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DEEP
FISSION MEETS...
The
Prairie Dog Alliance
Forty
residents gathered in
a community hall in
Parson, Kansas to
learn about an
experimental nuclear
power reactor launched
by a two-year old
start-up company, Deep
Fission. The plan
is to operate the
reactor a mile deep
down a bore hole. This
was the first public
educational meeting of
the Prairie
Dog Alliance. Deep
Fission, sponsored by
the Department of
Energy, is targeting
this July 4 to
complete the reactor
design, license it,
build the reactor,
frack the mile deep
borehole, and start
the fission reaction.
The DOE is selecting
some reactor start-up
companies for “categorical
exclusion” from
environmental reviews
required under the
National Environmental
Policy Act. The rock
body is both credited
for the reactor’s
radiation containment
and nuclear waste
disposal.
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WHO
GETS NUKES?
Iran
negotiations resume
Which countries are allowed to have nuclear
weapons? The
nuclear-armed nations
say only they are.
This includes Israel,
which is officially an
“undeclared” atomic
weapon state, even
though the UN General
Assembly adopts a
resolution every year
asking Israel to
disarm. Iran says it
is abiding by the
nuclear
Non-Proliferation
Treaty but the US and
Israel bombed its
nuclear facilities
(see map) just to make
sure. Now the Trump
administration is
trying to renegotiate
a deal that would stop
Iran making the bomb,
even though there was
a perfectly good
agreement in place
already that Trump
blew up in May 2018.
He sent his
beachfront-greedy
son-in-law to Oman
last week as one of
his negotiators. The
talks will reportedly
continue.
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