LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #626, Friday, (05/10/2024)
LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #626, Friday, (05/10/2024)
“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
LLAW’s NUCLEAR ISSUES & COMMENTS, Friday, (05/10/2024)
The human world(s) are playing a very dangerous game of “Russian Roulette”, shooting ourselves and/or nuking ourselves to death. It’s like we have our pistols drawn from their holsters, pointed directly at both ears, tense but ready to pull both triggers at once. With one pistol there is an 83.3:1 chance that we will die; with both six-shooters there is is a 87.5:1 chance that we will die. So the chances are we will likely die and it really doesn’t matter much about how may pistols we draw on ourselves assuming the odds are the same with each weapon whether we have just one weapon for our demise or both of them, but multiple weapons do slightly increase our chances of dying.
We are betting that neither threat happens, allowing us to live our lives in comfort without nuclear war and nuclear power pulling the trigger, leaving us alone during our lifetimes. But with “Russian Roulette” we have only a 12.5% chance. And the odds are even worse if we include CO2’s climate change/global warming. You may doubt my ‘Russian Roulette’ theory, and you may be right to do so, but why on Earth are we so nonchalant about caring that it could happen — and at any time — and we may well, in fact, be using a single-shot pistol, unfortunately. We are no doubt coming closer every day of our lives by believing that nuclear ‘deterrence’ as defined by our nuclear-powered countries’ leaders in the war situation, and by “clean, safe, and necessary’ as defined by the nuclear industry and politicians in the nuclear power case. Both are all about greed, worshipping money more than life, willful ignorance, and thoughtless inattention. Yes, that’s right; collectively we don’t seem to even care, which is the root of all evil. Einstein, Plato, and many others in between them have been quoted as saying something like, “it doesn’t matter that we allow evil men to lead us, but they’re not the problem — we are the problem for doing nothing about it.”
Each and every day for 85% of my most recent two years of life (coincidentally much like the ‘Russian Roulette’ odds), every evening I have been pleading for the everyday people, like you and me, to band together and tell our leaders, “We ain’t gonna take it any more!” With the cyber world we have these days, using the Internet and just one Social Media network (Facebook, with 3 billion plus Monthly Active Users (MAUs) could handle the majority of the effort), we could tell our world leaders in every country to “cease and desist”. All we have to do is know how to reach them in our own country (there are dozens of ways to do that, including Google) and tell them in ‘so many words’ to STOP IT! (All of it — both Nuclear War and Nuclear Energy).
There is no way we can rely on either nuclear war deterrence nor commercial nuclear power to resolve our world-wide problems. The fact is, we are all, including other innocent life, on a one-way highway to self-destruction, creating the 6th Extinction on a dead planet Earth. ~llaw
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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS, Friday, (05/10/2024)
All Things Nuclear
NEWSam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help further his AI ambitions
CNBC
5 THINGS five-things-logo · logo ... Oklo's business model is based on commercializing nuclear fission, the reaction that fuels all nuclear power plants ...
Former passenger jets bought by US firm tasked with creating next generation nuclear ... - CNN
CNN
That economy-class seat you once occupied while flying in Asia might one day be the very place from where the United States nuclear weapons ...
The case of the mysterious Montpelier molar | Vermont Public
Vermont Public
There are some questions that we get in the Brave Little State inbox that keep us up at night. Like this one, about a tooth that's stuck in a wall ...
Nuclear Power
NEWS
China and France aim to strengthen nuclear energy cooperation
World Nuclear News
China's CGN and France's EDF have signed a Letter of Intent on deepening and expanding cooperation on nuclear energy - it came as President ...
Hungary and China sign nuclear energy cooperation agreement
World Nuclear News
A memorandum of understanding on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy has been signed by the China Atomic Energy Authority and Hungary's Ministry ...
Fixation on UK nuclear power may not help to solve climate crisis - The Guardian
The Guardian
These reactors, from tiny ones of the type that power nuclear submarines, to scaled-up versions that can, in theory, be factory produced and built in ...
Nuclear War
NEWS
Medvedev says aim of nuclear exercises is to work out response to attacks on Russian soil
Reuters
Medvedev, a former president who is now deputy chairman of Russia's security council, warned the West that Russia could attack not only Ukraine in ...
More Must Be Done to Prevent a Nuclear Nightmare - The Cipher Brief
The Cipher Brief
OPINION — The proliferation of nuclear weapons and the recent Iranian attack on Israel are two reasons why we should upgrade our missile defense ...
Iran warns it will change nuclear doctrine if 'existence threatened' - Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
“In the case of an attack on our nuclear facilities by the Zionist ... war on Gaza last October. On Thursday, Syrian air defences shot down what ...
Nuclear War Threats
NEW
Putin's threats of using nuclear weapons should not be seen as a bluff | Marc Bennetts
YouTube
Putin has threatened on numerous of using nuclear weapons. So far Western officials have seen it as a bluff. To me this is slightly risky.
Yemen's Houthi rebels claim 2 attacks; Iran renews threat of nuclear weapon - VOA News
VOA News
Yemen's Houthi rebels claim 2 attacks; Iran renews threat of nuclear weapon ... war on the militant group in the Gaza Strip. ... "Recently, the military ...
Days After Ordering Nuclear Drills, Putin Warns Of Rising Global Risks - Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
Speaking on Moscow's Red Square on May 9 to mark Russia's victory over Nazi Germany in World War ... nuclear forces as well. ... The threats to leave the ...
Yellowstone Caldera
NEWS
Yellowstone Supervolcano: Is An Eruption Really Overdue? - IFLScience
IFLScience
The Yellowstone Caldera is a 70- by 45-kilometer (43- by 28-mile) crater located in northwestern Wyoming, filled with hot springs, geyser basins ...
Eyes on Earth Episode 118 – Preparing for Landsat Next, Part 2 - YouTube
YouTube
4:34 · Go to channel · Ship Wrecked in Yellowstone Lake? (Yellowstone Volcano Monthly Update - April 2024). USGS•11K views · 5:00 · Go to channel ...