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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...

https://www.space.com/spinlaunch-first-test-flight-success

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...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/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...

Atomic Waste Disposal: Send it to the Sun using a SpinLaunch rocket-flinging system...

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...

https://www.spinlaunch.com/

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

https://www.space.com/spinlaunch-first-test-flight-success

I emailed them Suggesting that they Build an Atomic Waste Launcher...

Do NOT Eat The Salmon from the Columbia River... They are Radioactive! Atomic Waste Disposal Site Hanford. Near Richland, Washington. Between Yakima and Walla Walla on the Columbia River.

https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/hanford-nuclear-site/view/google/
Hanford is one of five major Department of Energy nuclear processing plants and R&D laboratories in the United States. It has more than ten industrialized areas (most with reactors of some kind) located on a 562 square mile site on the Columbia River in eastern Washington. Originally built in secret to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project, the installation manufactured nuclear materials used in bombs for decades after the war, and it has become one of the most contaminated sites in the USA.

The nuclear weapons production that began at Hanford in the 1940s generated substantial amounts of radioactive and chemical wastes, contaminated land and groundwater, and created a lasting legacy of contaminated facilities. Since the signing of the Tri-Party Agreement in 1989, Ecology, EPA, and Energy have worked to clean up, treat, and dispose of this legacy to reduce the threats it poses. Substantial progress has been made, and substantial work remains.

During World War II, the government wanted a large buffer zone around its nuclear production facilities for secrecy and public safety. The current site is about 580 square miles and most areas are still not accessible to the public.

Map showing the size and location of the Hanford site in southeastern Washington.
(click to enlarge)

In the 1980s, groundwater contamination totaled about 80 square miles. Today, about 60 square miles of groundwater remains contaminated above federal standards — and the level of contamination has been greatly reduced for significant portions of that area.
There are no active nuclear production facilities; however, the site contains some of the nation's most complicated nuclear and mixed dangerous waste, which must be cleaned up.

The U.S. Department of Energy is required to maintain security and prevent unauthorized access to contaminated areas of the site. In the event of an emergency, Energy is required to effectively respond to protect human health and the environment.

QAnon SUCKS!

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I remember Going to Anti Vietnam War Protest Marches... Including a Candle Light Parade Down Main Street Los Gatos With My Parents... I'm Glad that They Raised Me to Be in Favor of Good and Opposed to Evil... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/i-remember-going-to-anti-vietnam-war.html

Darryl Cherney Said:
It's not the overwhelming toxics in our environment--it's the shot in the arm; it's not climate change caused by unfathomable volumes of chemicals tossed into the atmosphere--it's chemtrails; it's not selective news reporting by a press beholden to its advertisers--it's fake news; it's not horrid foreign policies in 3rd world countries supporting dictators and cartels--it's immigration; it's not a history of systemic racism and legacy of slavery and genocide--it's that darker skinned people are inferior; it's not the money made by the arms dealers, religions, and resource extractors--it's just that there always will be wars; it's not that the candidates are pre-selected and the system discourages good people from running--it's that the voting machines are rigged; it's not that the Democrats are the other arm of the capitalist party beholden to the banks--it's that they are socialists. Each distraction has a "something" that proposes an answer that the believer can latch on to, and those "somethings" run cover for the colossal facts that run rogue over our planet and its lifeforms. These distractions are deliberately inserted into the discourse to distract us from the root problems and most importantly, to divide us. Snap out of it!

We Must Evolve from Energy Hunter-Gatherers to Become Energy Farmers. - Quote from SchatzLab at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/we-must-evolve-from-energy-hunter.html
THEY INVENTED THE HYDROGEN FUEL CELL - a Handy Way to Store Electricity Generated by Solar for Use at Night.

Americans who voted for Trump in 2016 explain why they're ditching him in 2020: We are "riddled with guilt and embarrassed" - These former Trump voters have seen the light! https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/694915351359825/?notif_id=1594470493145415&notif_t=live_video

"RISK MY CHILD'S LIFE? NO!" - Vast Majority of Parents REJECT Trump's School Early Reopening Plan. "Corporate Profits Are Not as Important as Children's Health." https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/risk-my-childs-life-no-vast-majority-of.html

tRUMP Has Made Crime Legal For His Friends... and Himself... It's VERY Important To Campaign Against Him. Online, In The Streets, On The Phone... EVERY WAY POSSIBLE! The Time Has Come for a Million Patriots To Surround The White House and Perform an EXORCISM... Burn Sage, Beat Drums, Dance, Chant, Sing, Blow Whistles, Set Off 140dB Personal Alarms... What Ever Works! We Must Drive The Evil One OUT! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/trump-has-made-crime-legal-for-his.html

