Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️
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•Mother for 100% Clean Renewable Energy Systems •Humanist •Former Teacher •Former Dem/No PP •CA49 •Born@325ppm •She/Her •BLM •All views expressed are my own opinions 📍near 3.55 Million lbs. nuclear waste, CA
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suzwarto.bsky.social
"All that glitters is not gold."

There are so many reasons why it is better to support 100% clean, renewable energy systems.

#PhaseOutFossilFuels
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
suzwarto.bsky.social
File this under "Nuclear Propaganda".

Our World in Data is funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

There are no mentions of the issues of nuclear power:

Cost
Uranium mining (colonialism)
La Hague
Corrosion
Extreme weather events
Waste storage
Decommissioning costs
Risks
...
ourworldindata.org
France opened a flurry of nuclear power plants in the 1980s and 1990s, giving it low-carbon electricity ever since—
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suzwarto.bsky.social
"...the NRC has ceased normal operations."
😧
That is not reassuring to read!!!
It does, however, strengthen the case for 100% clean, renewable energy systems!
#GovernmentShutdown
#PhaseOutFossilFuels
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
#RenewablesForPeace☮️
www.nrc.gov/node/1
NRC website, Alert:
"Due to a lapse in appropriations, the NRC has ceased normal operations. However, excepted and exempted activities necessary to maintain critical health and safety functions—as well as essential progress on designated critical activities, including those specified in Executive Order 14300—will continue, consistent with the OMB-Approved NRC Lapse Plan."
https://www.nrc.gov/node/1
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profbobhowarth.bsky.social
I spent a week in Davos, Switzerland last January at the World Economic Forum. The irresponsible, irrational exuberance shown there by the 0.01% of AI was astoundingly scary. I've been expecting a crash ever since.
suzwarto.bsky.social
"...the NRC has ceased normal operations."
😧
That is not reassuring to read!!!
It does, however, strengthen the case for 100% clean, renewable energy systems!
#GovernmentShutdown
#PhaseOutFossilFuels
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
#RenewablesForPeace☮️
www.nrc.gov/node/1
NRC website, Alert:
"Due to a lapse in appropriations, the NRC has ceased normal operations. However, excepted and exempted activities necessary to maintain critical health and safety functions—as well as essential progress on designated critical activities, including those specified in Executive Order 14300—will continue, consistent with the OMB-Approved NRC Lapse Plan."
https://www.nrc.gov/node/1
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Yesterday an Unusual Event was declared at the South #Texas Project #nuclear plant at 7:11 pm CT after notification of a "credible security threat" (!) Unit 1 was operating at full power an Unit 2 was down. The event lasted over 2 hours. N.B.: this is a rare occurrence.
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haritellastory.bsky.social
For those with the delusional magical thinking of "Here's how we can make AI datacenters more energy efficient -- we'll just power them with small nuclear reactors!" 7 reasons why nuclear power is useless, being more expensive, more dangerous, and more environmentally ruinous than renewables.
suzwarto.bsky.social
Here's a long thread of nuclear information if you're interested.

Yeah, it's an unorganized smorgasbord, but it's not like I'm getting paid for this. I just care about what we're doing to the earth for future generations.

We don't need nuclear energy.
Pass it on.

#RenewablesForPeace☮️
suzwarto.bsky.social
"If Eisenhower’s speech had been 'Renewables for Peace,' it would have been much more accurate, and if all the global resources that went into nuclear had gone into renewables instead,... we could have been ahead of where we are today by 1990 at the latest."
cleantechnica.com/2020/12/28/g...
Geopolitics Of Nuclear Generation Delayed Renewables By Decades To Fossil Fuel Industry Benefit, Our Detriment - CleanTechnica
It’s deeply unfortunate that nuclear geopolitics massively extended our use of fossil fuels and delayed renewables.
cleantechnica.com
suzwarto.bsky.social
#PhaseOutFossilFuels
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
#RenewablesForPeace☮️
Oregon State University: 

"Management of waste from fusion reactors"
College of Engineering Unit: 
Nuclear Science and Engineering
Project Team Member(s): 
Ali Binamro and Suhum Alzahrani
Project ID: 
NSE475.9

https://events.engineering.oregonstate.edu/expo2023/project/management-waste-fusion-reactors "Fusion energy has been promoted as clean energy mostly as a result of the absence of production of high-level waste. It is low-level waste and intermediate-level waste. However, the quantity of fusion waste is much larger than that of the fission reactors (de Vicente et al, 2022).

