Why was there a collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam?

June 9, 2023

By Eric Schmitt

U.S. spy agencies (click here) still do not have any solid evidence to determine who caused the destruction, the senior administration official said....

Ukraine dam collapse forces evacuations (click here)

There is a lot of damage from the dam collapse (click here). Beside the damage there are also people endangered by the incident. The evidence of an explosion before the dam collapse is still not conclusive that the dam was sabotaged or used as a weapon to kill more Ukrainians. The conclusions turn to accusations because this war is so bad and so ill conceived and fought by the perpetrators. This is no different than the gas pipeline that burst. There is no conclusion, especially, when it is incompetence and/or the negligence that war brings to infrastructure.

The nuclear power plant of Zaporizhzhia is now once again a concern and once again the IAEA is the best group of professionals to bring consultation and plans to contain any contamination. With this dam collapse I really don't know how Europe and NATO specifically can simply sit this one out. It is not about war anymore, it is about damage to Earth and the innocent. We need engineers and a "Fukushima Daiichi" strategy.

This war by Russia with a proxy by China is a complete disaster. Russia has no military anymore. Its soldiers are scattering when in battle to save their own lives. It is time to stop this idiocy planned during the years of Trump with hubris from Helsinki. There is no purpose to this war. Just lobbing missiles in the air for the purpose of politics is not only a travesty, but, the Russian people are suffering because of these very dangerous politics.

June 6, 2023
By Geoff Brumfiel

A major dam in Ukraine has collapsed. (click here) The failure is a grave blow to the region's water supply and is putting further stress on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant....

..NPR science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel is here to talk more about what the loss of this dam means. Geoff, begin with just explaining what happened at the site of the dam.

GEOFF BRUMFIEL, BYLINE: This dam sits right on the front lines, with Ukrainian forces on one side and Russian troops on the other. And for months, it's been battered by artillery fire and explosions. Then, in May, the reservoir controls flooded with spring rainwater. It seems like no one was on the Russian side to open the dam's gates up and let some of that water out. So the water level got so high it was spilling over the top of the dam. And then, this morning, it appears that the dam was almost completely washed away. Russia blames Ukraine for attacking it. Ukraine blames Russia for blowing it up. But given all the stress it was under, it's also possible it just collapsed.

SHAPIRO: So the dam was holding back this huge reservoir, and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is right on the shores of that reservoir. What are the implications for the plant?...

While on the topic of nuclear, there is a subtle sabotage to the IAEA.

May 30, 2023
By Timothy Gardner

Washington - Former U.S. State Department and nuclear regulatory officials (click here) on Tuesday urged the U.S. Energy Department to reconsider a plan to use bomb-grade uranium in a nuclear power experiment, saying that its use could encourage such tests in other countries.

The Energy Department and two companies aim to share costs on the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) at the Idaho National Laboratory and use more than 1,322 pounds (600 kg) of fuel containing 93% enriched uranium....

If one really wants to know about uranium there is an agency within the United Nations that knows just about everything there is to know about uranium. The professional agency that handles the entire world's knowledge of uranium and its current use is the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) (click here). 

In an age of bringing society to answer for it's Wall Street permissions of "Forever Chemicals," (click here) I find it really hard to believe this attempt to bring more danger to the world is nothing short of covert and one of those Wall Street "slick" ways to allow profits where they should be FORBIDDEN. Not all profits are good profits for Wall Street and the PFAS movement proves that.

This nuclear focus by people who believe using weapons grade uranium is a good idea is not only wrong headed, but, it compromises national security in that if this begins in the USA it will take hold elsewhere and the IAEA will have no real purpose except to warn everyone of the error of their ways.

In case the right political wing of the USA continues to laugh at the United Nations as a pariah organization, their role in the Zaporizhzhia power plant was vital. The members of the IAEA were not only brilliant in bringing the information to the public, they were absolutely brave enough to go to the plant to report on the structural insults brought about by the war initiated by Russia. This agency is vital to any and all peaceful use of nuclear power. They are also vital to any movement that might be left to denuclearization Earth and the foolish brinkmanship that is carried out by the communists.

The idea weapons grade uranium would be on the loose in the use of power generation is not only dangerous, but, completely unnecessary. In my opinion, the US Department of Energy has been allowed to develop policies as loose as the former President of the USA. This idea is a bad idea and needs to be put away in the annals of stupidity.

All of Wall Street profits are not good ideas. Let's see if I can account for a few of them; the petroleum industry, internal combustion engine, PFAS, attempts to profit off the poor Chinese people allowing it's communist government to seek power over the world rather than peaceful use of monetary power, bringing the f#*^king cyber world into the world while launching artificial intelligence on every phone to gather personal data, and inventing social media which is a threat to democracy. Those are just a few of the aspects of Wall Street of which I would rather have seen eliminated rather than propagated. This use of weapon's grade uranium has to be the ultimate insult to the intelligence of the American people. 

January 10, 2012

By Sarah Zielinski

Enriched uranium (click here) is back in the news with a report that Iran has begun creating the stuff at a heavily fortified site in the north of that country. But what is enriched uranium?

Uranium is element 92 on the periodic table–every molecule has 92 protons in its nucleus. The number of neutrons can vary, and that’s the difference between the three isotopes of uranium that we find here on Earth. Uranium-238 (92 protons plus 146 neutrons) is the most abundant form, and about 99.3 percent of all uranium is U-238. The rest is U-235 (0.7 percent), with a trace amount of U-234....

Chris Christi had it right. Christi like it or not is the Republican truth teller. No one else is.

These pictures are from an Axios (click here) newsletter. It is appalling to realize this country was so very compromised by someone elected President. He had nuclear information that was never supposed to leave the White House. The communists love Trump. No wonder he was their pick for 2016 and beyond.

This is the American democracy and not Trump's private access spy agency.
 

June 7, 2023
By Shania Shelton and Kit Maher

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (click here) said Wednesday he was “wrong” about former President Donald Trump, whom he twice supported and advised ahead of the 2020 election.

“Turns out I was wrong. I couldn’t make him a better candidate and I couldn’t make him a better president, and he disappointed me,” Christie told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead,” calling election night 2020 “the breaking point.”

Christie, who announced his 2024 campaign on Tuesday, is putting attacks on the former president – currently the front-runner for the GOP nomination – at the center of his campaign....

I did not see the interview on CNN, but, in the write up Christi speaks to all the problems he encountered in his second term in office where hubris turned into a real legal issue.

The thing about Christi, besides his reasonably honest demeanor, is that he is smart and knows the law. This is not the first time Trump's circle is falling into legal problems. Christi was responsible for the prosecution of corruption in this circle of people before. He knows what he is talking about and he is correct to keep the focus where it belongs and on the one person that not only turned on his party, but, the country exposing some of the most sensitive information within the Executive Branch.