🐗🐖 What happens to the #animals left behind after a #nuclear disaster? In #Fukushima, escaped domestic #pigs and wild #boars are interbreeding at a rapid pace.
While they aren't "mutants," these hybrids are rewriting the local gene pool, inheriting the fast breeding cycles of their farm-raised ancestors to thrive in a landscape without humans.
Since clickbait about ‘damaged #Ukraine nuclear power plants’ is already flying around, I will post today's announcement from "Ukrenergo".
Background: a #nuclear power plant produces electricity that is fed into the grid. When Russians destroy parts of this grid, it could no longer receive this electricity, so the operators of Ukrainian nuclear power plants manually and in controlled manner reduce their power output so as not to produce electricity that had nowhere to go. And that's it.
Ukrainian nuclear power plants are the only ones in the country that are fully operational, and once the grid is repaired, the operators will restore them to full power.
The original communication:
During the night and in the morning, the enemy carried out another massive attack on Ukraine's power grid, the second since the beginning of the year. Energy facilities in eight regions were hit by Russian missiles and drones. Power plants and substations of the electricity transmission and distribution systems were attacked. As a result of missile strikes on key high-voltage substations that supplied power to nuclear power units, all nuclear power plants in the controlled territory were forced to reduce their output.
In 2025 #Germany generated 94 TWh of electricity from coal at ~1000 gCO2eq/kWh, but it could have been zero if not one "climate crime" decision (climate scientists' words not mine), because only in 2010 Germany produced 133 TWh per year from #nuclear power at 5.6 gCO2eq/kWh. Also, much much cheaper. As part of Energiewende Germany decided to replace that 133 TWh from nuclear by a source that has exactly 178x higher CO2 intensity... and called that "climate protection" 🤷
When the despot #Putin is removed from power, #Russia should be dismantled for scrap and resources for acts of sabotage and treason against the world under the Putin regime and for multiple threats of a #nuclear response to failed Russian policy towards its neighbors and hostile posturing against the world.
Russia is bad for business. #premarket #investing #NoKings !
"The Trump Administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a written, public assessment of the possible consequences of a #NuclearAccident.
"The exclusion announcement comes just days after NPR revealed officials at the Department of Energy had secretly rewritten environmental, safety and security rules to make it easier for the reactors to be built.
"The Department of Energy announced the change Monday in a notice in the Federal Register. It said the department would begin excluding advanced nuclear reactors from the #NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct. The act requires federal agencies to consider the environment when undertaking new projects and programs.
"The law also requires extensive reporting on how proposed programs might impact local ecosystems. That documentation, known as an #EnvironmentalImpactStatement, and a second lesser type of analysis, known as an #EnvironmentalAssessment, provide an opportunity for the public to review and comment on potential projects in their community."
"Tokyo Electric Power Company has reportedly postponed the scheduled 20 January restart of unit 6 at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant after a safety alarm failed to sound during pre-reactor start-up checks."
Today in labor History January 17, 1961: The CIA orchestrated a coup that tortured, murdered, and overthrew Congo’s first democratically elected president, Patrice Lumumba. This was after a previous failed coup against him by Mobutu Sese Seku, who would later become dictator from 1971 until 1997.
Congo won independence from Belgium in 1960, after years of brutal colonial rule which slaughtered up to 10 million people, or half its entire population. However, imperial powers continued to exploit the people of Congo, even after independence. President Eisenhower authorized the assassination of Lumumba because of his ties with the Soviet Union. The U.S., and its European allies, wanted control over Congo’s resources, particularly its rich uranium deposits, both to fuel their civilian and military nuclear programs, and, in particular, to keep them out of the hands of the Soviet Union, which was allied with Lumumba.
The wonderful 2024 documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” does a really great job of uncovering the concealed history of the 1961 assassination of Lumumba and the coup d’etat in Congo. But it’s really about so much more: Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte. There’s even a “slumber party” with Fidel Castro at Malcolm X’s home, in New York, after the U.S. authorities convince all the hotels in New York to refuse Castro a place to sleep during a UN conference.
