We live in a world where the country with over 200 nuclear weapons, who refuses to sign the #NPT, does not allow #IAEA to inspect it's nuclear facilities and been involved in nuclear proliferation multiple times in the past is allowed to bomb a research nuclear reactor under IAEA inspection risking spread of radiation without any strong reaction from the "world" leaders.
https://thehill.com/policy/iran-arak-heavy-water-reactor/
#Israel #IAF #ArakReactor #UN #NuclearReactor #Iran #Hypocrisy
Israeli evacuation threat targets area around Iran’s Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor
As part of negotiations around the 2015 deal, Iran agreed to sell off its heavy water to Western countries. Even the US purchased some 32 tonnes of heavy water for more than $8m in one deal.
IAEA inspectors reportedly last visited Arak on May 14.
I think I must be missing something, with all the news I've heard, and read, about Israel/US, dropping bombs, and firing missiles, at a nuclear plant, I've not heard anyone mention anything about nuclear fallout.
Surly bombs, missiles, or anything explosive, does not bode well, at a nuclear power station/reactor/plant?
Trump fires commissioner of preeminent nuclear safety institution https://arstechni.ca/RMSe #nuclearindustry #nuclearreactor #DonaldTrump #nuclear #Policy
End of #nuclear in #Taiwan fans energy security fear
Taiwan will turn off last #nuclearreactor, fuelling concerns over island reliance on imported energy and vulnerability to blockade by #China. Nuclear power once provided jalf of Taiwan's energy, with three plants operating six reactors across an island that's 394 km (245 mi) long and 144 km (89 mi) wide. Island depends almost entirely on imported #fossilfuels to power homes, factories & critical #semiconductor industry.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250515-end-of-nuclear-in-taiwan-fans-energy-security-fears
Nerd movie time: Watching "Fukushima 50" while reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Fukushima_nuclear_accident
By all means, keep the policy that people hate. Even the people who like the idea of nuclear reactors hate the idea of them being built in their neighbourhood or their spent fuel being stored nearby.
Mexico Rejects Third Nuclear Reactor, Focuses on Renewable Energy
#energypolicy #Mexico #nuclearenergy #nuclearreactor #Sheinbaum
https://blazetrends.com/mexico-rejects-third-nuclear-reactor-focuses-on-renewable-energy/?fsp_sid=2853
A hole in protective shell over the Chernobyl reactor poses risks.
For weeks, the Ukrainian authorities have been looking for ways to repair a large hole in the protective shell that covers the fourth reactor of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant. When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell was one of the biggest structures ever moved by humans.
On 14 February, a Russian drone hit the structure.
"You do wonder how the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) can tell us with a straight face, that nuclear power is safe!" #NoNukes #Zaporizhzhia #NuclearReactor #Ukraine #Russia #USA https://theaimn.net/nuclear-power-is-such-a-mess-zaporizhzhia-plant-as-the-shining-example/
"The goal of [#StartupNation] cities would be to have places where anti-aging #ClinicalTrials, #NuclearReactor startups, and building construction can proceed without having to get prior #approval from agencies like the Food and Drug Administration #FDA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency #EPA."
Billionaire dictatorvilles with no civil rights, because venture capitalists are always ethical.
https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/
Holy Fuck! Now we're talking colliding aircraft carriers??? 
That's a step-up from airplanes! #NuclearReactor anyone????
#FunFactFriday: The UK is planning legal changes to help speed up the rollout of cheaper and safer mini-nuclear reactors, hoping to improve energy security. Do you hope the US follows suit? News Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-uk-quicken-rollout-mini-nuclear.html
New paper, just published in Physical Review X Energy, on the muography of the G3 nuclear reactor
by Baptiste Lefevre and co-authors
https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXEnergy.4.013002
The visualization software I developed for #Cosmology contributed in the mapping of the inner, inaccessible structure of the reactor.