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Global Awakening: An Idea Whose Time Has Come... Hate Won't Make America Great. As a Nation, We Need to Forgive Each Other and Work Together to Build a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow... Red and Blue People Coming Together to Make #Purple64ets. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/

Universal Basic Income... If we simply TAXED THE RICH we could afford to Pay The Poor... and The Poor would SPEND THAT MONEY AT AMERICAN BUSINESSES... increasing Profits... BUBBLE UP ECONOMICS! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/02/video-what-is-bubble-up-economics-short.html

What IS The Cure for COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME? Suppose You Know a Corporate Greed FREAK, How Can We Help Them? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-is-cure-for-compulsive-hoarding-of.html

Great Books: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey - Illustrated by Robert Crumb - The Classic Novel That Inspired People to Form the Earth First! Ecology Group... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/great-books-monkey-wrench-gang-by.html

Alternatives to LAWNS: Clover... or Decorative rock and cactus gardens that don't use any water. Southern California is a dry climate. Why import water from the North? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/alternatives-to-lawns-decorative-rock.html

We need to Undo the Disaster at the EPA... tRUMP Has Reversed It's Mission... It's Now the Enable Polluters Agency... The Damage of tRUMP's Policies Could Last for Decades, Centuries or Maybe FOREVER... Feel Free to Share any Words or Pictures You See Here... Just Copy and Paste into Social Media or Your own BLOG... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/we-need-to-undo-disaster-at-epa-trump.html

American History: The Humboldt County Timber Wars... A Hostile Takeover of Pacific Lumber Company and The Extreme Logging of Old Growth Redwoods in Northern California. MAXXAM SUXX

In 1985 Charles Hurwitz borrowed money (Junk Bonds) from Michael Milken and bought the company Pacific Lumber, located near Eureka, California. Then Hurwitz increased the rate of logging in the Redwood Forest and cut down all the highly profitable trees. Then he split his corporation MAXXAM into two divisions. One division was used to do actual logging and sawing of boards and the other division was used to hide the profits. When the bill came due on the Junk Bonds, Hurwitz declared bankruptcy and took the money back to Texas. Including the pension funds that paid retirement benefits for employees...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/american-history-humboldt-county-timber.html

Intentionally Seek Beauty - photo by gvan42

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NO NUKES! Biden's Infrastructure Plan Includes Taxpayer Funding for Nuclear Power Plants. THAT'S CRAZY!

I Wrote to President Biden, Both My Senators and My Congressman and Said:

"No Nukes! President Biden Admits That There Will Be Funding for Nuclear Power Plants included in the Infrastructure Bill. That's Insane. The Rest of the Bill Sounds Great but... Spending Taxpayer Money on a Technology that has been Proven to be a Failure is Not Wise. The Engineers at PG&E, SMUD and SoCal Edison Have Completely Given Up on Nuclear Power. However... It's Costing the Customers $9.2 Billion Dollars to Clean up Diablo Canyon and San Onofre.... Please Remove all Funding for Nuclear Power From this Bill."

Atomic Waste Casks at PGE Abandoned
Nuclear Power Plant Near Eureka, California

White House Wants Nuclear in Clean Energy Mandate, McCarthy Says... Nuclear energy should be one of the power sources eligible for a national clean energy mandate sought by the White House as part of its infrastructure plan, presidential climate adviser Gina McCarthy told reporters.

McCarthy’s remarks on Thursday came amid concern about the carbon-free fuel source from progressives and some environmentalists who have qualms about radioactive waste and uranium mining for reactor fuel.

Inclusion of nuclear in the so-called Clean Energy Standard, which requires the generation of clean power, could be a boon for companies including NuScale Power LLC, TerraPower LLC, Westinghouse Electric Co., General Electric Co., and Exelon Corp.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-01/white-house-wants-nuclear-in-clean-energy-mandate-mccarthy-says

Source: https://joebiden.com/clean-energy/

Innovation: Drive dramatic cost reductions in critical clean energy technologies, including battery storage, negative emissions technologies, the next generation of building materials, renewable hydrogen, and advanced nuclear – and rapidly commercialize them, ensuring that those new technologies are made in America.

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-investments-included-in-Bidens-American-Jo

Decades before clickbait was a thing, antinuclear rhetoric was on its way to become the ultimate clickbait. Just throw the words nuclear, cancer, waste or radiation into a title and you’re bound to get thousands of hits.

