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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • I was living with a family in a suburb to Bath in the UK, the son in the family and me was with his friends Bristol for a day, when they suddenly started talking about bombs, yep this was the London bombings in 2005…

    At first I didn’t realize what happened, I am Swede and English is my second language, so I had a bit of trouble actually understanding it all.

    When we got back home, I called my parents who were in Canada on vacation at the time, they were at a restaurant and had not heard the news yet, so they were very confused but happy that I was fine.

    I can just imagine them at a restaurant, getting a call from their son calling to say that he is ok and not to worry with zero context and then hearing about the attacks that way, that must have been quite surreal, but also ment that they was never worried.









  • Sigh, we know EXACTLY what to do with it.

    Dig a deep hole into the bedrock, put the waste in dry casks, put the casks in the hole, backfill with clay.

    This has been known for decades!

    I live in a suburb north of Stockholm in Sweden, here in Scandinavia we have a very stable bedrock, I would absolutely welcome a disposal site for nuclear waste in my suburb, and I am talking about a site that would accept waste from all over the world (for a fee obviously).

    It would be simple, create jobs, and allow us to keep using nuclear power to allow for quicker removal of fossil power plants.

    As for Chernobyl, TMI and Fukashima, Chernobyl was a bad design which was run by people who lacked access to information about past nuclear accidents, leading to bad management, TMI had a fail deadly indicator system, where a broken light bulb caused incorrect information to be acted on, and Fukashima was built in a bad location.

    I recommend you to watch this 2006 BBC Horizon documentary, it is called Nuclear Nightmares and talks about our fear of radiation, and weather or not it is warranted:

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7pqwo8

    A large coal power plant needs at least 10000 tons of coal every day according to Wikipedia.

    A nuclear plant needs about 25 tons per year.

    That is a huge, massive difference in logistics, pollution and use of resources, that is not even getting into the coal ash that is produced by cosl plants, according to the EPA, nearly 130 million tons of coal ash was generated in the US by coal power plants. None was generated by nuclear power plants.

    Please watch the documentary, it is a few years old, but the premise still holds.