"There are two areas that must be focused on in the fusion energy system which are the inventory of activated materials, and the neutron produced during the operation. In the first area, the radionuclides of concern in fusion reactors were found to be tritium, carbon-14, and activation products. In the second area, the material used in the wall of the reactor might become radioactive because of the high neutron produced during the operation of the reactor. Although most think that fusion reactors do not have any radionuclides of concern. There are still radionuclides that are emitted in fusion reactors. The radionuclides that are of concern in fusion reactors are Tritium, Carbon-14, and activation products." "The existing US low-level waste repositories will quickly become filled with the sizeable number of intermediate radioactive materials that produced from fusion reactors. Therefore, the fusion studies neglected the potential issue of fusion radioactive waste, treating it as merely a disposal problem. The focus on transformative technologies was sparked by worries about the environment, a shortage of waste repositories, excessive disposal costs, and the weight of radioactive waste on future generations (Idaho National Laboratory)."
suzwarto.bsky.social
If you don't like nuclear waste from fission, you shouldn't want fusion either.

"Management of waste from fusion reactors"
College of Engineering Unit:
Nuclear Science and Engineering
Project Team Member(s):
Ali Binamro and Suhum Alzahrani
Project ID:
NSE475.9

#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
Management of waste from fusion reactors | Events | Oregon State University
events.engineering.oregonstate.edu
suzwarto.bsky.social
Yes, it is.
suzwarto.bsky.social
You don't want Holtec to store nuclear waste in NM but you want to make nuclear waste (& weapons) with fusion?
That's so hypocritical!
We need to stop making nuclear waste that no state wants to store!!!
"...the quantity of fusion waste is much larger than that of the fission reactors..."
#Carbon14
Management of waste from fusion reactors | Events | Oregon State University
events.engineering.oregonstate.edu
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lincolnproject.us
Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low"

Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.
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atherton.bsky.social
Google is now returning AI summaries even for searches that start with "-AI", this bubble cannot burst soon enough.
Send feedback to google: product design or functionality

Is it embarrasing to work at Google these days? I know that one upon a time google was the crown jewel of silicon valley, a part of the web so integral it became a verb. But every AI summary is so likely to be riddled with errors it detracts from my research. Now "-AI" doesn't prevent AI summaries. You're giving me the trash I'm asking specifically to not get. This is dogshit.
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heylookitsruth.bsky.social
A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD
He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.
www.houstonchronicle.com
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drcrlsnpe.bsky.social
Recycling nuclear fuel is also expensive. Very, very expensive.

"The cost to build the reprocessing plant, including new safety measures, has ballooned to ¥3.1T ($20.57B). The initial estimate was ¥760B. 💸

"The total budget has reached ¥14.7T." 💸💸
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8t3v3n.bsky.social
"La Niña has now formed in the tropical Pacific... an official advisory by NOAA With more ocean cooling coming during the Fall, daily weather impacts are expected for Winter 2025/2026 over North America and likely also Europe. But forecasts now show a major reversal into an El Niño event in 2026..."
Seasonal Weather Change: A New La Niña has Formed, but Strong El Niño Reversal is Forecast for 2026
A La Niña has now formed, with impacts felt this Winter across the United States and Canada, but an El Niño is now forecast for 2026/2027
www.severe-weather.eu
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theyrule.bsky.social
This meme should be our spirit profile banner.
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helenahastie.bsky.social
Really pleased that my new paper on electricity generation in Southern Africa has been published: doi.org/10.1088/2753...
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himself.bsky.social
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
"Australia doesn’t just excel at big renewables and big batteries. Four million homes produce rooftop solar; a few weeks ago, those households temporarily supplied 55% of demand on the National Electricity Market, Westerman said."
As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable…
The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other…
www.canarymedia.com