bojacobs

bojacobs, 7 months ago to random

bojacobs, 10 months ago to nuclear

Global warming is shutting down nuclear, not the other way around:

"High river temperatures to limit French nuclear power production"

This is the second summer in a row that French nukes are being taken offline because higher water temperatures make it impossible to cool the reactors and the spent fuel.

#nuclear #NuclearPower #climate #environment @sts

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/high-river-temperatures-limit-french-nuclear-power-production-2023-07-12/

bojacobs, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to nuclear

Today is the 78th anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on Earth, the Trinity Test in New Mexico in 1945, three weeks before the nuclear attacks on Japan.

There will be many images posted of the mushroom cloud today, but here is what mattered more, the fallout cloud. Dozens of homes and communities were blanketed with fallout, which which also contaminated fields as far away as Illinois and Indiana.

They have always known about radioactive fallout.

#Trinity #MED #NuclearWeapons #nuclear #NM #LANL @histodons @sts

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bojacobs, 1 month ago to solar

Finally, an actual good idea about use of the former Nevada Test Site (now#NNSS).

-Cover the heavily irradiated landscape with solar panels. Allow the unusable soil to be covered with renewable energy production.

#NTS #solar #climate @sts

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/nuclear-test-site-cleanup-clean-energy/

bojacobs, 1 month ago to random

Good news for humans!

"Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher. Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week"

#Shorttermerism #TESCREAL

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

bojacobs, 6 months ago to nuclear

Nuclear Power, even SMRs, are about making money, not climate mitigation. That's just the sales pitch. If there isn't profit for investors, the techno-saviors pull out.

#nuclear #NuclearPower #SMR #capitalocene #NuScale

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/nuclear-power-smr-nuscale

bojacobs, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to China

Built over 4,000 years ago:

"China's ancient water pipe networks show they were a communal effort with no evidence of a centralized state authority"

#China #archaeology #RespectForTheAncestors @histodons

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-ancient-pipe-networks-communal.html

bojacobs, 1 year ago to histodons

Today is the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

It is not over. Chernobyl spread radioactive particles across Europe and beyond. The fire in reactor #4 burned for over a month, releasing massive amounts of radionuclides which then would fallout and embed into the #ecosystem.

37 years later we still find food contaminated with Chernobyl fallout every year. Often with cesium-137 which is very adept at transporting in an ecosystem once the particle has deposited from the fallout cloud.

#Chernobyl #nuclear #fallout #NuclearPower #radionuclide @sts @histodons #EnvHist #environment #Europe @nuclearhumanities

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bojacobs, 1 year ago to nuclear

Re #introduction for my new followers.

I am a historian of nuclear science & technology at Hiroshima Peace Inst & Grad School of Peace Studies. My book Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha (Yale 2022) surveys harm from #nuclear production, weapon testing, & reactor accidents across the globe, & medical models that obscure harm from fallout particles.

Collecting oral histories in 20+ countries , I examine how communities, families and interior psychology suffer via exposures.

I track nuclear #colonialism (selecting the irradiated) arguing the #ColdWar was a limited nuclear war against these populations.

I also explore our relationship to our HL nuclear waste, asserting it is how our descendants will know us. Our choices now reveal our lack of consideration of the 1000s of generations of living beings for whom this waste is already a part of their world.

Previous life: l was a chef & worked w/ #organic food

#histodons #STS #environment #Hiroshima #atomic #SlowViolence

bojacobs, 7 months ago to climate

Open access:

"How Megafires Are Remaking the World: In our Pyrocene age, enormous wildfires aren’t merely damaging ecosystems but transforming them."

#ecology #ecosystem #Anthropocene #climate #WildFire

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/science/climate-wildfires-ecosystems.html?unlocked_article_code=rFeUIM6Jnm85tVAhwDWQeOuU7uHd4QVPSsMKJ89r-FbCnhUqNln6YrXR8aT0iw4CD-TJoRj8Lj-WSKPCajxVcWyKjOaJIyxe3iX7zVbhf4kM8XlMirsz0cWBJZjbMV0qnhmsH-Tn4rvL9GneeZN3L1eAfRv8pLYmpE6R4LtBiIbnrPsgd91HNdDBnbLVN4Y0lq2o2PBw0S9aEOmisrMFNBisSGIBpPsn3bz_K4EDoqwR3ZVECpC51PDjIr9I7KQEGteF6DkLXwXus42f1vLTuuZgqssMUHTR1vToeg7mzOf0CzBEr4XeR9ROVOcmRCxQkHvE4MOwg9jbOIZ6mjrzzASbFRw7hA&smid=url-share

bojacobs, 4 months ago to nuclear

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January 27th is the National Day of Remembrance for America’s Downwinders in the USA. These are people who lived downwind of the Nevada Nuclear Test site, and were exposed to radioactive fallout. Much of that fallout remains radioactive and is now embedded into the ecosystem.

