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Showing posts with label no nukes. Show all posts

Atomic Waste Stored near Eureka, California... Underground Casks near the Earthquake Zone... There is a Handy Trail so You can Go Visit if You Feel like it!

Atomic Waste Stored near Eureka, California... Underground Casks near the Earthquake Zone...

This Site is Visible from my Home...
In the Event of a Leak I'm a "Downwinder"

Trail to the Atomic Waste Dump - Eureka, CA
Convenient Parking on King Salmon Ave
and a Shoreline Trail...

One Night I saw Seven Large Explosions at the PG&E Power Plant. (It's Visible from my Living Room) I Emailed them Later to Ask if the Atomic Waste was Safe... They said it was Safe and the Explosions were Overloaded Transformers on the Other side of the Power Plant.


Earthquake Map Eureka, CA History
Earthquake Map Eureka, CA - History

4.9-magnitude earthquake strikes in Pacific Ocean near Eureka, CA 2/2/2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/4-9-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-in-pacific-ocean-near-eureka/



Atomic waste at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
The LAST Active Plant in California...

Atomic waste at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

"Swimming Pools" for Cooling Atomic Waste
and Above Ground Casks for Long Term Storage.

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

Diablo Canyon Marked on a Map of California

Diablo Canyon Marked on a Map of California

about Half Way between San Jose and Los Angeles...
as Far Away as Possible from where people live!



Solar-paneled Canals Getting a Test Run in San Joaquin Valley.

Solar-paneled Canals Getting a Test Run in San Joaquin Valley.



https://www.44feetproject.com/ Thirty-seven tons of commercial nuclear waste are stored on the inland coast of Humboldt Bay, California, in an underground storage vault called the Humboldt Bay Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (HB ISFSI). Its location is vulnerable to three adjacent earthquake faults, encroaching sea level, potential tsunamis, and general erosion. Within 44 years, by 2065, Humboldt Bay is projected to experience 3.3 feet (1 meter) of sea-level rise, which will flood the low areas around the ISFSI during king tides, turning it into an island that will be increasingly vulnerable to wave erosion, sea level rise, and saltwater intrusion. Under these projected future conditions, the site will be difficult to access for waste management, in an emergency, and for relocation.

Homer S aTOMIC pOwER dIsATER

Keeping uranium mining out of the Grand Canyon:

You’d think the Grand Canyon — the homeland of at least 11 Native American tribes and the crown jewel of our national park system — would be protected from uranium contamination. Think again.

Uranium mines and mining claims outside park boundaries threaten to pollute the most remarkable gorge in the world. We're working alongside many partners in support of regional tribes to permanently protect lands and waters surrounding Grand Canyon National Park from mining.


The Havasupai live deep within the canyon and rely on a spring-fed creek that runs through their village to drink, cook, and irrigate fields of corn and alfalfa, as well as other ceremonial and cultural uses. Worried that Canyon Mine could contaminate the water that flows underground and feeds the seeps and springs in their village, they have opposed uranium mining around the Grand Canyon since the 1980s.

Grand Canyon Uranium Mine Flood... OOPS!

Remember: The Vast Majority of Jobs Nuclear Power Creates are For Newspaper Writers That Say: "It's Great!" It's a Classic Example of Unemployed People That Can't Get a Job Designing or Building Nuclear Power Plants... So In a Frantic Search They Become Cheerleaders! Making Youtube Videos, Magazine Articles and Blogs... all about How Wonderful Nukes Are Going to BE! No Carbon Air Pollution!

IN REALITY: Vogtle, Georgia is the Only New Power Plant in the USA in the Last 30 Years and It's $16 Billion Dollars Over Budget and 6 Years Behind Schedule. AWAKEN! Fission is a Failure!

However, they Usually Fail to Mention the Solid Radioactive Waste that NO ONE Has Figured Out What To Do With... Except Store it for 10,000 Years... and GUARD IT to Prevent Terrorist from Creating a Dirty Bomb... A Madman Could Simply Place a Normal Bomb under a Cask... and Kablooeeeee! Fallout For Hundreds of Miles Downwind... 

