Remember: fossil fuel companies want people to focus on what **uses** #energy so we don't talk about the supply side.

They benefit from #environmentalists spending time and energy bickering with one another about whether AI uses too much #electricity, whether to support more #nuclear plants, whether we should mine more #lithium to have grid scale #batteries, and so forth.

That doesn't mean we can't talk about these things, but be #mindful where you spend your energy.

“#Russia vetoed UN resolution sponsored by US & Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous #nuclear arms race in outer space.

The vote 15-member Security Council: 13 in favor, Russia opposed, China abstaining.

The resolution calls on all countries not to develop or deploy nuclear arms or other weapons of mass destruction in space, as banned under a 1967 international treaty that included the U.S. and Russia, and to agree to the need to verify compliance”
https://apnews.com/article/175d45ddb658729eff060bd8a83b8a55

Russia vetoes a UN resolution calling for prevention of a dangerous nuclear arms race in space

Russia has vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space.

^{EDITH M. LEDERER (AP News)}

US official tells CNN the target is NOT #nuclear

Prior to the Israeli strike Fri (local), US expectation was that they would NOT target #civilian or nuclear facilities, another snr US official said.

#Israel told the #US its response would be limited in scope. US #intelligence suggested Israel was weighing a narrow & limited strike inside #Iran.

The range of targets was “never specified in precise terms but nuclear & civilian locations were clearly not in that category,” the 2nd ofcl added.

The Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material Was a Selfie
The Elephant’s Foot would have killed anyone within a couple of minutes.

by David Goldenberg January 24, 2016 Updated: August 10, 2022

"... This picture first came to America in the late 1990s, after the newly independent Ukrainian government took over the plant and set up the Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology (spelling often gets changed as words go from Russian to English). Soon after, the center invited other governments to collaborate on nuclear safety projects. The U.S. Department of Energy tapped the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL)—a bustling science center up in Richland, Washington—to help..."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/elephants-foot-chernobyl

#Nuclear #Chernobyl #Radiation

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#Nuclear deal in tatters, #Iran edges close to weapons capability

Six years after the #Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear accord, Tehran is rapidly accumulating enriched #uranium, some of it very close to weapons grade. Experts fear that a #bomb could be a short dash away.

#NationalSecurity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/10/iran-nuclear-bomb-iaea-fordow/