One of the people the CIA used in its early attempts to assassinate Lumumba was chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who ran the agency’s secret MKULTRA mind control program. Gottlieb tried, but failed, to kill Lumumba with poisoned toothpaste. He also tried, and failed, to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar and with radioactively poisoned shoes. MKULTRA was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The program gave hallucinogenic drugs, like LSD and Mescaline, to 7,000 unwitting U.S. war veterans, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians.
Lumumba in 1960, with glasses and a bowtie. By unknown photographer / Anefo - http://proxy.handle.net/10648/a9c3a120-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84 Nationaal Archief, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63950207
This looks like succesful #energiewende in Germany. All neighbours (incl. Poland with a lot of coal electricity) support Germany, but we do not need #nuclear cause we have so much #windenergy
The map presents momentary CO2 production in central Europe.
Poland 780 g CO2eq/kWh
Germany 489 g CO2eq/kWh
France 81 g CO2eq/kWh
Source: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fifteen_minutes
after like 5 hours of angrily finnicking with this hunk of junk in my hotel room, wanting to give up all technology, and questioning if a Walmart headphones to USB adapter might not be a very good ADC…
I got a gamma spectrum that looks decent :ElainaXD: though different from the one I got before :ElainaSmug:. I’m actually a lot more confident in this one tho, there’s even a tiny peak at ~49keV from U-238 which really makes me confident in this since I have two peaks from the decay chain that line up perfectly and the other big peaks are low-energy fuckery (X-Rays/Backscatter/???) and around ~187keV which is probably in part U-235 (this is depleted uranium but it’s not 100% depleted)
I breathed such a sigh of relief when I found oh hey another U-238 line and it lined up perfectly with the previously-mysterious ~49keV peak……. :ElainaCute:
Iran and the United States are cautiously reengaging in diplomacy to discuss Iran’s desires to enrich uranium for nuclear energy. But both countries have sticking points. Read more from @ https://flip.it/HpI7AW #Iran#Uranium#Nuclear#Trump#Energy#US
The slightest destabilizing of the #moon will cause massive changes to climate on #Earth.
Men who can't get along with their neighbors should not be trusted to create lunar conflicts.
"#Russia plans a #nuclear power plant on the moon within a decade."
Poland to launch construction of first #nuclear plant after EU approves €14bn in state aid
Construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant is now set to begin after the European Commission approved Warsaw’s request to allocate 60 billion zloty (€14.2 billion) in state aid for the project.
The decision, which had been widely expected, was welcomed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who told a cabinet meeting that it means “construction will be able to start immediately”, as early as this month.
Ever since the Unit Four reactor at Russia's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only moved in but survived, adapted, and appeared to thrive. Scientists recently found the evidence clinging to the interior walls of one of the most radioactive buildings on Earth. @ScienceAlert has more:
"The government subsidies are simply huge: a nuclear tax is being levied on hard pressed consumers. What is the government thinking of? The fossil fuel industry, which has thrown its weight behind nuclear power, is of course delighted; all these decades of new construction without any electricity to show for it gives at least another decade or two of unabated burning gas"
Paul Brown on his life as an environment writer.
A screenshot of a Wapo story today, featuring a photo of energy executives ringing the bell at the NASDAQ site in NY.
Kilowatts or connections? Trump’s favored nuclear start-ups soar to riches.
Founders of politically connected nuclear companies that have never built commercial reactors are becoming billionaires.
Toby Neugebauer, left, and Rick Perry ring the closing bell Oct. 1 during Fermi America's initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
(wp) By Evan Halper
The fledgling Texas company Fermi America has yet to produce an
electron, split an atom or survive the torturous gantlet of regulatory and
manufacturing obstacles required to build a nuclear reactor.
But investors are betting big that the Trump administration will help
Fermi turn from a glossy, aspirational marketing brochure into a
cutting-edge nuclear operation to meet the rapacious energy needs of AT
data centers. So much so that they catapulted its founders into the ranks
of the world’s richest men a few months after Fermi filed paperwork
with regulators to build the “Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and
Intelligence Campus.”