TODAY. Rafael Grossi – suffering a sort of “Schizophrenia” about nuclear so-called “safety?

No wonder that the poor guy is looking anxious lately.

It must have been kinda fun for Rafael Grossi, being Director General of IAEA, from 2019 to 2022, running around the world, promoting the nuclear industry and the safety of nuclear power plants.

He’s still got that task, but it’s probably not any fun any more.

The shit has hit the fan. Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is, as Grossi is forced to admit, facing “a dangerous situation”. Sitting in a war zone, run by exhausted Ukrainian workers, under control of Russia troops, repeatedly attackedby shelling, now with its essential cooling water threatened – the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is in danger. That means that the region is in danger, Ukraine is in danger, the whole of Europe is in danger.

Grossi got to this top job at a “good” time. Everyone was forgetting the series of nuclear accidents large and small. Chernobyl, which radioactively poisoned large swathes of Europe, was over, wasn’t it? The fun time of midwiving a “nuclear renaissance’ was on – “nuclear to save the climate – blah blah”

Poor Rafael – his contradictory job is impossible – to persuade the world that nuclear power is oh so safe, while at the same time warning the world of its deadly peril.

June 15, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes

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Rafael Grossi must have amnesia. He has become “willfully blind and deaf” about Fukishima, Cherynoble, and Three Mile Island. There is still no permanent solution to nuclear waste. Nuclear power is not safe, it is too expensive, and is totally unnecessary for our energy needs. He should read the plans of The Solutions Project at http://thesolutionsproject.org/ for 146 countries from around the world and all 50 states of the United States. Nuclear power is not “green” never was and never will be. “Atoms for Peace,” has turned into “Atoms for War.” Nuclear power is not the solution to climate change. We will not “starve and freeze in the dark,” nor “wreck our economy” by transitioning to a renewable energy economy now.

Comment by paulrodenlearning | June 15, 2023 | Reply
Why are there no links or mentions of nuclear-news.net articles by arclight2011 anymore? Did musk remove all of them

Comment by Jasking | June 17, 2023 | Reply
- to Jasking. No articles lately by arclight2011 simply because he hasn’t put any up on nuclear-news.net.
  Arclight has full control to put up posts, edit, whatever. It’s probably because he is flat out doing other stuff i UK.
  
  Comment by Christina Macpherson | June 17, 2023 | Reply
  - “Sometimes he refers your articles. The Twitter we see does not have any mention of nuclear-news.net article except one at the begining.
    Bunny Hugger (apparently)
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    ·Sep 21, 2019
    Link to the end of the Fissionline nuclear info website and nuclear expert Prof Geraldine Thomas`s OBE? #RIP and #RIPA https://nuclear-news.net/2019/09/21/link-to-the-end-of-the-fissionline-nuclear-info-website-and-nuclear-expert-prof-geraldine-thomass-obe-rip-and-ripa/”
    
    A monthe ago and before, for several years one could see many nuclea-news articles on his twitter feed. Now one can’t see any of them. Twitter is censuring many things now and inserting promoted advertising tweets, into peoples main twitter feeds. At one time, the musk thing was censoring nuclear-new articles, as sensitive material. Very sad. There is mastadon. There is a new instagram twitter like platform. Thereis Also an indian twitter platform, that brazilians use, since twitter started going full fash and censoring, slandering lula.
    I and others, are very fond of nuclear-news. Please don’t let the fascist, apartheid fraud hurt you or damage your readership.
    
    Comment by Jasking | June 17, 2023
  - Thank you Jasking, for the encouragement. I was not aware of this Twitter thing. However, I do put up the posts in bursts, so perhaps they don’t show, after Arclight himself has put a lot up. I will do a burst later today (it’s early afternoon here in Australia), and I hope to see Arclight’s tweets from nuclear-news.net go up.
    
    Comment by Christina Macpherson | June 17, 2023
  - to Jasking I think that Arclight himself might have stopped the Twitter links. You’re right – the links are not there. I shall have to ask him about it.
    
    Comment by Christina Macpherson | June 17, 2023
Three St. Louis residents indicted on charges of illegally pushing pro-Russian propaganda

https://www.krps.org/missouri-news/2023-04-19/three-st-louis-residents-indicted-on-charges-of-illegally-pushing-pro-russian-propaganda

First of all Russia is not a socialist country and being a socialist in the usa is not a crime. Bernie sanders is a democratic socialist. The biden administration, is behind these prosecutions.
https://news.yahoo.com/substitute-teacher-suspended-remarks-supporting-004938324.html

Substitute teacher suspended for remarks supporting Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

Other teachers in Florida, Utah, and Idaho have been suspended or fired for similar views.
Not democratic. Semi totalitarian.
People from across the usa, have complained about FBI interrogations about, their views on Russia and the Ukraine. Some taken from social media. This is totalitarian at many levels.

Comment by Tammy | June 17, 2023 | Reply
- That’s extraordinary. I was not aware that the USA is officially at war against Russia !!!
  
  Comment by Christina Macpherson | June 17, 2023 | Reply