Friday, February 4
China Builds Nuclear Power Plant in Argentina
Feb 2 (Reuters) - State-owned China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) has signed a contract in Argentina to build the $8 billion Atucha III nuclear power plant using China's Hualong One technology, reviving a deal that had been stalled for years.
CNNC said on its WeChat account late on Tuesday that ithad signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, which comes ahead of Argentine President Alberto Fernandez's trip to China later this week.
Progress on the nuclear deal between the two nations had stalled since it was first negotiated by the administration of former President Cristina Fernandez, a left-wing populist who left office in 2015. She is now Argentina's vice president.
Argentina's government said in a statement that the construction project "involves an investment of over $8 billion" for engineering, construction, acquisition, commissioning and delivery of a HPR-1000 type reactor. READ MORE...
Building Its Own Cargo Ship
Furniture maker and retailer Loctek is in the process of building its own container ship.
The furniture company, known for its ergonomic designs, is paying Huanghai Shipbuilding $32.6 million to build a new container ship, TradeWinds first reported.
Loctek revealed the purchase in a regulatory filing with the Shenzhen stock exchange. The ship will be able to carry 1,800 20-foot containers and is expected to be delivered by March 31, 2023.
Loctek said that it made the purchase "in order to enhance the company's competitiveness and accelerate the company's overseas business development," according to the filling.
Loctek said that it made the purchase "in order to enhance the company's competitiveness and accelerate the company's overseas business development," according to the filling.
The company said its online sales have surged, but shipping delays have made it more difficult to deliver its goods efficiently. By owning its own vessel, the company hopes to avoid high freight rates and improve its delivery windows.
The company did not specify whether it would operate the ship or pay a major shipping company to run the ship and transport Loctek products. READ MORE...
The company did not specify whether it would operate the ship or pay a major shipping company to run the ship and transport Loctek products. READ MORE...
China's Nuclear Reaactor
Grid-connection of Unit 1 at the “national project” at the Shidao Bay site (Figure 2) in Rongcheng, Shandong Province, will be soon followed by Unit 2. When commercially operational as expected in mid-2022, the two HTR-PMs will drive a single 210-MWe steam turbine.
Construction of the pioneering project began in December 2012, led by China Huaneng (which holds a 47.5% stake in the demonstration), along with China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) subsidiary China Nuclear Engineering Corp. (CNEC, 32.5%), and Tsinghua University’s Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (20%). Chinergy, a joint venture between Tsinghua and CNEC, served as the engineering, procurement, and construction contractor for the nuclear island.
Decades of Development
As Tsinghua’s Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology has noted, the demonstration project stems from a series of developments that marked a “qualitative leap from laboratory to engineering application.” High-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) technology has been explored for decades.
Decades of Development
As Tsinghua’s Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology has noted, the demonstration project stems from a series of developments that marked a “qualitative leap from laboratory to engineering application.” High-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) technology has been explored for decades.
China’s own HTGR research and development program kicked off in the mid-1970s, echoing similar government-led initiatives to develop the 200-MWth HTR-module of the Siemens/Interatom Co. in Germany, and General Atomics’ 350-MWth modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor MHTGR in the U.S.
China’s research institutions eventually accomplished the construction of the HTR-10 test reactor in the late 1990s. In February 2008, China approved the 200-MWe HTR-PM demonstration plant as part of its slate of National Major Science and Technology Projects.
China’s research institutions eventually accomplished the construction of the HTR-10 test reactor in the late 1990s. In February 2008, China approved the 200-MWe HTR-PM demonstration plant as part of its slate of National Major Science and Technology Projects.
As Tsinghua noted, the government then anticipated the technology would prove to be “a highly efficient nuclear power technology, as a supplement to pressurized water reactor [PWR] technology.” Chinese researchers also heralded the technology’s high-heat potential, as well as the opportunity to further global innovation in advanced nuclear technologies. A key focus was to improve nuclear safety inherently. READ MORE...
Thursday, February 3
You & I Made Them All Wealthy
We buy their records - albums, singles, CDs
We attend their movies, plays, & concerts by buying tickets
(country music, rock music, folk music, jazz music)
We buy their memorabelia
We attend their athletic events by buying tickets
(baseball, basketball, football, soccer, tennis, golf)
We buy their novels - paperback, hardback
We buy their clothes
(shoes, pants, shirts, hats, dresses, sweaters, jackets, etc)
AND... how do they pay us back???