In Fact, there are Many Jobs Decomissioning Closed Nuclear Power Plants. A Group of Skilled Workers Take Apart The Abandoned Power Plant and Store the Dangerous Parts Safely. I Personally Watched People Dismantle The PG&E Humboldt Bay Power Plant for Years... and Drive North with Truckloads of Radioactive Material... Finally They are Done and they Left Behind SIX Casks of Atomic Waste... and the Employees all travel on to the NEXT Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant... In This Case, San Onofre... in Southern California... While Security Guards Watch the Atomic Waste for 10,000 Years... That's Steady Employment!

meme - Nuclear Power is Wonderful - except for the Radioactive Waste

and Every Year there are Fewer and Fewer Nuclear Power Plants because the Executives that Actually Make Decisions at Power Companies CHOOSE SOLAR, WIND And HYDRO. PG&E Plans to Shut Down Diablo Canyon in California... It's a Doomed Industry. EXCEPT IN CHINA! They Keep On Building Nuclear Power Plants... WHY? 

Here in the USA, Cost Overruns at Vogtle, Georgia Caused Westinghouse to Go Bankrupt... That was a Famous Old American Company... So Sad to See Them Fail...  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-westinghouse-nucle/how-two-cutting-edge-u-s-nuclear-projects-bankrupted-westinghouse-idUSKBN17Y0CQ

South Carolina Electric and Gas was also in the process of constructing two Westinghouse AP1000 plants, which had been scheduled to go into service in 2020, but construction on these was abandoned in 2017... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_C._Summer_Nuclear_Generating_Station

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and In Vogtle News:

Consumers may end up paying for billions of dollars in cost overruns on the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion. https://www.ajc.com/news/business/nuclear-cost-overrun-could-mean-billions-in-extra-georgia-power-profit/YIA3T3YHZRHI5A7GCZHREIXCPE/

The project is years behind its original schedule and billions of dollars above its original budget. The two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors were expected to enter service as early as 2016, at a cost of about $14 billion, after construction was approved in 2012. 

https://www.powermag.com/vogtle-nuclear-expansion-price-tag-tops-30-billion/

That amount doesn’t count the $3.68 billion that original contractor Westinghouse paid to the owners after going bankrupt, which would bring total spending to more than $34 billion.

Vogtle is the only nuclear plant under construction in the United States, and its costs could deter other utilities from building such plants, even though they generate electricity without releasing climate-changing carbon emissions.

https://ieefa.org/articles/vogtle-nuclear-plant-price-tag-increases-again-topping-34-billion

Homer Simpson and a Nuclear Meltdown - meme - gvan42 purple64ets


Chernobyl disaster inspired Matt Groening to put the unqualified Homer Simpson in a nuclear plant job... 


U BLUES - A, D, E, B7
Red and white, blue suede shoes, I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?
Gimme five, I'm still alive, ain't no luck, I learned to duck.
Check my pulse, it don't change. Stay seventy-two come shine or rain.
Wave the flag, pop the bag, rock the boat, skin the goat.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.
I'm Uncle Sam, that's who I am; Been hidin' out in a rock and roll band.
Shake the hand that shook the hand of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan.
Shine your shoes, light your fuse. Can you use them ol' U.S. Blues?
I'll drink your health, share your wealth, run your life, steal your wife.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.
Back to back chicken shack. Son of a gun, better change your act.
We're all confused, what's to lose?
You can call this all the United States Blues.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.

I've Changed my Mind... New Information has Caused a Re-Thinking of my Beliefs... That's the Way Sanity Works!

For Decades I Have been Totally Opposed to Atomic Power... However, the Continuation of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant for another Five Years seems to make sense in this ONE CASE... 


Headline: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant running until 2030, five years past its previous planned closure date.

The bill, SB-846, was similar to a proposal the governor put forth in August, but included some compromises.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/midday-edition/2022/09/06/newsom-signs-bill-to-extend-life-of-californias-last-nuclear-plant


This Summer when it was 113 Degrees for a week I ABSOLUTELY Wanted the Electricity to Flow... Powering the Air Conditioner here at Home... Even If My Comfort caused Problems for People Living in the Future... 

The Basic problem with Atomic Energy is that It Creates Radioactive Waste that has to be Stored Safely for 10,000 Years...  but I'll be Dead for Most of that time... and It Won't Matter to ME... 

I'm Living HERE, NOW and I want that Air Conditioner to Work!

It appears that Solar and Wind is NOT Creating enough Electricity RIGHT NOW to Power Everything We Want to power... We may have enough capacity in 2030 but Today it's not enough... Especially Here near Sacramento where our Power Company, SMUD, gets most of its Electricity from Hydroelectric Dams on the American River... and the DROUGHT has reduced their output... 

