Notices by Bo Jacobs (bojacobs@hcommons.social)

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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/

Hanford is the most radiologically contaminated place in North America:

"Transport of radioactive liquid waste from Hanford Site draws concern from Spokane, Oregon officials"

#Hanford #nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/sep/19/transport-of-radioactive-liquid-waste-from-hanford/

"Project 2025 push to resume nuclear testing in Nevada sparks fallout in Utah"

#Project2025 #NuclearWeapons #UT #Nevada

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/08/19/critics-utah-blast-project-2025/

"What do Americans really think about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?"

https://thebulletin.org/2024/08/what-do-americans-really-think-about-the-bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/

By the A-Bomb Dome in #Hiroshima right now

The "weird” strategy was laid out by a genius long ago

@STS

Many living nearby the site only found out there had been a partial meltdown when the Woolsey Fire burned through areas contaminated with radionuclides from the meltdown and cleanup in 2018. Here is an original local news story from the time:

https://youtu.be/LKWlWnIBGIQ?si=jY3s_-SD8NoH5xh_

Remembering the partial nuclear reactor meltdown in suburban Los Angeles in 1959:

"Activists protest Santa Susana Field Lab on 65th anniversary of meltdown, citing ongoing need for cleanup"

#NuclearPower #SantaSusana @sts

https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/activists-protest-santa-susana-field-lab-on-65th-anniversary-of-meltdown-citing-ongoing-need-for-cleanup

Nuclear power plants are dependent on stable water temperatures. They will not save us from global warming:

"EDF could curb output at Golfech nuclear plant due to hot weather"

#NuclearPower #climate

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/edf-could-curb-output-golfech-nuclear-plant-due-hot-weather-2024-07-26/

NukeBros cite China as where #NuclearPower is expanding, however:

"China connected one reactor to the grid in 2023—one gigawatt. In the same year, they connected, and the numbers vary, but over 200 gigawatts of solar alone. Solar power generates more electricity in China than #nuclear power since 2022. And, of course, wind power generates more than nuclear power in China for a decade already"

#climate

https://www.powermag.com/analyst-says-nuclear-industry-is-totally-irrelevant-in-the-market-for-new-power-capacity/

Watching coverage on the BBC, as they show the candidates in various constituencies I'm seeing far less wacky candidates in fancy dress than British comedies have led me to believe are present in such situations.

"Japan, US activists condemn secret transfer of nuclear waste to uranium mill near tribal lands.

136 tonnes of waste was shipped from Japan to Energy Fuels’ uranium mill, a facility less than 2km from Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument"

#nuclear #NuclearPower #Utah #Japan #Ute

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3268519/japan-us-activists-condemn-secret-transfer-nuclear-waste-uranium-mill-near-tribal-lands

Seriously, listen to this whole interview with the head of the Heritage Foundation:

#USPOL #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation #fascism

https://digbysblog.net/2024/06/22/they-are-fanatics/

Cold War Fairy Tales from the 1950s:

Students in many school districts in the United States were issued dog tags so that their bodies could be easily identified after a nuclear attack.

@histodons

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Cold War Fairy Tales from the 1950s:

Just in case the monster under your bed turns out to be a thermonuclear weapon over your bed.

#ColdWar #NuclearWar @histodons

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