ...
Two U.S. Refineries Returning To Service After Emergency Outages | OilPrice.com
Oil Price
3 days Nuclear Power Plant to Reopen in Michigan. 3 days The U.S. Is ... Two U.S. Refineries Returning To Service After Emergency Outages. By ...
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
(Opinion) William Lambers: Doomsday Clock still at 90 seconds to midnight, we need to stop it
Greeley Tribune
... threat of nuclear weapons. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists makes an annual announcement measuring how close the world is to nuclear war. It ...
North Korea Test Fires More Missiles as Part of 'War Preparations' - Knewz
Knewz
... threats from countries like the U.S. and South Korea. Kim said that ... “The reality that nuclear war exercises against our republic have been ...
Yellowstone Caldera
NEWS
GPS stations measure winter snow weighing down Yellowstone - Billings Gazette
Billings Gazette
Since 2015, the Yellowstone caldera has been subsiding at a rate of about 1 inch a year. But the deformation changes seasonally due to variati…
Whisper or Roar? No More Secrets - YouTube
YouTube
... caldera-chronicles?utm_source=2024-feb-1&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=nh-volcanoes-fy24 Yellowstone Volcano site https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes ...