Nuke Power at the Brink of Bankruptcy, War, Apocalypse
Nuke Power at the Brink of Bankruptcy, War, Apocalypse https://www.rsn.org/001/nuke-power-at-the-brink-of-bankruptcy-war-apocalypse.html?print=1 Harvey Wasserman/Reader Supported News 19 Feb 22,
Fifteen atomic reactors in Ukraine currently spew out massive quantities of radiation alongside the smoldering ruin of Chernobyl Unit 4.War could easily—-and soon!—-turn each into a nuke of mass destruction, blasting into the eco-sphere clouds of lethal fallout far in excess of actual A-Bombs, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Like the rest of the global fleet, Ukraine’s reactors are sitting ducks, set to explode. They symbolize an monumental technological failure, left in the radioactive dust by the rise of renewables. But a devious, deceitful industry is desperate to kill green power, even if its dirty, decayed rump reactors could mushroom as you read this.
The essential unity between atomic power and weapons has been set since birth. France’s Macron now explicitly argues that “peaceful” reactors are needed to sustain the French atomic weapons program.
Cesium fallout from the four exploded Fukushima reactors exceeds that from Hiroshima and Nagasaki by a factor of more than 100. A compendium of studies at Chernobyl indicates a human death toll of more than a million. People and animals died in droves at Three Mile Island. After six decades of development, no US “Peaceful” atomic reactors can get private insurance against the liabilities of a catastrophic accident.
But the 400 nukes operating worldwide (93 in the US) threaten just that.
They burn at 571 degrees Fahrenheit, heating the planet. They spew carbon 14 and other greenhouse gases as they gouge their fuel, burn their innards and plague us all with unmanageable wastes.
Construction began on ALL US nukes at least thirty years ago. They’re embrittled, cracked, under-maintained, obsolete, ticking time bombs. Many are operating far beyond original design specs. Their workforces are aging and retiring. They sit in earthquake zones and flood plains, vulnerable to hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, sabotage, war.
Attempts to build more of these old-style water-cooled clunkers have catastrophically failed at Olkiluoto in Finland, Flamanville in France, V.C. Summer in South Carolina (abandoned at a cost of $10 billion), Vogtle in Georgia…where two reactors that may never open have soared past $30 billion, potentially bankrupting the Peach State.
Powered with a mix of plutonium, the explosion at Fukushima Unit Three threw up a familiar mushroom cloud. Millions of gallons of radwaste there are poised to be poured into the Pacific.
Yet the nuke industry wants to paint itself green. It hides its massive carbon emissions…ignores the gargantuan quantities of heat and wastes each reactor pours into the eco-sphere….kills billions of land and sea creatures every day.
The reactor industry’s clearest present danger centers on its non-stop radiation releases and millions of tons of radioactive offal that can’t be managed.
But possible war in Ukraine (or elsewhere) could dwarf Chernobyl in a matter of moments. As both the Russians and the Ukrainians well know, these are pre-deployed Atomic Bombs, easily turned Apocalyptic by conventional weapons, advanced cyber-attack or simple incompetence.
The latest stab at reviving this zombie technology centers on “Small Modular Reactors.” Some models are meant to be cooled by liquid sodium, which has already caused an explosive 1959 radiation release at Santa Susana, north of Los Angeles, and a 1966 melt-down at Fermi I, south of Detroit.
All SMRs are years away from mass production. If built, they’ll emit huge quantities of heat and greenhouse gasses. They’ll divert enormous quantities of resources that could otherwise go for renewables that are cleaner, cheaper, safer, more reliable, more job-creating, more quickly deployed…and that that won’t explode, create radioactive waste or heat the planet.
SMRs today currently work primarily as scams grifting billions of public dollars into the pockets of the likes of Bill Gates. They’re virtually certain to fail. One or more are likely to explode.
They can never compete with the solar, wind, battery and LED/efficiency technologies revolutionizing global green energy. With an astonishing record of meteoric advances, these four pillars of Solartopia have pushed all fossil/nuclear technologies into history’s economic waste bin. As long as there are rooftops bare of solar panels, and offshore sites ready for wind turbines, the real market for any other form of new energy is marginal at best.
But the corporate nuke pushers don’t care. Their mainly theoretical new reactors can never compete. Their old ones are uninsured, falling apart, spewing heat, carbon, radiation and death while losing mega-tons of YOUR money.
AND they can blow up… as at Fukushima and Chernobyl.
With war coming right at them, ALL reactors need to be shut NOW…before they ignite the next Apocalypse…which YOU will pay for with your life, health, family, fortune and future.
The world reaks of death from humans
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqhp69whyEE
If things keep getting worse with the likes of sleepy Joe and fuko the clown people better start kissing their ass goodbye
https://twitter.com/i/status/1493980689250889739
Assassin bugs carry chagas I saw two of them in Louisiana last week more pestilence from human atupidity
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ReplyDeleteThe mess that is the nuclear imperialist USa
JPMORGAN SAYS OIL PRICES WILL AVERAGE $110 IN SECOND QUARTER. Wheat is peaking in Chicago at the prospect of war w Russia and
From the Ukrainian fiasco.
Most Americans are up to their necks in debtnl from covid, bad economy, 2008 banking bailouts and previous war. . the us govt is 30 trillion in debt . now the rightwingers and rightwing centrists and military industrial complex want a war, even it it is nuclear
The Nazis and stupids in the USA want a civil war, which will lead to the same thing. Seems like the centrist Democrats do too.
Propaganda wants total control. And those who believe it want 100% validation. They cannot tolerate one dissenting opinion.
No one should trust Congress or biden or the trump naxis now the billionaire have spent over 30 billion dollars to own them.
All bought and paid for by billionaire and dark money.. The media, Facebook, repuklicans and democraps and Nazi trumpists are all bought and paid for . Most people in America are going against their self interest. Many to the point, of dying from not being vaccinated. Many not giving a darned about the nuclear war threat and, many nuclear catastrophes that can and will occur in the Ukraine if total war starts. The trump Nazis want a civil war which will lead to the same thing.
If the Biden right-centrist-media msnbc CNN, time newsweek were completely correct (they are not) there would be total war. they already have all the dummies and morons and media in the USA saying the stuff they want said. And the rest of crazy America goes w the trump Nazis and fox news. No mention of the Ukrainian being neo Nazis no mention of the old beat up nuclear power plants in Ukraine controlled by insane Nazis. The so-called independent liberal (billionaire controlled msnbc, CNN time Newsweek and all the rightwing bs media etc , Wal street liberal media) .
The trump nazis use the most vicious divide and conquor techniques to leverage control in a dividing fashion
The few
Rational people are stuk in the middle.
The billionaire media misinforms for war and war profits and they seemingly don't care about the trump Nazis, anymore.
Why is it like boiling water drops on their skin if they don't get their way that is the warmongers and media and nazis, what will happen if a few voices aren't saying this already maxed out message. What are these people, afraid will happen if all people don't start yelling all the same things.
What will happen if some of the billionaire media outlets like msnbc , CNN, time, Newsweek, marching minions on Facebook and twitter the rightwing, and centrist warmonger blogosphere and propaganda outlets don't get their ways .
What will happen if The trump nazis, the war mongers and know-it-alls don't get their way and truth comes out. They will start a civil war they say
People will stop watching bs tv news bullshit. Listening to superficial celebrity gossip, churning for civil war and more USA war. People will Stop reading bs Twitter and Facebook manipulations. the billionaires and warmongers won't keep getting richer off of the marching morons.
ReplyDeleteThe Nazi truckers are heavily armed and funded
Biden is at war
There will be a confrontation and shootout and probable state of emergency delcared from the trucker ralley. it will the the start of a civil war I'm almost a professional historian and I know it's true like I said about Jan 6
Biden is at war . the old idiot Democrats will have to do something. I know several christian idiots who carry guns now
Afclf hard money from the Beast
A rowdy convoy of truckers is descending on the Beltway outside of Washington, D.C., presenting itself as an organic reaction to mask and vaccine mandates. But the official group bankrolling all that diesel is far from a grassroots organization devoted to truckers.
As of Wednesday, the conservative dark-money organization American Foundation for Civil Liberties and Freedoms had raised $464,731 for “the People’s Convoy”—as the protesters have branded themselves. That amount has nearly tripled over the last few days, and is expected to climb significantly over the coming weeks.
According to the AFCLF, which has also pushed false claims about the 2020 election and raised money for election deniers, “100% OF THE DONATIONS GO TO SUPPORTING THE CONVOY!”
“Convoy up, America — the donate button is going toward the funding of the ride to Freedom: we are going to take back our country for ourselves and future generations!” the site says.
The money will “reimburse fuel and hard costs of the trucker,” the group notes, adding that “the fund is being handled by volunteer accountants and overseen by a law firm.”