Remember: This Summer the Generators at the Oroville Dam TOTALLY STOPPED WORKING because there was no water flowing... 

So... For an Extra Five Years we ought to keep Diablo Canyon Running... It'll cost $1.4 Billion Dollars of Federal Money to Pay PG&E to do the Needed Repairs and Maintenance... But It's TOTALLY WORTH IT... Especially Since the Money is Federal "Magic" Money... It's Created out of Thin Air... and It's Just Piling on to the $31 Trillion Federal Deficit... It's not REAL MONEY... It's Just Numbers in Computers... and Congress Already passed the Infrastructure Law... and Biden Signed it... So... Let's Spend it to Keep MY AIR CONDITIONER RUNNING. 

Remember: Be Here Now - and If People in the Future Suffer for my Bad Choices... Sorry...  

I lived next door to an Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant in Eureka, CA... PG&E Stopped Running the Reactor in 1974. They Stored the Waste in a Giant Swimming Pool for 40 years and then Moved it to Above Ground Casks... The only Foreseeable Problem is an Earthquake... and we Live in a Known Earthquake Zone... and Spilling the Toxic Waste on the Ground... or Terrorists creating a Dirty Bomb by Placing a Traditional Bomb under the Casks... However That's Unlikely... after all, there is a Fence to Keep the Crazies OUT!

Did You Know? A California Startup has Built a Slingshot to Launch Rockets to Outer Space... a VERY Practical Application of this Technology would be to Launch Atomic Waste into THE SUN... Just shoot it far enough UP and Towards The Sun... Gravity will Dispose of it forever... 

Headline: Startup SpinLaunch completes first test flight with wild rocket-flinging launch system... 
 

Headline: Startup SpinLaunch completes first test flight with wild rocket-flinging launch system...

But I still think VOGTLE, Georgia is an Abomination! 16 Billion Dollars Over Budget and Six Years behind Schedule... and the Customers Will have to Pay for That Boondoggle!

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Headline: Greta Thunberg Says Germany Should Keep Its Nuclear Plants Open... 
Germany shouldn’t close nuclear plants that are currently generating power if it means increasing the burning of coal, Greta Thunberg said.

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One other Thought... It Appears that the Vast Majority of People are NOT Changing their Behavior in order to Stop Climate Change... 

For Example: People Still Fly in Jet Airplanes... and Those things Cause an Amazing Amount of Air Pollution that Causes Climate Change...

and People Keep on Driving Cars that Burn Gasoline... Often Just for Fun! I Understand that if you have to commute to get to work... there isn't much choice... if you are a parent, you have to be able to drive over to your kid's school and pick 'em up in an Emergency... 

BUT... Driving 1,800 Miles for a Honeymoon is NOT UNDERSTANDING the Problem... Flying from San Francisco to New York to Visit the New Grandchildren... is NOT UNDERSTANDING the Problem...

and People are Rebuilding Homes in the Same Location that Was Destroyed... a Wildfire Wiped out Paradise, California and Many Residents are Building There Again... 





Let's Build Solar Panel Parking Lot Shades... Keep Cars Cool and Generate Electricity at the Same Time... AND... Let's Cover California Canals With Solar Panels. Less Evaporation, More Water for Farmers, More Electricity...

Solar Panel Parking Lot Shades. Obvious Winner
Let's Build Solar Panel Parking Lot Shades... Keep Cars Cool and Generate Electricity at the Same Time. 

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Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants and Distributed Using WIRES. That's WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... PG&E POWER LINES CAUSE FOREST FIRES.

USA at Night - a waste of Electricity - meme

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID...

TAKE ACTION!

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Sorry: Governor Newsom Signed the Law that Funds Diablo Canyon... Too Late to Protest This Issue... SAD...
 
If We Run Diablo Canyon for Five More Years We will have Five More Years of Radioactive Waste to Dispose of Safely... and NO PLAN to DO THAT!
Godzilla Swimming in the Hot Water Next to Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

Newsom wants to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant open by loaning PG&E $1.4 billion

Just to Make Clear How ABSURD Funding Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Is: It Heats the Water in the Ocean... and the ICE on the Poles of Planet Earth Is MELTING... Due to Global Warming... Global Warming of Air and Global Warming of WATER... The Same Water that Diablo Canyon is HEATING!
The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant: assessing the seismic risks of extended operation... 