see the video and interactive visualization here: https://journals.aps.org/prxenergy/abstract/10.1103/PRXEnergy.4.013002#supplemental
Rolls-Royce Bags £9B to Manufacture Nuclear Reactors of U.K. Submarines
https://defensemirror.com/news/38683/Rolls_Royce_Bags___9B_to_Manufacture_Nuclear_Reactors_of_U_K__Submarines
@RollsRoyce
@DefenceHQ
@RoyalNavy
#submarine #nuclearreactor #Vanguard #Dreadnought
Rolls-Royce Bags £9B to Manufacture Nuclear Reactors of U.K. Submarines
https://defensemirror.com/news/38683/Rolls_Royce_Bags___9B_to_Manufacture_Nuclear_Reactors_of_U_K__Submarines
@RollsRoyce
@DefenceHQ
@RoyalNavy
#submarine #nuclearreactor #Vanguard #Dreadnought
The Lies Have It: #XcelEnergy Wins Operating Extension for Nation’s 5th Oldest Nuclear Reactor
by John Laforge, January 10, 2025
"I.F. Stone famously said, 'All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.' The aphorism applies well to #NuclearReactor operators, including Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy.
"The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (#NRC) has granted Xcel a second license extension for operating its 54-year-old #MonticelloReactor on the #MississippiRiver in #Minnesota. The decision will permit this GE jalopy, a #Fukushima clone, to run until it’s 80 years old — a dangerous feat never been done in the history of nuclear power. The NRC received over 3,000 public comments mostly critical of the extension, but the the commission has rubber stamped 87 of 92 similar requests, so call the NRC Never Really Concerned.
"The NRC nod is based partly on the commission’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (#EIS) for the re-licensing, even though the document confirms that Xcel repeatedly made false statements about its massive 2022-‘23 leak of #radioactive cooling water. According to a March 16, 2023 Associated Press (AP) story, Xcel’s first public response to the major leak was, 'There’s no danger to the public.' Xcel then proceeded to understate by more than half the leak’s actual volume, only estimating it was 400,000 gallons.
"Xcel eventually acknowledged that volume of the leak, from an old corroded underground pipe, was 829,000 gallons, and that the #groundwater plume of reactor cooling water — some of which would later reach the Mississippi River — had a radioactive footprint of some fourteen curies of #tritium — a very large amount. (For a reference, the 1979 partial reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island released an estimated 15 curies of gaseous radioactive iodine-131 to the Pennsylvania atmosphere. Other radioactive materials went into the Susquehanna River.)
"Xcel’s 829,000-gallon leak was always a direct threat to drinking water because — as the company’s own 2023 Annual Radioactive Effluent Release Report states on page 13 — 'It is assumed groundwater continuously flows to the river…' The Mississippi is the drinking water source for 20 million people, including #Minneapolis, #StPaul and their surrounding suburbs 37 miles downstream from the leaky reactor."
Read more:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/10/the-lies-have-it-xcel-energy-wins-operating-extension-for-nations-5th-oldest-nuclear-reactor/
#RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies #WaterIsLife #MonticelloNuclearPlant
Big Tech’s Shift to Nuclear: A Sustainable Future For Artificial Intelligence
#NuclearEnergy #greenEnergy #nuclearreactor #nuclearpower #cleanenergy #powerdemand #nuclearsafty
https://tekginger.com/big-techs-shift-to-nuclear-a-sustainable-future-for-artificial-intelligence/
NASA Spots Details Of [Abandoned] US Army Base [Camp Century] Lost Under Greenland Ice [remote sensing]
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/camp_century_nasa_images/ <-- shared article
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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153616/new-view-of-the-city-under-the-ice <--shared NASA post
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https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/camp-century/ <-- shared details of Camp Century and Operation Iceworm
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https://youtu.be/1Ujx_pND9wg?si=lUKSafROLBaD6TMf <-- shared U.S. Army 1950s video on Camp Century
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https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.112 <-- shared paper
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https://cires.colorado.edu/news/greenland-and-legacy-camp-century <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #USArmy #CampCentury #OperationIceworm #Greenland #climatechange #contamination #risk #hazard #ColdWar #nuclearreactor #dieselfuel #risk #hazard #waste #PCBs #radioactive #wastewater #ICBM #radar #UAVSAR #NASA
Greg Cocks