They pay us back by providing us with more STUFF to buy from them that makes them richer by taking the money out of our pockets and willingly putting it into their pockets...
DOES that even make sense?
What we receive is FLEETING...
What they receive is LONG LASTING...
PROTEST... Protest... protest...
It Is Your RIGHT...
Rights and Protections Guaranteed in the
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Henry David Thoreau's essay Resistance to Civil Government, published posthumously as Civil Disobedience, popularized the term in the US, although the concept itself has been practiced longer before.
It has inspired leaders such as Susan B. Anthony of the U.S. women's suffrage movement in the late 1800s, Saad Zaghloul in the 1910s culminating in Egyptian Revolution of 1919 against British Occupation, and Mahatma Gandhi in 1920s India in their protests for Indian independence against the British Raj.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s and James Bevel's peaceful protests during the civil rights movement in the 1960s United States contained important aspects of civil disobedience.
Although civil disobedience is rarely justifiable in court,King regarded civil disobedience to be a display and practice of reverence for law:
"Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is at that moment expressing the very highest respect for the law."
Ramblings of a Southerner
The biggest problem in this country is not politics or racism or education or healthcare or law enforcement but WEALTH...
WEALTH brought about by uncontrollable and/or unregulated greed is destroying this country and all the other problems on which we focus our attention is simple a SMOKE SCREEN.
1.The WEALTHY should not be allowed to shelter their money nor should they be given tax benefits for their charitable gifts... they should bear the burden for their success by paying higher taxes... Their wealth comes from the fact that people have purchased their goods and services and without those purchases they would not be WEALTHY...
In essence, their money used to be OUR money...
My other ramblings are down below:
1. Unless you are Alex Baldwin GUNS DON'T SHOOT THEMSELVES
2. All currently employed cops should retire or leave and seek other employment opportunitiesl 3. Parents should remove their children from public schools and seek out private schools
4. All Americans should spend 3 years of their lives in the military after high school with the understanding that no all will be put in harm's ways based upon religious objections.
5. All education and healthcare SHOULD BE FREE-OF-CHARGE
6. All Americans should be provided with housing
7. There should be term limits for all politicians that have been elected to office whether it is Federal, State, or local and especially in our US Congress in both the House and Senate.
8. All high school students should be taught financial planning and investments and be forced to saved a specific amount of money each month once they start working in preparatrion for their retirement so that the government will eventually not have to pay out any Social Security funds.
9. Our free market enterprise system should move as quick as possible into the area of robotics and artificial intelligence so that they can position this country in a competitive advantage with the rest of the world.
10. WEALTHY AMERICANS should take care of all the rest of the Americans rather than our FEDERAL GOVERNMENT whose main focus should be domestic security, military protection from the rest of the world, negotiating trade deals with other countries, and maintaining our survivability.
11. WEALTHY individuals and companies should be responsible for any and all SPACE EXPLORATION...
Maybe there are others who feel as I do... and, we can start a movement among the people...
Catholic Child Sex Abuse in Spain
Spain has moved a step closer to investigating allegations of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
On Tuesday, the Spanish parliament agreed to examine a proposal for an inquiry, after years without a large-scale probe.
The Spanish Catholic Church has so far refused to set up an independent commission, despite acknowledging more than 200 existing abuse claims over the past twenty years.
A separate 2018 report by El PaÃs has listed 1,246 victims of sexual violence by the Church since the 1930s.
The request for an investigation was made by Podemos -- a coalition partner -- as well as smaller left-wing pro-independence parties.
Meanwhile, Spain's Attorney General's Office has asked the country's 17 senior prosecutors to refer all complaints about sexual abuse in the Church within the next ten days.
The move to centralise all open cases is another unprecedented step towards an official investigation.
Unlike other countries -- such as France, Germany, and Ireland -- Spain has failed to officially examine claims of paedophilia against members of the Catholic Church.
The parliament proposal for an inquiry will soon be voted on -- with a date yet to be set.
"We are going to do it, and we are going to do it well," government spokeswoman Isabel RodrÃguez told a press conference on Tuesday, adding that the executive was looking for "the best possible solution".