Map showing Location of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and the San Andreas Earthquake Fault in California

Map showing Location of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and the San Andreas Earthquake Fault in California


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Ban MY Book! Please! --->Banning Increases Sales<--- Here's a List of Truly Great Books... and Ten that NEED to Be Banned!

As Texas targets 'inappropriate' books, I say keep going: Here are 10 other books that should be immediately BANNED from all school libraries.
1. “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen. For starters, “pride” is a known LGBTQ term. And “prejudice” might make my white child feel guilt, which is an unacceptable emotion. So you want to expose my kid to both pride AND prejudice? I don’t think so!
2. “The Black Stallion” by Walter Farley. Clearly the liberals have found a way to sneak critical race theory into an otherwise decent story about a horse.
3. “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Nice try, commies.
4. “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison. Presumably another feminist attempt to silence American men. We will not tolerate such wokeness.
5. “It” by Stephen King. Oh, for Pete’s sake, the title is a darn pronoun. I see what you’re up to, Stephen King. We all know pronouns can lead young people to explore and eventually embrace their true identities. Not on my watch!
6. “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway. Sounds like some kind of climate change propaganda. Add it to the burn pile.
7. “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville. This one’s self-explanatory.
8. “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer. Brimming with filth and perversion. Also promotes the acceptance of iambic pentameter, better known as “Satan’s rhyming pattern.”
9. “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas. Sounds both foreign and vaguely gay.
10. “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury. A dystopian tale of a future America in which books have been outlawed and are rounded up and burned by “firemen” who enforce the laws and … on second thought, let’s keep this one.

written by Rex Huppke: https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-targets-inappropriate-books-keep-183406562.html

My Favorites! 

The Violet Overgrow - An Eco-Warrior's Journey by Gregory Vanderlaan - [FICTION BOOK] 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-violet-overgrow-by-gregory.html


AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once. by Gregory Vanderlaan 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html

The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey,

1984 by George Orwell,

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks,

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe,
The Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand,
One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest by Ken Kesey,
My Problem Child by Dr Albert Hofmann,
Remember, Be Here Now by Ram Dass,
The Psychedelic Experience by Dr Timothy Leary and Dr Richard Alpert,
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by Robert Pirsig,
America's Bogus Wars by Gregory Vanderlaan,
Island by Aldous Huxley,
Foundation by Isaac Asimov,
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein,
You are not the Target by Laura Huxley,
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,
The Time Machine by HG Wells,
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne,
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol,
Thru the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol,
The Wizard of OZ by Frank Baum,
Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe (and Everything
else he wrote),
The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft,
The Teachings of don Juan by Carlos Castaneda,
The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz,
The Art of the Failed Deal by don Trump,
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay,
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke,
Dune by Frank Herbert,
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle,
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien,
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien,
#France1789 by Gregory Vanderlaan,
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,
The Bible by Various Authors (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
Ezekiel, Enoch, Peter, Paul and Mary),
Still Here by Ram Dass,
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov,
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov,
Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley,
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda,
Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill W.




In this World where The VAST Majority of the American People DO NOT READ BOOKS... Here are links to my favorite Great Books... Maybe spark an interest in reading!
Psychedelic art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan - FREE

Great Book: "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein. He invented the word GROK. Which means to understand in a extremely deep level. Like the feeling you get reading Haiku on LSD. 

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/07/great-book-stranger-in-strange-land-by.html




Great Books:The "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy by JRR Tolkien. "The Hobbit" Classic fiction popular with Hippies in the Late Sixties. Made into Great Movies and Led Zeppelin Songs.


http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/07/great-books-lord-of-rings-by-jrr.html 


Great Book: "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" by Philip K Dick. Science Fiction about Martian Mineral Miners that Escape the Bad Quality of Life by Taking Psychedelic Drugs and Playing with a "Barbie Doll" House. 


http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/07/great-book-three-stigmata-of-palmer.html

Great Books: Project MKULTRA CIA LSD American History "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate" by John Marks



My Recommendation for the Book: 

"The Call of Cthulhu" by HP Lovecraft...

Cthulu Cartoon

or... 

"The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K Dick... 




Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!



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