LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #686, Tuesday, (07/09/2024)
LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #686, Tuesday, (07/09/2024)
“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
China’s artificial sun takes a major step forward . . .
LLAW’s NUCLEAR ISSUES & COMMENTS, Tuesday, (07/09/2024)
Why do we spend so much time and energy trying to create new power production from nuclear sources when Mother Nature has provided all life, including human life, with anything and everything we need to survive?
Yet our own “natural” resources are apparently not enough to satisfy our preconceived needs when, all the while we are ignoring an abundance of natural energy sources all over the globe that are no doubt all we need for as long as we occupy planet Earth. ~llaw
China's Artificial Sun Generated a Magnetic Field, Clearing a Real Path for Fusion
It’s a crucial step forward in the quest for clean energy.
BY CAROLINE DELBERT PUBLISHED: JUL 08, 2024 1:53 PM EDT
China joined the quest for an enormous, internationally cooperative nuclear fusion reactor in 2023. Now, they’ve reached a milestone by generating its magnetic field for the first time—a field that is entirely new in tis design. The “artificial sun” reactor, Huanliu-3 (HL-3), is a tokamak run by 17 collaborating labs and facilities around the world. But the much-ballyhooed quest to make energy using these huge reactors still has a decade or more to go, with a lot of misinformation in the mix.
While HL-3 puts China in the group of forerunners in nuclear fusion research, this reactor isn’t the largest (by far), and this milestone is only for its own timeline. This reactor is not close to operating consistently or producing energy that compares to the vast amounts of energy it and other similar reactors—known as tokamaks—require to operate. But HL-3, like many global tokamaks, is considered a proving ground for technologies that nations like China will offer to the truly world-leading ITER project in France. In that sense, each nation’s developments could make a difference going forward.
A tokamak is a donut-shaped (toroidal, in the science parlance) container that holds a stream of superheated magnetic plasma and is reinforced by massive magnets and supercooling encasement. The plasma—a cohesive “cloud” of atoms under star-like conditions—ends up hosting the same reactions that fuel the actual stars. The nuclei of atoms fuse together and release an enormous amount of energy... in theory. We know it happens in the stars, but we’ve never seen it happen in the same runaway, self-sustaining manner inside a thousand-ton piece of machinery on Earth.
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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS,Tuesday, (07/09/2024)
All Things Nuclear
NEWS
Florida regulators eye new nuclear power - WUSF
WUSF
All Things Considered · 1A · Here & Now · Fresh Air · On Point · Florida Matters ... Nuclear plants generate about 13 percent of Florida's electricity ...
Europe's Nuclear Renaissance Could Strengthen Transatlantic Ties - CEPA
CEPA
... all things that can go wrong in project finance. The war in Ukraine has ... about one-third of the generating capacity of traditional nuclear power ...
China's Artificial Sun Generated a Magnetic Field, Clearing a Real Path for Fusion
Popular Mechanics
China's HL-3 tokamak generated a magnetic field, marking a major milestone in fusion research. It places China among the leaders in nuclear fusion ...
Nuclear Power
NEWS
New nuclear power plant eyed in Florida - ClickOrlando.com
ClickOrlando.com
Nuclear plants generate about 13% of Florida's electricity, according to a state House analysis, with Florida Power & Light operating the St. Lucie ...
Florida considers new nuclear power expansion, first in decades - WOKV
WOKV
... adding new nuclear power plants for the first time in decades, with state regulators set to study the feasibility of advanced nuclear technologies.
Texas Nuclear Power Plant Hit By Hurricane Beryl - Newsweek
Newsweek
The South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company (STPNOC), which is "one of the newest and largest nuclear power facilities in the nation" according ...
Nuclear Power Emergencies
NEWS
Nuclear power plant sirens in North Carolina go off inadvertently - FOX8 WGHP
FOX8 WGHP
Wake County emergency managers, who received calls about the sirens, worked with neighboring agencies and Duke Energy to figure out what was going on ...
Harris Nuclear Plant siren isn't an emergency, county says | Raleigh News & Observer
The News & Observer
Sirens sounded by accident Monday morning near Duke Energy's Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant in Wake County. The alerts sounded while Duke was ...
Nuclear plant to test sirens this week | Port City Daily
Port City Daily
Local broadcasting stations will not be interrupted via the broadcast Emergency Alert System (EAS). However, if there were a legitimate emergency at ...
Nuclear War
NEWS
NATO's Endgame Appears to Be Nuclear War | Common Dreams
Common Dreams
The world is on the brink of nuclear war as tensions between Russia and the West escalate.
Scientists Call to Cancel New Nuclear Missiles
Union of Concerned Scientists
“These weapons – stored in silos across the Plains states – place a target on communities and increase the risk of nuclear war while offering no ...
True security for NATO requires moving away from nuclear weapons - ICAN
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
When NATO leaders gather in Washington DC on 9 July their agenda will be dominated by next steps in their support for Ukraine in its war with ...
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
NATO summit starts as Russia, China threats against US grow - USA Today
USA Today
How dangerous are China and Russia? Threats grow as NATO leaders meet in Washington. · In the Cold War, America had only the Soviet Union to deter, ...
True security for NATO requires moving away from nuclear weapons - ICAN
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Russia's threats to use nuclear weapons in the context of the war in ... In light of the heightened threat of nuclear war, it would be a ...
US Sentinel missile woes raise nuclear readiness concerns - Asia Times
Asia Times
The US Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program's skyrocketing costs threaten the crucial weapon's future just as the US faces ...
Yellowstone Caldera
NEWS
New Yellowstone eruption data changes understanding of volcanic hazards - Buckrail
Buckrail
JACKSON, Wyo. — Last month, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) published its 2023 Annual Report with new insights into lava flow eruptions ...
Solving the mystery of the “Pearlette volcanic ash” | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
USGS.gov
Digital elevation model of Yellowstone National Park and vicinity, showing the location of the calderas formed during each of Yellowstone's three most ...
The 15 disasters most likely to destroy the world - MSN
MSN
Supervolcano. There has never been a supervolcano in human history, but ... Yellowstone Caldera hotspot in Wyoming, did erupt. Dust and sulfur ...