North Korea's Counterproductive Actions
UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemns North Korea’s launch of possible an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Sunday and urges Pyongyang “to desist from taking any further counter-productive actions,” a U.N. spokesman said on Tuesday.
“This is a breaking of the DPRK‘s announced moratorium in 2018 on launches of this nature, and a clear violation of Security Council resolutions. It is of great concern that the DPRK has again disregarded any consideration for international flight or maritime safety,” deputy U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said in a statement.
North Korea’s formal name is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES
SEOUL — North Korea on Sunday carried out its boldest ballistic missile test in years, raising the stakes in a flurry of launches that analysts said were meant to put pressure on President Biden.
The missile was launched at 7:52 a.m. from the North Korean province of Jagang, which borders China, and flew across the North before falling into the sea off the country’s east coast, the South Korean military said. It was the North’s seventh missile test this month.
The office of South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, called the projectile an intermediate-range ballistic missile and condemned the test as a violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions. On Monday, North Korea confirmed that the projectile was the Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile. Flight data suggested it was the North’s most powerful launch since November 2017, when it tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew much higher.
Mr. Moon warned that North Korea could soon end the self-imposed moratorium on long-range ballistic missile and nuclear tests that its leader, Kim Jong-un, announced in 2018. Last week, Mr. Kim suggested that his government might resume such tests. READ MORE...
The office of South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, called the projectile an intermediate-range ballistic missile and condemned the test as a violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions. On Monday, North Korea confirmed that the projectile was the Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile. Flight data suggested it was the North’s most powerful launch since November 2017, when it tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew much higher.
Mr. Moon warned that North Korea could soon end the self-imposed moratorium on long-range ballistic missile and nuclear tests that its leader, Kim Jong-un, announced in 2018. Last week, Mr. Kim suggested that his government might resume such tests. READ MORE...
EU's Green Investment Controversy
Defining nuclear and gas as sustainable has led to calls of greenwashing, threats of legal action from some EU countries and a lot of column inches dedicated to the obscurely titled 'taxonomy' system.
But what is all the fuss about?
On Wednesday, the European Commission is set to sign off on its latest plans for the EU’s taxonomy labelling system, which helps private investors identify which energy investments are sustainable.
The aim is to direct money into sustainable energy sources and help the bloc achieve its ambitious plan of being carbon neutral by 2050.
The current proposal has caused a stir by labelling nuclear and gas as sustainable sources of energy, something that has caused outrage from green activists and organisations.
When the Commission adopts the act, the Parliament and Council will have two months to raise any objections. Failing this, it will enter into force.
A majority of MEPs or 20 out of 27 member states could block the plans, but before that happens the arguments for and against marking the two energy sources as sustainable will have to be laid out.
Nuclear energy
For many, nuclear represents the perfect opportunity to maximise energy output, while minimising carbon emissions. For others, it symbolises just another environmental problem, with a solution to the disposal of radioactive waste yet to be found.
For French MEP Christophe Grudler, there is no other alternative but to include nuclear energy as a sustainable source.
“If we want to meet the Green Deal goals, we have no choice. We have to include nuclear in the taxonomy,” Grudler told Euronews.
“The question is, do we want to meet the Green Deal goals? If we want to do it, we need decarbonised energy, like nuclear. The Commission said we need around 15% of nuclear in the energy mix in 2050 to meet the goal.”
On nuclear waste, the European lawmaker – who is member of French President Emmanuel Macron’s ‘La République En Marche!’ party – says people are working hard to find an answer to the problem. READ MORE...
For many, nuclear represents the perfect opportunity to maximise energy output, while minimising carbon emissions. For others, it symbolises just another environmental problem, with a solution to the disposal of radioactive waste yet to be found.
For French MEP Christophe Grudler, there is no other alternative but to include nuclear energy as a sustainable source.
“If we want to meet the Green Deal goals, we have no choice. We have to include nuclear in the taxonomy,” Grudler told Euronews.
“The question is, do we want to meet the Green Deal goals? If we want to do it, we need decarbonised energy, like nuclear. The Commission said we need around 15% of nuclear in the energy mix in 2050 to meet the goal.”
On nuclear waste, the European lawmaker – who is member of French President Emmanuel Macron’s ‘La République En Marche!’ party – says people are working hard to find an answer to the problem. READ MORE...
Wednesday, February 2
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