Notices by Bo Jacobs (bojacobs@hcommons.social)

14 years ago today, tens of thousands died from the earthquake and tsunami in Northern Japan, and three #nuclear reactors experienced full meltdowns. the ecological legacy has only begun...

"Not Seeing The Contaminated Forest For The Decontaminated Trees In Fukushima"

#Fukushima #NuclearPower @sts

https://apjjf.org/2021/17/Jacobs

@sts "The Times reported that they managed six-and-a-half uncomfortable hours in the core before emerging, suffering from cramps.

Then apathy set in. Though described as ‘women of intelligence and determination’ and despite having brought pastimes with them, the women didn’t do anything during that first day. ‘They did nothing but exist; the minimum of cooking, but nothing else whatever’, the organisers admitted. The rapid onset of listlessness in the three volunteers after their stint in the ‘core’ took everyone by surprise. ‘Cold, miserable, aching and stiff’, the women chatted a little, ate, took painkillers and slept."

"When three volunteers tested the government's nuclear shelter advice, they didn't expect such disturbing results. The women became listless and reported hallucinations after just 48 hours in their makeshift fallout room. "

From:

"How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment"

by Taras Young

#nuclear #NuclearWar @sts

https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/how-survive-nuclear-war-york-experiment

@fuzzface @sts Hence the intense debate in 1960-1961 about brining guns into your fallout shelter. An implicit awareness that after nuclear war, the enemy would be your neighbors and not the "commies"

The richest person in the world is very, very concerned about how much money you have.

He plans to do somehting about it.

Hey buddy, relax. What could go wrong?

"OpenAI partners with U.S. National Laboratories on scientific research, #nuclear weapons security"

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/openai-partners-with-us-national-laboratories-on-scientific-research.html

#Nuclear: failing upwards.

"Gov. Henry McMaster expressed support this week for restarting a nuclear expansion project that was never finished after utilities charged ratepayers billions of dollars for its cost, then determined eight years ago that the effort was too expensive and time-consuming to finish."

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/environment/article299443864.html

"Replacing mining with #nuclear waste? Northwestern Colorado has mixed feelings about how to save the economy"

https://coloradosun.com/2025/01/29/nuclear-waste-storage-hayden-routt-county/

Somewhere in hell, Edward Teller is lighting up a big stogie to share with Satan.

https://spacenews.com/trump-orders-iron-dome-for-america-in-sweeping-missile-defense-push/

"Elon’s Family Techno-Fascism"

"Elon Musk’s grandfather Joshua Haldeman was arrested in Canada in 1940 for being a leader of the fascist movement “Technocracy, Inc.” that wanted to make “technocrats” dictators of society."

https://digbysblog.net/2025/01/27/elons-family-techno-fascism/

"Renewable energy trounces nuclear on generation costs

"Power planners have found #nuclear energy does not stack up for Australia even after considering new parameters, with large-scale solar and big batteries still the lowest-cost option.

For the seventh straight year, renewables were the lowest-cost of any new-build electricity-generating technology."

#NuclearPower #climate

https://thewest.com.au/business/renewable-energy-trounces-nuclear-on-generation-costs-c-17018528

These (with ChatGPT) are the big backers of nuclear power. That tells you most of what you need to know about whether it is about helping you or subjecting you.

#NuclearPower

Honored to have given the keynote lecture at the annual Hiroshima Peace Institute’s International Symposium in the #Hiroshima Peace Park this last weekend. My topic was, "Nuclear Weapon Development and Possession as Violence: The Global Hibakusha"

@histodons @sts #nuclear #Hiroshima #peace

Thanksgiving in Japan, always odd, mostly because people here ask me to explain it. They've seen it in Ameircan movies and TV shows, and wonder what the origins are.

I explain that the pilgrims were starving, and the Native Americans fed them and there was a feast and community making........but then things didn't go so well, and there was a genocide.

#Japan #Thanksgiving @histodons

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Proud to have contributed to this expose, first piece published in the Guardian today. Entire series in the follow up post.

#nuclear #ColdWar #SF @sts @histodons

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/san-francisco-navy-lab-human-radiation

"Concern about the government’s revived push for nuclear energy grew after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit Japan’s Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024, killing more than 400 people and damaging more than 100,000 structures. The quake caused minor damage to two nearby nuclear facilities, and evacuation plans for the region were found to be inadequate."

#nuclear #NuclearPower #Japan

https://apnews.com/article/japan-nuclear-reactor-tsuruga-no-2-fukushima-ce7c1ee9db0e6978b27053bc1bc1839b

"Dispatch from a nuclear petting zoo"

How the language of deterrence depicts nuclear weapons as natural and controllable.

By Collin Van Son

@sts #nuclear

https://thebulletin.org/2024/11/dispatch-from-a-nuclear-petting-zoo/

"Radioactive water continues to be a flashpoint in cleanup of Pilgrim nuclear site.

But the reactor building still stands, and within it sits a problem: nearly a million gallons of radioactive wastewater."

#nuclear #NuclearPower #PilgrimNPP #MA

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/10/24/pilgrim-holtec-radiactive-wastewater-cape-cod-bay

Has anyone seen any description of how #Google and #Microsoft plan to manage and contain the spent nuclear fuel from their reactors?

Or is that another instance of AI-cadabra?

Move fast and break things that are nuclear reactors!

@sts #AI-cadabra #nuclear #NuclearPower

"Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon"

https://theonion.com/iran-worried-u-s-might-be-building-8-500th-nuclear-wea-1819573283/