Better yet, because the group is a nonprofit organized under section 501(c)3 of the tax code, all gifts are tax-deductible—and donors can remain anonymous.
ReplyDeleteReached for comment, AFCLF chair Chris Marston did not explain how the funding would work, or how participants would qualify for and access money, saying everything came together too quickly to establish rules.
“Trucker leaders are on finance committee to determine where needs are but methods depend on the nature of expense,” Marston said over text message. “This all came together too fast to have pre determined rules so we setup a committee with Lawyer, account, and trucker oversight.” [sic]
Marston said the funds wouldn’t cover return trips after the rally, and inserted a flake of distance between his group and the event itself.
“We don’t have agreements with truckers on destination plans,” Marston explained. “We are supporting fuel, food, signage and basics for their journey,” he said, adding that his group had also “coordinated with local authorities along the path to be cooperative.” He did not clarify which authorities they were, or their jurisdictions.
In addition to the fundraising, Marston said, the AFCLF would also provide “guidance on how to stay peaceful and be unified in messaging,” and would coordinate volunteers.
“That’s the gist,” he said.
But in its first year of operation, AFCLF has already developed an ominous reputation.
Last July, Marston’s group hosted a fundraiser to support Matt DePerno, a Michigan attorney who was referred to authorities just weeks earlier for allegedly scamming donors to his outlandish legal effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
But while AFCLF self-identifies as “trans-partisan”—and Marston claims its membership includes many Democrats—the top issues on its website read like a MAGA voter’s dream platform: grievances about the 2020 election, critical race theory, cancel culture, big tech, school boards, and forced vaccinations.
In an interview last summer Marston told The Daily Beast that the AFCLF had “probably 100” members, and had been seeking to convince local elections boards around the country to take steps against alleged voter fraud. He also suggested he knew of “game-changing” evidence that could delegitimize the 2020 election and have a “brain-splattering effect” on public trust.
(After the election, Marston claimed on social media that he was a “liberal” and called ex-President Donald Trump “an asshole” multiple times.)
Marston created AFCLF’s twin nonprofits last May, after the election denial movement had made clear on Jan. 6 that it has a tendency towards spasmodic political violence. And many extremism experts today warn that those same social and cultural forces are animating the convoy movement—a warning that recently proved true in Canada’s convoy protests.
“This feels like the culmination of everything that’s happened since Jan. 6th,” one extremism researcher told NBC News, pointing to virulent anti-vaxxer and QAnon contingents within convoy groups.
Trucker protests disrupting supply chain 'not good for anybody': Expert
And thanks to that constituency, as well as the recent violence in Ottawa, the question of peacefulness will be at the top of the bill.
Truckers in the Canadian anti-vaccine mandate protest set the example for the People’s Convoy, creating economic havoc with their blockades. The demonstration also attracted white supremacists and anti-government groups, and turned violent. When the chaos dissolved, Canadian law enforcement had arrested nearly 200 protesters.
ReplyDeleteBut a People’s Convoy press release from Feb. 20 describes its mission as a “peaceful and law-abiding transcontinental journey” aimed at overturning the national vaccine mandate. The convoy departed from Adelanto, CA, on Wednesday afternoon, and plans to hit D.C. 10 days later, on March 5.
The central grievance in the press release appears to be economic.
“The average American worker needs to be able to end-run the economic hardships of the last two years, and get back to the business of making bread – so they can pay their rents and mortgages and help jumpstart this economy,” the release says, claiming that “COVID is well-in-hand now, and Americans need to get back to work in a free and unrestricted manner.”
Neither of those last two claims appear to be strictly true.
While the deadly Omicron wave has begun to subside in many parts of the country, the United States has still averaged nearly 2,100 daily deaths over the last two weeks, according to data from The New York Times.
And as for Americans getting “back to work,” the country has over the last year posted record employment gains, adding another 467,000 new jobs in January. The unemployment rate has trended steadily downward since April 2020, and currently sits around 4 percent.
But the convoy itself will strain the financial resources of its participants, especially with donor funds only available for the 10-day journey east, not the return trip.
At today’s gas prices, an 18-wheeler averaging a generous eight miles per gallon would burn around $1,200 in diesel fuel along the 2,500-mile one-way trek from Adelanto to the Beltway—and that’s before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine increases gas prices more.
the 24 successors concur the the LOTUS SUTR is good in the beginning, good in the middle and good in the end.// anyone/thing can function as a god or a devil. Putins/trumps aggressive attack may become a deep and needed benefit to our world. - gregorio
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