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, or SONGS, has been inundated with this stuff for a long time. But the intensity seems to be growing, even eight years after the nuclear power plant shut down. The recent focus has been on the spent nuclear fuel, better referred to as slightly used nuclear fuel.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2020/06/07/nuclear-waste-is-the-ultimate-clickbait--just-ask-songs/#2c9a5ba72288

This fuel has been out of the reactor for between 8 and 27 years. The really hot stuff decays away before 5 years while the spent fuel is still in pools of water. The half-life of the remaining hot stuff, Cs-137 and Sr-90, is only 30 years, so these are a lot cooler than when they were in the reactor. After 200 years, the fuel isn’t very radioactive at all since all the hot gamma-emitters are gone.

GO AHEAD AND EAT SOME RADIOACTIVE WASTE! MOTHERF*CKER... HOW CAN YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING THAT EVERY DAY YOU MAKE THE WORLD A WORSE PLACE TO LIVE???

Great Movie! The Babuskas of Chernobyl [Grandmothers] - People Have Moved Back into the Radioactive Exclusion Zone and are Happy and Healthy...

Catching Fish and Eating Mushrooms from the Forest, Vegetables from their Gardens... Milking Goats...
Subsistence Farmers Just Like the Peasants of Russia Have Lived for a Thousand Years...

Surprisingly, The People That Moved Back Into the Radioactive Forbidden Zone are Living Longer than The People that Relocated to KIEV, Ukraine... Because they are Happier... Deaths Caused by Despair are Killing Off the Relocated Residents... Alcoholism and The Lack of a Will to Live... Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a defiant community of women lives on some of the most toxic land on Earth. They share this beguiling yet lethal landscape with an assortment of visitors: scientists, soldiers, and even ‘stalkers,’ young thrill-seekers who sneak in to pursue post-apocalyptic fantasies. The story of the self-described “Babushkas” who chose to return after the disaster, defying the authorities and endangering their health, speaks volumes about the pull of home, the desire for free will, and the subjective nature of risk.
https://youtu.be/s3XF56BaxF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N8p-ujQXbQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a first-person shooter survival horror video game... AND MANY PEOPLE CHOOSE TO ACTUALLY VISIT CHERNOBYL TO ACT OUT THE GAME IN REAL LIFE... The game is set in an alternative reality, where a second nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, causing strange changes in the area around it. The game features a non-linear storyline and includes role-playing gameplay elements such as trading and two-way communication with non-player characters.

Not EVERYTHING about Nuclear Power is a "HorrorShow" ... The Engineering Marvel of the Chernobyl Containment Building is Fascinating! A great TV Show Called MEGA STRUCTURES documents the construction.

No Nukes is Good Nukes - Bumpersticker by gregvan on zazzle

https://www.pbs.org/video/building-chernobyls-megatomb-lyqrnh/

Ironically, the Woods Hole Ocean Research project measuring Radioactive Fallout in the Water off the California Coast found that... Yes, there was an elevated amount of Pollution BUT... The FUCT YOU SHIMA disaster fallout was SMALL IN COMPARISON to the Lingering Cobalt from Atomic Bomb Tests done in the Forties, Fifties and Sixties. ... Nuking Bikini Atoll and all those other Experiments REALLY SPREAD TOXIC WASTE ALL OVER THE PACIFIC OCEAN... and into the Fish We Eat!
http://ourradioactiveocean.org/results.html

MEME - No Nukes! - gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

I also saw a documentary about a Concrete Dome that was used to plug the Crater caused by the Bikini Test... They tried to completely seal all that Radioactive Matter inside a box. The Bottom was made out of the Melted Glass Dirt created by the Extreme temperature of the blast and the top is poured concrete. Now the TOP has Cracked and there is concern that THE GENIE MAY ESCAPE FROM THE BOTTLE!
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/dome/

Radar Pyramid - Atomic Defense System

Thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the legacy of over a decade of US nuclear tests in the Pacific.

Now rising sea levels are threatening to spill its contents into the sea. Read more here: http://ab.co/2BdJKCz

NO NUKES! - MEME - gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Nutcracker Ballet - Abstract Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Part of the 'Nadsat' vocabulary used by Alex in Anothony Burgess' Novel 'A Clockwork Orange', Horrorshow was derived by Burgess from the russian word 'Khorosho' meaning well or good.

