Day: August 19, 2026

Nukes Next Door

I admit it I am an anti-nuke person….why make all that discharge when there are so many better ways to generate energy–wind, solar, tidal, etc–

I bring this up because that idiot Donny has signed a new nuke waste thing that could well effect my state of Mississippi.

The Trump administration has quietly narrowed its search for new nuclear waste sites to five states. The Energy Department on Tuesday said it has struck preliminary agreements with Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Idaho to study whether they could host long-term storage facilities—so-called “Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses”—for spent nuclear fuel “in exchange for federal help developing nuclear energy,” per the AP. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the five were picked from 28 applications from 26 states, reports the Hill.

  • Nuclear power has enjoyed bipartisan backing, but a permanent answer for high-level waste has eluded Washington for decades, with the long-planned Yucca Mountain site in Nevada stalled amid fierce local resistance. (Indeed, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto hailed the news by saying, “I am glad to see the Trump administration take a step toward acknowledging what Nevadans have known for years: Yucca Mountain is dead.”)
  • More than 95,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste is currently stored at nuclear plants and former nuclear sites nationwide. “The new storage sites would move the radioactive material away from population centers, fault lines, and flood plains,” per the AP.
  • In addition to the waste sites, the campuses would handle uranium enrichment, spent-fuel reprocessing, and fuel fabrication, and may also host advanced reactor deployment, power generation, and data centers.
  • The Energy Department estimates the campuses could generate as much as $10 billion in state and local tax revenues.

“Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses”–seriously?  Put a pleasingly neutral name to something that could devastate–it is what politicians do.

Some of the waste has a half life of 200+ years….so the states will be saddled with this crap forever…..

I do not think this is a good idea for any state.  Here is a better idea…..screw nuclear, stop wasting money on something this dangerous and spend the money where it will do the most good–in wind, solar, tidal, etc.

Just a thought

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Restore Oil Flow Without Hormuz

The big deal these days is Donny and his delusional idea for the Strait of Hormuz but none of them will restore the flow of oil….is there answer to some sort of restoration?

This article covers the possibilities and god knows oil companies do not want to go without their money maker….

The largest global oil shock on record has catapulted U.S. gasoline prices above $4 a gallon, rekindled inflation and set the stage for November’s midterm elections.

It all traces to fighting in a narrow strip of water thousands of miles away. Iran’s near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz choked off a trade route responsible for about 20% of global oil supply, or nearly 21 million barrels of oil each day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency. A U.S. blockade of Iranian ships deepened the crude shortage.

On-again, off-again negotiations have shown little sign of a breakthrough, encouraging oil producers and Gulf nations to seek out other trade routes, some of which are already transporting millions of barrels each day.

Those alternatives, in theory, could eventually restore most of the lost oil flow and provide relief at the pump, some analysts told ABC News, but construction would take several years and require major investment. Still, they said, the approach may offer a durable fix, heading off future flareups in the Strait.

“You’ve already got some projects in the works. I don’t see any turning back,” Tom Seng, a professor of energy finance at Texas Christian University, told ABC News. “Nobody wants to get stung without a solution again.”

Shipping traffic in the Strait has declined sharply since the outbreak of war in Iran, according to oil data company Kpler. An average of about 13 ships crossed the Strait each day last week, the firm said in a post on X, down from more than 100 ships per day before the recent conflict.

https://abcnews.com/Business/gas-prices-fall-companies-build-oil-routes-bypass/story

The pipeline idea is a fanciful one….it will go through some unstable areas to make it to market….and then how will they secure the pipeline from attacks that will stymie oil flow?

Let me guess….the US military will provide security for these operations, right?

I think this is a bad idea….and if instigated would come back to bite us in the ass.

What do you guys think of this ‘plan’?

On a side note….there is talk of after the war with Iran that US would draw down its presence in the region….

The US military is considering reducing its military presence in the Persian Gulf, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, as many of its bases in the region have been badly damaged by Iranian attacks.

Many of the US bases in the Gulf had been evacuated before the US and Israel launched the bombing campaign against Iran on February 28 due to their vulnerability, and some have been essentially abandoned following heavy Iranian attacks.

The Post report said that the damage to US bases in the Gulf has “prompted a once-in-a-generation chance for the Pentagon to reconsider its presence in the region” and that the Pentagon had already signaled it may not rebuild its Gulf bases to how they were before.

Sources told the paper that Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of US Central Command (CENTCOM), has been involved in discussions about the future of the US military presence in the region and supports holding deliberations on potentially moving troops west from the Persian Gulf.

Notably, a pullback of US troops from the Persian Gulf has been one of Iran’s conditions for a deal to end the conflict. Iranian officials have frequently said that they believe this war will lead to a US “retreat” from the region.

(antiwar.com)

Does anyone think oil companies will allow this to take place?

I don’t.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”