The US government has paid a token compensation to a minuscule portion of this community through #RECA.

#NTS #NNSS #nuclear #NuclearTesting #ColdWar @histodons

bojacobs, 6 months ago to random

If you want to read many of the declassified documents that show this evil at work:

Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary | National Security Archive https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cold-war-henry-kissinger/2023-11-29/henry-kissinger-declassified-obituary-0

bojacobs, 1 year ago to random

The drought in Spain highlights how global warming is crippling the nuclear industry, which is entirely dependent on abundant quantities of water to function.

Spanish reactors, all on rivers, are competing with a range of other segments of society that rely on the decreasing levels of water.

Additionally, the heated water these plants return to the river exacerbate the problem.

#Spain #nuclear #NuclearPower #water #drought

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/spain-to-adopt-urgent-water-supply-measures-amidst-historic-drought/

bojacobs, 2 months ago to Cosmology

Getting complicated out there...

"1st detection of 'hiccupping' black hole leads to surprising discovery of 2nd black hole orbiting around it"

#cosmology #astronomy

https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/1st-detection-of-hiccupping-black-hole-leads-to-surprising-discovery-of-2nd-black-hole-orbiting-around-it

bojacobs, 1 month ago to ai

Why so many super excited articles about nuclear power in the press everywhere??

Techbros<>Nukebros

"AI Is Giving Nuclear Power a Big Lift. 4 Stocks Riding the Trend."

Nuclear is not coming to save the world, it is coming to feed Silicon Valley unicorns

#NuclearPower #AI #climate

https://www.barrons.com/articles/ai-nuclear-power-stocks-8852a830

bojacobs, 6 months ago to random

On fake historians watch:

"Texas activist David Barton wants to end separation of church and state. He has the ear of the new U.S. House speaker"

#Christofascism

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/03/david-barton-mike-johnson-texas-church-state-christianity/

bojacobs, 7 months ago to nuclear

Swimmers and sunbathers at Old Frontier Village watch a distant mushroom cloud from the Nevada Test Site (1957). This would be about 100 miles away.

#NTS #Nevada #nuclear #NuclearWeapons #ColdWar @histodons

bojacobs, 6 months ago to random

The US Speaker of the House allows a private tech company to scan all of his electronic devices.

Apparently national security comes second to trying to keep one teenager from masturbating.

bojacobs, 1 month ago to histodons

Chernobyl, 38 years ago today.

Human "bio-robots" had to make homemade lead lined suits to then spend 40 seconds to 2 minutes on the roof of reactor #3 shoveling bits of the reactor core into the hole where reactor #4 used to be. 3,500 people did this task.

#Chernobyl #NuclearPower @histodons @sts

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bojacobs, 2 months ago to random

45 years ago today, Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Harrisburg, PA suffered a partial meltdown.

12 days earlier the movie “The China Syndrome" had opened nationwide in the US. Many people, including reporters, flocked to the movie to wrap their heads around a nuclear meltdown.

Now, the movie is forgotten, but the cesium-137 released by the nuclear accident (along with other radionuclides) remains embedded in the ecosystem.

#TMI #NuclearPower #PA

bojacobs, 1 month ago to random

Respect

"Kristi Noem, South Dakota governor, banned from second reservation in state.

At a Cheyenne River Sioux meeting, members voted 12-0 to keep the Republican out over her claims of of tribe-drug cartel nexus"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/kristi-noem-south-dakota-governor-banned-reservation

bojacobs, 1 month ago to australia

Coming up in May and June, my book tour in Australia. Talks likely in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. Details soon, also check my book webpage:

#Australia #nuclear

https://nuclearbodies.com

bojacobs, 1 month ago to random

"Unstable nuclear-waste dams threaten fertile Central Asia heartland"

"Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster if they collapse that would make the region uninhabitable, studies have revealed."

#Kyrgyzstan #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #ColdWar

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/unstable-nuclear-waste-dams-threaten-fertile-central-asia-heartland-2024-04-23/

bojacobs, 1 month ago to SF

Hunter's Point is contaminated because that is where the US Navy tried to "decontaminate" ships irradiated at nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946

"San Francisco artists maintain a creative haven for 40 years—at a radioactive site"

#SF #HuntersPoint #ColdWar #RMI

https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/27/san-francisco-hunters-point-shipyard-artists/

bojacobs, 6 days ago to random

If you want to learn more about the New Apostolic Reformation (Alito's flag suppliers), start with these five podcasts "Charismatic Revival Fury," featured on the Straight White American Jesus podcast. Here is the first episode, there are five total. Or use your podcast app:

#NAR #Alito #SWAJ #ChristianNationalism

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/charismatic-revival-fury-ep-1-january-6th-and-the-new-apostolic-reformation/