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-calls-ig-report-horror-show-blames-dems-for-separations-1256477251672

MORNING JOE

Trump calls IG report 'horror show', blames Dems for separations

In a Friday interview with 'Fox & Friends,' the president calls the IG report a horror show and that he would a poll in the FBI and that Democrats are to blame for separating families at the border.

how does Trump even know the word HORRORSHOW? A Russian word... 'Khorosho' meaning well or good.

Satellite Photo of Diablo Canyon Atomic Power Plant - MEME - gvan42

and there is a different picture on the back of the Greeting Card... a Rainbow Spiral...

"Art in the Time of Coronavirus" Holiday Card
by gregvan

What IF We Built a Radioactive Ant Farm with Magic Mushroom and Cannabis Roots? Would a DIFFERENT SPECIES OF ANT EVOLVE? GODZILLA?

At an Existing Anthill, Throw some Radioactive Americium-241 from a Smoke Detector Down the Hole... Then Plant some Psilocybin and Amanita Muscaria Mushrooms Nearby so the Mycelium (roots) Grow Throughout The Colony ... and a Ring of Cannabis Plants with Their Roots Intermingling as Well. The Ants Could Eat the Fruiting Bodies of the Mushrooms and The Pollen, Leaves and Flowers from the Kind Bud (Marijuana). As We Have Learned in Chernobyl, Some Fungus Thrives on Radioactive Waste... REALLY! It would be best if We Just Left the Plants and Animals Alone and Came Back once a Year to See What Happens... Definitely, allow Both the Male and Female Marijuana Plants to Grow and Produce seeds... NO Sinsemilla Farming Technique! Do That Somewhere ELSE. OF COURSE, You Could use Atomic Waste from an Abandoned Power Plant BUT That would be VERY Dangerous... Illegal... and a Menace to Society... What IF That Radioactive Waste got into the drinking water?

If this Ant Farm Works, We Ought to Create One Near the Abandoned Atomic Waste Surrounding All Those Nuclear Power Plants... Diablo Canyon, San Onofre, TMI, Humboldt Bay... The Hanford Site in Eastern Washington State, Nevada Test Site, Los Alamos, Tennessee... etc etc etc... and Definitly Rocketdyne Test Facility near Los Angeles (the one that burned to the ground During a Wildfire)...

drawing of a mushroom - Free Coloring Book - gvan42

The United States Atomic Energy Commission (USAEC) granted the first license to distribute smoke detectors using radioactive material in 1963.^[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium-241

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushroom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium

HEADLINE: Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor...
https://www.foxnews.com/science/chernobyl-fungi-eats-radiation

As a result of 45 years of plutonium production at Hanford, there are enormous amounts of toxic waste in Washington that we must ensure is safely contained and eliminated whenever possible. The remaining waste at Hanford includes radioactive waste and equipment; dangerous chemicals; contaminated soils; polluted groundwater; and 177 tanks holding 56 million gallons of chemical and radioactive waste.
https://ecology.wa.gov/About-us/Get-to-know-us/Our-Programs/Nuclear-Waste

Alternative NO NUKES! Earrings for sale.

The Three Way Graphic in the Center is a Rainbow Alternative to the ATOMIC HAZARD Sign
or the FALLOUT SHELTER Sign.

Alternative NO NUKES! Earrings
by gregvan

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

Atomic Waste Disposal: Send it to the Sun using a SpinLaunch rocket-flinging system...

Do NOT Eat The Salmon from the Columbia River... They are Radioactive! Atomic Waste Disposal Site Hanford. Near Richland, Washington. Between Yakima and Walla Walla on the Columbia River.

NO NUKES! Biden's Infrastructure Plan Includes Taxpayer Funding for Nuclear Power Plants. THAT'S CRAZY!

Decades before clickbait was a thing, antinuclear rhetoric was on its way to become the ultimate clickbait. Just throw the words nuclear, cancer, waste or radiation into a title and you’re bound to get thousands of hits.

Great Movie! The Babuskas of Chernobyl [Grandmothers] - People Have Moved Back into the Radioactive Exclusion Zone and are Happy and Healthy...

Not EVERYTHING about Nuclear Power is a "HorrorShow" ... The Engineering Marvel of the Chernobyl Containment Building is Fascinating! A great TV Show Called MEGA STRUCTURES documents the construction.

MORNING JOE

Trump calls IG report 'horror show', blames Dems for separations

What IF We Built a Radioactive Ant Farm with Magic Mushroom and Cannabis Roots? Would a DIFFERENT SPECIES OF ANT EVOLVE? GODZILLA?

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